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LONDON (Reuters) -BP has agreed to buy grain trader Bunge's 50% stake in Brazilian sugar and ethanol joint venture BP Bunge Bioenergia for $1.4 billion in a bet on growing demand for low-carbon biofuels. Following the completion of the deal, expected by end-2024, BP will take full ownership of Bioenergia which has production capacity of around 50,000 barrels a day of ethanol equivalent from sugarcane. BP will consolidate Bioenergia's debt and lease obligations of $1.2 billion, it said, meaning it will pay out a total of $800 million to Bunge, according to Reuters calculations.
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