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Good day everyone. Welcome to 3R Petroleum second quarter 2023 earnings conference call. The conference call and comments about the results will be presented by Mateus Dias, CEO of 3R, by the CFO and IRO Rodrigo Pizarro, and by the Exploration and Production Officer Mauricio Diniz. We inform that the simultaneous translation tool is available on the platform. To access it, simply click the interpretation button at the bottom of the 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, as well as the presentation that we will show here. Please be advised that all participants will be in listen-only mode during the presentation. Then we will begin the question and answer session when further instructions will be provided. Before proceeding, we take this opportunity to stress that forward-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 CEO, Mr. Mateus Dias. Please, Mr. Dias, you may begin. Hello, everyone. Good afternoon. Welcome to the conference call of 3R Petroleum to discuss second quarter 23 earnings results. The presentation will start with me presenting the main highlights of the period by Maurizio Diniz, our Chief Operations Officer, who will share relevant operational aspects of the assets we have in our portfolio, and then by Rodrigo Pizarro, who will Detailed financial results and performance metrics of the company as well as information on our capital structure, cash position, hedge, and debt in general. To start on slide three, we have an overview of the period. The first highlight of the period and of extreme relevance to the consolidation of 3R's portfolio as well as being an important milestone in this phase of total focus on the company's execution is the conclusion of the acquisition process of Potiguar Cluster with closing on June 7th and start of operations by 3R on June 8th. In the ENP portion, with Canto do Amaro, Streito and Alto do Rodrigues fields, we started production at approximately 15,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day. And so far, with production increase within our expectations, we have reached an average production of around 17,000 barrels of oil equivalent daily. Another interesting element is the integration of assets in the Potigua Basin, which provides the company with operating and commercial flexibility, as well as greater control of cost parameters in a large part of the production chain. In this context, it is worth emphasizing the potential in several alternative scenarios of production, offloading, and logistics that this integration provides for 3R. Regarding the operational and production highlights of the quarter under review, the company reached an average of more than 28,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, posting a significant difference compared to the previous quarter, up around 37%. This increase is significantly explained by the integration of the Potiguar cluster after the closing, but also by the operational evolution in all the company's other clusters. This can also be seen in the subsequent period. In July, the company already exceeded 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent daily in the average production for the month. It is worth emphasizing here the performance of Macau cluster, which has been gradually increasing its production by means of the gradual release of its pent-up capacity, as well as by means of interventions carried out according to our 2023 plan. while adjustments to its production infrastructure are still being made concomitantly. This has enabled a significant production increase of 65% when compared to January and quarter-on-quarter production increase has already exceeded 18%. Regarding the financial metrics, I would like to highlight net revenues for the quarter of 837 million BRLs with a consolidated EBITDA of 200 million BRLs. Please note that revenue posted a positive variation of approximately 46% over Q1. Again, due to the consolidation of our portfolio, the positive evolution of production, and certainly due to the start of refining and sale of oil products, EBITDA showed a more modest growth percentage-wise when compared to net revenues. in the period to refining and selling activity of oil products, an activity that is still very premature in the company and consequently with initial challenges, both commercial and physical challenges in the current structure, and partly due to the fall in Brent prices seen in the months of the second quarter. Lastly, still on the highlights, the company saw important progress in terms and conditions of sales contracts in all clusters of the 3R portfolio, especially in the unit values of the gas molecule, with the highlight going to Perua clusters and oil conditions at Papa Terra and assets of the Reconcavo basin, not to mention the Potiguar intercompany transactions. This is Denise. Thank you, Matheus. Let's move on to the operational information divided into the four areas where we operate today. Starting with the northernmost area, we have the Potiguar Complex. I would like to highlight that throughout this presentation, what we are calling the Potiguar Complex includes both the previous area, which we already had, and the current area that we closed in early June, which we are calling the Potiguar Cluster. We can see in the graph a very significant increase in production comparing Q1 2023 and Q2 2023. Part of this already comes from additional production since June, from June 8th to June 30th. And part of this is the increased effective production that already existed in the old cluster. A much more significant production in the data that we disclosed yesterday of 25,200 barrels per day. I would like to highlight an observation in the bottom graph. Our production over the previous quarters, referring to the old potiguar clusters, so to speak. So this cluster used to produce up to 8,100 barrels per day in the past. With those works that we were carrying out with increased production, adaptation of the plants, there was this decline in production over time. And in these last three quarters, With the partial completion of these works and with increase in the number of rigs in the area, we have been increasing our production again, reaching 8,000 barrels per day in July, in line with that initial production that we had in the first quarter of 2022. And for this production increase, we had 10 rigs at work. Today, we already have 10 rigs in operation in the area, and these rigs worked on 75 activities. Of these 46 workovers, 10 pull-ins, which is that removal and placement of equipment inside a well, reactivation of 11 wells, and also important good news, we drilled eight wells in the area. in the production of these eight wells is in keeping with what we expected based on our reservoir studies. We highlight then that in the second quarter of 2023, compared to the last release of results referring to Q1, we increased production by two and a half times and production in July increased four times in relation to Q1 23. CapEx in this area. Investments were made both in the wells that I mentioned and in facilities. Those works and the continuation of those works that are still in progress and will be completed in the coming months. Our well drilling campaign was these eight wells that I mentioned earlier. Moving on to the second production area, the Reconcavo complex, here we reached in Q2 2023 7,400 barrels per day and in Q1 7,000 barrels daily. In other words, in the last few quarters, in all the previous quarters, we have been increasing production continuously. This is basically due this year to the placement and the work of five work over rigs that are working in the area. One more should arrive in 2023, still in 2023. And to date, we have made 38 interventions in the wells, 19 workovers, 14 pull-ins and five reactivations. With these interventions in these wells and some more facilities work, we reached $15 million of capex in Bahia. In addition, we are now forecasting for the next half year, for the second half of 2023, the arrival of two rigs to be drilling in the area. As for Papaterra, I wanted to start analyzing these graphs and explain to you comparing the one before the last and the last bars on this graph on the left. In the second to last bar, we see the first quarter of 2023 with 10,100 barrels per day, and in the second quarter, 13,000 barrels per day. In other words, production at Papaterra is also increasing over time. As we have said in previous meetings, in previous earnings calls, the work at Papaterra during this year is focused on improving operating efficiency, on improving the integrity of the unit. and in the integrity of the unit, we have worked on some important systems. And these main systems that we have already worked on are the generators, our offloading system, and also transfer pumps of the unit. And we have already achieved greater reliability in these systems. To be able to show this, we prepared this lower graph on the right side of the slide, where we show in the last 12 months of operation of the platform last year before 3R took over the operation, an efficiency of 22%. In the first seven months of 2023, we see operating efficiency of 57%. And with this work that we are doing to improve reliability, we expect to achieve this year by year end an operating efficiency between 60 and 80%, according to our forecast. And next year, as has already been said in previous meetings, we should have a boat, a floatel, stopped next to the unit where we will do more maintenance work. And then we should reach, after this intervention, an operating efficiency of 90% by mid-2024. Moving on to the next slide. In Peru, we also had some progress. We also had an increase in production over the last quarters and our working interest increased from 2500 barrels per day to 3200 barrels per day. the capacity of Peru turning that into cubic meters daily, the capacity of Peru to produce 650,000 cubic meters a day. And in Q2, we reached those 3,200 or 570,000 cubic meters per day. This production at Perua basically depends on sale negotiation, on the sale of Perua gas. And in the second quarter, we also signed a contract with Petrobras itself to treat our oil, freeing us to sell the gas to other players, to any other customer who wants to buy our gas. So this also improved the commercial side, the sales of Perua gas. To summarize our production, we achieved, along all quarters, an increase in production. This increased production. Well, in the second quarter of 2023, we reached 28,400 barrels daily. And in July, just now, in the production released yesterday, we were at 43,900 barrels per day. to 3R. 70% of this production is oil and 30% gas. in volume. Looking only at the oil part, the 34.6, we have in the lower left graph the production of all our assets, our fields, which we divided into these areas. I would like to highlight these 4.1 and 17, which are two values referring to our Potiguar cluster that was recently acquired. And then we ended the quarter, the month of July, with 34,600 barrels per day. And in the average oil production, 20 plus 29, that is 49% today, comes from our Potiguar cluster. Let me get the floor back to Mateus to talk a little about the mid and downstream. Thank you, Denise. Let me start with a comprehensive overview of the startup of our mid and downstream business unit, which is part of the perimeter of the Putihua Cluster deal. I'd like to start by listing some aspects of the structure comprised in the Guamare Industrial Asset . Firstly, this industrial complex carries with it units and systems that are part of the production chain of the Potigua cluster, providing interesting attributes to the company's maturity phase, such as greater control over direct production costs, commercial and logistics flexibility. has, in a summarized fashion, primary oil and gas processing units, an effluent treatment unit given the magnitude of the water portion in production, a refining unit with a nominal capacity of 40,000 barrels daily, a natural gas processing unit and GPU with nominal capacity of 1.8 million cubic meters per day, And there is also a private use terminal with two mono voice systems. One for oil products and the other for crude products, together with a tankage park distributed in the primary processing, refining and terminal units. Again, with a total capacity of 1.8 million barrels. Not naturally. As with all assets that we have taken over during this period of various acquisitions, some restrictions require preventive and corrective maintenance. This complex is not different. There will be a need for some scheduled shutdowns. to repair, to do preventive maintenance of systems and units within the refining complex within the NGPU and also to enable an increase in tankage, which still remains restricted in the terminal. As already mentioned, the integration promoted by the arrival of this asset and its processing and logistics units in 3R's portfolio creates an environment of independence and flexibility, which allows the company to have trade-offs between oil and oil products, which enhances our financial performance. This can be clearly exemplified at times when the crack spread which is the difference in the average reference price of oil products in relation to the brand when the crack spread is at high levels the company will certainly leverage the use of refining to produce oil products and the opposite is also true at moments when the crack spread is at low levels, the company will boost the sale of oil, either by exports or in the domestic market itself. Now, on the right side of the page, we have a summary of the oil products traded in this 23-day period in the second quarter, with a sale of approximately 110,000 cubic meters, or just over 680,000 barrels.

