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Welcome to 3R Petroleum First Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. The conference call and comments about the results will be presented by Matheus Dias, CEO of 3R, by the CFO and Investor Relations Officer Rodrigo Pizarro, and by the Chief Operating Officer Maurício Diniz. We inform that the simultaneous translation tool is available on the platform. To access it, simply click on the interpretation button at the bottom of the Zoom screen and choose your preferred language. This conference is being recorded and will be available on the company's investor relations website, www.ri.3rpetroleum.com.br. The presentation that we will show here is also found there. Please be advised that all participants will be in listen-only mode during the presentation, and then we will begin the question and answer session when further instructions will be provided. Before proceeding, we take this opportunity to stress that board-looking statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions of 3R's management and on current information available to the company. Forward-looking statements may involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to future events and therefore depend on circumstances that may or may not occur. Investors, analysts and journalists should understand that events related to the macroeconomic environment, the industry and other factors may cause results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. Now we will start the presentation with the company's CEO, Mr. Matheus Dias. Please, Mr. Dias, you may begin. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the conference call to discuss first quarter 2023 results of 3R Petroleum. The presentation will be led partly by myself, and I'll bring you the main highlights of the period. By Maurício Diniz, our Chief Operating Officer, who will be sharing the relevant operational aspects of our assets in production, and by Pizarro, who will present the company's financial results and related performance metrics, as well as information on our capital structure, cash position, and obligations, debt in general. Now, starting on slide three, we have an overview of the period. As the first highlight this quarter, the update of the company's reserves certification report was published, with the assets now grouped into four basins, Potiguar Basin, Reconcavo Basin, Campos Basin, and Espirito Santo Basin. The certification was prepared and now consolidated by one single certifying body, de Gaulleer and McNaughton, as already informed, and the perspective was maintained of a robust portfolio focused on projects with certified reserves and low execution risk. As key elements of this report, we have that the company now has 516 million barrels of oil equivalent of 2P reserves . Of these, 71% or 367 million barrels are of 1P reserves, and 32% of the 2P reserves are classified as PDP . The NPV 10, in other words, the net present value, here calculated at a discount rate of 10% per annum, estimated for the portfolio is $6.32 billion for the 2P reserves and $4.71 billion for 1P reserves. Regarding the highlights of the operation, daily average production reached more than 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent in this first quarter. And this period was marked by the start of operations at Papaterra, an asset of great importance for the company and even more so for the current portfolio of assets being operated by 3R. There are challenges in the asset, and they are linked mainly to the status of many systems on the platforms, even causing production to be halted in March for a period of 21 days. But the existing production potential is already clear and consequently the capacity that the asset has to be, that the asset has to be an effective cash generator for 3R. And this very month, the current production of the asset is already on average between 16,500 and 17,000 barrels produced daily, representing approximately 10,000 barrels per day for the stake belonging to 3R offshore. Regarding the assets of Putigra Basin, also of note in the period, we had greater stability compared to the last quarter and a return to production at Macau of approximately 600 barrels of oil per day after the completion of corrective maintenance of the oil pipeline that drains production in CNB. The company spares no efforts to adjust the separation plans 100% without impacting the current production and thus to be able to increase the cluster's production as soon as possible. As for Potiguar Cluster, the company is in the final phase of fulfilling the obligations of the acquisition contract with Petrobras, the SBA. All that remains for the company now is the transfer of the Ubarana operating license, which will be issued by IBAMA, since the emissary's license, which was also pending, was issued just yesterday, April 26, in the name of 3R Potiguar, by IDEMA, the state agency in charge. This asset will represent approximately 46% of the total production of the company's portfolio and brings in its perimeter relevant mid-downstream structures that directly contribute for a verticalization of part of the chain and brings logistics and economic benefits as well as commercial flexibility to 3R. In view of the proximity that we now see of the closing date, it is worth remembering that in addition to the obligation tied to the acquisition amount foreseen on the completion date, there is also the need for 3R to acquire an inventory of tools, equipment, and spare parts, which are vital for the smooth continuity of the operation, as well as the inventory of products. Oil and oil products, in this case also according to the perimeter of the deal and which will be measured on the effective date of the closing. Lastly, still on the highlights, we remind you that 3R currently enjoys a Sudeni tax benefit in all of its assets, with the exception of Papa Terra in Campus Basin. This benefit gives us a 75% income tax reduction, which, together with social contribution, gives us an effective tax rate of 15.25%. Moving on to the relevant highlights of our operating and financial results, which will be better addressed by Denise and Pizarro momentarily, we see an increase in the company's oil production of 56% quarter on quarter, totaling an average of 13,500 barrels of oil per day. And as I mentioned earlier, with Papa Terra accounting for most of this growth. Compared to the same quarter of 2022, we see a 76% production increase. Considering our consolidated oil and gas production, three are averaged 20,700 barrels of oil equivalent daily, a positive increase of 35% over the last quarter of 2022. As for the financial metrics, I would like to highlight here briefly the quarter's net revenue of 574 million BRLs and EBITDA of 156 million BRLs. Please note that net revenue and consequently EBITDA were negatively impacted during this quarter, as Bizarro will discuss later, due to the 21-day stoppage of Papateja. Moving on to slide four, we bring you again the update on the company's reserves through the publication of the new reserves certification. First of all, in the chart on the left, we highlight the 516 million barrels of 2p reserves and compared to the 2022 report of 534 million barrels of reserves, we have the reduction of last year's production, the addition of 8 million barrels of reserves, and the momentary exclusion of 11 million barrels of Malambi reserves in Perua, which is classified as contingent until we have the declaration of commerciality and therefore all regulatory issues are addressed. On the right hand side of the page, we have some relevant multiples and how they compare with the previous certification. I stress that there were no substantial changes in them, but here I highlight an enterprise value of 6.32 billion BRLs, the NPV 10. And it should always be noted that this amount already includes income tax and social contribution. Another element worth mentioning is the capex per barrel ratio for the development of 2p reserves, which stands at $6.1 per barrel of oil equivalent. As satisfactory as it is, this ratio posted a small increase, not very relevant in relation to the previous one, mainly due to inflation. Lastly, on this page, I stress that oil accounts for 88% of the company's reserves, which clearly shows the robustness of our portfolio. We always remind you that this proportion in the portfolio is very positive for 3R, because the worst possible oil contract will certainly still be higher than the best gas contract we can sign.

