BHP Billiton is the world's largest diversified natural resources company
We are distinguished from other resource companies by the combination of the quality of our assets; our deep inventory of growth projects; our customer-focussed marketing; our diversification across countries, commodities, and markets; and our petroleum business.
As at 30 June, 2009 we had some 40,990 employees working in over 100 operations in 25 countries. Reflecting our aim to be a premier global company, we occupy significant positions in major commodity businesses, including aluminium, energy coal and metallurgical coal, copper, manganese, iron ore, uranium, nickel, silver and titanium minerals, and have substantial interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas and diamonds.
The central tenet of the BHP Billiton business model is that its diversified portfolio of high quality assets provides stable cash flows and an enhanced capacity to drive growth. In FY2009, we generated revenue of US$50.2 billion, attributable profit (excluding exceptional items) of US$10.7 billion and net operating cash flow of US$18.9 billion.
BHP Billiton was created through the Dual Listed Companies (DLC) merger of BHP Limited (now BHP Billiton Limited) and Billiton Plc (now BHP Billiton Plc), which was concluded on 29 June 2001.
BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc continue to exist as separate companies, but operate on a combined basis as BHP Billiton. The headquarters of BHP Billiton Limited, and the global headquarters of the combined BHP Billiton Group, are located in Melbourne, Australia. BHP Billiton Plc is located in London, United Kingdom. Both companies have identical boards of directors and are run by a unified management team. Shareholders in each company have equivalent economic and voting rights in the BHP Billiton Group as a whole.
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20 Jan 2023 - A solid December quarter and half year for BHP (ASX:BHP) in its core iron ore and copper businesses while production and shipments of coking and thermal coal from its…
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19 Nov 2022 - BHP (ASX:BHP) has won out in its pursuit of OZ Minerals (ASX:OZL), with the copper company’s board agreeing to a higher $28.25 a share offer which gives OZ an enterpr…
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17 Nov 2022 - OZ Minerals (ASX:OZL) and BHP (ASX:BHP) have resumed their marriage talks trying to find a dowry in the form of an offer price that will see the deal appeal both to s…
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15 Nov 2022 - No new news on rumours of BHP’s (ASX:BHP) $25 per share marriage to OZ Minerals (ASX:OZL) on Monday, but there was an intriguing technical update about the latter’s n…
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20 Oct 2022 - BHP (ASX:BHP) has followed Rio Tinto’s weak lead from Tuesday by leaving an underwhelmed market wondering about the details of its 2023 first quarter report on Wednes…
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17 Aug 2022 - BHP (ASX:BHP) shareholders can thank the great global coal price boom – especially thermal coal – for the largesse of record dividends for the year to June.
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16 Aug 2022 - China's economic slowdown continues to have a dampening effect on consumer spending. Bloomberg noted cautious consumers accumulated CNY10.3T in deposits over H1 2022,…
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16 Aug 2022 - BHP (ASX:BHP) will pay record full year dividends after reporting the second-biggest profit in the company’s history in the year to June 30.
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15 Aug 2022 - Moody’s certainly likes BHP’s appetite for OZ Minerals and the benefits it sees the deal bringing to the world’s biggest (but slimming) resources company).
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09 Aug 2022 - After BHP lobbed its $8.3 billion all-cash bid for OZ Minerals on Monday morning, the future for the targeted company is clear – it will not be allowed to remain inde…
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08 Aug 2022 - The labour market added 528,000 jobs in July, easily beating a Dow Jones estimate of a 258,000 increase. The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5 per cent, below the …
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04 Aug 2022 - Nickel still retains the affection of BHP which, three years after failing to sell its Nickel West business, now sees the metal as part of its future deeper involveme…
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29 Jul 2022 - BHP Group’s decision to wind down its Mount Arthur coal mine rather than sell to a private buyer will shorten the mine’s operating lifespan and reduce overall expecte…
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20 Jul 2022 - BHP has made the strongest warning yet from a coal miner about the potential damage the lift in royalties from the Queensland government in its 2022-23 budget might c…
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20 Jul 2022 - BHP has joined its major iron ore rival Rio Tinto in warning investors about the uncertain outlook for the company and its commodities.
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19 Jul 2022 - The ASX is trading lower this morning with most sectors lower led by tech, down 1.39 per cent. The best-performing sector is Energy, up 2.87 per cent.
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11 Jul 2022 - BHP is thinking of appealing its loss in a British court on Friday in a £5 billion ($US8.7 billion) lawsuit brought against it by 202,600 Brazilian claimants who are …