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Page 1: NIS GROUP’S PERFORMANE PRESENTATION

NIS.EU

NIS GROUP’S PERFORMANCE PRESENTATIONfor 9M 2020

November, 4th 2020Anton CherepanovFinance, Economics, Planning and Accounting Function

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemicMacroeconomic Indicators

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USD/RSD rate -0.3% Brent oil price, $/bbl -37%

COVID-19 pandemic: effects and limitations: State of emergency in the Republic of Serbia to limit the spreading of the Covid-19 virus. Following the adoption

of the Decision on lifting the state of emergency in May, protection measures will be strengthened in June. After the measures were eased, consumption began to recover slightly.

Decrease in motor fuel consumption in Serbia by about 8% compared to the first 9M of the previous year.

Compared to the first nine months of the previous year, the price of Brent oil decreased by 37%.

The average USD/RSD exchange rate is almost at the same level as in the first nine months of last year, ie. it marks drop of 0.3%.

60

80

100

120

140

I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX

2019 Average 2019 2020 Average 2020

1020304050607080

I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX

2019 Average 2019 2020 Average 2020

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COVID-19: Measures taken in NIS

3

Communication of changes during the stated of emergency

• Changes to working hours• Changes to workplace behaviour• Introduction of flexible work

arrangements

Work from home

• Work from home was enabled for about 3,000employees during the state of emergency

• Gradual return of administrative workers toworkplace by October 1 (return does not includeemployees older than 60 years, chronic patients,pregnant women)

Informing Employees

• Providing timely and transparent information to the public and employees about NIS's operations during the pandemic and oil market crisis

• Continuation of Integrated Campaign #NIStesami

• Communicating all new measures applicable to employees (installation of thermal imaging cameras, etc. )

• Regular reporting on the number of infected employees

Protection Measures

• Sufficient quantities of protectiveequipment and disinfectants have beenprovided

• Mandatory use of protective equipment• Installation of thermal imaging cameras• Compliance with the prescribed

protection measures during and after thestate of emergency

Protection of employees’ health

Health, safety and social security of employees

Rearrangement of communication channels andsorting out of databases to make their content morereadily available to employees in the field and moreeasily divided per organisation and location. Workingon the development of a mobile application allowingaccess to the portal for all employees.

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NIS in Q3 2020

Exploration and production Block

In Q3 2020 NIS drilled

7 exploration well

in Serbia

In Q3 2020, the total productionwas 317 thousand tonnes of oilequivalent of oil and gas.

The main goal in the third quarter of 2020 in the Exploration and Production Block was to fulfill the planned production ofhydrocarbons, to realize projects of geological exploration works and to increase the efficiency of geological and technicalactivities.

Q3 2020 1:

CAPEX2: 3.8 bn RSD

EBITDA: 4.6 bn RSD

2 financing

1 Data for 9M 2020: CAPEX:13.0 bn RSD; EBITDA 12.6 bn RSD

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NIS in Q3 2020

Downstream division - Refining

Q3 20201:

CAPEX2: 1.6 bn RSD

Functional testing of the DCU plant conducted

Hydromechanical cleaning of the coiled tubing of the furnace BA-2101

Delivery of the "Certificate of Approval for the DCU Plant TrialOperation" by the TechnicalInspection and AcceptanceCommitte.

The Refining block, in the third quarter, marked a gradual recovery of business after the fall in the price of oil onthe world market and the appearance of the COVID-19 virus, as well as functional testing of the DCU plant

1 Data for 9М 2020: CAPEX: 6.0 bn RSD2 financing

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NIS in Q3 2020

Downstream division – Sales and distribution

In Bosnia and

Herzegovina, 5 PSswere commissioned andput into operation

Two petrol stations under the NIS brand have been reopened in Serbia after full reconstruction:- Bor 4 PS- Novi Sad 16 PS

Under conditions of the emergency state Lubricants Department successfully developed the recipe andembarked on production of a new product, NISOTEC Antisepsol disinfectant, to cover the needs of the wholecompany.