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Please go to slide five. And wrapping up this topic, we observe in the chart on the left, the breakdown of reserves by basin, considering the stake held by 3R Holding. Please note the great share of Potiguar Basin with approximately 60% of total 2P reserves, and the Reconcavo Basin and Papaterra with a balanced share in the portfolio, around 20% each. Again, the highlight goes to the share of oil, around 88% of total reserves in the bottom part. On the right side, we touch on some important elements for you to understand the company's portfolio in which we have 367 million or 71% of total reserves as 1P proved reserves. And the evidence here that 79% of 2P reserves are in onshore and nearshore projects. Now, to continue the presentation, I turn the floor to Denise who will present the main operational highlights of the period by Basin. Thank you, Mateus. We will now go into a little more detail about production starting with the Potiguar Cluster. What we can see is that the various problems that occurred at Potiguar Cluster are beginning to reverse, and now we're effectively starting to solve those problems, highlighting during this month the return to operations of the pipeline, which already allows us to start reopening the wells. We can clearly see in this graph in this first quarter a stabilization of the production that was declining throughout last year, and we effectively now start to see better results starting in April. Another important point that we have to highlight in Potiguar cluster is the number of rigs. We were operating in the last quarter of the year with two rigs. Now we already have four. And this has allowed us to carry out 65 workovers in some wells, broken down into workovers themselves, pull-ins, conversions and reactivation of wells. So we can already see ACAPEX being invested in the area and we are beginning to see an improvement. And another important point to highlight in this area is the beginning of well drilling.

