Q4 2022 BP PLC Earnings Presentation

And third crucially.

Speaker 1: and by 2030. And third, crucially, we are delivering for shareholders. In 2022, we have grown distributions through an increase in our resilient dividend and delivery of a material share buyback program.

Speaker 2: So let's start it off if it's okay with a little video that shows, it's two to three minutes so it won't be too long, that shows some of the delivery by the team at BP over the last three years. So we're going to play the video.

Speaker 3: Without safety, nothing else we do is possible. Safety comes first and always will. We are reinventing BP to be leaner. We've strengthened the balance sheet. We're building partnerships where we can create more together than we can on our own. Year one we set direction. Year two we restructure.

Speaker 4: By 2025, we will invest over 40% of our annual capital.

Speaker 5: The.

Speaker 6: one of the few companies in the world that has the breadth of activities and the breadth of skills that can actually deliver that.

Speaker 7: So thanks for, it's as much for our own teams that will be showing them later today as anything else. But I might be a bit biased, I am probably a bit biased, but I think that's pretty brilliant. And I'm really proud of the people at BP for their part in delivering that. Turning now to focus on delivery in 2022. First, I want to give you a quick overview of the delivery in 2022.

Speaker 8: we do know from incidents during the year that there's always more that we can and must do. And we will do that. And safety remains and is foundational, obviously, to everything that we do. Turning, secondly, to our businesses, where our focus on operation reliability and cost performance.

Speaker 9: underpends strong financial delivery. Adjust to debit DA for 2022 was $60.7 billion. Operating cash flow was $40.9 billion, including a working capital build of $6.9 billion. Net debt reduced for the 11th quarter in a row to reach $21.4 billion.

Speaker 10: the lowest level in almost a decade. And return on average capital employed was 30.5%.

Speaker 11: And third, we delivered for shareholders.

Speaker 12: executing against our clear, consistent and disciplined financial framework, and delivering what we believe are sector-leading distributions.

Speaker 13: Today, we have announced a 10% increase in our dividend per ordinary share for the fourth quarter, underpinned by our strong underlying performance and supported by our plans to lean into our strategy and deliver further growth in EBITDA. In this increase, our dividend per ordinary share for the fourth quarter is...

Speaker 14: percent.

Speaker 15: I'll say more about our plans to lean further into our strategy in a moment, but let me first hand over to Murray to run through our results in more detail. Murray. Great. Thanks, Bernard. Good morning, everyone. It's so nice to see you in the room and online. As usual, I'll start with the macro environment.

Speaker 16: During the fourth quarter Brent fell by 12% relative to the third quarter to average $89 per barrel. This reflected increased uncertainty over the economic outlook and relatively high production.

Speaker 17: by 12 percent relative to the third quarter to average $89 per barrel. This reflected increased uncertainty over the economic outlook and relatively high production from Russia and OPEC.

Speaker 18: In the first quarter, we expect prices to remain supported.

Speaker 19: by recovering Chinese demand, ongoing uncertainty around the level of Russian exports.

Speaker 20: Ongoing uncertainty around the level of Russian exports and low inventory levels.

Speaker 21: Turning to natural gas during the fourth quarter, we saw a sharp decline in both spot and futures prices.

Speaker 22: The quarter average TTF price fell by 51% as a warm start to winter allowed Europe to maintain inventory levels.

Speaker 23: In the US, Henry Hub declined as storage levels recovered toward seasonal norms.

Speaker 24: The outlook for the first quarter remains dependent on weather in the northern hemisphere and the pace of Chinese demand recovery.

Speaker 25: Moving to refining, consistent with trends in seasonal demand, global margins decrease modestly to average 3220 per barrel during the quarter.

Speaker 26: We expect industry refining margins to remain elevated.

Speaker 27: in the first quarter due to sanctioning of Russian crude and product.

Speaker 28: Moving to our long-term price assumptions, last week we presented the BP 2023 Energy Outlook. And in line with our annual cycle, we reviewed our price assumptions used for investment, appraisal and accounting.

Speaker 29: To summarize, the continuing impact of the war in Ukraine and the resulting energy shortages, together with changes in the structure of energy markets post-COVID, means we now expect oil and gas prices and refining margins to remain higher throughout much of this decade. Further out, we continue to expect prices to fall.

Speaker 30: as the energy transition gathers pace. The charts on this slide show our old and new assumptions for Brent Henry Hub and the refining Marker Margin.

Speaker 31: In addition, reflecting current market conditions, we've raised our international gas price assumptions through the middle of the decade. In the second half of the decade, we assume the price has returned towards historical levels.

Speaker 32: These changes have no impact on our cash balance point, a $40 Brent, $11 RMM, and $3 Henry Hub.

Turning to results.

In the fourth quarter, we reported a profit of $10.8 billion. Allowing for post-tax adjusting items of $7.1 billion and an inventory holding loss of $1.1 billion, our underlying replacement cost profit was $4.8 billion compared to $8.2 billion in the third quarter.

Turning to business group performance compared to the third quarter. In gas and low-carbon energy, the results reflects a below average gas marketing and trading performance compared to an exceptional result in the third quarter. Lower gas realizations and lower production. In oil P&O production and operations, the result reflects lower liquids and gas realizations. And in customers and products, the products result reflects a higher level of turnaround and maintenance activity. The customers result reflects lower marketing margins and seasonably lower volumes.

In the fourth quarter, our underlying effective tax rate was 40%, bringing the rate for the full year to 34%.

an average uplift of 4% to Gruperacci over the past three years.

Moving to Caselo, operating Caselo was 13.6 billion in the fourth quarter.

This included a working capital release of $4.2 billion after adjusting for inventory holding losses, fair value accounting effects, and other adjusting items.

Capital expenditure was $7.4 billion in the fourth quarter and $16.3 billion for the full year.

For the fourth quarter, inorganic expenditure was $3.5 billion, including $3 billion for our K energy, net of adjustments, and $500 million for the earlier than expected completion of the acquisition of EDF energy services. During the quarter, BP repurchased $3.2 billion of shares. Reflecting strong cash generation, net debt fell for the 11th consecutive quarter.

A resilient dividend remains our first priority. As Bernard outlined, for the fourth quarter, we have announced an increase in the dividend to 6.61 cents per ordinary share.

This is underpinned by strong underlying performance and supported by the confidence we have in delivering further growth in EBITDA as a result of our updated investment plans. Second, our strong investment grade credit rating. During 2022, we reduced net debt by a further $9.2 billion.

Third, Disappoint Investment Allocation. Caffel expenditure for the year was $16.3 billion. Slightly higher than expected due to the phasing of our acquisition of EDF Energy Services.

And finally, share our buybacks. We're in 2022. We announced 2.75 billion of buybacks from surplus cash flow.

I'll now hand back to Bernard.

Thanks, Marie. And thanks for your leadership over the last few years. Fantastic. So let me turn then if I may to the update on our strategy.

The world in a very different place today compared to when we began this journey just three years ago.

The challenges and volatility we have seen make it clear, maybe clearer than ever, that the world wants and needs a better and more balanced energy system.

One that can deliver more secure, more affordable, as well as lower carbon energy solutions, the so-called energy trilemma. To deliver that better energy system, action is needed.

One, to accelerate the energy transition.

and to ensure an orderly transition from today's predominantly hydrocarbon based energy system with the emphasis being on orderly to maintain ongoing energy security and affordability.

This means both increased investment in lower carbon solutions that can help society decarbonize faster, and not OR, something you'll hear me say a lot, and not OR at the same time continued investment in hydrocarbons to keep energy flowing.

with energy security and affordability at a premium.

at the same time.

Our track record of delivery over the last three years has given us increased confidence in the strategy that we laid out.

An integrated energy company is, we believe...

uniquely set up to help deliver energy security and energy affordability today, as well as to help accelerate the energy transition.

And crucially, we believe we can generate growth and attractive returns in doing so.

And it is for these reasons that we see the opportunity to lean further in to our strategy and that is what I will now describe.

