Nature of Business
BHP currently operates across three principal asset divisions:
-The Minerals Australia asset group, which includes operated assets in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia and produces iron ore, metallurgical coal, copper, nickel and energy coal.
-The Minerals Americas asset group, which includes projects, operated assets and non-operated joint ventures in Canada, Chile, Peru, the US, Colombia and Brazil, and currently produces copper, iron ore and energy coal.
-The Petroleum unit, which includes conventional assets located in the US Gulf of Mexico, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Algeria and Mexico. It also has appraisal and exploration options in Trinidad and Tobago, central and western Gulf of Mexico, Eastern Canada and Barbados. BHP produces crude oil and condensate, gas and natural gas liquids.
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