Apache Corporation Completes Sale of Australian Operations

HOUSTON, June 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) today announced it has completed the previously disclosed sale of its Australian subsidiary Apache Energy Limited to a consortium of private equity funds managed by Macquarie Corporate Holdings Limited and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE: BAM) (TSX: BAM.A) (Euronext: BAMA). Total proceeds of $1.9 billion are net of $225 million in customary, post-closing adjustments for the period between the effective date, October 1, 2014, and closing.

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