State Bank of India has invited bids for overseas oil and gas assets of Videocon Industries Ltd, a newspaper advertisement showed on Monday, as India seeks to recover billions of dollars in loans from the beleaguered private firm.

Consumer electronics firm Videocon Industries is one of the most indebted companies in India, with outstanding loans worth around Rs. 60,000 crore ($8.53 billion) from its financial and operational creditors.

In October, SBI Caps, the investment banking arm of State Bank of India, was appointed to start the process of valuation and monetisation of the firm's oil and gas assets overseas.

SBI said it had appointed consultant Deloitte to find buyers for Videocon's exploration assets in Brazil and Indonesia.

"It is a process where qualified parties from India and overseas will be invited to bid for the assets," said a banker involved in the process, adding that expressions of interest would be received until August 22.