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Posted at 11:11 a.m., Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Tesoro to sell $500M of senior notes due in 2017

Bloomberg News Service

Tesoro Corp., the second-largest refinery in the U.S. West and owner of Hawai'i's largest oil refinery, plans to sell $500 million of senior notes due in 2017.

Proceeds will be used a $700 million term loan, San Antonio-based Tesoro said in a statement today. Moody's Investors Service rates the company's senior unsecured debt Ba1, while Standard & Poor's gives it a rating of BB+, both below investment grade.