Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Petrobras Conference Call with analysts and investors for the presentation of the information referring to the results in the first quarter 2015. We would like to inform you that participants will only be listening to the conference call during the company’s presentation in Portuguese with simultaneous translation into English. Afterwards, a Q&A session will begin and further instructions will be provided. [Operator Instructions] This broadcast is being recorded. Present with us today are Mr. Ivan de Souza Monteiro, Petrobras’ Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer; Ms. Solange da Silva Guedes, Chief Exploration and Production Officer; Mr. Jorge Celestino Ramos, Chief Downstream Officer; Mr. Hugo Repsold Junior, Chief Gas and Power Officer; Mr. Antonio Sergio Oliveira Santana, Chief Corporate and Services Officer; and other company executives. I’d like to remind you this meeting is being recorded. Please be mindful of slide 2, which contains a notice to shareholders and investors. The words believe, expect and other similar ones related to projections and targets are mere forecasts, based on the expectations of the executives regarding the future of Petrobras. To begin, we will hear Mr. Lucas Mello, Executive Manager of Investor Relations. Lucas Tavares de Mello will then give us a presentation of the results in the first quarter 2015. Next, questions from participants will be answered. Please, Mr. Lucas Mello?

Good afternoon everyone. We will now begin the presentation from slide 3 where we make a comparison between the results of the first quarter 2015 and the first quarter 2014. The net result remained steady, however, we can see that the operating profit grew 76%, reaching R$13.3 billion compared to R$7.5 billion in the first quarter 2014. The main lines that drove this result are related to the net operating income that fell 9% because we had lower sales of oil products, lower oil price which affected our exports in this period, and also the cost of goods sold 17% drop due to the lower unit cost of imports and a smaller government stake, both from a lower oil price. Now, regarding operating expenses, we’ve had a strong drop, 22% and this drop in operational expenses is due to the provision of R$2.4 billion in the first quarter 2014. This provision was related to the Voluntary Separation Incentive Program in that period of time. Now, in 2015, we reversed the provision for losses in the electric sector, R$1 billion. After this operating profit, we can see a negative financial result in the quarter which was a result of foreign exchange devaluation, higher indebtedness, and less interest capitalized in this period because we have fewer ongoing projects. I want to highlight the adjusted EBITDA in this period, 50% higher, reaching R$21.5 billion in this period. Also, our investments dropped 13%, reaching R$17.8 billion, especially because of lower investments in the downstream segment. Now, in slide 4, talking about the international or the external environment, the exchange rate, as we already mentioned, we had a depreciation between the first quarter 2014 and the first quarter 2015. And when we look at the final exchange rate, this depreciation is even higher. Now, Brent…

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Luiz Carvalho from HSBC.

I have two questions. My first question is about the recurring EBITDA distribution, this first quarter obviously was heavily affected by the increase in price with imports and very high premium last year and also over this period. So I'd like to have a better understanding about the recurring EBITDA for distribution, what could we consider in the future? Second point, I think Lucas mentioned amazing pre-salt results, a high rise in recent times, but there is a significant drop. So do you consider – you still consider 10% drop, and when we see a breakdown of the margin, we can see a drop around 13% to 14%, I think this is the strongest impact for production growing according to expectations, what about going forward? You mentioned in the press conference an impact of 12.5% due to maintenance, is this already included in the goal of this year of 4.5?

First Solange is going to answer your question and then followed by Celestino.

Specifically about the two points you addressed, when it comes to the decline or drop, I maintain the information that I shared in our last meeting. It’s true, we’re projecting for this system which are not pre-salt, as I mentioned, we’re maintaining, on average our drop is around 10%. That’s what we have in mind and this is included in our forecast for 2015. Answering your second question, you want to know the amount that I mentioned before on Friday, to what extent they are included in the 4.5% or about 1%, the answer is yes. Those amounts are reference amount we have over the percentage of our output, which is affected by our scheduled maintenance for 2015. Up to the first quarter, we’re working on maintenance and this is absolutely in line with our plan and the best forecast, the best scenario is that we will have the number of scheduled maintenance that I mentioned before, and they are included in our goals, just highlighting what I said on Friday. So we still give signs that we are going to meet the growth of 4.5% over 2015 as we mentioned before. Officer Celestino is going to speak now.

