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BIL
BIBLT
BHP Billiton Plc - Transaction In Shares
BHP Billiton Plc
Share code: BIL
ISIN: GB0000566504
Issued by: BHP Billiton Plc
BHP Billiton Limited
To: London Stock Exchange
Australian Stock Exchange
Cc: New York Stock Exchange
JSE Limited
Swiss Stock Exchange
Deutsche Bank
UBS Zurich
BHP BILLITON PLC - TRANSACTION IN SHARES
BHP Billiton Limited announces that on 1 December 2006 it purchased 1,000,000
ordinary shares of BHP Billiton Plc at an average price of 969.728 pence per
ordinary share.
Following the above purchase, BHP Billiton Plc holds 25,420,000 of its ordinary
shares as treasury shares and BHP Billiton Limited holds 49,860,000 of the
ordinary shares in BHP Billiton Plc, for a total of 75,280,000 shares. The total
number of BHP Billiton Plc ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as
treasury shares and shares held by BHP Billiton Limited) is 2,392,867,002.
For further information, please contact:
Investor Relations Company Secretary Company Secretary
Mark Lidiard BHP Billiton Plc BHP Billiton Limited
Office: Robert Franklin Jane McAloon
+44 (0) 20 7802 4156
Mobile: Office: Office:
+44 (0) 77 6993 4942 +44 (0) 20 7802 4116 +61 3 9609 2445
Mobile: Mobile:
+44 (0) 7824 302684 +61 448 551 695
Further information on BHP Billiton can be found on our internet
site: www.bhpbilliton .com
Australia United Kingdom
Samantha Evans, Media Relations Mark Lidiard, Investor & Media
Relations
Tel: +61 3 9609 2898 Mob: +61 Tel: +44 20 7802 4156 Mob: +44
400 693 915 7769 934 942
email: email:
Samantha.Evans@bhpbilliton.com Mark.Lidiard@bhpbilliton.com
Jane Belcher, Investor Relations Illtud Harri, Media Relations
Tel: +61 3 9609 3952 Mob: +61 4 Tel: +44 20 7802 4195 Mob: +44
417 031 653 7920 237 246
email: email:
Jane.Belcher@bhpbilliton.com Illtud.Harri@bhpbilliton.com
United States South Africa
Tracey Whitehead, Investor Alison Gilbert, Investor
Relations Relations
Tel: +44 20 7802 4031 Mob: +44 Tel SA: +27 11 376 2121 or UK:
7917 648 093 +44 20 7802 4183
email: email:
Tracey.Whitehead@bhpbilliton.com Alison.Gilbert@bhpbilliton.com
Date: 04/12/2006 08:53:48 AM Produced by the JSE SENS Department
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