Because of slowness in getting the project started, the Chinese rights may be in 2012 given to Australia's BHP Billiton.
In 1993 BHP Iron Ore upgraded its Port Hedland operator interface to Citect for Windows.
BHP Billiton and its joint venture partners, Anglo American and Glencore, became equal owners of the Cerrejon Zona Norte (CZN) coal mine in Colombia in February 2002, when they acquired International Colombia Resources Corporation (Intercor) from ExxonMobil, which held the mine's remaining 50 per cent ownership and operational interests.
In 2006, then Vice-Chancellor of Monash Richard Larkins went on a tour of India with senior Monash staff and an executive from BHP Billiton.
The town's main industries are farming, (especially the beef and wool industries), and mining, which is mainly centred around the BHP Billiton mine at nearby Cannington.
The property previously on the site of the College, built in 1856 by Sir James Palmer, was renamed Kinnoull by Sir Alexander Stewart (former Chairman of BHP Australia), who was born near Kinnoull Hill.
Tower 2 is leased to multi-national institutions such as American Express, BHP Billiton, Bank Pictet, Barclays, Eastspring Investments, ICAP, The Macquarie Group, Murex, Nomura Securities, Tafo Oil and Servcorp.
In addition to his service with Fluor, he also serves as a director of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation and BHP Billiton.
After the depression in the 1930s, the town and its businesses were largely stagnant until a large open-cut dolomite mine was opened by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) in the 1950s for use in its steel manufacture at Whyalla on the Eyre Peninsula and Port Kembla in New South Wales.
He is currently a special advisor to Marius Kloppers, the CEO of BHP Billiton, having previously been the company's director of public affairs.
He has also served as a consultant on general managerial strategy and organization for global corporations and multinational companies, including HSBC, Cathay Pacific, Hutchison Whampoa, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Bank Mandiri, BHP Billiton, Christie's and a number of regional conglomerates.
The largest petroleum producers in the country - BP Trinidad & Tobago (bpTT), BHP Billiton and Petrotrin all have major presences here and bpTT controls the Port of Guayaguayare, which services most of the offshore petroleum production in Trinidad.
It is made up of two bulk coal terminals, Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal, owned by Prime Infrastructure Holdings (formerly Babcock & Brown Infrastructure) and Brookfield Asset Management, and Hay Point Services Coal Terminal, owned and operated by a joint venture between BHP Billiton and Mitsubishi.
Abruzzo region of Italy) settled in the Islington region, primarily due to its proximity to the BHP steel works.
The BHP constructed, in the early 1920s, a very fine mansion in Crebert Street (named after Peter Crebert 1825-1895, an immigrant from Wiesbaden in Germany), with extensive gardens, for their General Manager.
In 1883 a boundary rider from Mount Gipps named Charles Rasp who, along six fellow workers, formed the Syndicate of Seven and pegged out the mining claim for the one of the world's richest lode of silver, lead and zinc at Broken Hill in the Barrier Range forming the company Broken Hill Proprietry Limited.
The town has grown since then from a farming community into a business destination where companies such as Anglo American, BHP Billiton, Evraz, Eskom, Exxaro, Joy, Komatsu, the Renova Group, SAB Miller, SAMANCOR, Shanduka Beverages, Xstrata and Zenith Inc amongst many others have found substantial returns on their investments.
In December 2012, PetroChina agreed to buy BHP Billiton's 8.3% stake in the East Browse and 20% holding in the West Browse joint venture for US$1.63 billion.
Fifteen chief executives from the mining and energy sector attended the inaugural meeting, with Chip Goodyear, CEO of BHP Billiton chairing the meeting.
On 9 December 2009, BHP Billiton sold the operation to Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals for US$340 million.
Rhys is represented by Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia and is represented by in a range of art collections that include: BHP Billiton, Bank of Switzerland, Artbank and the University of Queensland Art Museum.