The Energy and Minerals Business Council is a global business forum of mining and energy corporations formed in 2006 with an inaugural meeting at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne Hotel, in Melbourne, Australia on 18 November and 19 November 2006. The meeting was held to coincide with the 2006 G20 summit.
Membership is composed of the world's most powerful mining and oil companies including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto Group, Brazilian iron ore miner Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), Woodside Petroleum, Saudi Aramco the state-owned national oil company of Saudi Arabia, Anglo American PLC, PetroCanada and the BG Group.
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