Thank you very much, and I would like to thank everybody who is spending today's afternoon to be with us in order to discuss the second-quarter and the first-half 2026 results and any issues that may arise as a result of these presentations. I would like to start first of all with something which is not results-related, and it is something that was decided by our Board of Directors earlier today.

It has to do with our support to areas which have been affected by the wildfires over the last few days in Greece. Over and above the usual local community support programs that we have, and they are quite extensive, we felt that the situation was quite severe.

As a result, the board approved a special contribution of €25 million to be used with cooperation with the appropriate authorities as a means to accelerate any relief aid to people who have been affected. A lot of these areas are areas where we have operations, be it in the electricity production or in part of Attica where we have the refineries.

It is something that we feel very responsible for people in those areas, clearly not for the fires, but for the people in those areas. I would like to say that this is a decision which has been made by the Board of Directors, but it was also a decision which is fully in line with our previous strategy on CSR and what our main shareholders are actually pointing to as a direction.

We have received the confirmation and the, if you will, positive feedback in this respect. Because at the end of the day, the company is effectively a legal vehicle for the representation of the shareholders.

This is something which we feel it's important, and we should state up front before we go into the results. Moving on to the summary, which is page 4 of our presentation.

Clearly, it is a quarter which has been exceptionally strong. It is a quarter which presented us with various challenges.

These challenges had to do with safety issues, for example, because we completed the Aspropyrgos refinery turnaround. That was done with success, with very good safety records, and the refinery started up operating mid to end April successfully, and we are actually seeing the benefit of a start-of-run refinery performance.

We also had the challenges of crude supply, this continuous rollercoaster of supply routes being open and then being closed and then being opened again, and then before you actually send a ship in to the Gulf, the Gulf is closed again. It is something which has attracted a lot of our efforts, and we have managed to maintain a very high level of crude supply into our refineries.

That is something which effectively has supported the level of financial performance that we see in the quarter. In addition to that, I would like to emphasize that we are seeing, and especially in the last month or so, after the end of the quarter, we are seeing very high refining margins.

That's a result of the supply-demand imbalance on products, and it's a result of restricted flows out of the Gulf. It is a result of no Russian exports via a number of routes.

It's also a result of the last two decades of underinvestment in the European refining space, either because of economic reasons—refinery is a cyclical business, so, yes, we have been enjoying good refining margins over the last period, but it has been a very long series of weak refining margins in previous years as well. A lot of majors or independent companies have not kept up with their investments in refining capacity, and this is the result of a series of years of underinvestment, leading to the supply shortage, especially in diesel, in this part of the world.

In terms of operations, we have a very good run with all of our refineries performing very well. We expect that this will continue for the rest of the year.

In the third quarter of this year, we were planning to commence the refinery shutdown of Thessaloniki. This is likely to be pushed to '27, which means that from a performance point of view, we should expect to be in a good spot given the current environment that we have.

It's not just benchmarks which have done very well. It's also the overperformance, or the additional performance that we are monitoring, which has been doing very well.

That's a combination of two things: much more detailed performance optimization at the refineries, which is driven by our recent investments in technology, in AI, and a result of the digital transformation, being able to extract more value out of the same molecule of hydrocarbons that goes into the refinery, but it's also a result of better coordination and performance with the supply and trading team in Greece and in Geneva, which has given us an additional agility and insight into the market, which has been able to be converted into additional profitability. The third level of performance is sales.

We are doing very well at all levels. In fact, it is a case of being able to sell more than what we can produce or source at this point in time, which is very good.

On the power sector, where we have the conventional, the thermal capacity and sales under Elpedison and the renewable portfolio, the news are positive there as well, and the news effectively come in the form of being able to hold a sliding performance in the old Elpedison system because of the process of changing ownership. That's been halted.

The company has entered into a turnaround mode, which is evidenced by better metrics at pretty much everything. Clearly, we cannot double the financial performance of a company in a year, but the signs are very positive.

