Beach Energy Limited (BPT) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Brett Woods, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Beach Energy's FY25 half-year results presentation. Joining me today is Anne-Marie Barbaro, our Chief Financial Officer. Together, we will take you through our half-year results and provide an update on the outlook for the remainder of FY25 before we open up the Q&A. Before I begin, I'd like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the entire BEACH team. You'll recall that we announced our strategic review towards the end of last financial year, and since then we've been extremely busy with the organisational reset and implementing a range of strategic initiatives while keeping focused on safe delivery of operations and major projects. Today is pleasing to announce a set of results which reflects initial outcomes from that strategic review. I believe the results demonstrate good, solid progress and early signs of what is ahead for beach. Production growth, cost reductions and increases in earnings, cash flow and dividends are key themes for today. Importantly, we have achieved these results with outstanding safety and environmental performance. Slide two sets out our compliance statements, which I'll leave for you to read at your leisure. Slide three lists the key milestones for the first half. The organisational elements of the strategic review have been completed. The business has been restructured and we achieved our target 30% headcount reduction. In fact, we've exceeded that target and currently have 32% less headcount than at our peak last year. The appointment of my executive leadership team is also complete and I'm glad that many of you got to meet them during the Wayseer site visit in De...