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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21 Jun 2022 - Shares in BHP and other major miners fell sharply yesterday as iron ore prices again sold off in China, continuing the weakness of the last week or so.
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17 Jun 2022 - BHP has announced that its high-quality Mount Arthur thermal coal mine cannot be sold and will be run (NSW government approval permitting) until 2030 and then closed.
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16 Jun 2022 - Australian shares gave back its gains after the relief-rally was overshadowed by concerns of future aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve to curtail…
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