So as features of the refining unit itself we have a higher volume produced concentrated in the bunker which was exported in full although the intention is to expand access to the domestic market in view of the premium that exists for selling in Brazil when compared to exports. The mix of conditions that we highlight as oil and head consists mostly of a combination and mixture of crude products purchased from Petrobras at the time of closing, plus unspecified products originated by refining. As for the lighter oil products, we first have Jet Fuel as the only product 100% specified by the refining process of Plata Camarón, that is, which does not require any subsequent blending. In the cases of gasoline and diesel, for both, we depend on the import process to supply the market of Rio Grande do Norte and its surrounding areas. Gasoline, so far, is re-sowed directly, and low sulfur diesel is mixed with the diesel produced by the refinery to fit the final specification of the market. It should be noted that the refinery produces distillation nafta, which, after some facility adjustments that will occur during the month of August at the refinery, may be incorporated into the gasoline blend and be sold to the local market. Finally, still in June, the refining units were adapted for the production of MDO, which is low sulfur marine diesel oil, still of little relevance, as you can see in the chart, but which is opening the market for this product through the Guamaré waterway terminal, in addition to the delivery via the base of local distributors. Finally, on this page, looking at the coming periods, I emphasize again the importance of the terminal and its tankage park for business opportunities and possible partnership, with the potential to increase the flow of imports and exports of crude oil and oil products, acting as an effective logistics hub for distributors and for trading operations. On page 11, we summarized the commercial conditions that I mentioned recently in the highlights of this period. It should be noted that the commercial efforts are continuous and the company will constantly seek better ways to monetize its products within macro parameters as well as market demand conditions, logistics costs, among other variables. First, in a summarized way, in the Potiguar Basin, the integration of assets brought a substantial improvement to the unit price of oil conditions which can be used today vertically through the refining units or marketed directly with other customers. So to other customers directly using the private use terminal as a potential logistics gain. In the Reconcavo Basin, especially on the sale of oil, we have in the second quarter an average unit price of $2.7 per barrel. which represents a substantial difference from past quarters. For the next quarter, we will have another reduction, given that the new commercial conditions of the contracts side were in force starting at the middle of the second quarter. Another highlight now at 3R offshore is the Papaterra Cluster, which, since the beginning of operations under the company's management, has had several adjustments since the first lot, still on pricing dictated by the SPA. The average unit price indicator has evolved greatly since then, reaching in the quarter Brent minus $15.4 per barrel, which, as I exemplified above in Reconcavo, will still have a slight improvement for the next period, considering that the present contract was in force as of June only. It is worth emphasizing that the constant effort to increase tanking capacity remains and is vital for the formation of lots with greater volume and consequently to attract more advantageous commercial conditions. still on 3R offshore in the Perua asset, there's also a new commercial condition and contract structure in which we start to market full treatment gas at NGPU at the entrance of the transport pipeline for 13.5% of the Brent per million BTU. In relation to the past contract where there was a condition of sale before processing and to have the same comparison basis, The approximate price that we got pre-NGPU, the new contract, is approximately 11.5% of the branch per million BTU. Note that this new contract has a guaranteed volume of 400,000 cubic meters per day, which allows 3R to access the market and to work part of it in the spot market as well. Now we will enter the financial metrics session and I turn the floor to our CFO, Rodrigo Pizarro. Thank you, Mateus. Good afternoon, everyone. Let's begin the Q2 2023 Financial Highlight Session. On slide 13, we present the company's net revenues with a great evolution compared to the previous quarter as a consequence of the incorporation of the Potiguar cluster in our portfolio. The mid and downstream activities already mentioned by Mateus and the increasing production highlighted by Denise, which offset the reduction in branch prices. We started from a net revenue of 574 million BRLs in the first quarter to 837 million in the second quarter of 2023. As of this quarter, with the start of operation of the Potiguar Cluster, we will also report revenues and EBITDA by segment. We had 760 million BRLs of net revenues back to E&P, considering the intra-group revenues and oil management revenues referring to the transfer of oil between the fields of the Potiguar Basin for refining activity. In the mid-down segment, we obtained 265 million BRLs in revenues from refined products, LPG, and services. To reconcile with total net revenues, we must exclude the oil management revenues I mentioned and the intra-group revenues from one subsidiary to another. As an example, the sale of Macau oil to the Potiguar subsidiary. On the following slide, We break down the net revenues of the upstream segment by cluster, with the exception of the assets in Bahia, which had a slight reduction compared to the first quarter. All other assets had an increase in net revenues due to the higher volumes produced and better commercial conditions that were partially offset by the lower value of rent. In just 23 days of operation in the quarter, the Potiguar cluster represents 127 million BRL of oil management revenues linked to the sub-clusters Canto do Amaro, Estreito and Alto do Rodrigues. By product type, oil revenues account for 83% and gas, 17%. On slide 15, we present the evolution of the company's adjusted EBITDA in this quarter, reaching 200 million BRLs, with a consolidated margin of both segments and about 24%. If excluding the transition expenses related to the Potiguar cluster, we would have reached 224 million BRLs. Breaking down the segments, the upstream management adjusted EBITDA was 265 million BRLs, up the mid and downstream 4 million BRLs, and considering corporate expenses and intercompany results, we reconcile with the group's adjusted EBITDA of 200 million BRLs. On the next slide, we present the company's lifting cost. Even with the start of operation and several assets over the last 12 months, we present a very controlled lifting cost of $23.6 per barrel of oil equivalent. And it is worth mentioning that in this calculation, we excluded the gas reinjected or used in the operation to have a more conservative lifting efficiency metric. It is worth remembering that we have been operating Fazenda Belém and Peruá for about one year, Papaterra for only eight months and Potiguar for 23 days in the quarter. And in all cases, we have expenses and costs to adjust the collection, processing and storage facilities to more stable operating conditions and prepare to receive higher production volumes. In a cluster analysis, it is worth mentioning that the lifting cost of Papaterra at around 30 USD per barrel considers expenses and costs of maintenance activities to recover the integrity of the asset, as Denise has already mentioned, which could and should have been carried out in previous years by the former operator. The good news is that the hard work of recovering these systems is beginning to show signs of more stable production and an improvement in efficiency in recent months. As for the Potiguar Cluster, the increasing production of the Macau and Fazenda Belém assets has not yet been sufficient to make up for the higher expenses of the start of operation of the Potiguar Cluster. We also had, in the last 23 days of the quarter, the impact of a steam contract that was tied to the STA of the Potiguar cluster, which significantly impacted lifting costs at the cluster. This contract, which represented about 60% of the volume of steam consumed by the cluster, was not renewed and from July onwards the company no longer has this cost in its operating expenses and has begun to optimize the injection process with its own equipment. New systems are also in the process of being acquired. In Bahia this quarter, we had some non-recurring operating costs to restore integrity and prepare the offloading pipeline that connects the Renvolcavo Cluster to the nearest local refinery, which is Esalen, thus allowing a more efficient logistics and better commercial conditions for the sale of oil. Starting in July, we also began to reduce certain fixed costs for truck transportation and some operating expenses. Finally, in Peruá, with a stable operation and a higher production sold in the quarter, we obtain an excellent lifting cost below $6 per barrel.

