Thank you. Good afternoon, and welcome to Eni 4Q conference call.

In this quarter, Eni has shown once again that its strategy is working and delivering outstanding results. We are driving distinctive, real asset-driven organic growth in both the upstream, expanding into new geographies with major projects, and in our new businesses linked to the energy transition.

At the same time, we are generating strong cash flow and bringing our debt down to its lowest level ever. As we grow, we want all our shareholders to share in the upside.

That is why we combine our industrial strategy with a progressive distribution policy that has also reached a record level. Before describing our additional distribution, let me highlight the key milestone of this quarter and of 2026.

Starting with upstream, where production growth is already sector-leading, propelled by our differentiated industrial, organic, technology-led capabilities. We have already had a standout year for exploration, even when set against a decade-long track record of success, with discovered resources of more than 1.2 billion barrel.

Our technical rate of success is 80%, and our commercial rate is 70%. Really remarkable, but remarkable still is that this has been achieved with a discovery cost of below $1 per barrel.

Strong execution of our strategy has enabled us to raise our full-year underlying production guidance to 6%-7%. The growth primary comes from Congo, Libya, Côte d'Ivoire, Mexico, Ghana, and from the business combination in Indonesia-Malaysia called Seara, and comes despite the complex operating environment in the Middle East and constraint on Kazakh export.

We are locking in future production growth with key FID this year of Baleine Phase 3 in Côte d'Ivoire; Kutei North and Gendalo and Gandang in Indonesia; Cronos in Cyprus; and Greater Paxi in Angola. Nor is volume growth our single target.

We are guided by value. Hence, through our dual exploration valorization in Côte d'Ivoire and Indonesia, we have raised around $2 billion of accelerated value.

On top of that, we are gawking up an unprecedented level of access to discovered resources, employing our technology and fast-track development skills to mature opportunities in Venezuela and Argentina. Our two listed satellites are also adding new resources, with Vår Energi and Ithaca recently announcing acquisition, expanding their geographical footprint and deepening their resource base in Denmark and Canada respectively.

A proof point in their deliver of value is that both company recently reached record market capitalization with an equity stake value for Eni now at around €10.5 billion, almost doubling the original level. Our gas and LNG strategy is delivering tangible value already.

New LNG supply contracts signed in Indonesia and Cyprus for a total of up to 3.4 million tons per year strengthen the path towards our target of more than 20 million tons per year of LNG equity production by 2030, and support the increase of our 2026 full-year pro forma EBIT guidance to around €1.5 billion. As to the CCUS business, this year we completed installation of the new Douglas CCS platform in Liverpool Bay, the world's first purpose-built offshore platform dedicated to industrial-scale CO2 transportation and storage.

We have also progressed the development of the Ravenna Phase 2 project, securing further support through the award of European Commission's Innovation Fund. It is worth looking at this in the context of our expanding and increasingly balanced global footprint.

Exploration success has come in West Africa, Egypt, and Indonesia. It is a mix of infrastructure-led in known plays and higher-impact discoveries, but all representing considerable value.

We have built and strengthened four major growth hubs across the Far East, the Americas, Africa, and the Mediterranean, giving us a deep and diversified resource base. Projects sanctioned in full-year 2026 will deliver around 600,000 barrel per day of new production at 2030, underscoring the scale and quality of our development pipeline.

This is a continuous, evolving portfolio. New agreements and additional opportunities have been identified or implemented in 2026, contributing around 4.6 billion barrel of oil equivalent of additional equity resource.

Let me also take a moment to update in a bit more detail on our progress in Venezuela, where we appreciate things has been moving very quickly. In early September, we signed the new contractual regime that will govern the Junín 5 field for the next 25 years.

We have already submitted a development plan to the Venezuelan authorities. Upon approval, we intend to quickly move forward to FID on Phase 1, which will add 200,000 barrel gross in 24 months.

This could be before the end of this year. Further phases could then take full field production to a gross level of 1 million barrel per day.

Also, earlier this year, we signed a sustainability agreement on Perla, giving Eni control of export and revenues from which we will pay our royalty and taxes while resuming payment for our gas. In addition, the agreement allows for some debottlenecking of production for the domestic market, while also defining a new expansion phase for future LNG export, roughly doubling production.

It's important to emphasize our objective is to maximize our free cash flow position over both Junín and Perla, carefully managing the net capital. Phased developments and timely farm-downs to manage a risk-reward are a fundamental feature of Eni's upstream strategy, as you know.