On renewables, the rollout of additional megawatts is adding to the portfolio, and as a result, we are seeing some improvements there as well. On financials, I won't go into detail.

Vasilis will be covering those later. It's sufficient to say that it is a record half year, and it looks like the remaining of the year will be at least as good, if not better.

The outlook, I just mentioned that performance for the remaining of the year is going to be at least as good, and we see that, subject to the two armed conflicts in Ukraine and the Gulf, we will continue to be seeing a higher-than-mid-cycle performance. The rollout of capacity on the renewables mainly is continuing as planned.

It's up to us to effectively accelerate even faster, and the increased profitability does give us the ability to deploy faster our investment plans, both in hydrocarbons and renewables. I will end this introduction by just referring to the E&P portfolio, where we've completed the transfer of the 70% of Block 10 to Chevron, which effectively leaves us with five blocks that we are effectively exploring with Chevron, one block which is soon to be drilled, Block 2 in the Ionian, and also two other blocks, Southwest Crete, which is currently 70% Exxon and 30% ourselves, and the Ionian block, which is 100% Hellenic.

That's taken form. It is a portfolio which changes, and that's the point.

We focus on what we can do and what we should be looking into, utilizing international expertise and hoping that we'll be able to get something at the end of this process. Over to Kostas for the market background.

Thank you, Andreas. Good afternoon.

Starting off with the industry environment, the quarter was dominated by geopolitics, as has already been mentioned. There was a lot of volatility at both absolute crude prices and relative cracks.

Brent prices averaged about $105 and, from the end of Q1, were mostly dropping up until the last few days of June. Product cracks improved during the quarter, reaching very high levels for distillates and gasoline, smaller numbers and small declines for naphtha and fuel oils.

Our system benchmark margin averaged $9.5 per barrel, which is a bit less than the previous quarter, but well above the 5.7 average last year same period. If we focus on the domestic market, the domestic market declined by 6% during the second quarter, driven mostly by reduced LPG and gasoline demand as prices had reached high levels.

Overall, diesel demand was stable, if not rising a bit. Aviation fuels for Greek airports is showing a steady increase from the start of the year and has reached 6% year-quarter-on-quarter raise, while bunkering has dropped a bit due to a bit lower demand of marine gasoil.

Vasilis, over to you.

Thank you, Kostas. Good afternoon to all of you attending our call this afternoon.

Moving on to the environment on natural gas and electricity, effectively, as a result of the crisis, we saw natural gas prices escalating, as expected, around the 40s and 50s during the quarter, averaging 46, significantly higher than either the previous quarters or the last quarter the similar quarter of of last year. The the impact on electricity price has been largely contained mainly due to the fact of the penetration of renewables in the energy mix, which is certainly higher than what it used to be in a similar situation, perhaps three or four years ago with the Russian crisis.

In terms of generation, Greece continues to be it's the increase in renewables is also reflected here. Similar percentage at a much higher production base and Greece being a net exporter to nearby countries.

Moving on to discuss a little bit more in detail our performance. A a quarter of almost normal operations.

Let me remind you that Aspropyrgos started from a turnaround only after Easter, missed out perhaps two or three weeks from the quarter. Elefsina had a a pit stop at the hydrocracker during June, a planned one for the change of catalyst.

Production and sales much higher than last year because last year, let me remind you, had the full turnaround at Elefsina at 3.8 million tonnes. For the for the half of the year, at 6.8.

Similarly, higher volumes at marketing and power. Power includes obviously the incorporation of of Enerwave.

We have the annualization. It's the last quarter that the comparables of last year did not include Enerwave.

Adjusted EBITDA of €442 million for the quarter and more than €700 million for the for the half year, with refining almost doubling its contribution for the quarter; petrochemicals recovering from the lows of the last few quarters, mainly driven by the supply constraint due to the crisis of Hormuz; marketing, a better performance both in our domestic business and our international; and power, largely driven by the very strong performance of Enerwave, even if we compare their reported numbers last last year. In terms of of cash flow, before we go to cash flow, we we we the the first half during the first half, CapEx and investments in total exceeded €400 million.

