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 Holdings Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton CBM Investments Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Resources Exploration Pty Limited 100.00
BHP USA WMC Exploration Inc 100.00
BHP Australia Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company Pty Ltd 60.00
BHP Australia Rightship Pty Limited 33.00
BHP Australia Pibara Gas Pty Limited 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Manganese Metal Company (Proprietary) Limited 51.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Esidulini Proprietary) Ltd 100.00
BHP Irland CMC-Coal Marketing Company Limited 33.00
BHP Nederland Billiton Investment 12 B V 100.00
BHP Argentina BHP Petroleum (Argentina) S A 100.00
BHP USA BHP Escondida Inc 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika BHP Billiton SA Limited 100.00
BHP Danmark BHP Billiton Marketing Investments ApS 100.00
BHP Sør-Korea BHP Billiton Korea Co Ltd 100.00
BHP Nederland BHP Billiton Finance B V 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Aluminium (Worsley) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP USA 141 Union Company 100.00
BHP Australia Westralian Bulk Charter Services Pty Ltd 50.00
BHP Mosambik Sociedade Geral de Mineraco de Mocambique SARL 99.00
BHP Australia QNI Superannuation Nominees Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia North West Shelf Australia LNG Pty Ltd 16.00
BHP Australia Illawarra Services Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Mongolia Broken Hill Proprietary Billiton Mongolia LLC 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Billiton Coal SA Limited 100.00
BHP India BHP Minerals India Pvt Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina Pty Ltd 86.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Singapore BHP Billiton Marketing Asia Pte Ltd 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093