Claudio Descalzi
Management
Good afternoon, and welcome to our presentation. Today, we'll present the new action plan to revise the company's strategy following my appointment in May. The plan has 4 main priorities: The first is to continue to focus on exploration, the key element in our organic growth and also a major contributor to early cash-in. The second is the optimization of project development to fast-track the time to market and maximize the value of our discoveries. The third is to accelerate the actions to reduce losses and reach the breakeven in the mid and downstream businesses, which continue to face weakening market conditions. And the fourth is to implement a strong cost-efficiency program. The presentation will be focused on 2014 and '15 outlook. I'm here with my management team, and we will be very happy to answer your questions after the presentation. I'd like to start giving you an overview of our first half results. In recent months, we have carried out significant activity, achieving results that positively impacted our performance, boosting both in term of cash and EBIT. In upstream, we continue to achieve solid exploration performance, reloading our portfolio in both core and emerging countries, such as Algeria, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Myanmar and Vietnam. Production was in line with the previous quarter in spite of the shutdown of Wafa in Libya for more than 1 month. In Gas & Power, we finalized agreement with Statoil and Gazprom, accelerating the recovery of prepaid gas and aligning supply pricing to market. In refining, we are progressing in restructuring the downstream business in Italy. In terms of operating cash flow, our solid pace of improvement is well highlighted by the over 50% increase recorded in the first half of 2014 versus the previous year. Now a few words on the scenario. In…