So to date we have recently started here and we already have two wells drilled. Two more will be drilled in the next few days and then the completion of these wells will begin during the second quarter of 2023. Turning now to the Hikonkabu Basin, we can already see in this charge an increase in production when compared to the fourth quarter of 22. And this increase is due to the number of rigs that are already operating in the area. We had two Rigs in the beginning of the year. Now we have five rigs doing workovers in the Hakonkabu Basin. This has already allowed for 41 well interventions, being 13 workovers, 14 pull-ins, 2 conversions, and 12 reactivations, which clearly shows the importance of having these rigs operating in mature fields. In addition, we are doing intense integrity work in the Reconcavo Basin and the well drilling campaign in the area starts in the second half of the year with two rigs. Analyzing the onshore part, considering the Potiguar Basin that I mentioned before, the Reconcavo Basin and the future Potiguar Cluster, by the end of the year, we will have contracted five drilling rigs 16 rigs to do the work over and 4 rigs doing the pull-in, that is, the simple exchange of well equipment. Detailing now the offshore part splitting between Peruá and Papaterra, we emphasize that in Peruá the gas production remains constant. Recalling that today we are producing around 450,000 cubic meters of gas per day. This could reach 600 to 650,000 depending on demand. And during this period, this first quarter, demand still remains around 450,000 cubic meters per day. The agreement with Petrobras is in the final stages of negotiation and we hope that in the next quarter, now in second Q of 23, we will conclude this negotiation and Petrobras will start handling this gas and we will be able to sell directly to other consumers. As for Papaterra, As mentioned by Matils, we started production and we have already mentioned here a few times that we have integrity issues that are being addressed throughout this year. The integrity issues have to do with automation problems, as mentioned here in the disclosure, the production outcome and this automation problem led to problems with the batteries. And the problem has been solved, but that caused production to stop for 21 days in March. So today, production, as mentioned by Mateus, is around 16,000 to 17,000 barrels per day. Therefore, production expected for the field is in line with the forecast for Papaterra. Moving to the next chart on slide 9, the total production of the first quarter, looking at all the figures since the second quarter of 2020 when we started, shows a constant increase in production. In the upper part of the slide, only 3 hours working interest, where we see the 20.7 thousand barrels per day of which 65% of that is oil and 35% of these 20.7% refers to gas production. The oil production itself, only emphasizing oil production alone, is around 13,500 barrels per day. three are as working interests distributed in the four clusters, Potiguar, Recôncavo, Papaterra and Perua, of which 39% is Papaterra's production alone. We will now turn to Pizarro, who will give us more details on the financial performance. Thank you, Denise. Let's start the financial performance part of the first quarter of 2023. Let's move now to slide number 10. With the inclusion of the Papa Terra cluster since the beginning of the first quarter, we reported consolidated net revenue of 575 million BRLs, a 29% increase when compared to the last quarter of 2022. It is worth noting that this quarter, although 28% of revenues came from Papa Terra, we were impacted by a period of 21 days between production stoppage and resumption. Oil accounted for 78% of revenues, and it should be noted that we have not yet included the Potiguar cluster in this calculation, which will further increase the proportion of oil revenues in the coming quarters. From the macro point of view, it is also worth noting an 8% drop in the reference price of oil. On the next slide, we present the company's adjusted EBITDA, which amounted to 156 million BRLs with an EBITDA margin of 27%. If we disregard the transition expenses related to Potiguar, we would reach 174 million BRLs. And of course, if we did not consider the interruption of Papaterra's production, both EBITDA and the margin would be much better. The breakdown of EBITDA by sedimentary basin in response to requests from sell-side and buy-side analysts is detailed in our release, facilitating the modeling and eventual comparison with the reserves report. On the next slide, slide 12, we present the company's consolidated lifting cost and broken down by sedimentary basin. In the first quarter, we reported $23 per barrel of oil equivalent in the consolidated view, weighted by our working interest in these assets. It is worth mentioning that the proportion of fixed cost in Papa Terra is quite relevant, and this quarter we posted around 10,000 barrels per day of production for 100% of the asset that is much below the production potential, which may substantially dilute this lifting cost. On this same slide, we present the capex invested in the first quarter. It totaled $33 million, of which 30% were wells, 32% facilities, 24% inventories, which already reflects the preparation for taking over the Potigua cluster, and 14% in other items such as IT systems. The next slide, we present our capital structure. At the end of the first quarter, we had $136 million in cash and net debt of $71 million. In line with the material fact we released on April 16, We expect to conclude the capital subscription process in May, resulting in a capital contribution of up to 900 million reals to the company. As already mentioned, the original plan had been to increase liquidity through debt, but some aspects were decisive to alter the strategy. First, We saw a very challenging market locally and externally for debt, aggravated by the retailers crisis in Brazil, the banks crisis abroad, and uncertainties about the American recession. All of this made access to credit more difficult in addition to increasing the cost of new debt, especially medium and long-term debt. On the other hand, short term debt alternatives, besides being expensive or with prepayment difficulties, could impact certain leverage metrics, especially in 2023 and 2024. Added to this, the oil curve depressed when compared to the curve we had in the second quarter of 2022, and a delay in the expectation of closing of the Potiguar cluster due to recent events also impacted our cash position. Against this backdrop, In order to maintain healthy leverage ratios in 2023 and early 24, even considering more conservative Brent scenarios, the management chose to optimize the company's capital structure through a capital increase. On the next slide, slide 14, we present our hedge position and the company's obligations related to asset acquisitions. in terms of hedging. As the closing of the potiguar cluster is approaching, we will comment on our position throughout the quarter, especially in color type contracts. At the end of the first quarter, we had almost 2.8 million N D F Contracts with an average price of $80.1 per barrel and about 3.7 million in color type agreements with a floor at $56.4 and a ceiling at approximately $101 per barrel. In relation to our obligations, the total value without considering corrections and other contract adjustments is about $1,437,000,000, most of which is tied to the particular cluster. Out of this amount, $136,000,000 are earnouts and $261,000,000 are deferred installments, mainly between 2024 and 2027. Finally, on the last slide, we highlight that our efforts are concentrated on the conclusion of the Potiguar Cluster. With a lot of sweat and a great deal of diligence, we are moving forward, and fortunately now, there is just one condition precedent related to IBAMA that is missing. We are also working hard to increase reliability, improve integrity, and reactivate redundancies in the systems, especially in Papaterra. A major effort is also being made to mobilize drilling rigs and fulfill the CAPEX plan. And last but not least, our operational team is in charge of solving the processing bottlenecks in the Macau cluster and keeping our activities safe, as we've been doing since the beginning of our operations. Thank you very much for joining us and let's start the Q&A session.

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Please hold as we collect the questions. Our first question comes from Mr. Bruno Montanari with MS. Mr. Montanari, your microphone is enabled.