We remain focused on transforming to an integrated energy company. Our three pillar strategy, which includes our five transition growth engines, is unchanged.

as is the fact that the power of integration underpins and connects it all.

So what does leaning in look like?

Well, first, we plan to invest up to $8 billion more this decade in our transition growth engines.

On average, a billion dollars more each year, investing more into higher return bioenergy and convenience in EV charging where we have established businesses, strong capabilities and a proven track record.

Alongside this, we are focusing our hydrogen and renewables and power strategy.

Anja Dotzenrapp, here in the front row, who I introduced earlier. Anja joined us last year and has brought real clarity to that strategy, while at the same time building our organizational capability and a pipeline of value-accretive growth options. And I will come back to this shortly.

Second, we plan to invest up to $8 billion more this decade on average about $1 billion more each year in today's energy system, which depends on oil and gas.

targeting shorter-cycle, fast-payback oil and gas projects.

and investing in certain oil and gas assets that we now expect to retain for longer. These are investments that we can deliver quickly over the next few years, with minimal new infrastructure, and that capture any price upside in the near to medium term.

As we do both of these, we expect to materially accelerate growth in EBITDA through 2030.

In February last year, we laid out plans to generate Group EBITDA between $39 and $46 billion in 2030 at $60 real in 2020 terms.

With the plan we're announcing today, we now expect to deliver around $3 billion more EBITDA in 2025.

rising to a name of $5 to $6 billion more in 2030.

We expect our additional investment in transition growth engines to contribute around a billion dollars in EBITDA in 2025, and we aim for around $2 billion in 2030.

We expect our additional oil and gas investment to contribute around $2 billion additional EBITDA in 2025 and we aim for around $3 to $4 billion in 2030.

And as Murray previously mentioned, we have raised our price assumptions.

Turning to some more detail on our plans for our transition growth engines. We expect to invest around 50% of our capex in 2030 in these five engines. This includes both organic and inorganic investments. We will continue to allocate capital to transition opportunities with discipline, applying our balanced investment criteria and investing where we can meet our return hurdle rates.

We expect this investment to accelerate earnings growth from our transition growth engines.

Increasing EBITDA to $3 to $4 billion in 2025, and $10 to $12 billion in 2030, up from greater than $10 billion that we announced previously.

We continue to expect to deliver greater than 15% returns in bioenergy, greater than 15% returns in convenience and EV charging combined.

We also expect double-digit returns in hydrogen and six to eight percent unlevered returns in renewables.

Now taking each transition growth engine then in turn.

In bioenergy, we are deepening our investment and now expect to deliver around 2 billion EBITDA in 2025 and aim to deliver more than $4 billion in 2030. We have established global biogas and biofuels businesses that are positioned in an increasingly supportive environment.

rapidly growing demand with attractive fiscal incentives. And our trading capabilities enable us to integrate supply volumes to capture enhanced value.

We plan to increase biogas supply volumes by around six times by 2030 to around 70,000 barrels per day oil equivalent.

We completed the acquisition of Arkea in December , and this is a real game changer for us.

Rapidly advancing our access to feedstock and scaling our upstream participation in the biogas value chain, which is a distinct source of competitive advantage.

We're now focused on integrating our CARE into BP and building out the significant development pipeline. We've also identified opportunities to get renewable natural gas projects online faster, and we are looking at ways to improve landfill gas recovery. This is a business that we are...

very excited about and one that we believe can deliver a significant value faster than what we had thought.

In biofuels, we aim to materially grow biofuel production volumes to around 100,000 barrels a day by 2030.

focused on sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, where we aim to be a sector leader. We already produce more than 7,000 barrels per day of biofuels through co-processing, and we aim to triple this by 2030.

We also plan to deliver five biofield projects focused on SAF, at our Coenana, Rotterdam, Castillon, Lingen and Cherry Point facilities. We expect these projects to produce around 50,000 barrels a day by 2030.

And the BP-Bungay Bioenergia joint venture in Brazil, one of the largest bioethanol producers in Brazil, aims to produce around 30,000 barrels per day by 2030, next to BP.

In convenience and EV charging, we plan to deliver EBITDA of more than 1.5 billion in 2025, and we aim to deliver more than $4 billion in 2030.

We are confident in delivering our strategy. It remains unchanged and we have, I would say, even deeper conviction in it.

First, in the growing convenience sector, our combination of local strategic partnerships and local reach enables us to deliver leading offers for our customers.

Second, we have a proven track record of delivering growth and we have continued to grow convenience, gross margin, despite a challenging environment.

Third, EV charging is moving at pace, and we see significant value through our focus on fast charging, with customers using our rapid and ultra-fast charging points significantly more than the slower ones.

And fourth, major corporations are increasingly demanding decarbonization solutions.

driving strong momentum in the fleets business.

We're excited about bringing our capabilities and our reach and convenience together with EV charging.

enabling us over time to provide customer-focused, lower carbon transport solutions.

Our confidence is underpinned by strong strategic momentum in 2022.

In convenience we now have 2,400 strategic convenience sites with 250 added in 2022. We grew our highly profitable loyalty customer base by more than 5% versus 21.

And we are particularly excited about our progress in the United States. For example, Thornsons has integrated well and delivered a record convenience gross margin in 2022.

In EV charging we now have 22,000 charge points and almost all charge points that we roll out now are rapid or ultra-fast. We sold 2.5 times more electrons year on year, supported by increasing power utilization, which is now approaching double digits.

And in fleets, we're building scale, recently announcing our nationwide collaboration plans with Hertz in the US.

Moving to hydrogen and renewables and power. This is about establishing this decade the foundations of a material business for the following decades to come.

We expect to invest up to $30 billion by 2030, while remaining flexible in our capital allocation as markets evolve and with a focus on returns.

Through this, we aim to deliver EBITDA of $2-3 billion by 2030, ramping up thereafter in the 2030s and beyond.

In hydrogen, our ambition is to build a leading position globally.

While the market is at an early stage of development, we see customer demand growing rapidly and regulatory support gaining momentum, as evidenced by the Inflation Reduction Act in the United States.

We plan to use our refineries as demand anchors for hydrogen.

to scale these up into regional hubs.

These hubs will then provide low-carbon energy solutions for customers, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors such as steel.

In parallel, as markets evolve, we expect to invest to build global export hubs for hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives.

These are an advantaged geographies where we have an established presence.

Across all of these focus areas, we will leverage, again, our distinctive trading and shipping capabilities. By 2030, we aim to produce between 0.5 and 0.7 million tons per annum of primarily green hydrogen while selectively pursuing blue hydrogen opportunities where there is regulatory support and CCS access.

Turning to renewables and power. Here we are focusing our investment in renewables on opportunities where we can create integration value and enhance returns.

We aim to participate in two ways.

First, focused investment to build out a renewables portfolio in service of green hydrogen, the industry that created it.

green and e-fuels, EV charging, and power trading, including low-carbon flexible generation.

As part of this, we are building a global position in offshore wind, enabled by our capabilities in large-scale complex offshore projects.

Second, we continue to progress the solar development and cell model with LightSource BP, which is self-funding

and capable of delivering renewable power rapidly at scale.

Taken together, we remain on track to deliver our 50 GW Net developed to FID AIM by 2030.

Of this, we aim to have around 10 gigawatts net installed capacity largely operated in offshore wind, solar, and onshore wind. We also expect to have assets under construction and for light source BP to contribute materially.

And finally, we have brought power trading into the Renewables Growth Engine. This reflects our focus on creating value, three integration across our own portfolio, as well as the opportunity to help customers decarbonize their power needs as grids and our own supply decarbonizes. And we're in action. Looking back over the past 12 months, we have made...

and have an unrest customer hopper of around 10 million tons per annum.

Our renewables pipeline increased by 14 gigawatts in 2022 to 37 gigawatts through offshore wind, light source BP and hydrogen-linked renewables in Australia. As this slide shows, our portfolio is global. It's focused in four regions with cost-advantaged renewable resources.

policy or government support where we have an established presence and where we can leverage again our distinctive trading and shipping and integration capabilities. To summarize, we are excited about the portfolio we are building. We have distinctive capabilities to succeed, we believe.

