Collaboration for overcoming challenges: BHP Tailings Challenge

Webinar description: BHP is focused on eliminating the risk of catastrophic tailings storage facilities failure at their operations with legacy assets and they are working in collaboration with others to find solutions, in an effort to make this a reality. We are implementing a set of initiatives to accomplish this aspiration, one of them is the BHP Tailings Challenge, an open call to identify and accelerate solutions to repurpose tailings so that a new product uses our tailings as raw material. This call was launched on June this year, it got 151 proposals from 19 countries and in November it will start its first stage: Lab Test.

10:00 – 10:15

Opening Remarks

Moderated by Robert G. Owens, Global Manager of Business Development, Water & Pipeline, Bechtel, Chile

Bio: As Business Development Operations Manager for Bechtel’s Water Business Line, Robert supports the development of water projects globally in the areas of desalination, nuclear liquid waste treatment, and industrial water treatment. Robert is based in Santiago, Chile, the headquarters of Bechtel’s Mining & Metals Global Business Unit.

Prior to his current position, Robert was the Commercial Manager for the construction of Google Fiber in the three US cities. Robert has been involved in the Water Business Line since its formation in 2015.

Before joining Bechtel, Robert worked in engineering and management roles in Schlumberger. As a field engineer, Robert worked in hydraulic fracturing operations in Russia and Mexico. In a management consulting role based in Mexico City, Robert supported operating companies in solving operational and strategic planning challenges across Latin America and Europe. For three years prior to joining Bechtel, Robert was the market analyst for Schlumberger Brazil, based in Rio de Janeiro.

10:15-10:40

BHP Tailings Challenge and Vision

Presented by Cleve Gary Lightfoot, Practice Lead Innovation BHP, Chile

Description: BHP is focused on eliminating the risk of catastrophic tailings storage facilities failure at their operations with legacy assets and they are working in collaboration with others to find solutions, in an effort to make this a reality.

Bio: Cleve Gary Lightfoot studied metallurgical engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, arriving to Chile in 1999 to participate in a technology society created by Codelco and BHP Billiton. He is a director at the Advanced Mining Technology Centre at Universidad de Chile, partner and former director of the Complex Systems Institute of Valparaiso (Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso) and was also a director of Copper-4-Energy. He currently serves as Practice Lead Innovation, at BHP.

 

11:05- 11:20 am

Moderated Q & A