On the following slide, we present the evolution of CAPEX.

In the second quarter, we reached $42 million, more relevant than the amount itself was the company's preparation this quarter for the start of a more intensive activity and investment in the second half, especially in Potiguar and Papaterra. Activities in wells in this quarter represent about 50% of the CAP Act, 25% in surface installations, and 25% in the acquisition of spare parts and materials. On slide 18, we present the cash generation for the quarter, and the company's capital structure at the end of the second quarter. Analyzing cash generation, we started from $131 million at the end of the first quarter and concluded the second quarter with about $200 million, with $29 million already provisioned in escrow accounts for the payment of interests and debts contracted for the Potiguar cluster. highlighting the period for positive operating cash generation of 44 million dollars, the capital allocation of 187 million dollars, the contracting of debt for the acquisition of the Potiguar cluster and the acquisition of the Potiguar cluster itself broken down into the asset and the inventory of spare parts acquired from Petrobras. Our net debt position is approximately $1 billion, looking only at financial liabilities. And if we consider deferred obligations and the earnouts related to asset purchases, we would add up just under $400 million already brought to present value. On the next slide, slide number 19, we present a summary of our head position. Over the next 25 months, we have about 2.4 million contracts NDF with an average price of $80 per barrel and about 5.7 million contracts in the collar format with an average minimum at $54.6 per barrel and cap at $97.1 per barrel. As we mentioned in the last earnings call, the hedge volumes were gradually increased to meet the obligations agreed of the debt instruments. Finally, on the last slide, we highlight the company's priorities for the second half of 2023. First, total focus on execution, increasing operational efficiency, dilution of fixed costs and recovery of the integrity of our key assets, including Papa Terra and the Potiguar Cluster, in order to maintain a safe and resilient operation. This half year, we are also closely monitoring the market to evaluate alternatives for optimizing short and medium term debts with the development plans already approved by the ANP. We can also consider the possibility of infrastructure debentures in some of our subsidiaries. It is also worth mentioning that our management continues to evaluate portfolio optimization opportunities and that in the third quarter we will release our first sustainability report to the market. And as a final message on behalf of our administration, I would like to thank everyone for your presence, especially those who supported us to reach the current level after such accelerated growth in all aspects over the last four years. Just a brief memory from August 9, 2019, we had the first signing, which was the Macau Cluster, an asset we took over with about 5,000 barrels of oil equivalent nine months later. And now in July 2023, we are very proud to say that we have reached about 44,000 barrels of oil equivalent. Again, thank you very much. We will now move to the question and answer session.

