Steel and iron ore market outlook
Dr Huw McKay
Vice President, Market Analysis and Economics
Dr Rod Dukino
Vice President, Sales and Marketing Sustainability
3 October 2022
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Portfolio positively leveraged to megatrends
Low cost assets and world class resource base across a differentiated set of commodities
30/30 year | ||||||||||||
growth | ||||||||||||
Portfolio | Population | Urbanisation | Rising living | Decarbonising | Electrifying | Geopolitical | BHP 1.5°C | |||||
growth | standards | power | transport | risk | scenario | |||||||
Copper | + | ++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | ~ | >2x | |||||
Largest endowment1 | ||||||||||||
Nickel | + | ++ | +++ | + | ++++ | + | ~4x | |||||
Second largest sulphide | ||||||||||||
resource2 | ||||||||||||
Steel | + | +++ | ++ | ++ | ~ | ~ | ~2x | |||||
Lowest cost iron ore3 | ||||||||||||
Leading met coal supplier | ||||||||||||
Potash | +++ | + | + | ~ | ~ | +++ | >2x | |||||
Large-scale resource supports | ||||||||||||
up to 100 years of operation4 | ||||||||||||
2050 estimate, | ~10 bn | ~7 bn | ~$400 tn | ¾ of power | ~2 bn | |||||||
capacity | ||||||||||||
total population; | urban population; | world GDP; | EVs on the road; | - | ||||||||
change from current | wind & solar; | |||||||||||
+ 2¼ bn | + 2¾ bn | 4-fold gain | 100-fold gain | |||||||||
13-fold energy gain5 | ||||||||||||
+ Indicators are versus a baseline that does not include the theme being assessed. ~ Signifies trivial direct impact or offsetting forces that are basically in balance. | ||||||||||||
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Steel is the building block of a better world
Different climate scenarios do not produce highly divergent outcomes
Buildings & infrastructure | Transportation & machinery |
Cumulative steel demand ranges and scenarios
Traditional application
Renewable energy | Climate adaptation |
Climate adaptation
Decarbonisation&
(30yr/30yr, %) 250
200 | BHP planning range |
150 | ||||
100 | ||||
50 | ||||
0 | ||||
1.5 degrees | Deep Green | ~2 degrees | ~3 degrees | Climate Crisis |
Source: BHP analysis, Vivid Economics.
Note: Our portfolio is tested across a range of future scenarios, including a scenario where warming is limited to 1.5°C. Scenarios were developed prior to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and therefore any possible effects of the pandemic were not considered in the modelling.
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Essential value chains have differing demand drivers
Each is essential to our way of life and has a distinctive relationship to economic development
Food value chain | Steel value chain | ||||||||
Population growth and dietary change | Urbanisation and industrialisation | ||||||||
Food, feed, fibre, fuel | Buildings, infrastructure, machinery, other goods | ||||||||
Low degree of recycling1 | High degree of recycling | ||||||||
Steady increase in intensity through the entire | Swift increase in intensity on the way to middle | ||||||||
development journey, high income plateau | income, where a distinct peak forms | ||||||||
Crop needs per head | Steel demand per head | ||||||||
GDP per head | |||||||||
GDP per head | |||||||||
Traditional growth drivers | Major uses by society | Degree of Circularity |
Energy value chain
Motorisation, electrification, industrialisation
Transport, power, heat, chemicals
Low degree of recycling
Swift increase in intensity on the way to middle income, flatter beyond, high income plateau
Primary energy per head
GDP per head
Relationship to living standards
Note: Illustrative only, reflecting stylised empirical path of major societies through time that have reached high income levels.
1. Recycling of nutrients via crop residue or manure occurs, but the food value chain is very inefficient and highly subject to waste.
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