Please go ahead. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for taking my questions. I actually have three questions. For putty wire clustering, thinking about IBAMA, what are the next steps by Obama to have a final position regarding the license transfer so that you can match the capital increase with the closing of the deal. And also regarding the deal, I'd like to have a sense from you after the initial days, which were a little bit more turbulent, how do you see evolution and how receptive are your reference shareholders regarding this? The third question regarding Papatera, two fronts actually. If you could mention the improvement in lifting costs as production increases, and you achieve good operating stability. And could you remind me what is the validity of the SBA? Because today, correct me if I'm wrong, I think the demand for heavier oil should provide a much better price for this oil. So I'd like to get a sense from you. What would be a more fair discount for this type of oil in the opinion of the company? Thank you very much. Oh, by the way, and I'd like to thank you very much for breaking down the information by cluster. This is very helpful for our modeling. Thank you. Thank you, Bruno, for the questions. Indeed, we tried to address the requests of some sell-side analysts and buy-side analysts. We are trying to make information as transparent as possible so that you can compare with the reserves certification and So that we'll have looking forward always this dynamic of looking at the results per basin, but I'll turn the floor to Matheus to answer your first question. Hello, Bruno. Referring your first question regarding Potiguar cluster and considering that now indeed the The transfer of Ubaran operating license is the last condition precedent for us to close the asset. Well, we received one last communication by IBAMA and they had some questions. And we wanted to have some comfort of a sharing agreement that we should have post closing with Petrobras. So we responded to this communication together with Petrobras on the 14th of the month. So We and Petrobras just have to be diligent and available to answer any possible questions by IBAMA. There are no more specific obligations to be fulfilled either by us or by Petrobras. We just have to monitor and we just have to be available. for a possible meeting that they asked for or for further clarification on their end. Our expectation is that we are approaching the closing. I believe that in the coming weeks, between one and two weeks, we should be able to complete the process. And then we will have some bureaucracy fulfillment of several contracts until we actually get the closing with Petrobras so that we can complete the deal. Our expectation is that more towards the end of the month, we should complete the deal. And Bruno, just to get into more detail regarding the subscription process. May the 19th is the deadline for us to have the subscription and for us to give our opinion on what remains. On May 23rd, the proceeds will be credited in the account of the company On the 26th, we will communicate what is left, and then we'll have five business days for the subscription of those remains. And then on June the 5th, these remains will be deposited for the company. So I should say that with the incentive given, a discount on the reference price in the last 30 days prior to the effective subscription date, will have some visibility, our expectation is that there will be relevant subscription, in other words, very little will be left will remain and. And we expect to have massive people adopting this. I cannot answer on behalf of our reference shareholders, but looking at how the negotiation is unfolding, we expect that it's practically a no-brainer to exercise this right of preference. So that this will happen with the Potiguar closing much more advanced. So that is regarding the subscription and the unsubscribed share. Well, regarding your third question, if we hadn't had this stoppage at Papa Terra, we would have about 2000 barrels more as a result of the operation. of the general result of the operation for the working interest of 3R Offshore. And with that, we would have a much lower level of lifting cost. Our expectation is that by year end, we'll be close to $33, $24 already considering that Q1 had this negative effect. In other words, we should move towards a lifting cost close to $20 at Papa Terra. And the consolidated, the average for the year should be something around $23. Next question, I'll turn the floor to Matheus. But yes, we are still in the SBA contract, which has a very high discount. But we do have some alternatives being addressed by our commercial area. Matheus? Well, Bruno, to give you a little more color on this theme, we had three types of commercialization agreements. The first had a very, very high discount, also in the scope of the SBA. And this contract carried an obligation linked to the inventory of oil remaining. So there was that process when we bought part of the inventory and sold it subsequently. If we didn't have a limitation of tanking, it should be one or two shipments. But at the end of the day, we had six offloads. And this had the ANP reference price. And then there were the embargoes of Russia last year, the Ukraine war, and the fact that the heavy oil inventory of Russia was sold to China, Singapore, so heavy oil in Canada, et cetera. So the market for heavy oil plummeted.

And this has a direct correlation with the reference price.

And because of that, we had a very great discount. Now we are finalizing a second type of contract where there is a discount of 1780, which is COSA II. And in May, we'll have a Brent minus 16.70 discount. This should be applicable to the whole month of May, perhaps the beginning of June, but the company is already thinking beyond June, so we are assessing some options in the market. Of course, given the needs of specific vessels, we are restricted to some players. Petrobras, Shell, PetroChina also has this type of specific vessel. So what we see is that there is a slight improvement in the price of heavy oil in the global market. So that will enable us to capture better discounts. We do have some options to work through an offtake with a fixed discount. We imagine that this should vary between 13 and 15 at this point. So we're not even interested in signing very long contracts at this point, but more limited offloads so that we can follow the market. And as the market evolves and And as we have a stabilization in the price of heavy oil, we can migrate to a market agreement to capture gains from the traders themselves. So being pragmatic, in mid June, we should have the new contract. This contract has an average discount of $13 to $15, and more towards the end of the year, we should be able to work with a market agreement modality enjoying better discounts. Based on reference, the idea is that by 2024 we should stabilize a discount at around 12. This is what the company is expecting and thank you Bruno for your questions.

Thank you for the explanations.

Our next question comes from Mr. Pedro Suarez with BTG Pactual. Mr. Suarez, please go ahead.

Thank you. Good afternoon.