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Our first question comes from Mr. Luis Carvalho with UBS. Mr. Carvalho, go ahead. Your microphone is open. Hello, folks. Good day. Thank you for taking my questions and congratulations. On the turnaround of production, I'm happy to see the whole team together. I have two questions. I don't know whether it goes to Mateus or Pizarro. Despite the improvement in production that we recently saw and data released yesterday, we still see cash generation in Q2 relatively low. It was actually negative in this quarter and slightly positive in the previous quarter and also negative in the end of last year. So perhaps my question is, When are we going to see cash generation more in keeping with the epitaph of the company and now that the closing of Portugal is behind us and we should not bear great transition or transfer costs or anticipated expenses. So what about your planning regarding investments to increase production but at the same time balancing the cash flow of the company? My second question I think it has to do with one of the last comments made by Pizarro. You mentioned that very soon you will be doing or are already doing an assessment of your portfolio. I don't know what you can tell us about this at this point, but if you can share what you're thinking. from the strategic standpoint with us? That would be interesting. Are you going to focus on onshore or onshore plus offshore, maintaining the downstream assets? I know you're still at a very incipient moment, but if you could give us some more color on that, it would be interesting. Thank you very much. Well, good day, everyone. Thank you, Louise, for the questions. As regards to the first question, cash generation, Indeed, the detail is that in this last quarter, it is exactly what you mentioned. Net of the amount that we paid to Petrobras regarding oil inventory and inventory of refined products that were in the Guamare industrial asset, our cash generation would be positive by $44 million. And that's why we segregated that in that slide about the cash flow. And still, we had in this quarter the effect of those transition expenses. Not only in this quarter, where we had an effect of approximately $24 million, in the previous quarter $18 million. So this is what is making our cash generation not talk so much with the EBITDA. But as of the coming quarters, when those transition expenses, in fact, will be mitigated with a detail of Pescada and Arabiana that remains in transition. But that effect will be a lot lower than in the previous quarters. Looking forward, our expectation regarding working capital as a whole will end up being slightly positive. So in the future, when we assess the effect in Q3, In Q4, according to our internal modeling, we don't have an internal need of buying a lot of spare parts or a greater volume of inventory than what we already have. So this negative working capital effect will no longer exist. And as mentioned in the next quarter, we intend to get to an order of magnitude of a total volume of 280 to $290 million of capex for the full year. We already used 75 of it. In Q3 and Q4, that's when we have a growing volume because we'll be mobilizing practically all of the rigs that we have contracted. along Q3 and in Q4 with the Papateja rigs. That's when we are going to have a much more relevant CAPEX spending than what we saw in the last two quarters. To fund this CAPEX, we have EBITDA generation, which is very similar and above that amount. S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A in one of my last messages, some alternatives to roll over or increment that local debt that we have of 900 million BRLs. As of February of next year, we can work on this debt and we are assessing alternatives to perhaps increase the total amount and stretch the debt out After the payment of the term loan and the BTG debenture that we captured off $500 million with that, we'll have a very robust capital structure coherent with the volume of interest, the volume of capex, and the volume of taxes that we intend to pay until the end of the year, even with more challenging Brent scenarios. Fortunately, in the last weeks, we have been getting away from this scenario. So in a nutshell, we see our capital structure very adequate with the information I just gave you. As we go to the second question regarding the evaluation of the portfolio. Of course, since we acquired a particular cluster, since we signed particular cluster, we have been assessing possibilities in the mid and downstream in terms of partnerships and partial sale of some assets that will not substantially impact our EBITDA. This can mean some inflow of cash along the next two quarters. And a more comprehensive evaluation is in other assets, which are not 100% core assets for the company. I'll try to be more explicit. What is our core? It is our Rio Grande do Norte state production. And that's where we see a great potential to increase production, reducing the lifting costs and all the integration that we like to mention. That's another message that I tried to convey in the end of the presentation. i.e. that it is very rare to have this kind of integration onshore. This is very rare in any other country. In Latin America, it's not to be found. An oil producing company that has a huge storage capacity with our own facilities to sell directly to a trading company and possibly even refine. I know you're going to be asking questions about mid and downstream, and Matheus is going to be talking more about that. So that kind of asset is very rare. Another core asset that we have is Papa Terra. Papa Terra is another asset where we see great potential when we see that evolution of operating efficiency. We're doing a lot better than the previous operator, but we're still very far from being from having an ideal efficiency, which is great news. We can get to much more competitive lifting costs at Papa Terra by diluting fixed costs. I'd like to remind you that not all assets that we bought What were all of the assets that we bought from the previous operator require integrity, repair, work, maintenance. Recovery sometimes is so intense that that is characterized as capex. When it's inspection or maintenance that was not done or performed in the last two years, that ends up impacting our OPEX. All of that along a whole year, This needs to be excluded and this has an immediate effect in our lifting costs. You add to that a production increase and in 2024, we can start seeing an evolution of the lifting cost. In a nutshell, regarding the portfolio, we continue to evaluate it. In mid and downstream, there are objective possibilities of partial sales of smaller assets and there's also the possibility of partnerships in the short to mid term. In smaller assets, Fazenda Belém or Certain Share in Bahia, all of these things are under review, but there is no final decision by the management or by our board. Thank you, Louise. If I may, I'd like to have a follow-up question. You presented your head strategy. Perhaps you could link that strategy, looking forward, linking to cash generation, which was my first question. That would be helpful. How are you thinking about this in the future? That's another great question. When we look at everything we've hedged, looking forward, in NDF, we have about 10 to 12% actually 12 to 13 in Q1, 10 to 11 in Q4 considering total oil volume. And when we look at NDF, it's about 26, 27% and looking forward between 20 and 23% in the color format. First is NDF, second is color. In this total, we have about 35 if we get a weighted average of the first and fourth quarter already hatched at great levels. And this is a big highlight. While the oil curve was at a higher level, we privileged NDFs. In other words, mark the price at around $80 in the future curve. But when the Brent price started dropping, our priority was to do it via collar format. So the variations in that interval from $55 to about $100 would have no real effect for the company. In our view, this was the right decision to make. Looking forward, If the Brent, hopefully not, if the Brent drops to $60, for example, we'll have at least 10 to 12% marked up at $80. And also the effect of 20 to 25% that will be hatched in this level between 55 and $60. And this fits what I mentioned, even if the Brent price drops substantially, of course. will try to step on the brakes of our CapEx. That's the advantage actually of having a well-balanced portfolio with a lot of onshore assets. So we can postpone the CapEx a bit and we can have a final cash generation, cutting inflows and outflows, debts and payment of interest and principal and taxes. Still, the result will be positive without any cash burning. And that's the detail. When we look forward, let's remind you of what we've mentioned before. Our obligation to our two big creditors, the Term Loan Syndicate and the BTG, is that we'll look at the PDP PDP curve proven and developed and to always hedge proportional to 50% of the PDP curve, excluding the assets of three are offshore. In other words, Potiguar and Reconcavo Basin. So 55%. And in the second year, 40%. So every month, every quarter, actually, you will see that we will be rolling over this position, certainly increasing Our position, little by little, because our PDP tends to increase more and more, but we'll be increasing production, improved and developed, will grow proportionally. It is clear. Thank you very much. Thank you, Louise. Our next question comes from Ms. Milene Carvalho with J.P. Morgan. Ms Carvalho, your microphone is enabled. Go ahead. Hello, everyone. Good day. Firstly, I'd like to congratulate you on excellent July results. They exceeded our expectations. Perhaps you could comment a little more on your field ramp up expectations in the past quarter. We have talked and the expectation was to get close to 50,000 barrels per day by the end of 2023. But with the particular contribution about 17,000 barrels, Macau resuming a better level of productivity What is your expectation and what is the associated capex? You spoke about $280 to $290 million for 2023. What about for 2024? What is your expectation? And the second question, if I may. In this quarter, we saw a contribution of revenue from oil products of about $255 million. If you could give us some more detail on how this revenue is broken down and the expectation of contributions of mid and downstream to the management. Thank you. Melanie, thank you for the questions. I will just say one thing before I turn the floor to Denise. In terms of capex volume, as I mentioned, Order of magnitude 280 to 290 million for this year, 75 have been invested. The difference is what we tend to use in Q3 and Q4. For 2024 business plan is about $400 million. So there's a certain increment year on year. And I'd like to remind you that we'll be starting 2024 with all rigs mobilized. I'll turn the floor to Denise, and she'll speak about production expectation, always giving you an order of magnitude. And then Matheus will comment on the mid and downstream.

Thank you, Pizarro. Good afternoon.

