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
Glencore International AG Mutandi Group 40.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Alcan Aluminium UK Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Canada Alcan International Limited/Alcan International Limitee 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Bermuda Alcan Ningxia Holdings Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia CRA Investments Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc New Zealand Electrical Power Generation Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia GPS Power Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA High Purity Iron Inc 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA Kennecott Exploration Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc New Zealand Land Resources (FP) Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Mexico Minera Kennecott S A de C V 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia North Gold (W A) Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Tyskland Alcan Singen GmbH 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Anglesey Aluminium Metal Renewables Limited 51.00
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
Rio Tinto plc USA Rio Tinto Hydrogen Energy LLC 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Mongolia Rio Tinto Mongolia LLC 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia Rio Tinto Trustees Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Storbritannia RTA Holdco 8 Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Belgia Service Centres Aero Belgique S A 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Swiss Aluminium Australia Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc USA US Borax Holdings Inc 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Iran Zar Kuh Mining Company 70.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Australian Mining & Smelting Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Papua Ny-Guinea Bougainville Copper Ltd 53.83
Rio Tinto plc Australia Channar Financial Services Pty Ltd 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093