This is the highest we've posted on a first semester ever, driven by the turnaround at Aspropyrgos refinery that we discussed before, as well as the addition of the two PV parks in Romania, with the two more coming in the next few few weeks. Despite a relatively heavy maintenance half, the normalization of working capital, because, let me remind you, in the first quarter, we had the impact on the supply chain because of the Aspropyrgos turnaround together with the start of the crisis, this has largely normalized.

As a result of that, the second-quarter cash flow was around €300 million, and the impact on the on the net debt versus the previous quarter was was €700 million, a significantly better performance. In terms of of profitability and how it how it connects with with last year, as you we discussed about the impact of benchmark margins.

On top of that, we had very strong margin capture because of the crude differentials. We certainly paid more than normal to to to for crude supply, especially at the at the height of the crisis during April and May.

Still, we we paid much lower than what the benchmark was. That margin capture is also reflected in the overperformance.

Similarly, in terms of our operations and ability to realize especially export premia because of the of the of the shortages in diesel and jet, we were able to maximize the production of both, with Elefsina running flat out and and to the extent possible, squeezing a bit more the production towards middle distillates because of the of the shortage in our markets and the region in in general. That, combined with higher export premia, that we were able to realize and achieve a much better performance in that respect.

The net impact of the maintenance in terms of volumes was certainly lower because last year we had the full turnaround at Elefsina throughout the quarter, more or less. However, that came at a much lower impact in terms of of loss profitability because of the very high margins if we look at the second quarter of of '26.

One more point is the is the accounting profit and the cash profit that came from the farming out of Block 10 and the the partnership of of with Chevron that is also included in the in our EBITDA numbers. In terms of our balance sheet, as we discussed before, the the very strong cash flows resulted in deleverage, both on an absolute basis, with net debt below €2 billion, and having the bulk of the CapEx already behind us for for the year.

What is coming for the second half, there's not much in refining really, as we pushed the the Thessaloniki turnaround for for next year. There is the the the acquisition of of the two more Romanian PV parks.

The batteries will be connected, but the CapEx has been largely spent. Then, there's not much we would expect compared to the first half for in terms of CapEx.

The the cash flow generation will be even better in the third quarter. Still, if we look even on a relative basis, leverage of 1.3 based on our last-12-months numbers, if you look at downstream, it's actually 1, courtesy of both the higher profitability, higher EBITDA, but as well as the very low net debt figures on an absolute basis.

We'll move on to discuss a little bit the business performance in each of our strategic business unit. In terms of refining, not much to add on page 15.

We'll discuss, more in detail about the margin capture. Almost €250 million CapEx for the for the half, including, mostly the full turnaround and the improvement works at Aspropyrgos refinery.

Let me comment here that out of the out of the of the improvement projects, we have already seen a very strong performance at Aspropyrgos refinery, especially at the energy efficiency projects at at the reformer unit. Certainly, the, fresh and beginning-of-run performance is as expected and even a little bit better than we anticipated.

On the operations page, let me highlight the the very good yields of middle distillates, result of, Elefsina operating at full capacity, as well as our efforts and the selection of crudes with the proper netbacks in order to maximize output of diesel and and and jets. On sales, let me highlight the 270,000 tonnes of crude.

This refers to two cargoes that we were effectively able to trade during the quarter. It was a kind of difficult situation in the sense that we had to make sure that we had enough in our crude.

The market was very volatile. Amid this environment, our our S&T team in in Geneva was able to take advantage of of opportunities that arose in terms of both the forward curve, as well as the netbacks, the relative netbacks between the various crude types, and made two trades in May and June with a very good outcome for the business and financially, obviously.

