An anonymous director reports

HRT PARTICIPACOES EM PETROELEO S.A -- ACQUISITION OF MATERIAL EQUITY INTEREST

HRT Participacoes em Petroleo S.A., pursuant to Article 12 of CVM instruction No. 358/02, informs its shareholders and the market in general that, on June 7, 2013, it received a letter from the Putnam Investments LLC Group, informing about its material acquisition of common shares issued by HRT.

According to information provided in the referred letter, the investment management group, composed of I.G. Investment Management, Mackenzie Financial Corp. and Putnam Investments LLC, all of them being investment management firms, subsidiaries of Power Corp. of Canada, informed that since May 21, 2013, as investment management firms, fund adviser and/or subadviser, the group now owns 14,541,926 common shares issued by HRT, which represent 4.89 per cent of the total common shares issued by the company.

In addition, the group holds 3,125,455 global depositary shares issued in Canada, which can be converted into 1,562,727 common shares of HRT, representing 0.53 per cent of the total common shares issued by the company.

Thus, the group jointly owns 16,104,653 common shares, which constitute a participation of 5.42 per cent 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.

For additional information, please contact HRT's investor relations department.

We seek Safe Harbor.