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| These proven enormous opportunity to help us capture increase margin and decrease spending |
| We've got a fantastic team that we brought in, that's really driving growth in that space as well |
| And our world-class trading business will continue to be the core of integrated and optimizing across our energy value chains to deliver higher margins and lower emissions |
| So tremendous value creation for both sides |
| It has a strong track record of delivery |
| In EV charging, we plan to grow energy sales across our 4 key markets and expect to deliver positive EBITDA in 2025 |
| So we're really excited about it |
| Coral has a fantastic trading business and demand for natural gas coupled with solar and battery technology continues to grow and grow and grow |
| All of these chains are then optimized by our fantastic trading organization, driving superior returns to what a pure play can deliver |
| Third, delivering the next wave of efficiency, an area where I see a huge opportunity |
| But I think we've got strong progress on scope 1 and scope 2 emissions from our company |
| So we -- I think we're enthusiastic, and we see a lot of opportunity in this space about simplicity, focus and then hard focus on returns |
| driving efficiency into the business at the same time that we keep superstructure strong and keep the drive and focus on the strategy is strong |
| And equity and merchant supply to our LNG portfolio that underpins our 25 by '25 target |
| We feel huge confidence in the business performance and the ongoing momentum and delivery |
| It's made us stronger, more confident in the growth we have coming and more convinced about the value we can create |
| As I've said a number of times this morning, we can tolerate movements, so we feel huge confidence in our balance sheet |
| And second, we have strong momentum, as I've previously described |
| But for now, the confidence we have in the business performance and the momentum we've got, the confidence that we've got and the strength of our balance sheet allows us to be confident that we can deliver the $14 billion at prices around where they've been year-to-date |
| We feel good about it |
| We've got confidence that our balance sheet can tolerate movements |
| This is an enhancement to our previous guidance of 60%, and it's an affordable range underpinned by two things, the strength of our balance sheet and our confidence in the future performance of our business |
| And as we've said today a number of times, it's taken us to a place now where we are stronger than we were |
| Strong, strong growth inside the upstream |
| And we have agreed to take full ownership of Lightsource bp, one of the top solar providers globally, a fantastic business with a track record of delivering equity returns in the mid-teens over the past few years with our development flip model |
| What's really exciting, we see potential to do even more to transform our businesses |
| I've seen firsthand the impact and possibilities of innovation and digital solutions, including across the upstream and expanding our customer offer and improving our back-office processes |
| It has great people, and it's an honor to lead |
| BP's focus on delivery supported another quarter of strong underlying operational and financial performance |
| Starting with safety, we have seen improvements in our safety performance, reducing our Tier 1 and Tier 2 process safety events, but we have more to do |
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| On the refining side of the business, products results were quite weak this quarter |
| In customers and products, the underlying result was around $1.3 billion lower than the previous quarter |
| The oil trading result was weak compared to the very strong result in the third quarter |
| It's been a tremendously challenging time period for that business |
| This was offset by a noncash write-off of around $300 million, largely related to the exit from a production sharing contract in Senegal and by lower production |
| And in addition, we expect lower industry refining margins with a larger reduction in realized margins because of narrower North American heavy crude differentials |
| And it was a challenge on pricing to get price high enough to match the discount rates |
| Our utilization as a consequence of the level of activity in those refinery turnarounds was down to around 84% |
| And trying to figure out what are the best things to go after at scale is a key challenge because the opportunities are enormous in this space |
| In Europe, they were able to move transactions forward, so there wasn't a disparity between price and discount rate, but the United States was a challenge |
| They were still particularly seasonally relatively solid and above mid-cycle in most places, and you posted a loss in the business |
| Certainly, there's the chance that gas prices get suppressed |
| As always in large corporations, stopping the old stuff is a perpetual challenge and that's probably the challenge the leadership team and I have is really getting people to really focus on the stuff and not pursuing other things |
| That's slightly lower than our guidance |
| And customers, we expect seasonally lower volumes across most businesses and the absence of one-off positive impacts |
| But given recessionary pressures and some relief from governments, fleets have slowed down |
| That's the biggest challenge that we'll have moving forward |
| But look, I'm going to challenge the corporation and challenge ourselves to simplify everywhere we can |
| I'm really surprised about how robust convenience has been |
| Our reserve replacement ratio has been a bit low in the past |
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