Seplat Energy Plc (SEPL) Q2 2024 Earnings Call

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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to CEPLAT Energy PLC Half Year Results 2024. The presentation will commence shortly. After the presentation, we will conduct a Q&A session. If you wish to ask a question, you will be able to ask a question either through the Zoom webinar link provided separately or by submitting written questions using the Ask a Question button on the Spark Live webcast page. If you have joined us via Zoom webinar, please note this call is being live streamed to a webcast for a wider audience and will be recorded. By participating in the Zoom webinar, you are agreeing that recordings made during this event may be shared by Ceplat Energy PLC. I would now like to hand over to James Thompson, Head of Investor Relations, to open the presentation. Thank you very much, Victoria. Hello, everybody. Good afternoon. Welcome to Ceplat Energy's financial results for the first half of 2024. On the call today, we have our CEO, Roger Brown, CFO, Eleanor Adara Legbe, and our COO, Samson Ezeori. We'll first present our business and financial highlights, followed by the outlook. And after this, we'll move to Q&A. Before we start, I'd encourage you to take note of the forward-looking statement on slide two. And I'll now pass you over to Roger on slide four to start with the overview. Roger, over to you. Thank you. Good afternoon or good morning, depending where you are. Perhaps good evening. Welcome everyone to the 2024 first half results. So we go on page four, slide four, we set out a couple of metrics. Obviously our first half production is strong at 48,000 barrels of oil equivalent. And that is right in the middle of our guidance, slightly down in the last year at 50. We've been maintaining the Q2 2024 core dividends. So this is, we've committed to 12 cen...