In terms of profitability, the benchmark margin at around $10 per barrel in the second quarter was a bit distorted in the sense that that included a significant premium on the on the crude. If you would look at Brent-based refining margin, assuming that there was no cost or discount on on the crude, the number would be something like double that.

The overperformance includes, other than the very good export premia, a significant discount effectively, relative discount, that we were able to realize on the crude supply versus versus the benchmark. Petrochemicals, we've seen a strong respite in the benchmark PP margin, hovering even, above the €700 million—€700, sorry, euro per per tonne.

That was the average for the quarter. To a large extent, we were able to take advantage of this with the the business operating normally, with the exception of the first couple of weeks of April because of of of no output from from the Aspropyrgos splitter.

Margins have corrected since, but still they are in in areas much much better and much more favorable than the previous few quarters. In terms of our fuels marketing business, important to to note a very difficult environment in the sense that prices were high, consumption was slightly affected, but more so on the premium fuels that we've been focusing a lot in the last few years.

We also had the the margin cap for for several weeks during the crisis. Despite this environment, our business continued delivering much better results, a very strong momentum that we capitalized on, very good performance, improved NFR, and overall better profitability, both on the on the quarter and the six-month basis.

In the second quarter, also very strong aviation business performance that we were able to take advantage of. In our international marketing business, the the backdrop, in the sense of sanctions affecting refineries in the region and and reducing supply options, brings all the group companies at a much better position and and, having to cover the the shortfall.

Also, the the operation now it's already more than six months of the of the diesel of the diesel-converted pipeline between the Thessaloniki refinery and our Okta facilities enables the transfer of of of products at a much lower cost and much higher volumes in order to cover also the deficit in the in the market. As a result of that, improved volumes, mostly on the wholesale, as well as EBITDA.

On at this point, I'll pass you over to George Alexopoulos that will discuss our power business. George?

Thank you, Vasilis. Good afternoon, everybody.

On page 24, we show our power business key numbers. Since we did not consolidate Enerwave, then Elpedison, in Q2 of '25, we're showing it on a pro forma basis to enable comparisons.

On the operating capacity, we have about 60 megawatts more as a result of the completion of two of our Romanian PVs. Power generation is essentially flat, although the mix is somewhat different.

EBITDA is considerably higher as a result of a marked improvement on the Enerwave side. Both the turnaround of the retail business and better balancing market opportunities contributed to this increase.

On the renewables side, we're starting to see the contribution of Romanian assets. The market remained challenging in Greece as a result of curtailments and very low prices during the midday hours.

I will skip page 25 with the numbers. I'm sure you have reviewed them.

Go to page 26 to update you on our renewables development plan. As you can see on the graph on the left side, we have currently over 1/2 a gigawatt under construction.

Most of the projects are in southeastern Europe. Out of these projects, we expect to have 250 megawatts of PV and battery projects entering operation in this quarter.

The path to 1 gigawatt 1.5 gigawatt by 2028 remains secure. Through our pipeline, we can also comfortably achieve the 2-gigawatt target in 2030.

Our technology mix remains diverse, both at the operating level and the pipeline level. As we roll out our plans in southeastern Europe, our geographical diversification increases.

With this, I think I will close our presentation. I will turn it over to questions.

Thank you.

Hello, thank you for taking my questions. I've got three, please.

I'll shoot them all out together. One, if you could please explain in the refining segment the main difference between reported EBITDA and adjusted, given that Brent prices towards the end of the second quarter were lower than what they were at the end of the first quarter.

That is my first question. The other question relates to marketing.

There was a substantial decrease in the number of petrol stations quarter-on-quarter. I presume that relates to dealer-owned network.

If you could give us some color on how you see that evolving in the remainder of the year or going forward, if you like. My third question is, you mentioned something about an accounting gain from the farm-out of your E&P.

I suppose that if you could explain to us a bit more what that main gain at the other line in EBITDA relates to. I suppose that's it, and whether that is actually net of taxes as well, capital gain.

