Diversification has benefits, but operating synergies between oil and mining are debatable – it’s not an accident that while majors sold out of one or the other, none have returned.
BHP Group’s future can do without hydrocarbons.
The world’s largest digger is among the last heavyweights to mix mines with a significant presence in oil, a combination that is becoming harder to justify over the long term.
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