And we see huge opportunity to enhance returns by integrating across renewables, hydrogen, e-fuels and e-mobility.

Turning now to our oil, gas and refining portfolio.

Let me start with where our oil and gas production is today.

It's around 40% lower versus 2019, including the decision by BP's board to exit Russia. We remain actively engaged in marketing our Rosneft shareholding, and we will update the market as appropriate.

But, as you have heard me say before, our oil and gas strategy is about value, not only volume. And our focus remains on maximizing returns and cash flow, reducing emissions, and is underpinned by a deep and high-quality resource base that allows us to choose the best investments.

Our Hopper of Resource Options enables us to allocate more capital, particularly to short-cycle opportunities, to maximize value, including investing more into BPX and more into the Gulf of Mexico. Having grown production in 2022, we plan to grow underlying production to 2025.

Adding around 200,000 barrels per day of oil equivalent of high margin production from nine major project startups.

by continuing to manage base decline to between 3 and 5 percent, by increasing BPX production by 30 to 40 percent, and retaining some assets for longer than previously planned.

And our resource base has the potential to sustain underlying production broadly flat to 2030 relative to 2022. A great example is in the Gulf of Mexico, where we expect production to increase to around 400,000 barrels a day by the middle of the decade.

an average 350,000 barrels per day through the end of the decade. In the second half of the decade, we also have options to progress new hub opportunities, including in offshore Canada, in Brazil, in Mauritania and Senegal, in Australia, the Gulf of Mexico and Indonesia.

We also remain focused on high grading our portfolio and aim to divest around 200,000 barrels a day of oil equivalent of lower margin assets by 2030.

less than previously assumed given the strong progress we have made improving operational reliability and commerciality across our portfolio over the past few years.

As a result, our 2030 production aim is now around 2 million barrels a day of oil equivalent after divestments. And to maximize value, we intend to maintain investment discipline with hurdle rates of 15 to 20% at $60 per barrel, maintain a balanced portfolio with a broadly equal mix across oil and gas.

Drive capital productivity through strong execution capability across our subsurface wells and projects organization.

and sustain cost efficiency and reliability improvements in our operations.

Our 2022 performance shows our focus on this, delivering our lowest unit production cost since 2006 and our highest plant reliability on record.

performance shows our focus on this, delivering our lowest unit production cost since 2006, and our highest plant reliability on record. From burning to refining.

Three things. First, through our business improvement plans, we are continuing to drive greater competitiveness and value from our refineries.

We are focused on improving process safety and operational emissions.

and delivering portfolio performance. Second, as I mentioned earlier, our refineries are a foundation for two transition growth engines, namely bioenergy, specifically biofuels, and hydrogen. We plan to grow biofuel co-processing production and deliver five projects focused on sustainable aviation fuel.

Our existing refining hydrogen demand will be an anchor to build scale through both green and blue hydrogen projects.

Third, we will continue to invest to digitize and modernize the systems and back office of our refining business, as we have in the upstream over the past decade. This is expected to drive higher reliability, more efficient work, and eliminate substantial waste in the system.

The combination of an increasingly competitive revining portfolio and the opportunities we see to convert or consolidate refineries, to deliver our biofuels and hydrogen strategies, means that we plan to retain our current refining footprint and throughput at around current levels. The combination of an increasingly competitive revining footprint and throughput at around current levels.

So what does this mean in terms of our pathway to net zero?

In short, our destination is unchanged with a triple net-zero ambition across operations, production and sales by 2050 or sooner. Since we laid out our aims in 2020, we have enhanced our net-zero ambition. We have increased AIM-1 to 50% in 2030.

We have increased AIM-3 to 15 to 20 percent in 2030 and net zero by 2050, as well as expanding the scope of AIM-3 to include physically traded energy products. As we lean further into our strategy, we have updated our goals for AIM-5, now aligned with our transition growth engines for 25...

and 2030. We expect to invest more than 40%, or $6-8 billion, of our capital expenditure in transition growth engines in 2025, up from 3% in 2019 and around 50% in 2030, or about $7-9 billion.

We have updated our pathway for AIM2, our net zero production aim. We are now targeting 10 to 15 percent reduction by 2025 and aiming for 20 to 30 percent reduction by 2030.

We continue to believe that our ambition and aims, taken together, are consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

In summary, our transformation is gaining momentum, some of the key elements of which are on this slide. We're turning planning into delivery, turning data on power points into shovels in the ground, being the good farmer that I am.

That's what performing while transforming is all about. It's what people want to see. They want to see delivery, delivery, delivery.

We're making strong progress towards delivering our 2025 targets and our 2030 aims.

and we're leaning in. And with that importantly, Murray will now take you through our financial framework that underpins this, Murray. Right. Great, thanks, Bernard. Shovel's not PowerPoints. I want to live for a while. I want to say good one. Let's take good one.

As you've heard, we see the potential to advance the delivery of our strategy and create additional value by investing an average up to 2 billion per atom, more than previously planned through 2030. Compared to our previous plan, we expect to invest more in resilient hydrocarbons in oil and gas and bioenergy. We also expect to invest more in convenience and mobility.

in convenience, Cinev charging. And we're focusing our capital expenditure in hydrogen and renewables, power, planning to reallocate around $10 billion across the decade towards bioenergy and convenience, Cinev charging.

In aggregate, we now expect annual capital investment, including inorganics, to be in the range of $14 to $18 billion through 2030.

For 2023, reflecting our expectation of a supportive price environment, we plan to invest between $16 and $18 billion. And we retain significant flexibility in our investment plans.

In a lower price environment, we anticipate managing shorter cycle investment, particularly in hydrocarbons to maintain a resilient cash balance point of around $40 per barrel Brent, 11 RMM and 3 Henry Hub. To turning to EBITDAW, these changes to our capital investment plans.

underpin an uplift of $5 to $6 billion to our 2030 EBITDA aim. As a result, and together with our revised price assumptions, our 2025 EBITDA target increases to $46 to $49 billion and our 2030 EBITDA aim to $51 to $56 billion.

And as Bernard outlined, within this we now expect our transition growth engines to contribute 10 to 12 billion of EBITDA in 2030.

Our 46-49 billion 2025 EBITDA target is underpinned by the strong and highly visible operational momentum we see ahead of us.

In our transition growth engines by 2025, we expect an 80% increase in our biofuel volumes, around a 30,000 barrel oil equivalent per day increase in biogas supply, a 25% increase in the number of strategic convenience sites, and around a doubling of EV charge points.

In oil and gas, by 2025, we expect an incremental 200,000 barrels per day of high margin production, an increase of 30 to 40 percent in production from BPX energy, and more of the 30 percent increase in LNG supply to around 25 million tons per annum from coral, venture, Mauritania Senegal, Tangu, and the return of freeport.

and this strong operational momentum is supported by our continuing focus on cost efficiency and digital.

Having completed the largest reorganization in our history, we have delivered on our target of $3 to $4 billion of pre-tax cash cost savings by 2023 relative to 2019, around a year ahead of schedule. Looking ahead, we are working hard to extend the progress we've made in deploying digital and standardization in the upstream to the broader group.

This will take time, but we continue to see a substantial opportunity to drive savings which absorb inflation and provide the space for us to profitably expand our transition growth engines.

As we deliver our business plan, we remain focused on the discipline delivery of our financial frame. Our first priority remains a resilient dividend decommundated within a balanced point of $40 per barrel Brent, 11 RMM and 300 hub, now defined on a point forward basis. We seek capacity for an annual increase in the dividend pro-ordinary share.

of around 4% per annum at $60 per barrel, subject to the Board's discretion. Second, maintaining a strong investment-grade credit rating. For 2023, we intend to continue to allocate 40% of surplus cash flow to further strengthen the balance sheet and now target further progress within an A-grade credit rating.