Q3 20201:

CAPEX2 : 0.7 billion RSD

EBITDA: 6.1 billion RSD

1 Data for 9М 2020: CAPEX: 1.4 bn RSD; EBITDA: 12.8 bn RSD

2 financing

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NIS in Q3 2020

Construction completed and mechanical readiness of the DCU complex achieved on 22 June, 2020.

Functional testing of the DCU and all ancillary facilities completed. During thetesting operations, the units were brought to a stable technological regime andthe first products were obtained.

Readiness for commercial operation of the DCU andthe entire complex was achieved.

Basic project parameters

Capacity, tons/day 2,000

Start of production 2020

Implementation of the Bottom of the Barrel Project in Q32020:

Bottom-of-the-Barrel Project

.

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Project Bottom of the barrel

8

Substation

Bridge crane

Coker heater

Sphere tanks

First coke output

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Bottom of the barrel project

Coke silos

Conveyor belt for coke

Petroleum coke

Gasoline

Light and heavy gasoil

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NIS in Q3 2020

Basic project parameters

Expected total investments, mn. EUR up to 180

Nominal electric power of the power plant, МWt up to 200

Implementation of TE-TO Pančevo Project in Q3 2020:

Steam-turbine plant Gas turbine plant and waste heat boilers

The state of emergency caused by COVID-19 had a significant impact on thedynamics of the project implementation, and still does. For this reason, wehave faced the following problems:• Lack of workforce on the construction site – 233 workers less than planned.

Measures undertaken include:• Arrival of commissioning team members and representatives of

equipment manufacturers was organized• Engagement of local contractors for certain scope of work.

Analysis shows that the project implementation deadlines are expected toextend due to above-mentioned factors.

TE-TO Pančevo Project

Realization of contract with EPC contractor around EUR 110 mn, or 69% of the total projected amount

Commissioning activities started

Installation of electrical equipment for power supply for ownconsumption completed

The overall progress of the project (as of September 2020) at the level of 90%

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HSE Indicators

11

Increasing transparency

LTIF RAR

9M 2020 9M 2019

41,066 47,070

732 1,051

46 62

1 0Majorevents

Medium events

Minorevents

HIPO

1.72(25 LTI)

1.70 (24 LTI)

9M 2019 9M 2020

9M 2019

9M 2020

1%

0.27(8 RAR)

0.15(4 RAR)

9M 2019 9M 2020

9M 2019

9M 2020

44%

RAR (Road Accident Rate) – ratio of road accidents LTIF (Lost Time Injury Frequency) – Ratio of employee injuries with sick leaves to the total number of working hours.

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Key IndicatorsNIS Group

12

Q32020

Q32019

∆Key indicators UoM

9M2020

9M2019

43.0 61.9 -31% Brent Dtd $/bbl 40.8 64.7 -37%

49.4 78.7 -37% Sales revenues bn RSD 135.3 196.2 -31%

8.0 15.3 -47% EBITDA bn RSD 10.4 31.2 -67%

1.9 7.5 -74% Net income bn RSD - 8.3 10.7 -178%

13.4 25.9 -48% OCF bn RSD 19.6 41.9 -53%

47.9 56.8 -16% Accrued liabilities based on public revenues bn RSD 131.8 136.6 -4%

317 324 -2% Oil and gas output thou. TOE 952 965 -1%

1,007 1,115 -10% Crude oil and semi-finished products output thou. tons 2,637 2,318 +14%

984 1,101 -11% Total petroleum products sales volumes thou. tons 2,540 2.621 -3%

6.3 10.6 -41% CAPEX bn RSD 20.7 29.0 -28%

636 574 +11%Total debt to banks(total debt to banks + letters of credits)

mn EUR 636 574 +11%

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Motor Fuel Market Trends9M 2020/2019

Slovenia

-7.0%

Croatia

-8.0%

Bosnia andHerzegovina

-19.2%Bulgaria

-12.0%

Romania

-9.2%

Hungary

-6.7%

Serbia-7.5%

Serbia

• As in the region, after growth and a positive trend inthe first two months, the pandemic period started, bringing a significant decline in consumption in the period from March to May, followed by a gradualrecovery period.