I would like to talk about cash inflows and outflows in the short term, thinking about Q2 and Q3. Perhaps you could explain to us what is the expected interest rates corrected for portico based on the $1 billion stipulated for the closing? And could you give us more detail on the net result, the cash generation of the asset that S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S with the net result of this operation being 1 billion corrected by interest rates and the rest would remain unchanged. And perhaps you could give us an idea of the capex of the company for Q2 because Portugal should only take over in May. The Reconcavo campaigns will be for the second half of the year. So should we expect a significant change from Q1 to Q2 in terms of capex? And my second question is about Macau. Perhaps address to Denise because he talked about the asset. With the pipeline already operational and more work over rigs operating at Macau and the well drilling starting in Q1, could you give us an estimate of what these initiatives will produce or generate in terms of production for Macau if we imagine the cluster resuming to last year's first quarter? And could we have a reduction in costs? I think that's it. Thank you. Pedro, thank you for the questions. We actually included in our release, what are the restatements that we have in each one of the contracts for particular is LIBOR plus 3.5. In other words, if we use LIBOR plus 3.5 from the effective date, we have a restatement that gets close to 1.1 billion. In terms of cash generation, I always remind you, cash generation is not EBITDA. It is the operating result minus a fictitious rate of 34%. Actually, it shouldn't be so because we have Sudanese tax incentive. Petrobras also enjoys the Sudanese tax benefit, but that's the agreement in the country. 34% reduction in the operating result. And we also have the CAPEX result. So another reduction in capex volume implemented by Petrobras. And in CAPEX, I'd like to mention that, well, this is one of the only onshore assets in which Petrobras continues to have some investment, such as in drilling. The other day, an analyst getting A and B data realized that, yes, they are drilling wells in Alto do Rodrigues and straight to subcluster of Port Iguara. So we also have this CAPEX effect. And we only got greater visibility of this more recently when Petrobras made the first preliminary versions available. It's very preliminary with a lot of disclaimers, a lot of preliminary data, but achieving a cash generation post tax and post capex of around $30 million. There are some items that we are still debating that could improve these $30 million, but

We still haven't got a final answer and the value agreed on at this point.

Other items which are discussed and negotiated under the SBA but which are not related to asset acquisition are The consumables for the operation, which are today at Port Igua cluster. We are talking about storage rooms, so close to operations, small storage rooms in the collecting stations. All of that should amount to 100 to 120 million BRLs. And lastly, one final item that has an important influence on the total volume to be agreed on at the closing of Port Igua is the volume of refined products. Diesel S 10. They might have been imported or brought from another refinery to Potiguar cluster. Nafta boosted, which is that high octane age Nafta used to mix and blend with gasoline and other dilutants. And this is the volume that we are most uncertain about. But being conservative, this could amount to 200 million BRLs. And this will come in as a working capital for the start of operation. I'd like to remind you, you all know this, but I should remind you that Portigal accounts for about 45% of our portfolio. So this is in line with the volume of spare spares that we buy for the rest of the operation. So, yes, there is a necessary working capital that is needed for us to take over a particular. Now, the second question is capex right capex for 2023. To give you a ballpark figure, this is what we have been seeing in the latest public events of the company. We are talking about $300 million in 2023. Of course, this two-month delay of the particular closing, of course, we were expecting this in the end of March, beginning of April. Now we're already assuming that this will be more towards the end of May, possibly June 1st for us to start operating there. So we have an extinction of the capex timeline, but the order of magnitude remains at around $300 million. Matheus, do you need to add anything? Well, Pedro, hi.

This capex volume this year is quite relevant.

Greater than in the coming years in facilities. So out of the total, about 35% of the capex would go to infrastructure systems, redundancies of assets. And we have a very significant volume around 55% of the total capex volume, referring to workovers and drilling activities. In this first quarter, in the first half actually, considering the plan of the company had a volume of about 130 interventions, workovers, conversions, well reactivations, we as a company performed a little over 80% of that. We had a gap, partly because of the porticoir delay and partly due to a learning curve in the first interventions that we performed. And we also had planned some wells being drilled in the first half. And this was also delayed. There were four planned. They were expected for Q1, but they migrated to April. We completed the second drilling and should have another two drilling activities still this month. So we performed about 80% of those workovers. One was planned for this quote in terms of interventions in facilities that accounts for about 20% of the total of the year of these 300 million to $320 million that Pizarro mentioned. And now we have a plan to catch up with this delay. So for drilling, We had planned in our budget to have four rigs. We have contracted another one, so we'll have five rigs in total so that in the final weighted average for the year, we can catch up, have a higher peak so that we can get to the annual average production. We already have one rig drilling, another one being mobilized this year to drill two in July. and one towards the end of the year. So we are bringing forward some drilling rigs so that we can catch up with the delay. And as regards work over rigs, we have 15 planned for the year, nine already mobilized, four in Rio Grande do Norte, five in Bahia, The six that are missing we're just waiting for particular cluster physically they're located at particular we just need to close the deal, so that they will remain mobilized on site. And so that we can have a plan to recover the work overs that were delayed about 20% of activities that were delayed. If for this recovery, we need to mobilize another asset, we have already done an in-house analysis to possibly mobilize in a shorter period of time, but we believe that we'll be able to catch up And at the end of the day, we actually had a good performance despite this gap, this delay. We were 20% below what we had expected to perform, but we were able to perform a relevant amount of workovers, conversions, and reactivations. We have started drilling the first well, Well, the first well, we had a learning curve. The second well was drilled exactly as planned. So I think that the company has everything on board. If we're able to have the right resources and maybe mobilize more resources in shorter term contracts, of course, we will probably Be right on plan and deliver the average production expected for the year. I'm going to turn the floor to Denise because you addressed the question on Macau to him. Okay, Macau. Last year, we had a production of about 6,000 barrels of oil equivalent daily. There were several problems along the year, so we ended Last year and started this year with around 4,300 BOE. We have four major activities in that area. One was the pipeline that was effective. And then we had to separate the fluids, water treatment to inject and gas treatment. So we completed the pipeline that allowed us to increase from 4,300 to about 4,700, 5,000, which is where we are at. And with the other three items, fluid separation, Gas Treatment and Water Treatment for Water Injection. With those three remaining activities, by the end of Q3, we intend to get back to 5,600, which is what we had planned and what we communicated in the previous goal. These works are being improved at the plant in terms of gas and water injection, and this will allow us to increase production until the end of the year. I'd like to remind you that we already have the drilling rigs there. And they're trying to get to the field and offset the natural decline Thank you all for the answers. Thank you, Pedro.

