Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA agreed to sell 90% of its natural gas pipeline unit to a group of investors led by Canada's Brookfield Asset Management Inc. for $5.2 billion. The investor group includes British Columbia's pension fund and Chinese and Singaporean sovereign wealth funds CIC and GIC. The deal will be the largest divestment so far in the heavily indebted oil company's $15 billion asset sale plan. Reuters reported earlier that Brookfield had entered exclusive talks to acquire Nova Transportadora do Sudeste SA, or NTS as the Petrobras subsidiary is informally known. The exclusivity period expired on Aug. 12. During those talks, the investor group led by Brookfield raised the stake it was offering to acquire in NTS to 90% from 82%.
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机译：巴西国有石油公司巴西石油公司（Petroleo Brasileiro SA）同意以52亿美元的价格，将其天然气管道部门的90％出售给以加拿大布鲁克菲尔德资产管理公司（Brookfield Asset Management Inc.）为首的一群投资者。投资者群体包括不列颠哥伦比亚省的养老基金以及中国和新加坡主权财富基金CIC和GIC。这笔交易将是迄今为止负债累累的石油公司150亿美元资产出售计划中最大的一次撤资。据路透社报道，布鲁克菲尔德已经进入独家谈判以收购Nova Transportadora do Sudeste SA，即巴西国家石油公司的子公司。独占期于8月12日到期。在这些会谈中，以布鲁克菲尔德（Brookfield）为首的投资集团将其提供的NTS收购股权从82％增至90％。
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