Third and fourth, we plan to invest with discipline in our transition growth engines and in our oil, gas and refining businesses.

And finally share our buybacks. We are committed to allocating 60% of 2023 surplus cash flow to buybacks and expect a buyback of $4 billion per annum at around $60 per barrel at the low end of our capital range and subject to maintaining a strong investment grade credit rating. Taking together we believe this business plan and financial frame.

We have increased our ROTI target and now expect to achieve over 18% both in 2025 and 2030 at $70 per barrel 2021 reel.

Third, debt reduction through our intention to allocate a proportion of surplus cash flow to strengthening our balance sheet. And fourth, compelling shareholder distributions through our resilient and growing dividend and with leverage to higher prices through our share buyback commitment. Let me now hand back to Bernard to conclude today's presentation.

Great, thanks Murray. As we come to a close, at least in the presentation before we go to Q&A, what...

excites me maybe the most and gives me the confidence in our ability to deliver on our growth plans is what I think is the world-class a world-class BP team.

We're building capabilities and skills, we're leveraging deep experience within, and we're attracting new talent from a broad range of sectors.

capabilities and skills, we're leveraging deep experience within and we're attracting new talent from a broad range of sectors. We're becoming more diverse.

making tangible progress on both female and minority representation across our organization. Our restructuring and our change is behind us. We only have one focus, that's on delivery.

And finally, and people ask me about this, our transformation is inspiring our people and others who want to join us. Pride in working for BP is at an all-time high, and staff confidence in our future is at the highest point since we started surveying over a decade ago. So let me wrap up.

First, I hope you will agree that our results show that BP is performing while transforming. Second, we have the right strategy, and today we're leaning further in.

helping give society the energy it needs, and materially growing EBITDA at the same time.

Third, crucially, we are delivering for our shareholders, executing against our disciplined financial frame.

growing our resilient dividend and delivering a material share buyback program.

This all comes together, as you can see on this slide, in what we believe is a compelling investor proposition to grow long-term shareholder value.

Thanks very much for your patience and for listening and for watching the video. Members of the team will now join me on stage and we'll be delighted. Guys, come on up, game time. We'll be delighted to take your questions starting in the room probably.

start off here in the room and we'll start with Lydia why don't we start with Lydia and then we'll start making our way around so Lydia over to you please I'm looking for my notepad. Thanks and good morning and thank you for the video as well it's Lydia Rainforth from Barclays so two questions if I could the first one is on the change around the upstream production side

Previously, they've been described as low margin barrels. Can you just talk us through what's happened to that margin now, why you want to keep them, and whether that made you feel uncomfortable with round the scope too, or the aim too goal. And then the third one, and it's from you, Anya Isabel. Bernard described you as having brought clarity to the strategy and the renewables part.

The question be, I think over the last couple of years there's really two things that partner has gives us huge confidence to keep these barrels. Number one is just the operational improvement. We've improved reliability on our assets. We continue to drive their unit costs. We continue to drive a couple of productivity in our wells, the wells area.

We've deployed new technology, Ocean Bottom Seismic now is being deployed widely across our portfolio, giving a better view of the battles that remain. And then finally, I would say commerciality. If you look at what we've done, say in Azul Energy, we've brought together two very mature surgeries in

sets of assets with their friends and E&I brought them together into a company now called a Zool that's doing over 200,000 barrels per day has three major projects coming towards it, has huge growth potential actually. So London, Akker Bp and London Energy would be another example of where we've added through commerciality, we've added value. So that gives us lots of confidence that staying inside our portfolio we can continue to add value.

Start from an negative you two examples. Let's B P, it's a thousand colleague organization by now in motion to deliver bigig what's at lowest cost possible. Presence in 19 countries, So a very, very important capability for everything we want to do in hydrogen.

and also in Emma's business, etc., etc., because renewables capabilities are absolutely key. Another example is our entry in offshore wind, which I give, let's say, the BP team the credit for, so I inherited a great pipeline to build on. And so my focus really in the last 12 months was three things. I mean...

being even clearer what we want to do in low carbon, what to do and what not to do. So where do we want to play in hydrogen? How do we want to play in hydrogen? And I think Bernard alluded to it. And one important question was also to clarify the role of renewables in BP's portfolio. And I think we have a very, very clear answer to that. It's all about integration value. It's not about just gigawatts. It is about value.

And that's a very, I think, unique proposition. The second thing I focused on was building the delivery method. We stood up to new operating models, organizations, focused on hydrogen and on offshore wind. And we are fine tuning as we speak, but up and running and we brought external talent in. And the third is really growing the pipeline. And I think you've seen the numbers.

Literally from very, very little to a very material pipeline in hydrogen, and a very, very good pipeline in renewables and of course developing the project, maturing the project, and then the steering model behind it, because these businesses are distinctively different to oil and gas and they need a different steering model. So this was what I did in the last 12 months. Brilliant. Thanks for watching.

And you're here and there was a question about how you and Emma and Carol works together Emma Carl anyone of you want to Say how you bring it all together? seamlessly Good answer. We'll take it as a short answer Lucas. Thank you Lydia

Thanks very much Bernhard. Lucas Herman at XM BMP. A couple as well if I might and perhaps the first ties in with one of Lydia's. So 15 to 20 percent, it's an obvious allocation question 15 to 20 percent return in hydrocarbons, great and 15 percent biogas.

greater than 15% electrification or EV, 10% or so in hydrogen and 6 to 8 unlivered in renewable. So explain to me, which is tying to me that the 6 to 8 in renewable in that they're electrons, they're a commodity, you can buy them in.

So why allocate in that direction? That's the first question. And the second is to Murray, and it's just, and maybe to Carol, and it's, it's how do we think about the LNG optimization trading business in terms of pricing this year? And I asked simply because gas prices, globally have clearly come back a long way, but you position a long way forwards.

So when I think about the profit delta, the price would imply for the year, what can you tell me to afford me comfort that what I see on the screen today, TTF, NBP, JKM.

relative to last year is not something I'd necessarily affect. Volume aside Murray, for the gas and power or the gas and low-emission business, I think that was clear.

possibly to people who understand the market well, which is Carl. So, Carl, I'm going to ask you to lead off on that. Murray can add if he wishes to, but Carl, go for it. And Anja, we'll ask you to take the 68% question, please. Go ahead, Carl. So, yes, we have seen, as you said, a reduction in prices since last year, but I think there are also, you know, when you look at the fundamentals of the market.

there's potentially still tightness going forward when you look at growing demand, China coming back in, for example, east unlocking. We did lose a lot of demand through winter, warm winter. That's something that we'll continue to watch going forward. So, I think we're looking at the supply-demand balances. We're looking at all of the factors. They're not all necessarily bearish, I'll just say, on that perspective.

And we have a portfolio which we've created around optionality into that pricing centers, its demand centers, its volume, its flexibility. And our job is to monetize that for BP. And I think the team has done a great job of doing that over multiple years over multiple market conditions. But I'm sure Murray can give us the right nomenclature for the performance. You guys have performed tremendously.

Lucas, it's not about high price, low price. It's about volatility and there's not an awful lot of supply out there right now.

So that suggests volatility. So we look to Carol's organization to manage that volatility and I think they continue to be well positioned to do that. And I think a lot of the contracts and supply that we're bringing on in the coming years importantly were deals that were signed many many years ago.

not in the last year, in the middle of some of the biggest price spikes in history, but many many years ago. So also a great place as Karel grows from 19 MTPA to 25 by 2025. Anja, 6-8% returns in renewables and power. Why should we be ended? Why isn't it an attractive business for BP? And I would slightly disagree, if I may, to your statement. There's an abundance of green electrons around.

At the lowest cost of energy. This is absolutely crucial for the success of this business. If you think even to Europe , if you think about how to scale a hydrogen business in Europe , it is all about scaling of showin, because this is the only scale of a technology in Europe which can deliver gigabatts of, let say, green electricity.

in service of green hydrogen production. This is why we believe we need to play in offshore wind because there are regions around the world where this is the only scalable technology. And I think this is how we think about it. If there are liquid markets, if there's an abundance of green electrons, and we can buy them in a way cheaply, competitively, we will not deploy capital and renewables. But we believe...