Thank you.

Vasilis, you want to take at least the first and the third question?

Sure. Thank you.

Thank you, George, for the question. In terms of our reported versus adjusted EBITDA, it's 90%, 95% is inventory gains, right?

In the first quarter, we recorded something like €150 million. The reason for that was two reasons, right?

One is we don't do FIFO, we do weighted average. The increase of the prices takes some time to replenish through our inventory.

The price increase takes some time to get through both ways, and that explains also how you see the decline. That's one thing.

The second is that the crude we acquired versus the benchmark, first of all, is dated Brent versus the ICE, and the premia on top of that. The realized price that of procurement is actually higher than the Brent price that you see on the screen.

The third one is that we were a little bit late to record those numbers because of the lower sales in March because of the Aspropyrgos turnaround. The result of that is pushing the inventory gains mostly in April and May, effectively.

In June, we recorded a small loss to be honest because the prices went down. Then prices went up a bit.

Let's see in the third quarter if prices remain at 80 or below, then we should see additional losses. The partial offset of the gains reported so far.

In terms of the impact of the farm-out with Chevron, effectively, the agreement was cash consideration for the expenses that we have paid up until the farming-in of Chevron. That was around €17 million, which, given the fact that those had gone through our OpEx in the previous years, it's a gain of €17 million, which is net of taxes.

There's no impact in terms of tax.

Okay. On petrol stations, I think your comment is spot-on, George.

It's an ongoing process of reducing dodos which are underperforming and replacing them partly with combos or with better-performing stations. There is a trend that will continue.

It's difficult to predict what is going to be the magnitude of the network reduction. As you might know, we've seen reductions of 3 and 1/2 thousand petrol stations in Greece over the last 10 years, 10, 15 years.

It's a one-way street. We'll see how that goes.

There is a plan which will take the number of petrol stations even lower.

Thank you. Vasilis, sorry, just a follow-up on that net capital gain of 17, 1-7 million you mentioned.

There's the reported and the adjusted numbers as shown in the presentation, there's a difference about €13 million. Can you please explain that as well, if you can, while you're at it?

Thank you, and I'll finish off there. Thank you.

Sorry, George, which number you're referring?

Yes, on the presentation at the end on page 31 of the presentation, where it shows the breakdown of reported and adjusted EBITDA, the other, which includes mainly E&P, between adjusted and reported, there's a €13 million, 1-3 million euro, difference. In the second quarter.

Maybe, Vasilis, if you cannot see it now, maybe there's a point of picking that up later

and

calling George to sort it out.

Yeah. Thank you.

Thanks, George.

Hello, congratulations for the results. One question from me.

Could you clarify whether the €20 million contribution aimed at lowering fuel prices at the pump represents a one-off measure only for August or whether you could consider extending similar support over the coming months if prices remain elevated? In relation to that, do you have any insight into following this action, whether the government could still be considering a windfall tax on excess refining profits, as we saw in Portugal?

Thank you very much.

Thanks. Very relevant questions.

Going the wrong way for the results, of course, but on the discounts, we have offered a 10 and 5 cents per liter effective discount at the pump price, for us you have to take out the VAT cost. In reality, the value of that discount is going to be higher than €20 million simply because volumes are picking up.

We're not seeing any real demand destruction as a result of high prices. It's going to be a little bit higher than that number, but in the context of things, still a very manageable number.

We have not made any decision whether we will continue for the following months. There are two issues here.

The first one is the absolute level of pricing. That level is changing on a daily basis.

As you may have seen, product prices have dropped significantly, this will find its way into the pump price over the next few days unless there is another change in the Gulf situation. It's very difficult to be able to see what's going to happen.

Clearly, our performance has been very good, and it's going to be even better in the third quarter. To the extent that we can afford and in a responsible way—responsible meaning to all stakeholders—provide some price support to maintain the demand for private consumers, especially in a period which is very sensitive for Greece, I would not count out a continuation of this process.

