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 Storbritannia BHP Billiton Aluminium Limited 100.00
BHP Australia Billiton Manganese Australia Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia A & BP Co Pty Ltd (in deregistration) 100.00
BHP USA WMC (Argentina) Inc 100.00
BHP Australia South Blackwater Coal Pty Limited 50.00
BHP Australia QNI Western Australia Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia North West Shelf Gas Pty Ltd 16.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Ingwe Housing Association 100.00
BHP Liberia Bulkers Limited 100.00
BHP Zambia Billiton Development (Zambia) Limited 100.00
BHP USA BHP Minerals International Exploration Inc 75.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Yakabindie Nickel Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP USA BHP Billiton Petroleum Trading and Marketing Inc 100.00
BHP Canada BHP Billiton Petroleum (Falkland) Corporation 100.00
BHP Canada BHP Billiton Named Corporation 100.00
BHP Storbritannia BHP Billiton Energy Coal (UK) Limited 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Baniettor Mining (Proprietary) Limited 51.00
BHP Brasil WMC Mineracao Ltd 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Transvaal and Delagoa Bay Investment Company Limited 100.00
BHP Gabon Samancor Gabon Sa 60.00
BHP Indonesia PT Pari Coal 100.00
BHP Brasil Mineracao Rio do Norte SA 14.00
BHP USA Hamilton Brothers Exploration Company 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Danjan (Proprietary) Limited 51.00
BHP Nederland Billiton Marketing Holding B V 100.00
BHP Storbritannia BHP Venezuela DRI Limited 100.00
BHP USA BHP International Finance Corp 100.00
BHP Taiwan BHP Billiton Taiwan Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum (Pipelines Investments) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Storbritannia BHP Billiton Holdings Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093