Well, our production has been growing in recent quarters. Let's start with July. In July, we had 52,000 that was our global production that we are operating of these 52,044 corresponds to our stake the 44,000 will be broken down into two parts oil 35 9,000 gas we should not be seeing a great increase in the production of gas in the coming months until the end of the year but our oil production is expected to grow around four or five thousand barrels at Papaterra with the interventions, the workovers and the rigs that will be mobilized in the second half. At Macau and Potiguar, Potiguar as a whole about three thousand, Macau would that Change with the rigs plus recovery and continuity of the works about 3000 more barrels and in by about one to 2000 more. So 44,000 that would be 35 and nine, but there's 35,000 our expectation is that we'll get to about 45,000 corresponding to our stake by year end with the increment of the rigs that we're working with in all of the areas we're working with many work over rigs performing a lot of pullings we're exchanging the pumps at the wells we're drilling new wells and also the offshore rigs and the continuity of the works that's what we're expecting in materials over to you Hello, Mileni. Good afternoon. Thank you for the questions. Also, thank you for the compliments to 3R. Mileni, recording mid and downstream, although this is still very recent, at least in a quarter where we are evaluating just 23 days of operation and an operation which 3R took over in an exchange without any contract, without a TSA, for example, 3R just took this over without any operational discontinuity. And this is a very relevant point, but still we had only 23 days and now just one more month of operation, but we can already prepare some scenarios for the mid and downstream. Just looking at the revenue that you mentioned of 265 million BRLs in the quarter, we had a division there and a division also because of the remaining inventory of about 60 or a little over 60% of crude products and the rest of oil products. The oil products, the light products, given the characteristic of the refinery, a good part of those are not 100% specified, with the exception of jet fuel, which is a product that has a very high spread. It is 100% produced. But a good part of them, we just blend them, particularly gasoline. We should start blending in September. Today, we only import and do the internal sale operation. within the state under the area of operation of Clara Camarón Refinery. Now looking at the whole asset and the whole process that we took over, a good part of our initial effort, and here it's not different, has to do with project structuring in addition to preventive and corrective maintenance. So that we can have a foundation to have a better operation so that we can have future increments in production. So we have a challenge, particularly in the tankage park today, approximately, particularly at the terminal. We have a tankage park that is very robust. It is a tankage park that is very helpful and it gives us flexibility not only for oil products, but also for oil as well. It is a tankage park for which we already have a maintenance project. because today we have only 70% of it in operation. Our primary focus in mid and downstream is that it will add two to $3 per barrel in our consolidated numbers considering the whole operation and talking specifically about the epidemic. For that, our plan is to address firstly, And with a lot of focus, the part regarding integration and doing preventive and corrective maintenance, which is necessary, and this will take some quarters and always with partial deliveries, particularly in tankage and in some systems of the refining unit so that we can increment capacity. Now, one observation to be highlighted here, Melanie, is that just like Pizarro mentioned the integration of this asset in addition to the fact that we have an operation where we have a control over basically the whole production chain And when we look at the terminal, that's where we derive great logistics flexibility. I even mentioned this in the presentation. In moments where the crack spread is advantageous for us, the difference between the price of oil products sold in the market versus the Brent reference price, in moments where the crack spread is advantageous, we intensify refining activities. And this is why we will follow a routine of maintenance so that we can have 100% nominal capacity of our refining unit. On the other hand, If the opposite happens, if the spread or market situations push the spread down, not only our crack spread, but our spread when we have to blend because we import a lot of product. So in oil products, our spread might not reflect 100% the crack spread because we have a balance of mass of the things that we blend. Then we can intensify sale of oil and detriment of the refinery. With a lot of agility, we can reduce the refinery production and increase sale of oil, either through exports or in the internal market, domestic market, where we have a lot of refineries that can absorb the oil from Potiguar. And lastly, I don't want to speak too much. Another point that Pizarro just touched on is that partnerships can be forged. to intensify the work at the terminal, partnerships with distributors or trading companies. So as a business unit, our purpose is to create an environment of partnerships and to intensify this logistics system and operation that will enable us to both sell oil and oil products depending on market conditions. Thank you very much, Mileni. And millennial, let me just add to what Matthew said. This trade off between selling oil directly in the international market or through cabotage to other local refineries and maintaining the supply of the state. Importing or bringing from other Brazilian refineries diesel oil and gasoline versus getting the whole oil that we produce and from other players in the particular base and then refining the whole production. This is a balance that we will be evaluating. I would say weekly. But in a strategic fashion, we'll look at this every quarter. Always looking forward, trying to identify where we can get the best margin. As Matheus mentioned, our target here, our purpose is to always be adding two, three, four, five dollars per barrel. This does not happen only with the sale of refined products. It happens with service provision. Here. We have tankage, the part that relates to tankage, the big pipelines of the basin, the PGN, it's all ours. The NGPU, it's all ours. So we have the possibility of providing services to trading companies or to distributors. And we can even leave aside the risk of mid and downstream just by providing this kind of service. So it's something that we discuss a lot. We are evaluating possible partnerships and it's something that we all understand should be considered as something that adds value to E&P to upstream. But this is not the focus of the company to be thinking strategically to increment refining capacity. That's not part of our business plan yet. Perfect. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mileni. Next question. Bruno Montanari, Morgan Stanley. Mr. Montanari, your microphone is open. Good afternoon. Thank you for taking the questions. I have a follow-up of two questions. And this question about the margin of midstream Just for me to understand, this $2 to $3, would it be restricted to the barrels that you process or sell through refinery system, or the entire company's production yield have an increase in margin of $2 to $3 per barrel? So my first question, I'd like to talk about Macau a little bit. If you can give us more color about the status of the oil water separation plants, If everything is already running 100%, if the measurement aspects in June is already 100% matching due to the control in Portugal, if there's some of the Macau production being recognized in the other asset, just for us to be able to correctly separate production. And the second question, If you can talk a little bit about the evolution of the equipment contracting environment and personnel contracting, if there's more inflation, more or less inflation pressure, delivery time. How's the sourcing of people and equipment now? Thank you.

Excellent Bruno, I'll start answering. First about how much that volume, two, three, four, five dollars per barrel

As to our production, when we talk about that, it's our production in Rio Grande do Norte. So it's the production in Canto do Amaro, Estereito Alto do Rodrigues in the Potiguar cluster. It includes Macau, Areia Branca, and a little bit of the condos that we produce in Isanhaçu and Pescada. So all of our production in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. As for your second question, whether there's an effect I understand you're seeking that concept of the breakdown effect if we still have any Macau oil volume that's still being classified as particular and vice versa no so from the moment we started the physical metering in Macau we start to account the volumes that are precisely produced in Macau where we still see an effect of this division in the camps that are part of the Potiguar cluster, excluding the largest one, which is Canto do Amaro, Estreito, Alto do Rodrigues, and other small fields, such as Fazenda Potim, which are smaller fields in the Potiguar cluster that do have some of this effect.

But the difference is minimal.

And it's something that for us in management terms, we keep track of it, of course, but for the market, it's very small and it doesn't make a difference. The fact is that the increase in production we've been seeing in Macao is indeed a result of the production increase from the drilling campaign from the solution of those facility issues that we're finally seeing. Matheus is going to add to the detail of the separation plant, as well as the effect of the contracting and the sourcing that we're under strong diligence, but everything's already contracted and well-organized to execute our cat-backs.

Hi, Bruno. Good afternoon. Thank you for your question. Specifically about

or taking part of Pizarro's answer about the separation plant. This was a project that was remodeled as of February of this year. where we had some options to either interrupt production 100% to solve the problem in 60 to 70 days, or to create some landmarks where we would start to release the built-up production, including the increase of the pipeline pressure, tank installation, adjustment of water injection system, etc. This project has already allowed the execution of some specific landmarks that, or milestones rather, that allowed us to release about 700 barrels per day of production that was building up. So as a target to conclude the project 100%, to release another 500 barrels per day of built-up production is for October or November at the latest.

So now our physical progress is tied to our plan.

We've already adjusted the tanks. In turn, the CNB stations still need to install the second tank and make the adjustments as well. Water injection systems being addressed. And there's the installation of two smaller floaters. And we're very close to releasing 100% of the plant within the strategy that we followed, that once we have a slower pace of growth, so to speak, but that is stable and we don't need to interrupt Macau's production.

That's one of the points.

