BHP Group announced changes to the BHP Executive Leadership Team to reflect the company's simplified portfolio and transformation agenda. Joining the Executive Leadership Team are Geraldine Slattery, President Operations Petroleum; Vandita Pant, Chief Commercial Officer; Jonathan Price, Chief Transformation Officer; and Laura Tyler, Chief Geoscientist. They join Peter Beaven, Geoff Healy, Mike Henry, Diane Jurgens, Danny Malchuk and Athalie Williams on the Executive Leadership Team. Geraldine Slattery will lead the company's Petroleum business which includes oil and gas interests and development and exploration programs in the US, Australia, Mexico and Canada, effective 18 March 2019. Vandita Pant will assume the position of Chief Commercial Officer from 1 July 2019. Vandita brings strong global financial market and business development experience to the role. Jonathan Price, currently Transformation Director, will assume the role of Chief Transformation Officer effective 1 March 2019 and join the Executive Leadership Team. Laura Tyler will continue in her current role as Asset President Olympic Dam based in Adelaide reporting to Mike Henry. In addition to her direct responsibility for Olympic Dam, Laura will re-join the Executive Leadership Team from 1 March 2019 as Chief Geoscientist and bring a focus on geoscience and resource engineering risk management. Arnoud Balhuizen will return to the Netherlands after 25 years with Billiton and BHP. During Arnoud's time as Chief Commercial Officer, he led the successful integration of the company's Marketing and Supply groups into one global commercial team. Through his leadership and vision, BHP's commercial function has developed strong global partnerships and created significant value. Following the successful completion of the sale of the company's US Onshore assets, Steve Pastor, has decided to leave BHP. Steve's leadership and oil and gas industry expertise, as President Operations Petroleum, has delivered a world class, strategically focused business.
BHP Group Limited is the world's leading mining group. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- iron ore (47.3%): 253,000 Kt produced in 2021/22;
- base metals (259%): copper (1,635,7 Kt produced), silver (12,200,000 ounces), zinc (123.2 Kt), uranium oxide (2.4 Kt), etc.;
- coal (23.9%): energy coal (17,937 Kt produced) and metallurgical coal (37,064 Kt).,
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Australia (4.9%), China (65.3%), Japan (7.9%), South Korea (5.7%), India (3.6%), Asia (5.9%), North America (4%), Europe (1.7%), South America (0.7%) and other (0.3%).