Definitely for this decade to come we have to because it is absolutely cruiser Great, thank you. Thank you Carl. Oz, then we'll keep going Thank you very much. Just back on the returning average count employed numbers See 2020 we said up to 2% was delivered to the last 20 years. So last three years we've added 4%. As we look out to that 18%

in 2025 and beyond, which is a big number. How much is the trading contribution in that place? I'd love just to tie that perhaps, Carol, back to Anja and say, you know, do you believe that trading electrons, you can trade and add value here? I think coming from your old company and others, utilities tend to say it's not quite possible. So I'd love you to square that circle, please.

And then secondly, sorry, you're deepening or higher conviction on EV convenience to Emma. But can you help us a little bit more in pricing across?

fleets, Hertz, Scottish Police Force, Uber London. How much of that is helping you at the 15% returns in that business and even some of the trucking that you're doing in Germany? Is there an array of pricing here that's helping? Thank you. Thank you Oswald. Let's start off Murray, 18%. How much includes trading on your trading electrons?

So you can calculate the numbers now, I'm sure. And Carol has a growing portfolio ahead of her with our KN biogas, with LNG expanding. And I think the profitability of trading will really depend on a few things. First, continuing volatility. Does continuing volatility happen as per Lucas's question? Second, can we continue to manage gross margin competition because it's a competitive space and can we continue to manage the risk?

Carol and her going to organization will do just fine. Thank you, Steve, Anja and Carol will agree on trading electrons who wants to do that one. I'm going to kick it off. So I think one of the questions previously was around integration and we do work very closely across each other. We're looking at power value chains. Simulously. Fabulously, seamlessly. So we think about routes to market. We think about how we want a lot of positions in.

structural strategies that's in the US. We're building that in the UK and Europe and we're also supporting around the Australian Renewable Energy Hub.

Anything to add? Perfect answer as always. What's there to add? Murray, I like this idea of bringing these guys up on stage. Makes it easier for you and I. Brilliant. And deepening EVs, Emma. Or deepening where the returns are coming from, pricing, so on. Yeah, great. Thanks for the question. So in our EV business, as you know, we have a very focused strategy. We're focused on fleets.

or focus segments. And it's working. So power energy sales up two and a half times. Utilization is up in every market where we operate. And it's clear that for the fast charging side customers, in the UK where you have a choice between fast and slow, customers choose fast five times more frequently than slow.

So we're really seeing a play into this fast charging on the go. We're investing in this business today, of course, and it'll turn earnings positive, some chunky earnings coming from that by 2025. So we're looking forward to that. Fleets, in particular, what I like about Fleets is we have a really sizable fleet business today, 170,000 customers around the world.

Those customers and corporates have made commitments to decarbonize. And the energy vectors they need to decarbonize will be a multitude of energy vectors, all the way from biofuels, which is near-term decarbonization, through EV charging, and EV charging in trucks. Who would have thought five years ago that you'd have a 19-ton truck that can be run on electricity?

and we're playing into that market with some specific investments which we've made in Germany, where the EV trucks are already taking off. So I think fleets for us really offer an opportunity to play into a number of our areas, and we're really looking forward to seeing what this business brings in the next couple of years.

Thanks Emma. Let's go to Irene and then after that guys we'll go to a couple of questions online. So Irene. Thank you. Irene, you're on it to see Desneral.

My first question on the framework and congratulations on the numbers first of all and you have upgraded EBITDA targets very materially partly because of a Increase to your brand from 60 to 70, but of course you continue to guide on a 4% dividend increase based on $60 for consistency, but how should we think around that 4%? What does it grow to?

in your new framework of $70 please. And my second question back to convenience and mobility.

Obviously we focused on EV charging. Can you give us some insight on the conventional part of that business? So for example, is Castro Lubricants finally delivering the long awaited potential?

that we think it has. Thank you. Great. Irene, thank you. Murray, we'll kick off with you and then we'll go to Emma on the non-EV charging part of the business. Yep. For consistency, we stuck with guidance at $60, $60 to guidance points, $4 billion in buybacks at $60.

and the capacity to go to the dividend at 4% per annum at 16. That's what we've chosen to do. If you'd like to figure out what it looks like at 70, we've got our rules of thumb, and they work pretty well. They have worked pretty well over the past three years. So I just use the rules of thumb to guide you towards $70, but I'm not giving specific guidance at different price decks. Too many things moving around to do that. So we'll just stick with our guidance at 60.

Great, thank you, Marie and Emma. Yeah, thanks, Harry. And as I look at the fuels and castrol part of the business, so non-EV, non-convenience part of the business for 2022, a number of headwinds there that we've been working against, so particularly forex cost inflation we saw during 2022.

Nonetheless, some really bright spots, so aviation record year, America's did really well. But nonetheless, some of the volume numbers in 2022 are still 8% behind COVID. So I think plenty of recovery still to come in the base there and we're seeing some of that recovery. And some of the businesses, some of the regions come through.

And I'll just point out convenience, which is inextricably linked actually to our fuels retail business because most of our convenience today exists on our existing retail network. And some stellar performance there despite tricky trading conditions. So 9% gross margin increase over the last three years. And particularly in the Americas. For random, yes.

And particularly in the Americas, if I look at AMPM 12 years of sales growth in that franchise, Thornton's 20% growth in food for now, which is a category, high margin category. And even in the UK, increased sales in Germany. We've been rolling out a partnership called Rave to Go. We see sales there one and a half times, sales on the competitor's sites.

So I think a lot in the convenience side, which is inextricably linked to the fuel, still some recovery to come actually, which is all to play for as we really recover out of COVID. You mentioned Castrol. I think Castrol has seen particularly in Castrol business unprecedented headwinds over the last three years. Castrol has affected them in particular additive shortages and 4x as I mentioned earlier.

But nonetheless, and we're not yet where we need to be and where we want to be in Castrol, but we do have a new CEO in place in Castrol and a clear plan to get after Castrol's recovery.

Great, thank you very much Emma. Let's go to the line and go to Michele Delavenia at Goldman Sachs and then we'll go to Paul Scheng at Scorscher Bank. So Michele.

Thank you very much for taking my question and congratulations on the very strong quarter. Two questions if I may. The first one on LMG, you have one of the best growths in the industry in terms of new supply coming on in 2023 and 2024. You took a major hedging position.

billion working capital built because of that in Q3. I was wondering how much of that actually unwound already in Q4 and how much is still to be expected for the next two years.

And then if I can have a second question, we have a major new ESG disclosure coming through in Europe , this year, which is the EU green taxonomy. I was just wondering out of what you call transition growth engines, which accounts for 25%, 30% of your capex now, going to 50% by 2030.

How much have you hedged and sold forward, all of that good stuff? And I'm going to ask Julia to comment on the taxonomy. We'll get her a microphone in the room. So Murray.

Yep, so if you go back to 3Q guidance, what we told you is that we expected 7 billion of working capital release from the LNG book as cargos were delivered starting in 3Q23, heavily weighted into 24. That's what we talked about last quarter. This quarter we've had a 4 billion release in working capital. Some of that did come from that LNG book given the size of the...

I think it's tremendously price sensitive. But when you have a 50% fall on LNG, a lot happens with the IM and VM that's sitting. And that's why some of that money came back in the fourth quarter. Carol, over to you.

Unfortunately, a short answer. I can't give any guidance on how much we're hedging or the forward sales. Is that because you don't know? I know. Slightly sensitive. Slightly sensitive. But what I can say is the team has managed the portfolio very well.

through Q3. We did have below average performance in Q4. That main drive on that was actually free port performance risk. But don't see any reason why we can't continue to deliver from that portfolio based on the optionality that we have within it going forward and I will leave it at that. Great. Thanks. And Julia, quickly on EU taxonomy? Yep, thanks.

