OREANDA-NEWS. Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC) announced that it has priced USD 1.95 billion in aggregate principal amount of unsecured senior notes in an underwritten public offering consisting of three series of senior notes:

USD 750 million aggregate principal amount of 3.625 percent senior notes due 2024

USD 800 million aggregate principal amount of 4.75 percent senior notes due 2044

USD 400 million aggregate principal amount of 5.00 percent senior notes due 2054

The 2024 senior notes, the 2044 senior notes and the 2054 senior notes were offered at a price to the public of 99.641 percent, 98.862 percent and 98.77 percent of par, respectively.

Together with borrowings under the recently announced USD 700 million term loan, MPC intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund the pending acquisition of Hess Retail Holdings LLC by its subsidiary, Speedway LLC.

The closing of the senior notes offering is expected to occur on Sept. 5, 2014, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA) Inc., RBS Securities Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering.