BHP Group Limited — Major Shareholding Notification 2021

Sep 5, 2021

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Issued by: BHP Group Plc Date: 6 September 2021 To: London Stock Exchange Australian Securities Exchange Cc: JSE Limited New York Stock Exchange For Release: Immediately Authorised for Stefanie Wilkinson lodgement by: Group Company Secretary

– BHP Group Plc Notification of Major Interest in Shares

The attached notification was received on 3 September 2021 by BHP Group Plc from Norges Bank relating to a change of major interests in shares in BHP Group Plc.

BHP Group Limited ABN 49 004 028 077 Registered in Australia LEI WZE1WSENV6JSZFK0JC28 Registered Office: 171 Collins Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia Tel +61 1300 55 4757 Fax +61 3 9609 3015

BHP Group Plc Registration number 3196209 LEI 549300C116EOWV835768 Registered in England and Wales Registered Office: Nova South, 160 Victoria Street London, SW1E 5LB United Kingdom Tel +44 20 7802 4000 Fax +44 20 7802 4111

The BHP Group is headquartered in Australia

TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings

1. Issuer Details

ISIN

GB00BH0P3Z91

Issuer Name

BHP GROUP PLC

UK or Non-UK Issuer

UK

2. Reason for Notification

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation

Name

Norges Bank

City of registered office (if applicable)

Oslo

Country of registered office (if applicable)

Norway

4. Details of the shareholder

Full name of shareholder(s) if different from the person(s) subject to the notification obligation, above

City of registered office (if applicable)

Country of registered office (if applicable)

5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached

• • 02 Sep 2021

6. Date on which Issuer notified

• 03 Sep-2021

7. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation

.	% of voting rights attached to shares (total of 8.A)	% of voting rights through financial instruments (total of 8.B 1 + 8.B 2)	Total of both in % (8.A + 8.B)	Total number of voting rights held in issuer

Resulting situation on the date on which threshold was crossed or reached	4.940100	0.000000	4.940100	104338437
Position of previous notification (if applicable)	5.01	0.001	5.01

8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached

8A. Voting rights attached to shares

		Number of
Class/Type of	Number of direct			% of indirect
		indirect voting	% of direct voting
shares ISIN	voting rights			voting rights
		rights	rights (DTR5.1)
code(if possible)	(DTR5.1)			(DTR5.2.1)
		(DTR5.2.1)
GB00BH0P3Z91	101234437		4.793140
US05545E2090	3104000		0.146960
	104338437		4.940100%
Sub Total 8.A

8B1. Financial Instruments according to (DTR5.3.1R.(1) (a))

			Number of voting rights that
				% of
Type of financial	Expiration	Exercise/conversion	may be acquired if the
				voting
instrument	date	period	instrument is
				rights
			exercised/converted
SubTotal8.B1

8B2. Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to (DTR5.3.1R.(1) (b))

Type of					% of
	Expiration	Exercise/conversion	Physical or cash	Number of
financial					voting
	date	period	settlement	voting rights
instrument					rights
SubTotal8.B2

9. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation

1. Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by any natural person or legal entity and does not control any other undertaking(s) holding directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying) issuer.

		% of voting	% of voting rights	Total of both if it
	Name of	rights if it equals	through financial	equals or is
Ultimate
	controlled	or is higher than	instruments if it equals	higher than the
controlling person
	undertaking	the notifiable	or is higher than the	notifiable
		threshold	notifiable threshold	threshold

10. In case of proxy voting

Name of the proxy holder

The number and % of voting rights held

The date until which the voting rights will be held

11. Additional Information

12. Date of Completion

• • 03 Sep 2021

13. Place Of Completion

Oslo, Norway