And then, taking from what Pizarro was saying, talking a little bit about Macau, I believe we've reached a level of maturity in the point of systematization and processes in Macau that is much better compared to previous orders. And this is reflected not only in the execution of this project in the separation plant that was a big issue here, the company, but also carrying out the plan for intervention interventions and billing and looking at the quarter alone and looking at the half year total we are exactly at a hundred percent mobilizing more rigs I don't know if everyone remembers but we had a rig plan and we decided to increase it to intensify and get closer to our plan planning curve so today we're right next to our Planning curve in terms of interventions, we've already had 8 trillions in the Macau cluster that responded very well. On the campaign, a broad campaign of interventions as well, that we've executed 100% of the plan for the entire half year and the quarter to date as well. As for the second question about the equipment, the contracting, sourcing, To give you an idea, and that's also based on what I was just saying, we decided to contract a series of additional rigs, especially for work over and drilling, because in the first quarter we were falling behind in our campaign to meet our plan for 2023. So in this context, looking offshore that's simpler in terms of numbers, We have two contracted rigs, one DP rig that is a designed rig that will be used for two workovers on the subsea wells planned for the fourth quarter to begin with two and one probably carries into the first quarter of 24 and one additional SPH rig that's a little simpler next to the TLWP platform for a walkover and a dry completion well that was producing well 17 and went down next last quarter. So offshore is already contracted, expected to engage the two drills by October this year. As for the rigs here onshore, as I said, we've expanded the numbers. So we constructed 26 rigs, of which we already have 19 engaged, seven underway, and most of them concentrated between August and September. And among those 19 already mobilized, we have one drilling rig, Rather, one pull-in rig in Bahia, three drilling rigs at this time at the Potiguar Basin, and 15 work over rigs, five of them in Bahia and 10 of them in Potiguar Basin. The remaining equipment, this already covers a lot of the capex, a lot of our interventions, our volume. In addition, looking at offshore where the risk due to lead time is slightly higher all contracting is being followed and monitored either for valves or more design involved all the different types of equipment we've been very diligent in the national and international factories and of course there's always a risk of delays in terms of the long lead times considering that these are highly engineered machines highly designed but this diligence helps us mitigate the risk and we remain with the workovers as planned for the last quarter so a lot of the equipment for onshore and offshore are being diligently monitored And we understand that there are no risks to migrate from one quarter to the other due to any delays in lead time of equipment. And the rigs 100% contracted with extremely low risk of delay.

It's also talking about team.

We have our own team completely contracted. a couple of professionals that we hired, but it's part of the company's normal growth. So there's no issue there in terms of people hiring as well, either our own or third party.

Very clear and complete. Thank you. Thank you, Bruno. Next question. Vicente Falanga, Bradesco BBI. Please go ahead.

Good afternoon, Mateus, Bizan, Rogodoy, everyone at 3R. I had a couple of questions as well. First, congratulations on this turn and the production month by month. We already see very good improvement. And I think the challenge, at least in our mind, is that it's still those 44,000 on the average of production of 2P production for next year. I think it's 65,000. But I'd like to go back at some of those milestones that we should monitor in the next six to nine months should be confident you can get there. You talked about and we wrote down the rigs in Papaterra in the fourth quarter this year, first next year, three rigs, 19 plus seven rigs already mobilized by the end of September. Anything else? I mean, and time for well drilling and Papaterra, any environmental license or facility, anything important that we should monitor. And my second question is an update. In the steam sourcing in Potiguar, what are the checkpoints there that we should keep track of to monitor that?

Thank you, Falanga.

About those big milestones that we should keep track of, as we mentioned, this CAPEX plan, of course, we need to keep up with the standard volume, but at the execution and mobilization of the rigs themselves, a lot of this volume, more than 50% is pegged to the drilling rigs and work over activity. And of course, this increase in production that is very relevant in Papá Terra. So once we have, as Matheus has been saying, it's highly monitored and diligent, not only on our side, but also on your side, of course that we have the tools we need to increase production relevantly over the next quarter, What I'd like to point is that, of course, we're always keeping track of the reserve certifications as a target in terms of production. We have our internal controls. And over the quarters, we had delays. For example, in Potiguar, that was not our responsibilities, but we had delays in Tapaterra in the past. Indeed, when we look forward with the integrated portfolio, we intend to get close to the 2P curve in 2024 for 100% of the production of the assets. We already have a very slight difference in terms of our compared to our plan and the projection. These are the main checkpoints that we can keep track of. And Denise mentioned already that we also and we have that in that slide where we show Papa Terra and the increase of efficiency in production there. We came from a previous year below 30%. We can already lead it to a level higher than 50%. We've been making a series of interventions and improvements in the systems of power generation, gas compression, boilers that generate heat to the entire Unit FSPO and all of that has been improving. So we're increasing our operating efficiency in Papaterra. But when will we start having efficiency to the point that we consider close to ideal or even excellent? That is precisely when we move the flotel in Papaterra. It's planned for March 2024. Where we have short production stoppages for two weeks in two events, one when the flotel is mobilized and another right before it's demobilized. So during the first half of 2024, we will have or shall have production losses associated to the flotel for an average of 30 to 35 days in these two situations that I mentioned. But on the other hand, from that point on, we will have a much higher operating efficiency for that asset. What I usually mention as well Joking, but with some truth to it. We bought a very modern car from great manufacturers, everything top of the line. When we talk about the equipment, they're all by Siemens, Halliburton. They're major suppliers in the domestic industry, different from other FSPOs built more recently. But they didn't go through the maintenance required. The first reviews that the other operator or the older operator should have done, they didn't do. And today, this carries into our efficiency. So we've been replacing one wheel at a time as the car moves. But of course, we're doing these generalized improvements when we have this movement focused on maintenance. This is also crucial for us to get this increase in production even more relevantly in the second half when the FSPO in terms of maintenance is already much more advanced with all rigs at Papaterra already engaged and that when we start to have the drilling of the first offshore wells in Papaterra. I'd also like to remind you that the first well that we intend to drill in Papaterra is a mirror of a well that was already producing for Petrobras and when they stopped it produced around 5,000 barrels. Our reservoir people in geology and geophysics have been working to enhance this well, but that's the minimum target to be expected in terms of production for this well. So all of that helps corroborate this plan of more than 60,000 barrels on average for oil and gas production or oil and gas equivalent for the average for 2024, thinking about 100% of the assets, okay? Just to add that we talked about three rigs in Papa Terra, but there's actually two, one for wet Christmas tree and the other a hydraulic rig to work on three or two. And this wet rig is what will drill the first well, yes. And there was something about the steam as well. Hi Vicente, good afternoon. So about your question of steam generation in two fields, El Potiguar, Estreito and Alto do Rodrigues, we have two parts here. For the part of the company's gas balance, This is something we can have 100% of the gas year for steam generation. So that's not a current risk for the company, either through the gas produced by us or swap with partners.

The second point, and actually we had a high contractor steam with ThermaSul.

This contract was not renewed commercially the companies couldn't agree in commercial terms, so it was not renewed. Even with that, the company was already developing a plan before the closing way ahead, knowing that there was a risk of not getting a renewal. There was no intention to renew. Even the other party didn't. We tried commercially, but we weren't able to conclude it. And faced with that risk in the past, we were already working on a project that involved two parts. First, reallocation of the generators we already have on the field, the geographic reallocation to more optimized points that are able to increase efficiency a little. From those 40% we have with reallocation, we are able to take it up to just above 50%. And the second part is the acquisition of three new generators, a 50 million BTU, with a lead time of about 100 to 120 days. So it's not that offensive. And we've been working in the contracting of these generators. We already have been working with a partner to work on the specifications and reallocation of both assets. So we imagine that for the current production and for the increase of the first six months of 24, With the spark of generators combining those three new generators and the relocation of the existing generators, we'll be able to supply 100% of our steam generation needs. So that's our strategy. And if we, by any chance, I didn't even mention it, but if there's any possible loss of production will be residual. So it's not, it doesn't even impact our plan of 50,000 barrels at the end of the year. Thank you. Very clear. Thank you.

