Billiton
Americannoun
noun
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It urged the company, then known as BHP Billiton, to spin off its U.S. petroleum assets and unify a dual Sydney-London listing, moves that—despite initial resistance—it eventually made.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
Meanwhile, Ryanair and BHP Billiton have announced their intention to delist from the LSE.,
From Reuters • Dec. 7, 2021
Abandoning the dual listing unwinds a structure that has been in place in 2001, when Australia's BHP merged with the UK's Billiton.
From BBC • Aug. 17, 2021
Most prominent was Australia’s BHP Billiton, which had spent $5bn investing with Chesapeake in the Fayetteville shale and ploughed another $15bn into the purchase of Houston-based Petrohawk.
From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2018
We now stood away to the westward, sighting Cape Ape, the north-western point of Borneo, and then steered south for Java, through the Billiton passage.
From Mark Seaworth by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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