OREANDA-NEWS. HRT Participacoes em Petroleo S.A. (the "Company" or "HRT") (BM&FBOVESPA: HRTP3, TSX-V: HRP), announces to its shareholders and the market that, as anticipated in the Minutes of the Board of Directors' Meeting, held on this date, due to the amount and relevance of the ongoing matters, in addition to the need of a Chief Legal Officer, fully committed to the Company, it was resolved on the creation of the referred position at HRT.

Accordingly, put to vote, the Board of Directors unanimously approved the election of Mr Ricardo Wagner Carvalho de Oliveira as Chief Legal Officer of the Company. From this date on, he will serve at the referred position, and his term of office will be unified with the other Executive Officers previously elected, that is to say, until May 10, 2015.

Mr Ricardo Wagner has had a broad experience in legal counseling of Publicly-held companies, mainly public concessionaries in sectors such as the maritime and land transport, energy, mining and telecommunications, in which he has participated in privatization auctions, IPOs and merges and acquisitions. Among these companies, he served as General Counsel at the subsidiaries of the Vale Group, Log-In - Logfstica Intermodal S.A. and FCA - Ferrovia Centro-Atlantica S.A., also serving as Secretary, General Legal Manager and Regional Legal Manager (SP/MG) at the own holding; at Oi Group, he was the General Legal Counsel dealing with activities such as contracts, bids, legal-regulatory and labor matters, serving as Interim Strategic Legal Officer. He was also a Legal Affairs Officer at Sinditelebrasil, Full member of the Board of Directors at CONAR, Legal Advisor and Alternate Board member at ABTP, as well as Legal Coordinator at ANTF.

Mr Ricardo Wagner holds Master's degree in Corporate Law from Faculdade Milton Campos (MG), academic experience and a book published, and specialization course in Corporate and Economic Law from FGV. Additionally, he has professional advanced training courses at IRI (Italy) and Embassy-CES (USA).