Collaboration for overcoming challenges: BHP Tailing Challenge
Collaboration for overcoming challenges:
BHP Tailing Challenge
November 10th, 10:00 am – 11:20 am EST
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.
Agenda
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.
10:40-11:05 am
Presented by Ingrid Oyarzún, Regi
Bio: Ingrid is a Hydraulic Civil Engineer from Universidad de Chile, with an MBA in Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (Chile) and a Master of Science in Hydrogeologist from Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña (Spain).
Ingrid has more than 19 years of experience in the mining industry. She joined BHP through the Graduate Program in 2003, her work experience includes Escondida Operations, Studies and Major Project Management, and Global Tailings Management.
In the previous assignment, she was responsible for the Minerals Americas studies portfolio. She also led mining optimisation initiatives for Minerals Americas which include Mobile Mine Equipment, Autonomous trucks, and Material Handling. She has been involved in several Major Capital Projects during prefeasibility, feasibility and execution phases. She was the Project Engineering Manager in Escondida Desalination Project, and subsequently served as the Project Manager for the expansion of the same project during the pre-feasibility phase.
Ingrid also has experience in Water and Tailings Management in Escondida Operation.
Currently, Ingrid works as the Global Manager of Strategic Studies as part of the Tailings Taskforce team, based in Melbourne, Australia, where she is responsible for the development of BHP Long Term Tailings Strategy.
11:05- 11:20 am – Moderated Q & A
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