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 Blair Athol Coal Pty Ltd 71.24
Rio Tinto plc Australia Catherine Hill Bay Land Pty Limited 75.17
Rio Tinto plc USA Cloud Peak Energy Services Company 93.72
Glencore International AG Storbritannia Xstrata plc 34.50
Rio Tinto plc Canada Alcan Cable (Canada) INC 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Alcan International Network Gulf Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA Alcan Primary Products Corporation 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia AML Exploration Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Frankrike Pechiney Batiment 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Port Waratah Coal Services Ltd 22.55
Rio Tinto plc Australia Ranges Mining Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA Daybreak Secondary Water Distribution Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Malaysia Rio Tinto Aluminium (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Frankrike Exeltium S A S 10.53
Rio Tinto plc Australia Rio Tinto Energy Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Hail Creek Joint Venture 82.00
Rio Tinto plc USA Hydrogen Energy California LLC 97.09
Rio Tinto plc Mexico Kennecott Mexico Holding Company, S A de CV 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Frankrike Luzenac Europe SAS 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Mount Thorley Coal Loading Ltd 39.59
Rio Tinto plc Sverige Alcan Nordic AB 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Rio Tinto Minerals Developments Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Sør-Afrika Rio Tinto South Africa Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia RTA Finance Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Japan Savoie Services Y K 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Southern Copper Pty Limited 99.99
Rio Tinto plc Brasil TPI Molplastic Ltda 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA Wyoming Coal Resources Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Nederland Ashton Mining BV 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Borax Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093