Patrick Pouyanne
Management
For our results outlook that I will present you, together with your preferred to and I will say together as well with all the executive committee members who are today in the room and will join us for the Q&A session. This tradition will be a little, there will be some novelty, like always, into town because this afternoon, afterward, you’re going to stay with us. After lunch, we’ll innovate by presenting you our first ever energy outlook 2040 markets, on all markets, gas – natural gas markets and power markets; and will be followed by our climate presentation, which logically comes after those market trends. So – but let’s begin, first, of course, with this results and outlook presentation. You will have no surprise, I think, as always, in line with our message. We think we have demonstrated in the last years, and 2018 was another proof, that we are consistently executing and delivering onto our strategy. And so it’s another year, I would say, of strong delivery on most if not all our objectives; and in particular, outstanding production growth, more than 8%, finally. So you were right last year when you told me you’re a little shy on your growth. So we’ll not be shy for next year, you will see. But also, not only – and there is no change in our speech today. It’s not volume above value. Its value over volume, and – but also, a strong profitability ratio. And we are pleased to see that our return on capital employed is next to 12% this year. Of course, we are at $71 per barrel, but it’s a strong improvement. And all that has been done because we also managed to – we maintained also a strong discipline of spendings and CapEx and OpEx.…