Thank you, Michaela. Let me start by saying that we actually clearly support the efforts in terms of transparency in the EU taxonomy. We're looking to see what happens in terms of all the multiple taxonomies coming together.

the EU taxonomy. We will start disclosing along the EU taxonomy in 2025 based on 2024 data as required by the CSRB. Now if you look into how much of our investment is actually going to be aligned to the taxonomy, we'll be disclosing our investments into transition growth engines.

Good morning, two question, please. What's the assumption, I think this is for Murray. What's the assumption that they find the high end and the low end of your capital range? I mean, what is the parameter behind that? The second one is that

Maybe that is for Bernard. If we're looking outside your transitioning business on the conventional or legacy oil and gas, should Europe be part of your long-term portfolio, given the political environment? Thank you.

Very good poll. Thank you. So, Murray, the question I think was what would guide you to $14 billion or an $18 billion? What's the marginal thing to do in there? Great. Thanks, Paul. Nice to hear you early in the morning in the US. I think 2023 is a good way to think about our guidance right now, the Hydra Carbon prices.

will increase organic capex. We're adding more rigs which will add capex. So we're probably at an organic run right now of 14 to 15 billion in 2023. What we've guided is 16 to 18 including inorganics. So given the high price environment, given what we're seeing organically, that gives you a sense of what our organic and organic split is. And looking forward we'll be guided by the the price range that's out there.

collapse and make kind of regional statements in general are going to say we're returns driven. Our investments have to make the returns that we've laid out. There are some great opportunities in Europe today. We have a strong oil and gas business in the UK North Sea. We have a strong oil and gas business in the UK North Sea.

oil and gas business in Norway with Acro B.P. We are, I think, the fastest charging, the largest, fastest charging provider in Germany We're excited about that. We have a new partnership with Ignacio Galan and the Iberdrola team that we're very excited about in Spain.

around hydrogen and the potential for that. So it's a case-by-case basis, Paul. We look at all countries, we look at, ultimately, we have to be driven, our investments are driven by our returns criteria. And there are great opportunities in countries around Europe , just like there are great opportunities elsewhere in the world. So let me leave it at that and come back to the room to Chris Copeland.

please and then there must be some people over here but excellent. Great. Chris, go ahead. Thank you. Chris Kuchen from Bank of America. One under the banner of CAPEX discipline, just wondered whether your hurdle rates in upstream have changed alongside your 60 to 70 move on the real assumptions for pricing and if you could. You know.

There's quite a big difference between 1.5 million and 2 million barrels per day in 2030. So I just wonder whether you could maybe go and talk us through the additional projects that would make up either the stemming of decline or the much lower assumed disposals that are behind this new target.

Maybe as a bonus question, what makes you so confident that with no reduction in your refining footprint and now a much higher oil and gas footprint upstream, your Scope 1 and 2 targets can remain unchanged. Thanks. Very good. Excellent. I'll have Gordon take the Scope 1 and 2 question as well.

as you quite widely pointed out. Great question Chris, thank you for that. We have a hopper of opportunities of 18 billion barrels. That's what under Pinser Plan to 2013. I have to say the subsurface team under the leadership of Radio Floris have done a fantastic job of articulating these 18 billion barrels.

numerically and quality wise much better than I've seen in the past. So 18, we've got 18 billion barrels in there as we bring forward the opportunities to have to hit the hurdle rates and as Murray said, no no hurdle rates. We've got five minutes to create momentum through to 2025. We've got five major projects coming on this year a little bit back-end loaded, but five major

with them. Through to 2025, we've got nine major projects coming on stream. So again, creating that momentum through to 2025. And then from 25 to 30, we have a rich opportunity set within that 18 billion bottles so we can make choices.

that will continue to offset decline, allow us to sell the 200,000 baht per day that was mentioned earlier to end up at 2 million baht per day by 2030. So I'm very confident that the resources in the ground, we've got the teams in place to execute, we keep driving capital productivity under.

Andy Krieger in Wells, I'll give you just one example. A fast-paced tie back we're executing right now in the Gulf of Mexico, Thunder Horse expansion, between phase one of that expansion and phase two we halved the cost safely halved the cost of a deepwater well. That's just one example of how we're driving productivity and all these things just give us confidence the Clear Ridge team doing.

similar great work subsurface wise, drilling wise to develop the giant field west of Shetland more productively, more efficiently. So I'm actually very confident that we've got the resources in the ground, we've got tremendous teams in place to execute and all we need to do now is execute well through the balance of this decade. Great, and you've kept your scope one and two targets constant despite having a higher refining...

throughput and a higher production. How have you done that? It just makes it harder. That's as simple as that. I think the world, the company, our stakeholders require us to deliver on our... To give confidence. I think we've got a track record of delivering roughly a million tonnes per annum of sustainable aviation reduction.

is deliverable, I'm confident it's deliverable and will continue to fill the hope our with opportunities through the balance of the decade. And the reality is it's what society needs and quite frankly Chris is what our people want to deliver. They don't want to see us going back on aim one and we control it and we're leaning into it and we'll find it's harder of course it's gotten harder but we're going to

or looked into 2030, should we expect a magic change in terms of allocation between oil and gas? Let me see, you raised your oil price, you to 70. So should we expect a big good security towards all projects in the later part of this decade? Or you stay in time to keep that a balanced oil gas? I think we'll be really balanced, the oil and gas battery, great question. Really balanced oil and gas, of course.

the oil and gas returns driven at the end of the day. Returns driven at the end of the day. The second question before you were interrupted. Second question is full up on the cap of the location and the increase of 1 billion per atom both upstream and on the transition. It's funny like it's old.

subject to the macro and your ability to generate the cash flow to finance that growth. So you basically have line on site of enough projects to actually go through with all this, that's it.

Yeah, there's definitely not a lack of opportunities because in CapEx, let me put it that way. For 23, 24 or 25 short cycle paybacks, Gordon's already getting the rigs. They're already coming into the portfolio. The returns are super high on knobs.

Likewise on the transit, so I think that's something we'll do and it's robust through pretty low prices. You see where we're holding our resilient balance point. It's robust through pretty low prices.

As you then look at the transition, we're committed to doing these transition investments. If you cycled around the team, Emma's doing a fabulous job on EV adoption. I wouldn't be surprised if she does better than she's talking about. Convenience is going very well. I think we're very excited in the biofuel space between the refineries and additional facilities we see. As Bernard said, the Arkea transaction is going to be faster, better.

So I'd count on us being able to manage through this time period with a fairly high activity set. Great. And there is a big wrapper, Maria, around this whole presentation, which is everything we do here has to meet our returns and our growth target has to meet. And that's the wrapper, the underpinner, the foundation of the world.

everything that we talk about today. And if the returns aren't there, the capital doesn't get spent. If the returns and growth are there, it'll get spent. Christian.

Mike from JP Morgan, thanks for the presentation. Quite a long question, if I may, which is...

Three years ago, I asked the question, what if oil prices were higher? But as you said, we'd be very focused on CapEx. We wouldn't increase CapEx. And you're increasing CapEx on oil through a higher oil price deck. And so it sort of begs the question in terms of, do you see how you have to frame the macro view and you've got to take a view?

I agree with it in some ways, particularly in the oil piece, but what I'm struggling with is the disaggregation of value created through your macro outlook versus what you're doing bottom up through the businesses and the proof of concept in terms of the cash flow generated in your renewables.

vis-a-vis the investment and the return you're making against a price view. And it's not that clear what you're assuming in the renewables segment, as it is obviously in oil, because you can just put a Brent forecast down. So how do you help us disaggregate that value creation from what is a macro call to actually creating value through the value chain in renewables, particularly when it's becoming increasingly commoditized?

is sort of part A of my question. Part B is in the spirit of changing capex relative to your macro view, what's stopping you from flipping it back again if you become more bearish in one of those segments? In other words, you don't think renewables is going to generate the same returns to reduce capex. I mean, it sort of feels quite dynamic and fluid.

around CapEx versus the prevailing macro view, which can obviously change and, as you said, be very volatile. Thank you. So you're making an assumption, I think, that we're growing capital because we increased our price tag.

case. We're growing capital because we want to grow BP. You asked for a disaggregation, it's very clear, it's in the deck. We deliver five to six billion dollars of extra EBITDA by 2030. Forget price.

from the investments that we've got. 3 to 4 billion in hydrocarbons, 2 billion extra in our transition growth engines. So this is about growth.

