Avance Gas Holding Ltd (AVACF) Q2 2024 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Advanced Gas Holding Limited Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 and 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1 and 1 again. If you wish to ask a question via the webcast, please use the Q&A box available on the webcast link any time during the conference. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Austin Kelleclev. Please go ahead. Thank you, and thank you, everybody, for joining this second quarter results presentation for Avans Gas. I'm Øystein Kalliklev, as mentioned, CEO of Avans Gas, and I will be joined here today, as usual, by our CFO, Randi Navdal-Bekkelund, who will run you through the numbers. As mentioned in the introduction, we will close the presentation today with a Q&A session where you can either ask a question by the conference call or by the chat function. So as you can see from our front page, we have found some inspiration in the Japanese icon, the Great Wave of Kanawaga by Hokusai. This picture was sold at Quidditch last year for $2.7 million. So we made our own edition, which we call the Great Wave of Dividends by Advanced Gas. And we paid out close to 270 million of dividends for the first half year of 2024, which means that our shareholders can buy close to hundreds of this picture. So let's begin with the disclaimer. During the presentation, we will be giving some forward-looking statements, wide no...