BHP Billiton's Global Success

Some Major benefits of international trade include the reduction of poverty, expansion of business opportunities for local companies and reduces costs for consumer.

The worlds copper needs can easily be met from other mining company’s and locations around the world that are safer and more practical. The mine would most often than not destroy the worlds most valuable salmon habitat and kill a ton of fisherman’s jobs. Fisherman can take up to 50% of the pacific salmon

at Las Cristinas, Venezuela. The investment will allow 20,000 metric tons of additional ore to be mined

BP is the third largest multi-national company 's energy companies. It specializes in oil; natural gas and alternative fuels, such as electricity and renewable energy. BP also and Chemicals, Marketing and refining them in the industry very competitive player. BP has changed: from the development of the local oil company into a global energy group, employing over 96,000 people and operates in more than 100 countries worldwide. BP believes that sustainable growth and corporate social responsibility has been included but it is whether CSR has actually been realized yet been established, or if it ISA

The Olympic Dam Mine is notorious for being one of the biggest mines in South Australia, and the wide range of minerals obtained from the mine. From miners, to engineers, the Olympic Dam Mine has created many jobs for South Australians. As well as this increase, South Australia and Australia have benefited significantly from the mine economically, and created many bonds with other countries through trading. The mine has recently created plans to expand and, although the plans may have been controversial throughout South Australia, this initiative could not only help South Australia, but the world.

Traditional mining involves the sinking of a vertical shaft into the Earth to an appropriate depth. Then the shafts are driven into horizontal tunnels into the chalcopyrite ore. There is an open pit, as seen in Figure

It is predicted that Australia’s carbon dioxide emissions would double if these mines were to be built, from 357.5 tonnes to 750 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. Additionally, many of these mines will require additional train rails to be constructed for the purpose of transporting the mined goods to proposed ports on the coast of

What have we learned about the mining for copper that could minimise environmental impacts of mining in the future?

BHP Billiton Limited was founded in the year 2001 as a merger between Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company and the Anglo-Dutch Billiton Plc. BHP Billiton is a dual listed company and well known as the leading global resources and the largest mining company in the world measured from its revenue. The headquarters is in Melbourne, Australia and a major management office in London, UK. They have more than 100,000 employees and contractors across the 25 nations. BHP Billiton is the major producers of commodities namely energy coal, aluminum, iron ore, minerals, copper, manganese, uranium, nickel, and mining in oil, gas, and diamond. They have more than 100 mining and

Due to the Queensland floods there is a major hit on the coal mining industry with it being severely affected. More than 15 million coal has been lost since the floods

BHP Billion, a merging cooperation of BHP and Billion in 2010 (BHP Billiton, 2011), is a world leading company in mining and resource exploiting. According to ASX data, BHP Billion has the largest business scales in the Australian market, AU$166 billion of market capital and AU$71 billion of annual operating revenue in FY13 (Australian Securities Exchange, 2014). Over 128,800 employees and contractors work in 26 countries worldwide to create value for their shareholders (BHPB Annual Report, 2013). The core business has been classified into five units: petroleum, copper, iron ore, coal and aluminum, making 20%, 18%, 17%, 31% and 14% respectively in the revenue of FY13. It can be seen from Graph 1 that although iron ore was not the segment with the largest assets, it still returned with the largest revenue and highest ROA rate in 2013. The following paragraphs will focus on the strategy analysis on the segment of iron ore and how it can conquer possible threats

BP p.l.c. is an energy company with an upstream business of extracting crude oil and downstream business of providing processed energy to companies. It is listed in both the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) based in the United States of America and the London Stock Exchange (LSE). BP is based in London and they carry out oil prospecting extraction and retail its product in more than 70 countries. Out of the companies operating in the oil industry, the biggest two competitor of BP is ExxonMobil and Chevron. ExxonMobil and Chevron are chosen due to their similarities to BP and they are ranked

Everything started when I was invited to work with them; I did the typical searching about the company and the leaders, anyone would do for that first good desirable impression one wants to give in the job interview. That was my first contact with the mining

Companies can decide to go global or to enter international markets for various reasons, and these different objectives at the time of entry that enable the business to produce different strategies and the performance goals, and even forms of market participation.

Well known companies like Nike, Microsoft, Sony, Shell Group are just some of the big companies that went global and expanded their trading around the world, they are large businesses that operate internationally in many countries. Development of worldwide integration urges companies to reach out international markets and interact with foreign customers. Businesses focus on fulfilling the demand of the market by its products or services, besides their target is increasing profit, in order achieve these goals they favor to expand their work in a foreign market. Other reasons to internationalize their business may be to become