OREANDA-NEWS. Petrobras announces today its consolidated results, not reviewed by independent auditors, stated in millions of Reais, prepared in accordance with IAS 34, except with errors found in certain amounts of property, plant and equipment. (A free translation from the original in Portuguese).

The disclosure of the financial statements of the 3Q-2014, not reviewed by independent auditors, aims to comply with covenant obligations in debt agreements and to provide information access to the stakeholders and to the market, with transparency related to recent events known by the public in the context of the "Lava Jato Operation".

The Company understands that it will be necessary to make adjustments at the financial statements to correct the values of fixed assets that may have been impacted by amounts related to misconducts made by suppliers, politicians, Petrobras employees and other groups in the context of the "Lava Jato Operation".

However, due to the fact that it is impracticable to measure in a correct, complete and definite manner such capitalized amounts on property, plant and equipment, the Company considered the adoption of alternative approaches to correct such amounts: (i) use of average percentage of improper payments, mentioned at the testimonies; (ii) fair value measurement of the assets whose constitution was made through agreements with supplier companies in the context of the "Lava Jato Operation". Such alternative approaches were inadequate to change the impracticable determination of overprice related to those improper payments.

To disclose the financial statements of the 3Q-2014, reviewed by independent auditors, the Company has been studying another methodology according to the rules of Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The Company reported 3Q-2014 earnings of BRL 3,087 million and the following key events:

Higher domestic crude oil and NGL production (a 6% increase, 118 thousand barrels/day) due to the production start-up and ramp-up of Production Stationary Units and FPSOs Cidade de São Paulo, Cidade de Itajaí, Cidade de Paraty, P-63, P-55, P-62 and P-58 and also to the start-up of Extended Well Tests (EWTs) of Iara Oeste and Tartaruga Verde.

Higher crude oil exports (a 134% increase, 185 thousand barrels/day) due to increased production and to the sale of exports that were in progress in June 30 in Brazil.

Higher oil product production (a 1% increase, 24 thousand barrels/day) generated by increased refining plants utilization factor (100%) and to the conversion of intermediate products.

Recognition of the asset contingency (BRL 820 million) and its monetary restatement (BRL 1,357 million) related to the improper PIS and COFINS payments over finance income between February 1999 to December 2002.

The Company increased the estimated useful life of equipment and other assets, decreasing the depreciation in BRL 1,688 million.

The amounts related to the construction of the refineries Premium I (BRL 2,111 million) and Premium II (BRL 596 million) were written-down due to the interruption of those projects.

11.3% depreciation of the Real against the U.S. Dollar on our net liabilities in U.S. Dollars, partially offset by the 7.7% appreciation of the U.S. dollar against the Euro and the 5.2% appreciation of the U.S. dollar against the Pound Sterling on net liabilities exposed to those currencies.