Aug. 12, 2016 5:46 PM ET| About: Petrobras - Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (PBR)
Q2 2016 Earnings Summary
News
EPS of $0 misses by $-0.13 | Revenue of $20.32B (- 21.9% Y/Y) misses by -$1.64B
Petrobras - Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (NYSE:PBR)
Q2 2016 Earnings Conference Call
August 12, 2016 11:30 AM ET
Executives
Isabela Carneiro da Rocha - Executive Manager of IR
Ivan de Souza Monteiro - CFO and IR Officer
Solange da Silva Guedes - Chief Exploration and Production Officer
Jorge Celestino Ramos - Chief Refining and Natural Gas Officer
Roberto Moro - Chief Technology and Production Development Officer
Analysts
Luiz Carvalho - UBS
Christian Audi - Santander
Bruno Montanari - Morgan Stanley
Diego Mendes - Itaú BBA
Luana Siegfried - Raymond James
Caio Carvalhal - Brasil Plural
Andre Natal - Crédit Suisse
Felipe Santos - JPMorgan
Pedro Medeiros - Citigroup
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Petrobras conference call with analysts and investors for the presentation concerning the second quarter of 2016 results. [Operator Instructions]
Present here with us today are Mr. Ivan de Souza Monteiro, Petrobras' CFO and Investor Relations Officer; Mrs. Solange da Silva Guedes, Chief Exploration and Production Officer; Mr. Jorge Celestino Ramos, Chief Refining and Natural Gas Officer; Mr. Hugo Repsold Júnior, Chief Human Resources, HSE and Services Officer; Mr. Roberto Moro, Chief Technology and Production Development Officer; Mr. Joao Adalberto Elek Junior, Chief Governance Risk and Compliance Officer; Mr. Nelson Luiz Costa Silva, Chief Strategy, Organization and Management System Officer, and other executives of the company.
I would like to remind you that this meeting is being recorded, and please be mindful of slide number 2, which contains a notice to shareholders and investors. The words believe, expect and similar ones related to projections and targets are mere forecasts based on the expectations of executives regarding the future of Petrobras.
To begin, we will hear Mrs. Isabela Carneiro da Rocha, Executive Manager of Investor Relations, who will start the presentation related to the second quarter 2016 results. After that, we will then answer the questions from participants.
Mrs. Isabella, you may take the floor.
Isabela Carneiro da Rocha
Good morning or good afternoon, everyone. I would like to thank you all for participating, and I would like to start by presenting our second quarter results, highlighting a change in terms of elaborating more of each business segments, so as to help you understand and model the company better related to transparency.
These improvements took into account the quarterly results breakdown per segment with more information and better results per segment and also the results for Brazil and abroad in addition to data related to imports of products, sales volume, downstream and distribution. And also the tables - the Excel tables and spreadsheets are available on the website for Investor Relations.
To start the presentation, we will start by highlighting the exchange rate environment in the first quarter with BRL3.51 lower than in the first quarter but yet higher when we compare the same period of the year before. In terms of Brent, there was an increase in the second quarter vis-à-vis the first quarter amounting to $46 per barrel on average and lower when compared to the first period of the year before.
Now looking at the gross results, we start with BRL22.2 billion increase, and the main factors that impacted this increase was mainly the higher production of oil and gas, 7% higher from Petrobras and as a consequence, there was a 14% increase in the number of exports of crude oil and oil products associated to lower costs of import of gas or LNG because of higher domestic production and higher demand.
And by the same token, there was a reduction in the sales of gasoline even though the total sales increased reductions in gasoline and also power because of lower power generation and increased expenses with production taxes and imports because of imports in the price of Brent when compared to the first quarter.