It's early days. Now, on the windfall tax, we've seen what Portugal has done.

Portugal is a totally different case: much smaller system, much lower investment in refining. They don't have enough products to serve their own market.

It's a bit of an easy case for them, much smaller numbers as well. I think it's roughly 200,000 barrels per day refinery, compared to just under 1 million barrels per day refining capacity in Greece.

It is something which is a totally different ballgame. Very difficult to say what's going to happen.

This is clearly something that the government will have to be taking as a question. I would leave it there.

From our end, we're doing what we can to provide support to the Greek market as part of the profitability that we are enjoying mainly from international factors and exports. We are sort of doing in a prudent and responsible way a rebalancing through our commercial policy.

I don't have anything else to add on this front, we'll have to wait what the government will decide, if it decides on anything.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, operator. We do have some questions through the webcast.

The first question comes from Optima Bank, Konstantinos, who asks: "Could you update us on the northern Ionian exploration program with ExxonMobil and Energean? Are you still targeting the first exploration well in first Q '27, and what are the key milestones over the coming quarters?"

George, you want to take this?

Sure. Nothing has changed.

We're still targeting Q1 of '27. There is currently the environmental permitting process, which is required in those cases.

The drillship has been reserved. It was reserved earlier this year.

The program is on track, and we expect to be drilling with our partners in Q1 of '27.

Thank you, and we do have another question from Edison Research, Nicholas Patton. "Please could you discuss your outlook for refining margins in 2027 and beyond under three scenarios: first, continued Middle East disruption; second, a return to 2023 conditions; and third, a return to 2019 conditions, pre-COVID and pre-Ukraine?

The second part of the question is, how do you view Hellenic's renewables business as the energy transition evolves towards a more balanced energy mix? Is your capital allocation strategy flexible if market views on wind and solar continue to change?

The third part of the question: should investors increasingly view Hellenic as a company with a greater focus on exploration? If exploration is successful, how could this change Hellenic's long-term strategic positioning?"

A question which covers pretty much most of our portfolio. I think we left engineering out and retail.

Nevertheless, very very very relevant and thoughtful questions. I cannot in all honesty tell you which of the three scenarios will prevail.

What I will tell you—it doesn't mean I can't, but what I will tell you—is that my prediction is that the refining margins in '27 will remain high. They will remain high not only because of the crisis, but because there are fundamental reasons why they cannot go back to where they were 10 years ago.

Demand is increasing. Demand for energy is increasing.

Demand for hydrocarbons is increasing. We are seeing regional imbalances.

We are seeing disruptions to supply, either because of wars or geopolitical issues, or because of the need to upgrade refineries. Make no mistake, the refining market and assets in terms of capacity and conversion is not the same as it was 5 years ago.

It's not the same as it was before the beginning of the war. You will be having an ongoing demand increase, you will be having less supply, and you will be having either crisis, meaning war, or you will have countries coming out of war, which means reconstruction.

Overall, I am a little bit more positive on the expectation for the refining margins and the refining business overall. Renewables, I don't know, George, do you want to take that as a general comment?

I think you've covered it,

but Sure. I think we have said from when we started with Vision 2025, that our approach is actually a balanced approach.

While we support the energy transition and we are investing in renewables, we also see a continued relevance of hydrocarbons for many years to come. This hasn't changed.

In fact, I would say it is being confirmed. Now, regarding our focus, we do take into account developments.

We are investing in a balanced renewables mix, which includes wind and solar, but also energy storage, which is essential for the increased penetration of renewables, either in the form of standalone storage or hybrid renewable projects or co-located storage. We see relevance in this approach.

Frankly, we expect growth in our renewables business, but also in our downstream business as well.

That's in a nutshell a balanced approach which we have adapted since Vision 2025, and it's something that we are very careful. We're growing into green energy, but we are doing that in a prudent way and in a balanced way.