This is about opportunities that we see to invest both in today's energy security and in the energy transition, all of which we believe are accretive. They drive earnings. It's one of the reasons we've raised a dividend today.

is because we are investing and we see more potential to grow. So this isn't about prices go up, cap ex goes up. This is very, very different to that. This is a very, very disciplined, focused on growth, where we can meet the returns that we laid out.

And I think within there we're very clear Murray about where that extra EBITDA comes from, how much is, you know, I think we're crystal clear actually in the deck on that. Murray, what have I missed?

where returns hit a hurdle. Returns driven, slide 18 tells you our returns and our assumptions. I'm not really sure how I'd get much clearer on that. This is about performance, really. If you go back to 2020, our balance sheet wasn't as strong as it is now. So we've got a much stronger balance sheet. We've improved our balance sheet.

our position with the ratings agencies that gives us the capacity to invest more, to drive more returns for shareholders. So it's much more about performance and what the strength of the company is rather than an arbitrary view on price which a right can change over time.

Yep, so we'll invest more. We're going to grow the company. We're going to deliver the returns and the shareholders are going to see increased value both through distributions like the announcement today on the dividend. But we can we can we can follow up on it. Where will I go next here in the back? Sorry, you forgot the left. Sorry. Okay, you forgot the left side.

This is a feedback-rich organization. Just upward feedback is alive and well. Great. Go for it. It's great to hear that. It's Amy Wong from Credit Suisse. I love to take advantage of having Anya on the panel to ask a question on Biogas. Clearly, you guys are making a pretty big statement with, you know, we have the RKO Energy Acquisition.

better and faster. So what's driving some of those comments? Thank you. Amy. Thank you. It's actually Carl's business so we should give it to the Carl and we had an extort here and his team a few weeks ago to founder and we are we are particularly excited about this business go for it. No, we are very excited about the business and we do see great opportunity. So I think when you look at it, I mean at my point of course we're looking at

to market. So we can increase and accelerate production, we can increase recoveries, and we can also look at accessing newer revenue streams as well. I mean in the future we'll have hydrogen as an opportunity, but right now we can do methanol, we can do CCS, EV charging for Emma's business.

We've got utilities interested in renewable natural gas because it's lower CI. So it's transportation, it's utilities, we could take it into our refineries. There are so many opportunities around it which creates the optionality that we like in the portfolio, gives us an opportunity to build.

the best markets for that to gain premiums and also to trade around those positions. So it is certainly scalable and we see strong returns and we see the opportunity to invest more and you are hugely excited to be working with the team. And if I could back to Christian's point, Christian is a good example. We're putting more money into our care than our care.

These are decisions that with the balance sheet, we can lean, got nothing to do with the price assumption on oil. This is an opportunity driven. We're gonna speed up that pipeline and get those 80 sites online in the next couple of years. And the EBITDA from that's gonna be material without question. So pretty exciting. Anyway, Amy, thank you. Where were you guys pointing to me? Baraj, sorry.

How we doing, Craig? Are we okay? Okay, all right, all right. Thanks for taking my question. It's Beirard from HBC. Two question please. The first one in the upstream. Could you just clarify whether or what role if any exploration and success has in your plans to 2025 and 2030?

And so related to that on the inorganic side, most of the inorganic activity, acquisition wise has been on low carbon last couple of years. I don't want to make Gordon's life even harder, but are you open to inorganic bolt-ons in the upstream and how you're thinking about that within the constraints of the framework? And the second question is going back to LNG.

So last quarter, Murray, you highlighted the big working capital outflow because of the margining.

If I'm thinking about beefy hedging through summer, you know, the 2023 price was actually way above the price cap, which was then implemented. So how does that price cap impact 2023, if at all, in the energy business? Fantastic. Okay. Thank you, Barraj. Carol, I ask you to lead off on price caps from Murray as you guys debated. Carol, go for it on price caps and hedging.

Then Gordon is exploration success built into your plan? Do you need it and are you going to come to Murray and I with a bunch of money to go and buy? Oil and gas assets when you've got 18 billion barrels of your own clue So talking about the European market correction mechanism, so

We're working through that. I mean, there are a number of nuances around that in terms of it has to be over a certain number of days and then there also has to be a certain delta in terms of when that actual cap gets triggered. I think the whole market is working through that at the moment. Do we think in any way that it impacts our ability to manage that?

managing that risk and with Murray's support and treasury support, that is certainly what we did last year in terms of getting ahead of some of these changes in the market.

Thank you Karl. Gordon? On exploration, the 2030 outcome is...

influenced by exploration success by a very small way. What do I mean by that? We have exploration success built into the 18 billion barrels but on a risk basis. We take the exploration risk and the reason we've done that is we have some pretty rich what we call ILX infrastructure led exploration opportunities particularly in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea and in Egypt.

which if they come in will become part of the fast tieback opportunity set, but to emphasise and to answer the question, they're all risked within the 18 billion barrels. So, as a very small impact on the outcome in 2030. Not relying on it. Not relying on it. It's a simple answer on that. And then, am I going to come and ask for money to buy in organics? The answer is that I qualified...

it in our portfolio than we think anyone else could and it meets the criteria of contributing to low carbon and low cost and security of supply then of course we would consider that. Very good I mean I think we used to call it smart M&A or commercial deals you know Acra BP instead of exiting Norway we created.

Acro BP then went and bought Lundin. Acro BP is operated by other production from Jens Federer alone is 250,000 barrels a day. It's a pretty extraordinary company now that was created. We could have exited Angola maybe but we didn't. We wanted to stay. We wanted to grow. We've created Azul Energy. So think about it as I think you may see us doing some

smart M&A, commercial deals, partnerships, things that make sense in that space. Go ahead, go for it.

Gregor, are you okay to run on a little bit here? 15 more minutes? Are not. You're in the boss.

I'm not, but yes we can go another 15 minutes. I think we should while we're while we're going. So we'll go 15 more minutes and then we'll let you guys have a break and we'll have time outside. Go ahead. Hi, Peter Lowe from Redburn. Yeah, the first question, you've announced an increase in spending today across the oil and gas and the renewable and low carbon piece.

I think it's probably fair to say you're seeing inflationary cost pressures in both. How are you managing that and what inflation assumptions are embedded within the CAPX budget? And then the second question was just on the 2030 renewable power targets, so the 50 gigawatts and the 10 gigawatts. Can you just explain the difference between those two? Is a lot of it going to be under construction or will you be farming it down? Some color on that will be helpful.

Fantastic. Murray, first of all, just general CapEx, splash inflation and then Anja. CapEx inflation continues to be pretty low for us. You'll remember back in 2022, we had about 10% inflation inside the lower 48, Gordon. Since then for 2023, we've gone out and let longer term contracts and we've seen deflation as opposed to inflation.

So it's not really featuring as a material issue across the upstream. I think in low carbon there's really no change from previous guidance around 5% inflation as what we saw in the offshore wind platform. There's more inside solar but solar cell funding inside light source BP so that doesn't impact the overall balance sheet. So despite the extraordinary environment we've been through, the

to ultimately make sense, create integration value and as such a superior return and de-risk because you don't have access to green electrons everywhere around the planet. So 50 to FID, 10 will be in operations, hold it another 10 in construction and then the rest is farm downs. A lot of the 50...

of the asset. Excellent. Thank you, Anja. Alistair. Thank you, Anja.

Go, go, go, go, go, go. Martin, sorry. All right, thanks. These photographs, guys, you need to update your photographs because I think you're the only person who hasn't aged in the room. Go for it, go for it. Yeah.