With regards to downstream, I think there is no recurring effect that is worth anticipating. We are keeping an eye on the major market moves and also checking how margins will be behaving, particularly distribution margins and also the progress of the share of biofuels, or to what extent biofuels will be competitive vis-a-vis oil products. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on these big figures and the behavior of refining margins worldwide and impact, for instance, with summer in the US, gasoline prices, so we’re keeping an eye on all these moves and doing the math so we can have a good forecast of our results.

Just another follow-up. Well, what about the return?

RLAM is already at the maximum production, so until the second quarter, it will be normal again. Yes, it will be normal in the second quarter.

The next question is from [Eric Cardoso] from Credit Suisse.

Andre Sobreira from Credit Suisse. I have two questions if I may. First question about opex cut down, what you were saying is the relative G&A – recurrent G&A for the business and any opex inefficiency that you believe you might address as soon as possible? And about the cash flow slide, in the previous slide of the previous quarter, interest, amortization and others amounted to R$18 billion and now this has increased to R$21 billion. So what is the reason, what justifies this delta and what does others mean because in the past we thought others might be dividends, but now you mentioned that there will be no dividend payout and the number has increased? So I’d just like to understand this change better.

When it comes to opex, opex is always a reason of strong attention considering the company’s PIDV, or the Voluntary Separation program that we started last year. We have a very interesting slide showing the progress, particularly the company’s ability to work on technologies with the lowest cost and as soon as possible. We’ll go deeper into that discussion this week during our discussion of the new business plan, we’ll be reviewing the business plan and this is an item that will draw more attention. You’re absolutely right. And you’re also right when you talk about cash flow, we revisited the potential amount of cash use for legal claims, provision for legal claims and maybe Lucas and the team can contact you to give you more detail on the process. But this is precisely due to legal claims.

The next question is from Auro Rozenbaum from Bradesco BBI.

I have two questions. The first question, I just want to double-check about financial expenses, interest expenses. Based on the numbers, we can see an increase and I believe the bulk is related to the fact that Abreu Lima is now up and running, so just to confirm, Abreu Lima as it’s running now, do you have the full financial expense included or any expense that was capitalized and that should be included now and is there any other activity or G&P development that is still going to drive this capitalization to turning to results this year? My second question along the same lines, is there any forecast for adjustment in the pension plan? I can see it is in line to what it was before and there was a deficit, so is there any adjustment for pension plans considering the transfer of rights in terms of oil price or should we expect another significant adjustment vis-a-vis oil prices that might happen over 2015?

Could you repeat the last part of your question, we had a problem, audio problem?

What about your forecast for adjustment this year, for the year 2015, do you expect to see a more significant adjustment for pension plans considering the drop in the share price or also transfer of rights or other assets directly related to oil prices?

Your question is about capitalization, if I understood it correctly, I'd ask Jorge to answer it.

When it comes to RNEST train one, it is already under operation, so we now have more interest to be capitalized vis-a-vis this project. There is a number of other projects that also started out over 2014 and they justify a lower percentage of capitalized interest today. As to pension plans, we don’t have significant adjustment underway, but [indiscernible] going to answer your question.

When it comes to the pension plan, an important variation is always interest rate when it comes to liability, so we have to keep an eye on interest rates, the behavior for the future. And based on this behavior, the variable might have a positive or negative impact on the actuarial liability. Officer Solange is going to talk about transfer of rights now.

If I understood your question correctly, you are referring to the renegotiation underway which started by the end of the last transfer of rights for sale that we had in 2014. The answer is we don't have any forecast or provision of expenses for any possible credit that might be posted this year due to the negotiation of the transfer of rights. Did I understand your question correctly?

Yes, this was my question.

There are no other highlights related to this topic.

The next question is from Paula Kovarsky from Itau BBA.

