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 Newcastle Coal Shippers Pty Ltd 15.31
Rio Tinto plc Frankrike Alcan Softal 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Northern (Rhondda) Collieres Pty Ltd 75.17
Rio Tinto plc Frankrike Pechiney Manhattan 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Indonesia PT Kelian Equatorial Mining 90.00
Rio Tinto plc Sør-Afrika Richards Bay Mining Holdings (Proprietary) Limited 49.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Rio Tinto Asia Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc India Rio Tinto Exploration India Private Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Rio Tinto India Limited 100.00
Glencore International AG Frankrike Recylex S.A. 32.20
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Rio Tinto Nickel Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Tyskland Alcan Aluminium-Presswerk Burg Gmbh 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Rio Tinto Uranium Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Alcan International Network Australasia Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia RTA Holdco Australia 2 Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Guinea Simfer SA 95.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia TBAC Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA US Talc Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Sør-Afrika Zululand Titanium (Pty) Ltd 36.26
Rio Tinto plc Australia BAO-HI Ranges Joint Venture 54.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Brandeis (Brokers) Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Channar Joint Venture 60.00
Rio Tinto plc Caymanøyene Comalco (Tasman) Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA CSJ Corporation 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Brasil Empresa de Mineracao Finesa Ltda 99.02
Rio Tinto plc Indonesia Grasberg Joint Venture 40.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Hismelt (operations) Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA Kennecott Holdings Corporation 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Lawson Mardon Flexible Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Brasil Mineracao Morro do Ouro SA 51.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093