Our next question comes from Mr. Pedro Suarez with BTG Pactual. Mr. Suarez, go ahead. Thank you. Good day, everyone. I think that most of the questions have been answered, but one that hasn't been talked about has to do with the expected increase in production for the second half of the year and the lifting cost. When do you expect to achieve the production targets you've mentioned? to pull down the lifting costs of $23 in terms of cost dilution? And the second question, if you could remind us of the existence or not of your debt covenants and how they fit in the current leverage level of the company. Thank you. Thank you, Pedro. Great questions as regards the lifting cost. On 2023, we have an expectation of managing fixed cost dilution in some assets. But in other assets, we'll have an intensification of those maintenance activities that I always mention, that punch list that we get when we take over from the old operator. For 2023, we expect a slight decrease of the lifting cost that we reported, perhaps in Q4. We haven't got visibility of the next quarter, whether we'll achieve that dilution of fixed costs. But for Q4, yes, we expect a dilution of fixed costs, thinking of the portfolio as a whole. Now for 2024, particularly in the second half, when we will have implemented most of these key maintenance activities, that came from the older operator. And at the same time, we'll have a leap, an increment in production. That's a moment when we'll go back to having very relevant efficiency in the lifting cost of the company. I'd say that today we have 10 to 15% lifting cost in Q2 coming from these maintenance activities. And these will no longer happen in Q4. and after that we'll focus on diluting fixed costs as some other companies here in Brazil have managed to do efficiently but over four to five years in here we always want to do things very quickly obviously with a lot of care and thought but we are proud to say that Although we've been in this process of putting together a portfolio for only four years, we are now at a level of bringing about improvements. This is not a bad level to be in. So that's good news. We started with a level that was not bad. and we are moving to a path that will lead us to an improvement in lifting costs so we can get to lifting costs of around 14 to 16 dollars and we'll continue to dilute fixed costs along 2025. to your question regarding the covenants we have three main things to follow one It's obvious, the minimum cash we need for our operations. And again, I'd like to remind you of that slide where I talked about the cash flow. We ended the quarter with $199 million. These are $170 million, which are 100% free cash, and about $29 to $30 million, which are interests already provisioned for, which is one of our debt obligations. We have to start provisioning for our debt interest rates. In one case, six months. In another case, 12 months. In total, until the end of the year, we should have about $50 million dollars provisioned for the payment of debt. But this is cash. When we assess net debt, we also use this cash to deduct from the gross debt. The other obligation, and that's a typical covenant, is net debt over EBITDA ratio. Now, of course, at this point, we have to calculate a pro forma EBITDA because we've just taken over the PortiGua operation. So we look not only at EBITDA along 2023, but we also calculate. That's the way we read the contract. We have to calculate in good faith what our last 12 months would be, and we think that this EBITDA calculated in that way would be close to $480 to $520 million. With this net debt calculated around $1.4 billion, $1 billion of financial debt and another $400 million of obligations for the portfolio as a whole brought present value, we are below three times net debt over EBITDA and the current limit is 3.5 times. starting in Q1 2024, right? Yes. After Q1 2024, that's a limit when that 3.5 limit will come down to three times and then we'll have more restriction. But by then our EBITDA will have grown more significantly. And there is another covenant that is also important that we need to monitor, which is our debt service cover ratio. We always need to look at the last 12 months and see our actual cash generation of the last 12 months and always compare with the interest of the debt and eventually the principal that were paid in the last 12 months too. That comparison needs to be above 1.15 in the beginning, right? And then 1.5. So the first time that we start checking that covenant will be in 2024, in Q224. S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A S A that make up our group of creditors. And this is something that was addressed by our board of directors, particularly by our financial committee. So it's a provocation. If we're going to bring in 900 million for the company, we need to be able to negotiate something better. It was a fierce negotiation, but it gave us some peace of mind now that that service is good, is fine with our current capital structure. Another aspect, Pedro, that we've been working on that improves the debt service even further would be to roll over this $900 million debt. Again, like I said before, nothing is decided, nothing is signed, but it is something that we are considering, both in the domestic market and in the international market. But in this case, more the domestic market, we would consider an infrastructure, the bank trade. It is a debt that one pays over eight, nine years and it has a lower effective cost than the current cost that we have today. The cost that we have if we prefix is about 10 to 11% when we look at the total debt of the company. and we can possibly get a better cost than a debt that is more stretched out. And then the debt service cover ratio, which is among the covenants somewhat more restrictive, will have more peace of mind. And we've heard other questions in prior calls and we felt that investors are worried about our cash position and our covenants, of course. We follow this quarter after quarter. We always have to have a very optimized capital structure. I'd like to remind you that our finance committee has great names of the industry, all very seasoned professionals in the financial area, and we've been monitoring this of course. And today, we have peace of mind to say that we have a very adequate structure for the portfolio that we acquired, considering these three aspects, cash, net debt over EBITDA ratio, and the debt service cover ratio.

Okay, very clear. Thank you, Bizarro. Next question from Mr. Leonardo Marcondes, Bank of America. Please, you may go ahead. Good afternoon.

Thank you for taking my questions. I believe most of them have been answered, but I have a few follow-ups. My first follow-up is about the mid-down stream question. If you can give us more color on how the operation is working with Petrobras practicing prices that are below parity and if that has impacted somehow your operations. My second question,

is about the Reconcavo cluster.

It's an asset that has been performing underperforming compared to other assets. So I'd like to understand whether or how you evaluate the assets performance since acquisition. And from what I understood, it's not a core asset for the company. So I'd like to understand more is If there's no divestment here, if we should continue to see this asset underperforming from the others or will there be a resumption of focus? And a final follow up about Papa Terra. Denise talked a lot and there were some questions about it. But I think my point here is that once you reach operating efficiency of 90% of the platform, I'd like to understand how this translates into production. And once this ramp up is concluded, I'd like to understand if there's any OPEX production on the field.

Thank you. Hi, Leonardo. Thank you for your questions.

