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This excerpt taken from the PBR 20-F filed May 22, 2009. Risk
Management
We are exposed to a number of market and credit risks arising
from our normal business activities. Market risk is the
possibility that changes in interest rates, currency exchange
rates or commodity prices will adversely affect the value of our
financial assets, liabilities or expected future cash flows.
Credit risk is the failure of a counterparty to perform a
payment obligation under a commercial contract or a derivative
contract.
We use derivative instruments to address market risks related to
commodity prices, interest rates and currency exchange rates.
Such derivative instruments are used only to offset market
exposures, and are not used for trading purposes. Our executive
officers manage market risk. We address credit risk by following
rigid rules,
overseen by a Credit Committee, to evaluate counterparties and
define proper guarantees.
We have a Risk Management Committee that evaluates our risk
exposures and establishes guidelines that we use to measure,
monitor, and manage risk related to our activities. The Risk
Management Committee is comprised of members of all our business
areas.
This excerpt taken from the PBR 20-F filed Jun 30, 2005. Risk Management
The market risks we face consist principally of commodity price risk, and to a lesser extent, interest rate risk and exchange rate risk.
Our management of risk exposures is evolving under the policies of our executive officers, acting as a group, most of whom have been in office since February 2003. In 2004, we created a Risk Management Committee comprised of members of all our business areas to promote an integrated management of our risk exposures and to establish the main guidelines to be adopted by us to handle risks related to our activities. As described below, we enter into contracts, such as energy futures, forwards, puts, swaps and options, designed to hedge against the risk of price changes relating to our imports and exports. Such derivative commodity instruments are used only to offset market exposures resulting from these imports and exports, and are not used for trading purposes. The results of our derivative activities are reviewed by senior management from time to time to permit the goals and strategies of the program to be periodically adjusted in response to market conditions. The derivative instruments contracted by us for purposes of risk management do not qualify for hedge accounting under SFAS 133. See Notes 22 and 23 to our audited consolidated financial statements.
By using derivative instruments, we expose ourselves to credit and market risk. Credit risk is the failure of a counter party to perform under the terms of the derivative contract. Market risk is the adverse effect on the value of a financial instrument that results from a favorable change in interest rates, currency exchange rates or commodity prices. We address credit risk by restricting the counterparties to such derivative financial instrument to major financial institutions. Our executive officers manage market risk.
PESA also uses derivative instruments such as options, swaps and others, mainly to mitigate the impact of changes in crude oil prices, interest rates and future exchange rates. Such derivative instruments are designed to mitigate specific exposures, and are assessed periodically to assure high correlation of the derivative instrument to the risk exposure identified and to assure that the derivative is highly effective in offsetting changes in cash flows inherent in the covered risk. PESA qualifies for hedge accounting treatment for its crude oil derivative instruments and its interest rate swap derivative instruments.
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