New Issue-Woodside Finance sells $700 mln notes

Nov 3 (Reuters) - Woodside Finance Ltd, a unit of
Australia's Woodside Petroleum Ltd (WPL.AX), on Tuesday sold
$700 million of notes in the 144a private placement market,
said IFR, a Thomson Reuters service.

The size of the deal was increased from an originally
planned $500 million.

Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan were the joint
bookrunning managers for the sale.
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