I'll address your first one. Pizarro will address the second and the third will be Denise talking about Topa Terra. So referring to the beginning of our operation here in mid downstream specifically about the prices practiced by Petrobras on the side of the light product where there's that pricing from Petrobras and gasoline and diesel our Access has not been 100% impacted, which makes us go to the trade-off of the distributors. Back to logistics costs, we have other collection points at Cabedelo and Suape, and where we have this spot, the stain of Clara Camarão, we were not 100% impacted and that leads us to continue importing gasoline and diesel. The beginning of our gasoline operations, or rather our operation in the refinery and the ATI in total, 100% of the gasoline we imported was resold in the market. We did that not to cut the supply of the state and because in our area of operation, we were able to step into a part of this difference that you we put into the market from what we imported and what we added and about the preventive maintenance that I mentioned at the beginning part of the NAFTA DD that's direct distillation from September onwards it will be blended to the gasoline we import and we'll be able to get a spread in this operation that will be greater than what we have today today you simply have a spread of the difference on the custom price of the cargo that we import Diesel on the light oil products is still a little different. We produce diesel with a high level of sulfur in the refinery, and we specify two products from it. One, we blend with diesel, imported diesel that we also put into our area of operation. We also have an AS500 diesel. And due to this blend, we don't capture the flat spread from the market, but we have a positive spread around $3 to $4. Increasing our production and the refineries capacity, we can get a better, a greater blending operation, which increases the spread. Other light products like Jet Fuel has zero impact, 100% produced at the refinery with a spread of almost $30. So it's excellent and it's not such a relevant production at the refinery. It's a little under 10%. So we've been able to specify another product at the end of June that was not being sold before. That's MDO, that maritime diesel. That also has an interesting spread of around 20% at $20 per barrel. So it's very interesting. And as for the heavy food products, just to expand on your question, as I mentioned, the company's challenge Considering it's a refining unit that specifies the bunker too much, it should increase our range in the domestic market. And that's also taking from Pizarro's words. That's why we've been expanding partnerships so that we can have a broader scope in the logistics and cabotage aspect for the entire domestic scenario. So that's more or less what we've been operating in our day to day. And I'd like to stress another point before I forget, especially for the light products. That really communicates to what we've said that more difficult times, we're able to invert things to reduce refining a little bit and sell oil. And in cases that if at any point the market or the prices practice affects our area of action, Maybe for thinking greater market share, we don't have the need to bring gasoline to put in the market. But of course, we're not going to operate by burning cash. That is definitely not going to happen. And on the diesel side, we'll always bring a little because it helps the specification of the bunker to fit it into the market specifications. as well as R A T that's an atmospheric residue from the tower that also requires the addition of diesel to specify it as Dunkirk.

So I think I've addressed the main points, Leonardo. Thank you again. So, Leonardo, about the Reconcavo Cluster, we have a strategic plan of intervention activities.

We're both pull-in and work-over. But where we see a more relevant increase in production is when we bring two drilling rigs that will happen in the third and fourth quarter this year. And that's when we start to see a recovery of production. Of course, certainly your comparison is a little bit in terms of the reserve certification. That's the asset that we are a little further from that we make up for this delta by the end of the year, at least partially offset it. Of course, we can't offset everything quickly. But once we When we talk about the company's priorities in terms of operations, as I said, Potiguar and Papaterra have maximum relevance, their top priority internally. Bahia is also a relevant asset, it's also core, and then we have other smaller assets that may be even in the Potiguar Basin or the Reconcavo Basin that are smaller fields, that may be closer to other operators, and we could consider possibly a partial sale or a negotiation as long as it brings value to our investors. It must be an equative transaction, as we say. It has to add value to the investor. Otherwise, they're excellent assets. They're in our portfolio and all of them overall generate value. Individually, they're good assets. Of course, each one has their own tier, but That's why we'll optimize and allocate our capex more strategically to bring the best returns combined with the occasional restrictions that we may have in cash availability to execute the capex. In Papateja, I'll turn to Denise, but before, just a brief comment. Today, when we look at the capacity of production at Papateja with the wells that are connected to the unit today, we have about 21 1000 barrels that may be producing in good days, those days that have no operating restrictions and all wells are producing at capacity. But we have that sub-optimum efficiency and after we carry out the two work over activities, we add 5000 barrels. that we're producing with a decline, we'll get to 2021 and another 5,000 barrels. Our level goes up to potentially 25, 26 with a better efficiency. And when we bring the new well, this potential level gets as high as 27, 28, 8,000 barrels. Of course, always multiplied by the fields operating efficiency. So it's a combination of Facilities that must be operational with high efficiency and at the same time the capabilities that will bring capacity. Capacity and efficiency will lead to our production. So with these two metrics is how we increase production, diluting fixed costs. But what happens? starting on the second half of 2024, will also remove that pressure from suppliers that are going up to the platform for corrective measure maintenance that our previous operator didn't do. So that also removes an absolute value of that OPEX, of that maintenance that today we have because of the punch list of the previous operators. So that's the overview of how to dilute fixed costs. We'll reduce a little bit of the absolute value, but the majority will come from this combination of greater efficiency and greater production capacity.

Now talking a little bit or going back to the Reconcavo cluster.

We'll talk about the cost side. Of course, we're working on the renegotiation of operation maintenance contracts in the area, as well as the reduction of trucks and other work that are being done to reduce OPACs in the Reconcavo cluster area, as well as the commercial side of oil sales. So Pizarro mentioned an increase in production. In fact, it is cost reduction that we intend to implement there. We're working on it, improving the lifting cost at the Reconcavo Cluster. As for Papa Terra, these are the three main phases of operation that we're going to go through over the coming months. This phase, until the end of the year, we're working as much as possible with the number of people we have today. The limit of offshore is the number of people. We're working on the increase of tankage. We saw the first important movement. to increase the offloading time from one week to two weeks, and the operation part that Bizarro mentioned, the work that was done this year, and this major work that will be carried out by the end of the first quarter of next year, the flow tell that phase for Papateja will be very important.

And the next phase for the second half of the year, where we have this, well,

where we're planning this higher efficiency. So combining all of that, we'll be able to reach the numbers that Bizarro mentioned by the end of next year. And we'll have a much better performance from Papa Terra keeping up and increasing the efficiency enhancement that we saw and that charge from 50 some that we expect to reach 80 and 90 in the second half of next year. That's it. Excellent. Thank you.

More detail sitting next to Genesis Menges. He's the manager of the Papaterra asset. And so we have daily follow up, weekly monitoring of all activities, all operations. Menges is very experienced in offshore. He is the asset manager of many assets, including Albacora. in recent years. So he's the mastermind, operational mastermind of Papa Terra and he's working with us, okay? Okay, thank you very much for the answers.

The Q&A session is ended. I now turn the floor to Rodrigo Pizarro and Mauricio Diniz for his final statements. Very well.

Well, I ended up making the final comments on the presentation. I'd like to remind you that today, exactly, it's been four years since we signed Macau Cluster. Nine months after that, we took over Macau Cluster with a modest production vis-à-vis what we have today. But we are not happy. No, that's something we make clear in our management. The message from the management is that there's a lot of room for improvement. We got this far and it makes us very proud to have 40,000 barrels in several meetings and in several aspects. 40,000 barrels is relevant for equity investors and for bond creditors as well. And even for rating agencies, that's an important level. But all of that, all of those achievements make us very proud. And also, it's a lot of responsibility, considering all of the possible improvements we can bring about. As Mateus always mentioned, we are a lot more systematized now, a lot more structured. Today we have the whole team on board. In other words, all of our professionals are hired, the rigs, the big equipment is all contracted. It's all been acquired or it's all in-house. So looking forward, we have a full array of possibilities and improvements to have. I'll turn the floor to Matheus and then to Denise.

Very well.

I would like to thank all of you for joining us today, for your questions, and for all the support you have given us all this time. This kind of support is always very important to us. It's very constructive. I'd like to take an opportunity to congratulate the whole 3R team, at least all of you here in this room, so you can cascade down my comments to the whole team. From January onward, we changed the company a lot. Being systems driven, project driven, internal improvements and we can see that this has been bringing material results for the company little by little in our sales department, in the maintenance, in the operation departments. And that is very encouraging for us. So I'd like to thank the whole 3R team and I'd like to thank all of you for attending this call and for all your questions. My special thank you for all of you who have always supported us from the start of our activities, for your patience sometimes when we had problems, but today we are reaping excellent results and especially I would like to thank the whole 3R team because today they have been creating a very positive and cool environment to work and delivering interesting results to our shareholders. We will continue to work to achieve our goals, thinking about the safety of our facilities and always respecting people in the environment. Thank you very much. This conference call has ended. We would like to thank all of you for attending and have a great rest of day.