I have two questions. The first question is about refining, there was a significant rise in margin, naturally it is to a higher realization price. However, the market has changed a little, chances are we're not going to have the same premium level in the second quarter, but more important than that there is a significant stoppage at RLAM. We couldn't find in the figures where the maintenance cost is vis-a-vis this refinery, we had this discussion in the past, whether it was being capitalized or not, just to have a better understanding now, what do you mean by the recurring refining costs going forward considering the fact that we have RNEST going on but not the refineries, not to mention all the other write-offs, so we want to better understand how this is being addressed in the refining sector? Second question is about gas and energy, gas and power. Do you have a significant number of R$3 billion or R$4 billion of the electric system in ADA, any further reduction planned for future years?

Now Director Jorge Celestino will answer your question about refining margins.

About the accounting treatment of scheduled maintenance, this is capitalized during the units campaign so that we do not have the full impact in a single month. These costs, they are usually accounted for along the new campaign, along the new campaign period of time. Now, Paula, about this electric sector, we had a confession of debt that is why we had that reversal of R$1.3 billion. So this is related to the standard procedure, we always keep this discussion, the quality of receivables, the quality of trade receivables. If we see there is a change in quality compared to the initial provision, we make a change. Otherwise, the provision remains there until the payment is received.

Now, I would like to go back to a previous question, when we compare the cash flow slide, also in operational cash generation, there was a difference in numbers, R$23 billion to R$25 billion, I would like to understand whether you changed assumptions or if this change is an adjustment of non-recurring items because if we look at the FX evolution, there was no change?

This was an improvement we considered relevant so that we added to that, considering the full market situation, not only Brent prices and foreign exchange, but also other factors. I mean, this was so relevant we decided to include it in our projection. But the assumptions remain the same rate, the assumptions remain the same. What has changed is for example the government stake. This number generated impact, a good positive impact. Actually, it was a bigger effect. I mean, why, when we look at a lower government stake and when we compare the Brent oil price in the fourth quarter and in the first quarter, we had a drop of 20% and the drop in government stake was 30. Why do we have this difference? Well, I'm looking at the numbers here, the explanation has a series of factors. So we will contact you later on to provide further information on all of these items.

Our next question is from Mr. Christian Audi, Santander.

I have two questions. Looking at the business plan and what you have just mentioned that there were a few changes in the numbers after the last call, so going back to a topic you have already clarified, that is the expectation on production growth for 2015 and 2016 and capex for these two years and also the sales of assets, looking at all of these factors, do you believe the targets will remain as they are or do you still have a leeway to change that before June, so do you believe these targets will be reviewed? My second question deals with deleveraging, could you please, I mean, this is a clear objective, you said it is very relevant for the company, but I would like you to give us some more comments on how to reconcile this objective with for example what you have announced on Friday that the board – I mean, that you may issue debentures, so how would you reconcile these two things because on the one hand you try to deleverage, on the other hand you are considering the issue of the ventures to obtain more funding? And along the same lines could you please elaborate about the cost of debt, I mean looking at everything you've already negotiated for 2015 and what you believe may happen in 2016, does that make a big difference in the cost of debt? Would you see it going up or down or do you think it will remain stable?

Until the time I came here, the bonds responded very positively after the announcements of Friday and every time we see improved information or improved performance by the company, this is very quickly reflected on the numbers. One of them is the cost of debt. The assumptions we're working on have not changed substantially. We have a relevant challenge ahead of us in terms of deleveraging and one of the drivers here would be divestment, the number is R$3 billion this year and R$10.5 billion for next year, they remain the same. These processes are very careful, we are very careful as we model the assets, trying to find the best or the highest possible value for that asset for Petrobras' shareholders and then we go to the market and try to see whether we have potential buyers or potential partners or perhaps someone that can add expertise that Petrobras has not developed. So we are careful, but we have a very clear goal to deliver the targets, the targets as I said remain the same But this is a dynamic process, sometimes you have assets that have been identified that could be interesting for this process, however, in the strategic discussion because this process is led by the financial area, but together with the other departments of Petrobras. So because we may have relevant factors, because projects may go through changes and sometimes we look for replacing certain assets, but what we have very clear is the target, R$3 billion this year and R$10.5 billion next year. Now, in terms of the cost of debt, you know that today we're all just highly liquid. I mean, we have a lot of liquidity because of the US program first and now because of the European program. So that's good news about liquidity on the international market and that's also good news for the cost of debt. Petrobras had problems looking at its spreads on the OTC, the historic average compared to the sovereign bonds, we had a very large spread, now the spread has been produced and as we are able to provide more transparency and more information, especially in the next move which is going to be the reviewed business plan, we believe we will have a further reduction of the spread and a more positive situation.