On exploration, I wouldn't expect the company to become an exploration supermajor. I stand to be corrected in a few months, and I will not complain if I am.

I don't expect the structure of the company to change significantly.

Thank you, and we do have another question from Beta Securities from Agapi Papagianni. "Congratulations on the results.

Two questions from my side: following your geographical expansion strategy in renewables business, would you consider further investments beyond Bulgaria and Romania? Second, 1H '26 cash flow generation has been strong.

Do you intend to offer an increased dividend?"

I would take the question on the geographical expansion. Look, we have a regional expansion strategy building on renewables, but also our conventional assets and our energy management position and market position.

We see our focus in markets like Bulgaria and Romania, which are interconnected to Greece, and they follow more or less the pricing of Greece. They also offer, at this point, better opportunities, being less mature markets.

Would we consider other countries consistent with this strategy? I suppose we could, but it's more important at this point to build material positions in these markets as a priority.

Now, on dividend, Vasilis, are you planning to share any good news with us?

Okay. Let me remind you our dividend policy is to distribute anywhere between 35% to 50% at the range of the adjusted net income, considering certainly other things like cash flows, CapEx, taxes.

All those things have to be considered when time comes. Certainly, we're looking towards an improved profitability versus last year.

Someone could expect that on absolute basis, the total payout should be higher. I think we will be able to become a little bit more specific with the Q3 results announcement that we usually announce also our interim dividend.

Thank you, Vasilis. We have another question through the webcast from Morgan Stanley, Silvia Richards, who asks: "How do you see refining margins developing into year-end?

Secondly, have you increased your market share in international exports, taking market share from customers usually served from Russia? Third, have you been seeing any demand destruction in Greece or your other export markets?"

Thank you. I'll take it from the top.

As Andreas already mentioned, our outlook for refining margins is strong. In the months following the end of Q2, cracks and margins have reached quite high levels, and we expect that to persist given the bottleneck in refining capacity, as was explained.

Increased market share international exports: market share international exports is a bit of a strange term, but our international airport exports have increased. There's elevated interest from the Black Sea, which was, as said, previously served by Russia.

The Black Sea area would be an area where you're seeing substitution quite vividly. For the other markets, there's nothing in particular.

Demand destruction in Greece or other export markets: for Greece, we haven't seen any major demand destruction. In fact, demand for diesel is probably increased a bit.

Demand for jet is increased significantly; it's a record aviation year. There are periodical small drops in general retail, things like gasoline and LPG, but small numbers.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kostas. We have another question from Safron Place Advisors, Nick Layman, who asks: "In the current security environment, would you purchase crude to be loaded at Yanbu?

What about crude loading inside the AG?" That's

one's easier. Loading inside the Arabian Gulf has been suspended since the war broke out, as no international maritime organization could provide any solid safety clearance.

For Yanbu, it would be on a more case-by-case basis. It is less risky.

It's much easier for us to load at Sidi Kerir inside the Med for the same grade.

Thank you. Operator, we don't have any other questions through the webcast.

Back to you.

Once again, thank you for attending the call. Overall, a very good quarter on all fronts, which is very reassuring for us.

I believe that the company is demonstrating in the best possible way that it has come a long way over the last few years. We have the improvement in every single aspect of our operations.

We are deploying a very solid, well-thought-out, and well-implemented strategic plan without delaying, without spending money where we don't see value, and, of course, being in a position to take advantage of very good backdrop in refining. The remaining of the year looks to be at least as good as the first half of the year, and I would dare say that '27, if not '28 as well, also look very positive.

With that, we expect that we'll be able to take the company into even better performance levels in the coming years, and take the advantage of this run of good results and good environment to accelerate the transformation of the company, invest both within our own core business in Greece, but also expand internationally, and accelerate the transition into cleaner forms of energy. Thank you very much, and I wish everybody to have a relaxed August with no more fires, hopefully, in Greece, and we'll be back with you in the next few weeks.

Thank you.