Our next question is from Monique Greco from Itaú.

Monique, you're good to go. Monique, your microphone is on.

Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. Good afternoon and thank you for taking my questions. I would like to learn from you What can we expect in terms of transition cost in the coming months, even when we compare that to other assets? What kind of mismatch between OPEX and revenue could be expected going forward? And my other question is that we saw your share not performing so well once we heard about taxes on oil exports. And I mean, I know that there is no direct impact in your particular case, but the market did not react so well at the end of March and the end of February and early March. But I just want to know whether you felt some direct impact or whether you have been indeed impacted and whether the amount of the tax is something that worries you or is something very far fetched. Thank you. Thank you, Monique, for your questions. On transition costs, we noticed that from the last quarter of last year to the first quarter of this year, there has been a significant decrease given the fact that in the previous quarter, the preparation for Papaterra demanded a significant mobilization from large S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S a well-trained team in place. And that's why we believe that we will still experience the first order of magnitude of one or two months to get the same position in the half year like we had in the last quarter. So that will be up to 20 million VRLs in terms of costs and transition expenses until the closing of Portugal. This could vary a little bit if we're able to anticipate by a few weeks. And that's what we've been trying to do at Petrobras together with Petrobras and IBAMA. All we want is to expedite that condition precedent. Now, in terms of this mismatch between OPEX and revenue, once Potiguar is closed, this disappears. We are still carrying over some working capital. that quote unquote we have to freeze when we buy refined products at the moment of the closing that things that were acquired by Petrobras but things will S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S I wouldn't say that it's totally zero, but the effect is almost zero on 3R. First of all, because part of our production is so onshore. Well, still before Potiguar and the part that we sell that and that we could export right now, it should be Papaterra's oil. But as Mattel's already explained, we sell these oil through SPA predefined contracts, meaning that there is no variation in terms of the negotiation due to export taxes. And finally, if this tax S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S All of its production will also be impacted by rebalancing because exporting companies may try to direct oil to Brazilian refineries. Therefore, indirectly, that internal parity in Brazil is Lower. But as I said before, the expectation that this could be taken to the Congress and that is approved on our side, we believe that there is a very low chance. But but in the worst case scenario, I mean, we always have to take into account the possibility of that, you know, happening or going forward. So I hope I have addressed your questions. Yes, you did.

Thank you so much.

