Tony Lucas
Chief Financial Officer
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Origin Energy Ltd Ord (OTC: OGFGF) Q2 2025 earnings conference call, held 2025-02-13. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.

Chief Financial Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Analyst, Goldman Sachs
Analyst, UBS
Analyst, RBC Capital Markets
Head of APLNG Operations
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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:05.137 Okay, good morning, everyone, and welcome to the 2025 half-year results for Origin 00:00:05.137 -- 00:00:11.204 Energy. I'm Frank Calabria, the CEO of Origin, and I am joined by Tony 00:00:11.204 -- 00:00:16.830 Lucas today, our CFO, and the rest of the executive leadership team. 00:00:16.830 -- 00:00:22.416 You'll hear from Tony and I this morning as we work through the introduction, 00:00:22.416 -- 00:00:28.047 financial results and the operational commentary and 00:00:28.047 -- 00:00:31.697 guidance. And then what we'll do is we'll open up for questions as we normally do and 00:00:31.697 -- 00:00:36.481 have an opportunity to ask any question to any member of the team. 00:00:36.481 -- 00:00:41.527 So the outline set out on page two, and now 00:00:41.527 -- 00:00:45.612 really looking at page four, the summary of our result. 00:00:45.612 -- 00:00:50.758 Energy markets is lower in line with guidance expectations that we 00:00:50.758 -- 00:00:53.861 set at the beginning of the year, financial year that is. 00:00:53.861 -- 00:00:58.867 APL&G's earnings are up 14%, driven by higher realised prices and 00:00:58.867 -- 00:01:04.793 increased sales volumes. The LNG trading business has delivered $285 00:01:04.793 -- 00:01:09.839 million in EBITDA. That's obviously up significantly and 00:01:09.839 -- 00:01:13.322 is heading towards the top end of the range of the guidance. 00:01:13.322 -- 00:01:17.505 And Octopus continues to grow globally 00:01:17.547 -- 00:01:22.352 across both energy and technology. And from an earnings perspective, the growth has been 00:01:22.352 -- 00:01:27.638 in the UK retail business. That's been more than offset by investment 00:01:27.638 -- 00:01:31.072 scaling their energy services business. 00:01:31.072 -- ...