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 Nederland Billiton Argentina B V 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Minerals Asia Pacific Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Western Mining Holdings Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Storbritannia BHP Billiton Petroleum Great Britain Limited 100.00
BHP USA BHP Billiton Petroleum (Deepwater) Inc 100.00
BHP Storbritannia BHP Billiton Paddington Limited 100.00
BHP Tyskland BHP Billiton Metal GmbH 100.00
BHP Sveits BHP Billiton Marketing AG 100.00
BHP Kina BHP Billiton International Trading (Shanghai) Co, Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Australia Investment 3 Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP USA Hamilton Oil Company Inc 100.00
BHP Storbritannia The World Marine & General Insurance Plc 100.00
BHP USA Rio Algom Mining LLC 100.00
BHP Indonesia PT Billiton Indonesia 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Middelburg Mine Services (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP Caymanøyene Global BHP Copper Limited 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Consolidated Nominees (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP Nederland Billiton Investment 7 B V 100.00
BHP USA BHP Petroleum (U K) Corporation 100.00
BHP USA BHP Hawaii Inc 100.00
BHP Nederland BHP Billiton South Africa Holdings B V 100.00
BHP Nederland BHP Billiton Marylebone B V 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika BHP Billiton Global Aluminium Technology (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa Limited 100.00
BHP St. Lucia BHP Billiton (Trinidad) Holdings Limited 100.00
BHP Jersey WMC (Mineral Sands) Limited 100.00
BHP Sør-Afrika Richards Bay Coal Terminal Company Limited 50.00
BHP Finland Oy Alwima Limited 100.00
BHP Brasil Jenipapo Recursos Naturais S A 100.00
BHP Bermuda Cerrejon Coal (Bermuda) Ltd 33.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093