Our next question comes from Mrs. Mileni Carvalho from JP Morgan. Mileni, your microphone is on. Hello, good afternoon. Well, first of all, I would like to thank you so much for that improvement in the disclosure. I think that breakdown helps us a lot. So thank you so much for giving us that information. Some of my questions have been already answered, but I would like to revisit Potiguar. So my question is addressed to Dinis. What is the production level that you are anticipating with the Potiguar transfer? And what is the drilling work over plan for the field? And what is your expectation by the end of 2023? And the other question refers to a comment by Matheus because you mentioned a sharing contract with Petrobras that you negotiated for post closing. Can you tell us a little bit more about that agreement? Okay, referring to Potiguar cluster today at the end of the year, Potiguar clusters production, I mean, still by Petrobras was around 18,017.5 today is around 16,500. See, these are the numbers that we got from Petrobras. So just like some other assets we have, it was I mean, assets that we acquired from Petrobras in that tail part, there was a decline in production and the same thing is happening to the Potiguar cluster. So the large figures 18 in the last quarter is now around 16,000 today. Now, in regards to drillings throughout the year in general, when we look at our entire portfolio with these five rigs mentioned by Mateus, we will you know, drill about 60 wells around the year and around 480 and 500 workovers in general. Out of that 500, we have pooling, we have exchanging production areas and reactivation of wells. So large numbers, 18,500, I mean, 60 wells to drill and 500 for workover. Potiguar, I'm referring to the basin as a whole. The numbers I mentioned in terms of drilled wells and wells in work over refer to Rio Grande do Norte and also those in Bahia. Mateus. Now, adding to what Denise just said, out of the numbers that he mentioned when he talked about 600 workovers or interventions, approximately 50% of that number, and I'm referring to workover, conversions, reactivations, approximately 50% correspond to the Potiguar Cluster, between 20 to 23% at the Reconcavo Basin, In Macau, more specifically, 22% and two in Papaterra. Two wells for wet completion. Out of the 60 plant drillings, we anticipate 39 for Macau, 12 in Bahia, and nine in Areia Branca. This year, In our planning we hadn't contemplated drillings at the particular cluster and, as I said in our previous earnings results call this could be reviewed. In case we see that we can get a quicker response in terms of cash generation and production increments so there might be a trade off, and in this case, we may decide to change you know the. The direction of some drilling, or maybe if we see a quick response somewhere else, we can exchange for some drillings in Bahia. But in general, this is the umbrella plan for the company this year, the macro plan. Eleni, I just have an additional comment. In our Operations. Whenever we initiate something, we don't start with drilling, but we managed to have a significant increment, both in our Baia assets and also in the Macau cluster, superseding 20 to 30% in production increase with all of these activities throughout a period of 12 months, workovers, activations, and operating improvements. Without even considering drilling or contemplating drillings, even then, we see many opportunities to make operating improvements in the Potiguar cluster. Mileni, now moving to your second question on the environmental programs. This type of transitory modality is something very common in the projects. And in fact, as I said, is something transitory because it works more in terms of, you know, expediting things and having the same programs from the company who sold the asset. And we end up by sharing things during a very short period of time. We use the programs until the company can come up with new programs that are presented to the agency. And in this case, we would have some time until the agency approves everything. So it's more like a remedy of the transition. And so that there won't be a longer period of time for the agency to analyze. That's very common. Part of these environmental programs, Petrobras shares those programs with us because it helps us to present things in due time, preventing you know, taking a longer period of time to get licenses approved, but this is very common in these types of agreements. Perfect, thank you so much. And if you allow me another question, still related to this relationship with Petrobras, do you see any evolution in terms of Clara Camarón and Amore, or maybe there is nothing to be said so far? Mileni, in fact, We strictly follow the letter of the contract. The SBA is what we have. There is no other possibility, be it because of Petrobras or TRIAR wants to change it. We have to to follow the contract, you know. We cannot make any changes until the deal is concluded and the future is still unknown. We are very anxious to take over the asset in its entirety and future phases will be analyzed according to the demand or according to a possible re-evaluation of our strategic plan. And in this instance, we will then reappraise or re-evaluate. And this is all I can tell you at the moment. Thank you.

Our next question comes from Mr. Tasso Vasconcelos with UBS. Mr. Vasconcelos, you're ready to go. Hello, Mateus, Pizarro, Denise, and all officers. Thank you for taking my questions. I have two, actually. The first, it drew my attention, the possible civil liabilities of 2.6 billion, having raised 1.3 billion in the quarter, and of half in Papatea and half in Perua. Could you give us an overview of this process? Apparently, this was a claim made by the Association of Fishermen of the region. Were these liabilities mapped during the acquisition of Papatera in the Perua? Do you have any contract with Robles protecting you from this process or did this arrive after you took over the field? Secondly, we have some difficulty reconciling the operating cash flow and that's what Pizarro mentioned with EBITDA. And part of that difficulty comes with these values, repayment of expenses, And you took over Papaterra in Q1 2023. Could you give us an idea regarding the operating cash flow and when should we have a release of these repayments for Papaterra or eventually when you take over Paraguay, what is the expected timing for normalization so we can have generation closer to EBITDA? These are my questions. Thank you. Thank you, Tara. So I'm going to start with the second question, and then I'll turn the floor to Tatiana, our legal head who's also on the call.

Second question has to do with cash generation. I have to split what operations are.

We had about $12 million of million generated operationally, considering everything involved, not just EBITDA, but also taxes, taxes on income.

And the G and A effects, not just lifting costs, so about $12 million.

around that. But as you mentioned, this also includes transition expenses. So we can only have a very clear, new, purged view of our results when we have the closing of PortiGuard in a full quarter. So this would happen in Q3 of this year. when we will have that asset integrated in the portfolio and the effect on our results. We are trying to make this very clear in our results and in our release, but we are available to clarify anything that you see in the income statement or in the release that may be causing any discomfort or difficulty for you. And above those liabilities, Tatiana is going to explain this to us. Hello. Well, we had two legal suits, one involving Papatera and the other one involving Perua. And these are similar claims to other 20 claims made in the whole industry. Altogether, this totals some billions of PRLs for fishermen in the period to settle. There are similar claims against Petrobras, Petrobril and many other oil companies, all with the same object. So their claim goes from the issuance of the license to present date. They claim that the license The license says that there should not be fishing activities there. And they claim that this would influence them. But that's a determination by the environmental agency. So we think that this claim is very unlikely to succeed. We included full amount of the claim because the two claims are at a very initial stage. There was no analysis of the merit of the matter. So this is a full claim on their end. And since they include the period when we acquired the asset from the issuance of the license, it would be a number of disbursement during the SBA while Petrobras was still operating the asset. But we are not considering that. We are considering the full amount just to be informative. I don't know if you have any other questions, but in a nutshell, this is it. Just a follow up. It's clear, but I just want to confirm. I was thinking about the worst case scenario. You would be eventually be held responsible for the period from which you took over, right? You're not considering the whole process, agree? Yes.

Yes, you're correct. All right, clear. Thank you. Thank you, Tasu, for your questions.