Now, considering that you have already disclosed to the market your expectation in terms of capex, sales of assets, production growth, now can you give us an idea of your expectations regarding debt, what would be your target for debt? I mean, because most of the variables you have already disclosed, you spoke about providing more transparency to the market, so what would you expect total cap and EBITDA for the end of this year?

Well, unfortunately we cannot talk about these numbers yet, because they depend on the process of reviewing our business plan. So first, the executive officers will discuss, then there will be a debate with the board of administration. And so, we would like to disclose these numbers only after these two events, these two meetings. I apologize for that. But you have clearly identified that our number one concern from the first day would be, well, first, fundability. There was a concern because there was a moment when we did not have a defined date to publish the balance sheet. But after the publication date, we gradually go back to our normal, to our standard of fundability. You have probably seen on Friday the board approved a possible issuance of debentures and this is important because it's been 15 years that the company does not go to the fixed income market in Brazil. And we've been talking about this, the company must have alternatives to obtain funding. However, the discussion on deleveraging is a deep discussion and no doubt it will be discussed in the first meeting with CEO Bendine and then we will have a broad debate with the board. After these two events, we will feel much more comfortable not only to explain the new business plan, but also to address deleveraging.

I have a follow-up question, you spoke about your confidence in the company's capacity when we discussed price increases. Where does this level of confidence come from? I mean, are these conversations you had which make you more optimistic in terms of when it is necessary then you will be able to increase prices or is that any other kind of information that you received from people that provide you this level of comfort. So I would like to understand where the certainty comes from that you will be able to increase prices when needed.

Christian, we have said it before and I will say it again. The company is free to establish prices and we will be active in keeping competitive prices. We are a publicly traded company, we have our duties facing the market and we have to provide yield, we have to provide a return to our investors, people who buy our debt or people who invest in equity of Petrobras. This has to be our behavior. We cannot behave in any other way and this is what the board can expect from its executives. I have said it before, CEO Bendine said it, we also said it in a press conference, we again said it on Friday, last Friday that is the company will have competitive market prices.

Our next question comes from Felipe Santos from JP Morgan.

I would like to insist on a topic, what are the initiatives you've adopted and that you could perhaps further elaborate on to reduce your deleverage and to go down to your target or below your target? This is something [indiscernible] interested in and how can you deal with prices, you're talking about the historic average, what do you believe may happen to prices on the domestic markets, I would like to hear more about this.

The deleveraging will not happen with just a single measure, we have a number of measures being taken and we believe the most important is the review of our business plan. I believe it's only natural for analysts and investors to ask about this, but this review has already started, we already have a debate, a broad debate in the company about this. This debate will be intensified, the officers and the technical experts will discuss about this already this week, so that we will be able to present the conclusions to the board. After that, we will discuss with the board and then we will disclose to the market. I'm not going to repeat what we've already said about prices, current prices and future prices, although this is going to be included in the deleveraging process and these prices, as I said, will be competitive market prices as I said before.

The next question is from Lilyanna Yang from UBS.

I have two questions. First question, I would like to know the studies of the $5 billion of the transfer of rights. The study is underway, right, and should we expect to see another evaluation by year-end and what about the status of the surplus of the transfer of rights? And the other question has to do with the impairment that you had in 2014 and now that you have 20-F, the rate of discount used for instance for refineries about 7%, so my question is about this, would you be revisiting these assumptions year after year, or going forward, would you have an impairment test every two years for instance? And what about that 7%, where did it come from. Could you give us some color?

Officer Solange is going to answer your first topic. Ivan will be talking about the impairment test.