Engine fuel consumption is still falling.- The negative effects of the pandemic have led

to a decline in motor fuel consumption. - After the easing of the measures,

consumption began to recover slightly, resulting in a slightly lower decline than in the first six months of this year.

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Market Share – SerbiaMotor fuels Market

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Motor fuels market volumes, thou. tons1 -8%

• The pandemic has had the same effect on motor fuels – in thefirst nine months, the market also declined, but the downwardtrend was slightly less sharp than in the first six months.

Speculative stocks made by certain companies during theperiod of low prices (predominantly in May and June) have aslightly higher share of imported goods in the structure,which led to a decrease in the share in motor fuels comparedto the 9 months of previous year.

468(25%)

458(27%)

1,372(75%)

1,243(73%)

1,8391,701

9M 2019 9М 2020

Others NIS

1Including CPG

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Market Share – SerbiaMotor Fuel Retail Market

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NIS' market share is growing, and this is contributed by thegrowth of its share in all three segments – diesel, petrol andLPG.

• Due to the pandemic, retail sales went down by 9% in thefirst nine months compared to the same period last year.

Retail market, thou. tons1

-9%

752(57%)

674(56%)

574(43%) 540

(44%)

1,3271,213

9M 2019 9М 2020

Others NIS

1including CNG

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Market Share – Region9M 2020/2019

Bosnia and Herzegovina

No. of PSs** : 42% total market: 24.3%% retail market: 10.6%

Romania

No. of PSs: 19% total market: 1.1%% retail market: 1.3%

Bulgaria

No. of PSs: 34% total market: 4.6%% retail market: 4.2%

*BS Kalotina was closed**In Bosnia and Herzegovina, 5 PSs were commissioned and put into operation

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Operating IndicatorsExploration and Production

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• Planned volume of hydrocarbon productionachieved (4% higher than planned)

Oil and gas output,thou. TOE -1%

646 631

293 286

26 36

965 952

9M 2019 9M 2020

Domestic oil Domestic gas Foreign projects

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Operating IndicatorsRefining

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Refining of oil and semi- finished products, thou. tons

• Increase in the refining volume by 14%as a result of the capital turnaroundcarried out in the first half of 2019.

• Increase in volume of refining in Q3compared to the previous two quarters ofthis year is due to the result of animprovement in the market situation.

213 208 207

566 507727

81 55

73860770

1,007

Q1 2020 Q2 2020 Q3 2020

Domestic oil Imported oil Semifinished products

618 628

1,534 1,799

1662102,318

2,637

9M 2019 9М 2020

+14%+31%

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Operating Indicators Sales and Distribution

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− Retail in Serbia – deacrease 6% − Wholesale in Serbia – deacrease 6% − Export – increase 19%− Foreign assets – deacrease 9%

Sales volumes*, thou. tons-3%

*Without internal sales. The data doesn’t include the volume of sales of CNG to third parties of the Energy Directorate and contain the volume of sales for own consumption of road tanks of the Sales and distribution Block.

• Compared to the first nine months of theprevious year, we marked a drop of 3% in thetotal sales volume:

• Deacrease in sales volume in the first 9Mthis year compared to the same period in2019 is due to restrictions caused by theCOVID-19 virus.

572 532

311 283

1,392 1,309

345 410

2,621 2,540

9M 2019. 9М 2020

Retail-Serbia Foreign assets Wholesale - Serbia Export

171 162 20586 89 108

413 403493

108 123

178778 778

984

Q1 2020 Q2 2020 Q3 2020

+26%

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Sales and DistributionDrive.Go - mobile app for paying for fuel at the petrol station

Drive.Go mobile app, facilitating payment of fuel at petrol stations without going to the cash register, was introduced in Serbia for the first time at NIS Petrol and Gazprom petrol stations.