Our next question comes from Mr. Leonardo Marcondes with Bank of America. Mr. Marcondes, go ahead. Hello, everyone. Good afternoon.

Well, most of my questions have been answered.

I would have a follow-up question regarding Papatera. Could you please give us some color on the improvements that you're doing there on the platforms and how these improvements will prevent shutdowns as we saw in March. My goal here is to try and understand how many stoppages should we expect during the year and how frequently this would happen. Thank you.

All right, Papatera. Well, we did have this problem that was solved.

It was a problem caused by automation and then it involved the batteries, so we exchanged the batteries. So the problem has been resolved after many items that were taken care of. So what is the priority at Papatera that we are working on? Now, well, first we have a very large frequency, a very high frequency of offloads. So considering the tanks today, there are tanks that have a delayed inspection and maintenance. Some of these tanks have valves connecting them. When offloading a vessel, you have to balance the forces in a certain vessel and with that, The tanks get impacted. So number one priority there is repairing a pump that can pump out fluid from the tank so we can clean the tank. Somebody can go down the tank and isolate that problematic tank.

So that's priority number one.

And with this priority, we'll be able to improve the offload. We can do it instead of weekly, do it monthly, once a month or once every 40 days to do the offload. So that would make things easier. At a second moment, We have to work to ensure greater efficiency. So we're talking about transfer pumps. We are talking about compressors, treatment systems. All of these systems have a task force organized for several of these spare parts. So these would take a year to get here. So we're putting together a super task for us to try to bring many of these items here as quickly as possible. In addition, We are scheduling a downtime, most likely in Q1 of next year. And this downtime would be to perform a great repair maintenance in the unit so that we can get more flexibility and improve operating efficiency. In other words, little by little, we are improving the efficiency of the unit. We expect to have fewer problems. And what can happen would be with the electric submersible pumps, ESPs. Now, we are working to mitigate problems there. We are contracting ESPs and rigs. The rigs, we're trying to bring them forward as quickly as possible. The hydraulic rig on a 3R2 and the rigs to operate on wet Christmas trees. So we are trying to do that as quickly as possible, bring it forward so that we can drill two wells in this year with wet Christmas trees. So the hydraulic rig has been contracted. The wet Christmas tree NDP has been contracted. We have the LOI. We just have to sign the contract and it is expected to arrive in Q4 of this year. In the ESPs, we have contracts signed with Echon Berger and the first ESPs will be arriving in August or September. So I believe that from now on, we should have a positive evolution in the efficiency of Papatera field.

Thank you. It is very clear, Denise. The Q&A session is now concluded. We would like now to turn the floor to Mr. Rodrigo Pizarro and Mr. Mauricio Diniz for the final remarks. Thank you all very much for joining us. We had more than 300 people joining us during this call. And I think we try to summarize well our intentions and our efforts going forward with a great focus on resilience, increase in system redundancies in general, especially in Papa Terra. So now we can start a new phase to dilute our fixed costs, not yet in the second quarter. We are still taking over a major asset. And as we often say, it has a huge punch list in terms of what we need to do in terms of resuming the original characteristics, but we are digital digitally. We are putting all of our efforts to have The entire portfolio integrated, taking advantages of synergies and shareholding opportunities. I mean, we don't need to have a lot of subsidiaries. So now we are having single operations, very, very similar to the format that we are disclosing to the market. A very, you know, Unique operation within the particular cluster. Of course, there will be a mid downstream and the EIP and we already have a consolidated operation in Bahia, in Ventura, Recôncavo, you know, with a leadership, everybody sharing equipment, rigs, assets, inventories, and the same thing applies to Perua. This is a very simplified operation that's an non inhabited platform, but certainly we are always very cautious. We try to work with the sale and purchase of gas according to the agreements we have with buyers, you know, Petrobras currently and eventually with other future buyers and Papaterra with this very relevant operation where we see a very significant production increment that we pretend to implement in the coming quarters. Thank you all for joining us. Now I'll give the floor to Mateus and next to Dinis. Well, in view of Pizarro's comments, all that's left for me to do is to thank you. I think he summarized it quite well. He even got some of the things that I was going to say, but thank you so much for your questions. Thank you for participating with us here today. And I would just like to emphasize that We've been working on our structure because we aim at being a more systematized company with weaker responses. Focusing on our production and processes, we realized that with the conclusion of Potiguar, we will be able to be fully dedicated to our demands. Our CAPEX plan is very challenging. We've been working hard on this plan and I believe that in the coming quarters, we will certainly be able to give you excellent news and improve even more as we move forward. So I think Pizarro said it all. Thank you all very much. Now, Denise. I think almost everything has been said. I think what you can expect from us is that we are a very well integrated team. We help one another. This is a very good team. We were able to build a company that has a strong focus on the integrity and safety of our operations. We are constantly trying to innovate. We look at new technologies, and we try to find new ways of doing what we do. And also, we share resources with other operators. This is something that is also part of our operation. This is what you could expect from us, a transparent company. Always show you what is happening in a very transparent way. Because we want to increase production following all of the safety measures. Thank you all very much. Three hours, three hour petroleum conference call is now concluded. We thank you very much for joining us and we wish you a very good afternoon.