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SAO PAULO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras said in a statement on Friday it plans to sell 2.17 billion new common shares and 1.59 billion new preferred shares to fund a massive investment plan to tap deepwater oil.
Petrobras could issue up to $64.5 billion worth of shares, dwarfing a previous offering record set in 1987 by Japan's biggest phone company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, with the sale of $36.8 billion of shares.
Another large offering in capital markets recently was the initial sale of Agricultural Bank of China that raised $22.1 billion.
Here is a list of the world's biggest stock sales, including IPOs: YEAR ISSUER COUNTRY PROCEEDS ------------------------------------------------------------ 2010 Petrobras Brazil $64.5 billion (planned
maximum)* 1987 NTT Japan $36.8 billion 2008 RBS UK $24.4 billion 2009 Lloyds UK $22.5 billion 1988 NTT Japan $22.4 billion 2010 AgBank China $22.1 billion 2006 ICBC China $22 billion 2008 Visa US $19.7 billion 2009 HSBC UK $19.4 billion 2007 Fortis Belgium $19.3 billion 2009 Bank of America US $19.3 billion 1998 NTT DoCoMo Japan $18.1 billion (Source: Thomson Reuters Data) * stock offering hasn't taken place yet (Compiled by Elzio Barreto; Editing by Greg Mahlich)