The application was released for use in early April, at the time of the state of emergency due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Number of petrol stations: 150 Total sales volume, April-

September: 612.057 L

Fuel sales:

Development of additionalfeatures

Prepaid payment model Cooperation with partners Use of Agro and Taxi cards in

Drive.Go application

App

Available at Google Play, AppStore, AppGalery

Number of registered users: 27,194 Average rating: 4/Google Play Store

Payment by application, payment cards Collection of SNNP bonus points Map of petrol stations, info about petrol

stations, filte option per service and petroleumproduct, navigation

Features

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Sales and DistributionCash withdrawal at checkout - Dina Card

In 2019, the cash withdrawal service was introduced in Serbia for the first time, in cooperation with Mastercard.In 2020, the cash withdrawal feature was upgraded to allow payment for purchased products or services with Dina Payment Card.

Having in mind that this service is available across the entire network of NIS stations, it has been credited as very important, because of the national importance of Dina Card. According to regulations, Dina Card may be issued to all citizens with a bank account.

Service deployment was enabled in cooperation with Postanska stedionica and with the support of the National Bank of Serbia.

Dina Card users in Serbia – 2,000,000

Feature

Dina Card users will be able to withdraw cash up to RSD 5,000.00when paying for fuel or another product purchased.

Service deployment promotion

Service deployment promotion is implemented through cooperation between NIS, Postanskastedionica and the National Bank of Serbia.

Communication channels: digital campaign, CRM direct marketing, internal campaign. PR event was organized on 15 October at the Dayton petrol station, where the first transaction was

completed.

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Financial IndicatorsEBITDA

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-67%

• The deacrese in EBITDA indicatorreflects the drastic fall of oil pricesand petroleum products in theglobal market and effects of thehigher feedstock prices on refining

EBITDA 9M 2019

Other factors EBITDA 9M2020

Price and exchange rateimpact*

*the impact of price and exchange rate includes the impact of inventory prices

31.2

10.4

-27.7

+6.9

EBITDA, bn RSD

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Financial IndicatorsNet income (loss)

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Net loss (income), bn RSD

10.7

-8.3

9M 2019 9М 2020

-2x • Lowеr EBITDA

• Greater amortization costs

-1.1

-9.2

1.9

Q1 2020 Q2 2020 Q3 2020

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Financial IndicatorsOCF

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• Lower inflow

• Higher payments arising from liabilitiestowards the state

OCF, bn RSD

-53%

41.9

19.6

9М 2019 9М 2020

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Deterioration of macroeconomic factors affected the realization of CF

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19.6 -21.2

-1.5-0.5+1

OCF Free Cash Flow Net loansInvestments Net CF

Realization of CF for 9M 2020

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Financial IndicatorsCAPEX

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CAPEX, bn RSD-28%

CAPEX by segments

63%

23%

7%

7%

0% 2%Exploration and productionBlock

Bottom-of-the-barrel Project

DWS Refining

DWS Sales and production

The rest of DownstreamDivision

Corporate centre

29.0

20.7

9М 2019 9М 2020

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Operational Efficiency Improvement MeasuresEffect on EBITDA, bn RSD

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• The overall effect of operational efficiency improvement measures in 9М 2020 on EBITDA is RSD 1.0 billion.

