Piping Profits

Piping Profits

PWYP Norway can reveal that ten of the world’s most powerful oil, gas and mining companies own 6,038 subsidiaries and over a third of them are based in secrecy jurisdictions. The three Norwegian companies mapped own 55 subsidiaries, 20% of which are based in secrecy jurisdictions. On these pages you will find more information about this project, the detrimental effects of secrecy jurisdictions and how these can be tackled. The database is publicly available and can be explored here.

Due to lack of resources, it will not be continually updated, but nevertheless represents an excellent snapshot of extractive industries and their subsidiaries in 2011. The Piping Profits database includes information on the 13 case studies and their 6,093 subsidiaries, containing details of:

  • The Parent Company
  • The Subsidiary Name
  • The location in which the subsidiary is incorporated
  • The percentage of the subsidiary owned by the parent company

Below it is possible to search in the database by company, country and/or subsidiary, and using the buttons below the list of findings, it is possible to export the data to Excel.

Company Country Subsidiary Percent owned
Rio Tinto plc Australia Rio Tinto Shared Services Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia RT Mining Corporation Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Jersey RTZ Jersey Investments One Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA Sohio Western Mining Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Sør-Afrika Tisand (Proprietary) Limited 36.26
Rio Tinto plc USA Western Minerals LLC 93.72
Rio Tinto plc Australia Ashton Exploration Australia Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Borax Europe Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Italia Cebal Italiano SpA 99.95
Rio Tinto plc Australia CNA Sub Holdings Pty Limited 75.17
Glencore International AG USA Columbia Falls Aluminium Company 100.00
Glencore International AG Australia Murrin Murrin Joint venture 40.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Alcan Europe Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Mexico Alcan International Network Mexico, SA de CV 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Consolidated Zinc Proprietary Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Tyskland Deutsche Borax GmbH 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Frankrike Fondene de Cuivre du Palais 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Hamersley HMS Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Italia Itallumina Srl 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA Kennecott Rawhide Mining Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Italia Luzenac Val Chisone SpA 99.66
Rio Tinto plc USA NERCO Coal LLC 93.72
Rio Tinto plc Frankrike Alcan Packaging Flexible France 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Alusuisse of Australia Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Sør-Afrika Palabora Mining Company Limited 48.90
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Pechiney Holdings UK Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia PSZ Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Sør-Afrika Richards Bay Iron and Titanium (Proprietary) Limited 36.26
Rio Tinto plc USA Rio Tinto America Inc 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Rio Tinto Exploration DRC Oriental Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093