OREANDA-NEWS. HRT Participates em Petroleo S.A. (the “Company” or “HRT”) (BM&FBOVESPA: HRTP3, TSX-V: HRP), pursuant to Article 12 of CVM Instruction No. 358/02, informs its shareholders and the market in general that, on June 07, 2013, it received a letter from the Putnam Investments, LLC Group (“Group”), informing about its material acquisition of common shares issued by HRT.

According to information provided in the referred letter, the investment management group, comprised of I.G. Investment Management (“IG”), Mackenzie Financial Corporation (“Mackenzie”) and Putnam Investments, LLC (“Putnam”), all of them being investment management firms, subsidiaries of Power Corporation of Canada, informed that since May 21, 2013, as investment management firms, fund advisor and/or sub-advisor, the Group now owns 14,541,926 (fourteen million, five hundred forty-one thousand, ninety hundred twenty-six) common shares issued by HRT, which represents 4.89% of the total common shares issued by the Company.

In addition, the Group holds 3,125,455 (three million, one hundred twenty-five thousand, four hundred fifty-five) GDSs issued in Canada, which can be converted into 1,562,727 (one million, five hundred sixty-two thousand, seven hundred twenty-seven) common shares of HRT, representing 0.53% of the total common shares issued by the Company.

Thus, the Group jointly owns 16,104,653 (sixteen million, one hundred four thousand, six hundred fifty-three) common shares, which constitutes a participation of 5.42% of the total common shares issued by the Company.

Additionally, the investors informed that all shares held by the Group were acquired and are held simply for an investment purpose. These shares, as well as other shares that may be acquired in the future, have no purpose to change the control composition or the administrative structure of HRT.