All right, wonderful. Well, it's slightly conceptual, but I was wondering the $8 billion in oil and gas in today's environment. It's not entirely obvious, and a lot of technical questions have already been asked about it, but I was wondering how the internal decision-making process came about to sort of got you there.

what the milestones of the signposts along the way were where you think yeah really like we need to do this was it just simply about oil and gas prices or European energy crisis or whatever it might be. The second thing I wanted to ask you is about the assets that you now intend to retain a little bit longer and I'm sure you're not going to spell those out for us but I was wondering if you could

perhaps talk about whether they have a sort of shared characteristic as in the assets that you're now likely to retain longer. Is it oil? Is it gas? Is it offshore? Is it onshore? Eastern atmosphere? Western atmosphere? Where there's some common denominator that we can sort of work with. And then finally, if I can throw in a third one, given the way things going, I mean, could you stay in the building?

I could stay in the building. As in this building, because I thought it would move out. I was wondering if you could be there. Great. I'm fascinated how you connect that to the investment piece. But it is a nice building. I like it. We can follow up on that, Martin. But...

Great. Gordon will ask you to say about the assets you're keeping longer. I mean in terms of

The production thing, it's really an output of the work that we've been doing. And I would say it's driven by two things. In fact, the whole strategy leaning in today is driven by two things, Martin.

It's really an output of the work that we've been doing. And I would say it's driven by two things. And in fact, the whole strategy leaning in today is driven by two things, Martin. First is...

We've been at this for three years. We have done a lot. The organization has done a lot.

I think it's fair to say that we can all say there's a real track record of delivery. And that has brought with it our increased confidence in the business. And in doing that, the business has improved. I'm delighted that we've had the best operating reliability.

record in BP and the records go back 15 or 20 years. I'm delighted that we have the lowest production cost since 2006. So our ability to add value to the assets that we have has improved over the last three years. That's a very important part. And then the external macro part isn't about prices.

It's about what is needed. We must solve the energy trilemma. Yes, we need lower carbon energy, but we also need secure energy and we need affordable energy. And that's what governments and society around the world are asking. And they're asking it publicly. They're asking it in the United States. Invest in today's energy system.

not every country in Europe , but many countries in Europe going around the world searching for energy supplies.

every country in Europe , but many countries in Europe going around the world searching for energy supplies. So we're being asked.

by governments and society. We have improved our business, we have more confidence and we think in doing this we can help solve the energy trilemma for society which feels like a worthwhile thing to do.

And we feel we can create shareholder value. And that's what we're trying to do. That's what we have to do. That's our job. So that's a little bit of the backdrop. Gordon? Yeah, in terms of the assets that we now plan to keep, I'd say there's three characteristics. The first one is an improved view of the commerciality around these assets. And I gave the example of Azul and Acre BP, London Energy, and there are others.

So the commercial opportunity around owning these assets, we've got an enhanced view of. The operating performance, and Bernard just mentioned it, we have seen an improvement, and we can see more improvement going forward in these assets. And that all leads, of course, to the third characteristic, which is returns. It's all returns driven. They meet our returns criteria.

and it fits with how we look at return going forward. And we are going to move from St. James's Square at some stage, but it will be another year or two. So this young lady here, please. Thank you. Hi, it's Kim Faste from HSBC.

On the incremental dollars going into hydrocarbons, I suppose you mentioned BPX and the US Gulf of Mexico, but you did mention LNG. And when it comes to the energy security concerns that Bernard alluded to, you would have thought LNG would be front and center of those. So I just wondered if you had any plans to invest incremental capex into LNG or maybe use a more capital-like strategy, such as, for example, contracting third-party LNG from other companies.

My second question is on the impact of the US Inflation Reduction Act. I wondered if you could offer any thoughts on what that does to the economics of your existing low carbon projects such as hydrogen and CCS and bioenergy and whether as a result of the IRA it might attract more of your own investment dollars going forward into the US.

Great, Kim, thank you very much. Alaska, Anya, to take on the impact on the IRA. Carl can add anything on biogas on the IRA if she wishes. And Carl, LNG, I mean, just the growth that we have in LNG over the next three years, maybe just spelled that out a little bit and how we think about it. Yeah, absolutely. So 19 million tons per annum 2022, grow to 25.

in terms of actually avoiding buying in the peaks and selling in the troughs. So we've got a good process around that and we'll continue to look for opportunities as they go forward. And then of course we've got on the upstream gas side, we work very closely with Anya and the team there and with Gordon in terms of...

selling and trading the equity from BP's positions. Great, okay. And anything? On the equity side, I suppose we have some choices ahead of us. We've got some choices in Australia, we've got choices in West Africa, we've got choices in the Middle East to continue to think about expanding equity investment in LNG as well, and those are decisions that we'll be making over time. Great. IRA in the United States?

Game changer very very clearly that Underpins really a lot of the projects we've been working on not only in my space But equally so in Emma's space I think and as a consequence of IRA we clearly Haveachu we are doing it with extended time equals to I guess athletes With extended time

prioritized projects in the US versus other regions around the world. I think it's fair to say that Europe is catching up and some very good announcement or promising announcement last week. But the beauty of the RIA is the simplicity. And I think this is where I think Europe , let's say, needs to catch up a little bit with kind of you have to.

kind of bid your projects into IPCA etc etc. So very clearly strong focus on the US as a consequence of RIA and then strong focus as Bernard explained on our refinery project because these are natural things for the hydrogen. So I think we'll feel comfortable about the delivery. Good, great Anja thank you. We'll take one more question in the room. I'm just going to take Jason Kenny from Santander. Jason.

years. What should we expect in the next, you can thank Mary. What should we expect in the next three years? I'm assuming he is assuming 2% through cycle, but how much is excessive volatility and how much is average conditions?

So I know with my learned colleague on the left here who would say no guidance, but what I can say is that we do have, you know, strongly believe that we do have a differentiated trading platform…

global scale experience, multiple markets, multiple commodities, multiple customers. We have benefited from the inherent increase in volatility over the past few years, but we've also seen growth in that portfolio. We also see further growth going forward, whether that's of course biogas, biofuels or LNG or even then into the newer commodities, hydrogen and their derivatives.

I believe we've got strong capability, risk management, trading, optimisation and analytics. We would like to say world class. And I think, you know, subject to volatility and retaining our competitors' advantage, as Murray had said, we would like to continue to deliver for BP going forward. Sounds good. Good job.

Great, last question in the room. Who wants to take the last question? We don't have any more questions. Lydia, go on and then we'll let you and then I need to wrap.

One last one for me. Just given the amount of cash flow and EBITDA that you now have, where do you want net debt to actually go to, Murray, just in terms of to help us think about long term? Because I mean if I look at the 2025 numbers, you're essentially trading on two times EBITDA. So you've got no debt at that point. So where do you want to go to? Yeah, I think, look, we give this guidance year by year is what we give you.

We've firmed up the guidance a little bit this time. Instead of just strong investment grade credit rating, we've set further progress in the A range. So we'll be working with the rating agencies to try to achieve that. We think with the growth we're seeing, that we should be able to progress through the A range with that continued debt reduction. But it's a little bit about how our interaction with the rating agencies go.

expanded debt down.

Great, thank you and thanks for listening. I hope you've got a bit of a sense of the business, the strategy and I hope importantly the team. We're sort of...

We're in our stride three years in now, and I hope you can see the confidence that we have in what we're trying to do. We have no more time for questions. For those of you in the room, thank you for coming here. For those of you on the phone, thank you for joining us. It is an important day for us as we...

transform ourselves and I hope you've heard three clear points. They're short, don't worry. First, we're delivering, BP is delivering. We are performing while transforming. Second, we're leaning further in to the strategy and we're doing that with increasing confidence.

And third, crucially, we remain focused on delivering for our owners, our shareholders.

I and the team look forward to seeing many of you this week when we're out on the road. We're headed to the UK, or we're in the UK. We're headed to Europe . We're headed to the United States as well. And for those of you who made the journey here in person, we've got some refreshments outside and the team will hang around to spend time and chat with you.