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Petrobras raises $70 bn in world's largest share offer

Source: PTI
September 24, 2010 17:49 IST
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Brazilian oil major Petrobras has mopped-up about $70 billion in the world's largest share offering. Out of the total proceeds, around $43 billion would go to the Brazilian government, which is a majority shareholder, according to British daily The Financial Times.

"Petrobras, Brazil's national oil company, has raised about $70 billion in the biggest share issue in corporate history," the newspaper said quoting a person familiar with the matter.

As per the report, the government would take the proceeds worth $43 billion in exchange for the rights to five billion barrels of oil in Brazil's newly discovered pre-salt oilfields -- so called because they are trapped under several kilometres of seawater, rock and a hard-to-penetrate layer of salt.

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