1.0

1.00.4

0.20.08

0.200.1

0.7 0.7

Exploration andproduction

Refining Sales anddistribution

Rest of DWS Corporatecentre

NIS 9М 2020 Preventeddamage

Total NIS9M 2020

Measures Prevented damage

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Debt to BanksMaturity and Currency Structure of Credit Portfolio

Debt to banks, mn EURBank indebtedness, mn EUR

Debt structure:USD 0.2% EUR 99.5% Other 0.3%

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492

607

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549

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355

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515

617

631

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577

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22

36

197

75

140

176

33

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323

270

133

417

467

453

547

572

587

591

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Поверљиво/Confidential

29

Benchmarking

29

EBITDA margin (%) EBITDA/FTE (хиљ. USD)* Daily volume (t/day)

Share of light products (%) UPS OPEX ($/boe)

26.3

17.7

12.7

7.7

-0.8

12.7

79.3

50.8

31.0

2.4

-0.8

32.58.0

7.1

6.6

5.9

5.8

4.6

6.3

10.5

9.0

6.3

6.1

N/D

8.0

Data obtained from 6M 2020 reports. except for NIS (9M 2020)*All data for 6M 2020

81.2

78.2

78.1

77.3

73.5

77.7

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Contribution of the Company and Its Employees Combating the Spread of Covid-19

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Donations in products

• 20,000 liters of "Jazak“ water – NIS has donated non-carbonated "Jazak” water to the following clinical centers: "Zvezdara", "Bezanijska Kosa", to the hospital "Dr Dragisa Misovic“, and the Special Hospital for Lung Diseases "Dr. Vasa Savic" Zrenjanin, as an aid to their patients and healthcare workers

• 50 oxygen flowmeters to hospitals in Serbia - in cooperation with UNICEF, NIS has donated the total of 50 oxygen flowmeters, namely 20 to the Infective Clinique, 10 to "Dr. Dragisa Misovic" hospital, 10 to Pulmonology Clinique, and 10 to Clinical Center of Serbia

• Ceding the passenger vehicle – NIS has extended the right of use of the vehicle given to the Clinical Center "Vojvodina" byadditional 2 months

• 33,00 liters of "Jazak“ water – NIS has donatedits "Jazak" water to the municipalities of Blace and Ivanjice as an aid tocitizens in municipalities that ware affected by heavy floods in June 2020.

Donation of services

Members of NIS Firefighting Brigade from Kikinda joint the campaign for disinfection of public space in this city

The volunteering of the employees

• 306 NIS's volunteers have realized over 840 volunteering hours through the following activities:

• Packing and delivery of JAZAK water as an aid to Invanjica and Blace municipalities, which were affected by floods;

• Packing and delivery of JAZAK water as an aid to hospitals in Belgrade and Zrenjani;

• Landscaping and arranging the sports court in the vicinity of the PS Leskovac 4 (cleaining the field, painting the insignia onthe court, painting the benches and basketball net structures...)

• Participation in the Caravan: Together to the Community – through "Together to the Community 2019“ program, we havesupported healthcare institutions in 12 cities and municipаlities. Within the volunteering caravan, NIS volunteers have visitedthese institutions and embellished them (painted fences and handrails, painted walls in the premises, applied decorativegraphics on the walls, landscaped green areas)

• Envisaging and realizing (recording the video and audio material) the Hymn of NIS Volunteers

*The donation of "Jazak" water to Blace and Ivanjica municipalities and the donation of passenger vehicle to the Clinical Cener of Vojvodina was out of the program of combatting the Covid-19.

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Plans and expectations for the rest of the year

• Oil and fuel price drop• State of emergency in Serbia• Reduced demand for petroleum products• Reduced sales (both retail and wholesale)

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemics

Main goal by the end of the year:

• Liquidity increase- CAPEX reduction of at least 30%- OPEX reduction of at least 10%

Steps taken

• Agility• Flexible response to the changing environment

Preparation of crisis scenarios, long-term and short-term plans

4. Preserving the health of employees

1. Ensuring positive cash flow

2. Ensure stability on the market

3. Maintaining social stability of employees

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Conclusion

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Decrease in oil price and petroleum products compared to 9M 2019

Global Covid-19 pandemics

Deacrese in demand for petroleum products

Increase in refining volume

Increase in refining volume and turnover in Q3 compared to Q2 this year

Achieved a positive net result in the third quarter of this year

Reducing costs in the new conditions and maintaining social stability of employees

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