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Canada’s Cenovus to sell Weyburn asset to Whitecap for $739 mln

November 13, 2017 3:13 PM
Reuters

Canada's Cenovus Energy Inc has reached an agreement to sell its Weyburn oil facility for C$940 million ($738.53 million) to Whitecap Resources Inc , Cenovus said on Monday, completing its main divesture plans.

Cenovus has been selling assets to pay down debt used to fund its C$16.8 billion acquisition of some ConocoPhillips assets this year. The Weyburn sale would bring Cenovus' asset sale proceeds to about C$4 billion compared with its target of C$4 billion to C$5 billion in asset sales.

(Reporting by Ethan Lou)

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