Answering your question about the renegotiation of contracts of the transfer of rights, as I said in the beginning, they are underway. My evaluation is that that's quite a complex topic. We might not even come to the end of this discussion over 2015 because the topics are very complex and both parties are paying keen attention to the negotiation. You also mentioned a surplus of the transfer of rights, that's another item that is even part of this discussion that we will have about annual business plan. We have a very comfortable position when it comes to the reserves and this negotiation doesn't have to be urgent or immediate. Chances are it might happen after the discussion of the transfer of rights or we can even anticipate it before the end of 2015.

When it comes to being annually or not, yes, it will be annual unless there is something very different that is going to change different assets. As to the discount rate, the IR team can contact you later. Just for you to know there are several variables and maybe we can let you know how we got to this number 7%.

The next question is from Pedro Medeiros from Citigroup.

I have three questions. They are very straight forward questions. First question, I know you addressed this already, but I would like to understand if the company has any forecast or any kind of initiative to speed up the recovery of receivables from the electric sector? Second question, when you look at capex of the first quarter, particularly in dollars, approximately 20% of the guidance of $29 billion for the full year, that's because the company is trying to lower capex considering guidance of the amount to be invested over 2016, not to mention that exchange rate was from 5% to 10% lower the current status. So could you comment on how you envisage capex for the first quarter, was any delay in the project vis-a-vis the schedule for the quarter? Do you expect to see the numbers going up in the future or any chance of seeing 2015 slightly better than the $29 billion in the guidance? Third question, I would like to understand better about the increase in oil sales for exports, vis-a-vis Brent, is this increase structural or only temporary. When we consider what you already see in the second quarter, is the discount going up or can it be recovered to levels in 2014?

When it comes to recovery of receivables electric sector, the company always expects to try recover amounts. I wouldn't like to mention all the data mentioned before Pedro, but that's a negotiation. Either you have it or you add guarantees that change the perception that led to the provision in the past. So this process is ongoing. And we're always trying to have 100% percentage of all of our provisions. Answering your question about capex, Solange is going to answer your question because E&P has the majority of investments that are prioritized to the area. Solange, would you please?

Answering your question about realization and your question about our investments over 2015, particularly in E&P, we are trying to fix our expenses and we didn't have a striking difference, vis-a-vis our projections or budget, the realization was 6% higher compared to what we realized in the first quarter of 2014. In reality, we might have or see what you mentioned in terms of any possible delays of construction works in Brazil and they might bring a lower realization compared to the $29 billion for the year. But in no time will these events be related to our cash generation for 2015, 2016. E&P is a long-term investment area and any possible delays in payments due to delay in construction works, they will not have any impact on our projection which remains in line for 2015 and 2016.

Jorge Celestino is going to talk now.

Pedro, could you clarify or elaborate more in your question, please, about Brent?

Sure. If we look at the sales discount of export oil in 2014, it was about if I'm not mistaken around $11 per barrel, this discount increased to $11.70 in the first quarter, there is an upward trend. Is that structural, temporary or specific of the first quarter? Percentage-wise, it's even higher discount due to the drop in Brent in the first quarter?

When it comes to the first quarter, there was an increase in inventory levels on a global basis due to the drop in oil prices. And some traders started to work on some strategies which includes storage of oil and also putting pressure in the market [VLCC] and then there is a trend to more discounts, but we can see an impact from the moment inventory levels started to go down, so April, May and June are much better compared to Q1. So if we consider that Brent already has a change in price and inventory levels are going down, this discount is expected to come back to normal levels.

We have a question in English, Mr. Frank McGann from Merrill Lynch wants to ask a question.

Just two quick questions, if I could. One is for an update on the expectations for production trends at the P-55 and P-62 units in Roncador and then secondly, if you could perhaps give us some information on the quarterly cost you're seeing for the ongoing investigations related to the diversion of funds of the company.

Solange is going to answer the question about production.

Answering your question about Roncador output of production, we repeated information about an adjustment in the projection for 2015 and this happened in our meeting last year in 2014. At that time, we had a projection for the year and we informed Roncador modules 3, in which we have P-55, module 4 where we had P-62, and that review was being made due to evidence of heterogeneous behavior in the reservoir. We also informed that we were having a remodeling of the reservoir contracting the company to better identify additional opportunities. So two-thirds of the action has already been performed by consultants. We have more evidence that our projection [indiscernible] absolutely right, and we are carrying out production today just as we announced our target for 2015. So there is no kind of restricted production in P-62 in the first quarter. And in the beginning of the second quarter, we are concluding the remaining one-third about opportunities for the export project. Thanks to the evidence identified over 2014. Frank, thank you for your question.

