14 Business View Magazine - July 2016
Opening
Lines
Texas Competes, a Business-Led Movement,
Surpasses 1,000 Members: Major Oil and
Gas Producer Joins Coalition Supporting an
LGBT-Friendly Texas
BHP Billiton, one of the world’s largest natural re-
sources companies, becomes the 1,000th Texas
economic stakeholder to sign a pledge stating that
Texas must be welcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexu-
al, and transgender (LGBT) people as an economic
imperative. BHP Billiton’s petroleum unit, a major
upstream oil and gas producer, is headquartered in
Houston.
“BHP Billiton actively supports inclusion and diver-
sity in the workplace, and we’re proud to be the first
company in the upstream petroleum business to
