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BHP Prices US Bond Offer

Published: 2023-02-24 08:05:44 ET
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NEWS RELEASE
Release Time            IMMEDIATE
Date                    24 February 2023
Release Number          3/23

                                    BHP PRICES US BOND OFFER

BHP Group Limited (BHP) has conducted an offer and successfully priced US$2.75 billion of senior
unsecured bonds in the US market.

The bonds will be issued by BHP Billiton Finance (USA) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of BHP,
under BHP’s US debt registration statement which was filed with the US Securities and Exchange
Commission on 22 February 2023. The bonds will be guaranteed by BHP.

The offering comprises three tranches of bonds. The principal amount, tenor and coupon for each
tranche of bonds are:

       US$1.0 billion in three-year bonds priced at a fixed coupon of 4.875% maturing on 27
        February 2026
       US$1.0 billion in five-year bonds priced at a fixed coupon of 4.750% maturing on 28 February
        2028
       US$750 million in ten-year bonds priced at a fixed coupon of 4.900% maturing on 28 February
        2033

BHP intends to use the proceeds from the bonds for general corporate purposes.

Settlement of the bonds is expected to occur on 28 February 2023, subject to customary closing
conditions.

This announcement is not an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities. The
offer is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The offer is being made only by means of a
prospectus and related prospectus supplement. The prospectus and related preliminary
prospectus supplement may be obtained by visiting the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Alternatively, you may request these documents by calling Barclays Capital Inc. at 1-888-603-
5847, BofA Securities, Inc. at 1-800-294-1322, BNP Paribas Securities Corp. at 1-800-854-5674,
MUFG Securities Americas Inc. at 1-877-649-6848 or Santander US Capital Markets LLC at 1-
855-403-3636.
No sale or offer to sell these securities or invitation or solicitation of an offer to purchase these
securities will be made in any jurisdiction in which such offer, invitation, solicitation or sale
would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such
jurisdiction.



Authorised for lodgement by:
Stefanie Wilkinson
Group Company Secretary

Sponsor: J.P. Morgan Equities South Africa Proprietary Limited

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