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 SA Investments Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum (International Exploration) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Japan BHP Billiton Japan Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Direct Reduced Iron Pty Limited 100.00
BHP Australia Australian Bulk Charter Services Pty Ltd 50.00
BHP BHP Billiton Diamonds (Eurasia) LLC
BHP Canada WMC Resources Marketing Limited 100.00
BHP Singapore Westminster Insurance Pte Ltd 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Settlers Mynboumaatskappy Beperk 100.00
BHP Australia QNI Resources Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Chile Newcoal Generacion S A 100.00
BHP Australia Illawarra Coal Holdings Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Brasil Empresa de Mineracao Seara Ltda 100.00
BHP Australia Broadmeadow Mine Services Pty Limited 100.00
BHP Nederland Billiton Coal Australia Holdings B V 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Minerals Holdings Proprietary Limited 100.00
BHP Canada BHP Billiton World Exploration Inc 100.00
BHP Storbritannia BHP Billiton Petroleum Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Group Operations Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Brasil BHP Billiton Brasil Ltda 100.00
BHP Nederland BHP Billiton Finance B V 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Roedtan Mining Company Limited 100.00
BHP Indonesia PT Lahai Coal 100.00
BHP Chile Minera Esconida Ltda 57.00
BHP Australia Haematite Pty Limited 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika D & H Coal Limited 100.00
BHP Nederland Billiton Manganese Holdings B V 100.00
BHP USA BHP Resources Inc 100.00
BHP USA BHP Holdings International (Investments) Inc 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton SSM Technology Pty Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093