Claudio Descalzi
Management
So, good morning and welcome to our 2016 result presentation and the full-year strategy update. 2016 was a year of records for Eni in spite of a challenging scenario. We have met all of our strategic milestones in the leverage of standing results meeting our main operating targets in production, sales and cash neutrality. We did it while enforcing strong cost efficiency, reducing CapEx by 19%, OpEx by 14%, and G&A by 10% versus 2015. In the fourth quarter, we produced a record organic level of 1.86 million barrels per day and notwithstanding the Val d’Agri shutdown. This interruption in Nigeria and initial downtime of Goliat, we achieved our average production target for the year of 1.76 million barrels per day. We set another record with the reserves replacement ratio of 193%, our best result ever, and the highest in the industry. Over the last three years, our average replacement ratio is an exception of 115% organically. In exploration yet again we had remarkable result adding 1.1 billion barrel of resources at a very low cost of $60 per barrel. In the mid-downstream, we can report that each business is now free cash positive for a cumulative of € 2.3 billion. In operating cash flow, we generated €8.3 billion enabling us to reach a record of CapEx cash neutrality or $46 per barrel. Considering cash from disposals, we fully covered the cash dividend at $50 per barrel. And finally, our pro forma leverage was 24%. We are the only major that reduce is that since the beginning of the downturn. This is a clear evidence of the effectiveness of the transformation process we carried out in the last three years. Another record we are very proud of it of is our achievement in HSE, beating our long term trend of…