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
BHP Colombia Cerro Matosa SA 99.00
BHP Nederland Billiton Indonesia Holdings BV 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Nominees Investments No 3 Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Coal Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Resources Marketing Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum (Australia) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Corporation Pty 100.00
BHP USA BHP Billiton Marketing Inc 100.00
BHP Nederland BHP Billiton Finance (USA) B V 100.00
BHP Canada BHP Billiton (Trinidad-3B) Corp 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika African Metals Limited 100.00
BHP Storbritannia WMC Resources Marketing (UK) Limited 100.00
BHP USA Western Venture Inc 100.00
BHP USA San Manuel Arizona Railroad Company 100.00
BHP Australia QNI Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Jersey Natural Diamond Company Limited 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Hotazel Manganese Mines Proprietary) Limited 54.00
BHP Sveits Emaswati Holding Company (Pty) Limited 100.00
BHP Singapore BM Alliance Coal Marketing Pte Ltd 50.00
BHP Nederland Billiton Australia Holdings B V 100.00
BHP USA BHP Minerals Exploration Inc 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Western Mining Resources International Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum International Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Danmark BHP Billiton Petroleum (Denmark) ApS 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Iron Ore Pty Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Diamonds Holdings Limited 100.00
BHP Botswana Astra Explorations & Mining Company (Proprietary) Limited 99.00
BHP Storbritannia BHP Billiton (UK) Limited 100.00
BHP Caymanøyene Riocerro Inc 100.00
BHP Indonesia PT Kalteng Coal 99.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093