Answering the second part, there is no identification of any additional cost up to now for the second quarter.

The next question is from Anish Kapadia from TP.

I have three questions please. Firstly, I was wondering can you give an update on the construction of the replicant units for the pre-salt, in particular the P-66, 67, 74 and 75 units. The second question was on your rig requirements, I was wondering if you could run through how many rig you now expect to drill versus your original expectations as a result of your significant capex cuts as well as the improved efficiencies [indiscernible]. And final question was on the impact of the capex cuts, it sounds like in terms of the upstream a majority of the cuts are going to be coming in the more mature avenues like the Campos Basin, I was just wondering what the impact you would expect that to have on your medium-term decline rates in areas like the Campos?

Officer Solange will answer.

The first reference you made was about some specific units, the units being built here in Brazil. You mentioned two 74 and 75, and then 72, this unit is also part of the same package. I'm going to give you more general information. These units, they have some delay in the physical progress, in the physical advance. These delays are being mitigated and they are being addressed by trying to identify other alternatives which are also present in our current portfolio. But the final impact and opportunities of mitigation will be discussed during this week, that is they will be the objective of our discussions and studies during this week. We will have a clear view, a more clear view of when these units will be delivered. Yes, there will be a delay, but we've taken important action on the side of Petrobras, partners and suppliers so as to try and reduce and minimize the delay. About the rigs, the issue is easier to answer. You touched a very relevant point because not only do we assess our productivity and so we look at productivity and faster completion of wells, but also that is related to a smaller demand on the rigs. And this is materializing. So we will have a certain set up looking at rigs and the investments needed so that we will have a more adjusted fleet of rigs that is more adjusted to our demand. Again, this is going to be discussed in the review of the business plan and it's going to be clear after this discussion. Our portfolio is not split between more mature or less mature fields or green fields. But as we already explained on previous occasions, they are split by the premises of cash generation and that is related to our current focus which is to generate cash flow in the short term. And also looking at funding, as we analyze funding, we also look at marginal contributions. Now, during this exercise to analyze our portfolio, as I said, everything is very much related to cash generation. So the more mature fields of Campos Basin, if they are competitive in terms of cost, they are very important, because they help us generate net cash flow, net positive cash flow. And that is how we will deal with these decisions as we discuss about investments.

We have a question in Portuguese, [indiscernible] Agora Brokerage Firm has a question.

I would like to know about the utilization factor occupation, I believe that it started with the utilization of 78% and I'd like to know what is the current utilization factor and also if you already have news about the supply of naphtha to Braskem?

Thank you for the questions. Now, officer Celestino will answer.

About RNEST, we are still processing 74,000 barrels per day, so that's approximately 70% of the utilization factor, the first train 115,000 right, so yes, it remains the same. About the naphtha supply to Braskem, we're still negotiating this contract. We have an amendment until August and we expect to close the final deal, the final supply deal until the end of July.

Now about utilization factor, do you have a deadline to reach 100%? If I'm not wrong, you needed some additional equipment to be licensed to come up to 100%?

Yes, exactly. We have a plan for that. It will achieve full capacity as soon as we have the new SNOX unit, or the sulphur unit operational, right now we are receiving proposals for this unit and repairing the schedule for these units to become operational. This is where we stand today.

Thank you, everyone. At this time, the Q&A session of the Petrobras conference call is over. Mr. Ivan de Souza Monteiro will now make his final remarks. Please Mr. Monteiro?

Once again, I’d like to thank you for participating, media, analysts, investors and I want to thank my colleagues in this meeting. Thank you all very much.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, the audio of this conference call for replay and slides presentation will be available at the Petrobras IR website at www.petrobras.com.br/ir. This concludes today’s conference call. Thank you very much for your participation. Please hang up your telephones and have a great day.