Before going into more detail on our performance for the quarter, let's also cover transition. Providing further important balance to our company, we continue to capture value from our transition activities, where Enilive has reported record result this quarter, coming ahead of a year when we expect to add significant new biorefining capacity and bring in, by year end, benefits of our recent purchase of the marketing asset in Germany.

At the end of the quarter, we have also completed the additional investment in Plenitude, with Ares taking a larger share. This new structure will efficiently support the next phase of growth for Plenitude.

In fact, emphasizing our value creation, we now have market valuation implying a value of these two largest company in the transition business at a combined €25 billion. Our satellite strategy is a key tool to our success in building new transition businesses without sacrificing investment into E&P.

Turning now to Q3 results. This fully reflect our object to grow Eni while simultaneously reducing risk and adding the optionality that comes with a low-geared balance sheet and delivering an attractive return to our shareholder.

E&P reported production growth of 4.2%. Combined with a supportive market environment and the focus on efficient operation, we generated pro forma EBIT of €4.6 billion.

GGP pro forma EBIT of €0.4 billion came without one-time benefits seen in Q2 2026 and was driven by strong gas and LNG optimization results. There were no one-off contract adjustments in the quarter.

In transition, Enilive and Plenitude together reported pro forma EBIT of €0.7 billion, corresponding to €0.6 of pro forma EBIT with Enilive benefiting from supporting biorefining margins, while Plenitude results were impacted by the current competitive environment in the retail space. Transformation saw refining report a further recovery in utilization as a major turnaround activity was completed, meaning we were provided important supply to customers and were able to capture the strong market conditions.

Versalis suffered from a reversal in the scenario from Q2, but the underlying performance remained on track towards its target of break-even in 2028. Contribution from associates reflect a full quarter of Seara, the business combination in the Far East, while our share of the ADNOC refinery returned to profitability.

The group tax rate of 32% reflect a tax rate of 35% in E&P, helped by high grading of production, a higher proportion of results in lower tax regimes, and the effect of the satellites. Plus also the improved contribution from Enilive and refining.

We now expect a full-year charge of between 36% and 37%. Net income of €2.8 billion was up 20% quarter-on-quarter, despite lower oil price, and up 2.2 times year-on-year.

CFFO before working capital effect was €4.3 billion, broadly in line with Q2 despite lower crude oil prices, and 30% up year-on-year. Capital expenditure of €1.35 billion is consistent with the €7 billion we have guided to and consistent with our comments to expect a lower figure in the second half with the deconsolidation of Plenitude and the upstream activity in Indonesia.

The impact of this strong cash flow from operation generation, our disciplined net investment, and the deconsolidation of Plenitude debt equivalent to €2.75 billion, improved our balance sheet with a reported gearing now at 10%, the bottom end of the guided 10%-15% range, while pro forma gearing is at 9%, both level representing a record minimum. The continuous improvement in our balance sheet metrics is also confirmed by a recent upgrade by Standard & Poor's on our credit rating and its initiation of an investment-grade rating on Plenitude.

For the full-year 2026, we now see cash flow from operation at €16.5 billion, 43% above our initial guidance. This underpins our shareholder returns and covers the dividend, our first priority, by more than five times.

Our historically strong balance sheet position and excellent cash flow from operation allow us to confirm the raise in our share buyback and the announcement of a special dividend. Today, we are raising our 2026 share buyback to €3.8 billion from €3.4 billion, 2.5 times above the original guidance.

Additionally, we can confirm we are declaring an exceptional dividend of €1.3 billion with ex-dividend date on the 7th on the 7th of December, bringing our total cash dividend this year to €4.4 billion, the highest level in our history. This represents a total payout of €8.2 billion, or 50% of cash flow from operation, equivalent to an yield on our share price of more than 11%.

With this, I conclude my remarks on what I think you will agree was another excellent quarter, consistent with our view shared at Q2 that Eni is one of the strongest position in its history. Together now with my colleagues from Eni management team, I'm happy to take your questions.

Thanks very much. We're going to move to the first question in the queue, and that's Alejandro Vigil at Santander.

Alex, if you'd like to ask your question, thanks.

Yes, thank you for taking my questions, and congratulations for this results. Probably two questions that are related also potentially with the capital markets day in '27.

Basically looking at the strong underlying growth in the upstream business, my question is what's the level of CapEx do you need to maintain this profile in the coming years? If the €7 billion is enough or you have to look at this number?

The second question is about Venezuela. I'm very interested on the Junín 5 and the Perla projects.

You can give us an indication on the total CapEx needed to reach those levels of production. Although you also highlighted the possibility of farm-downs, but if you can give us some numbers.

Thank you.

Francesco Gattei (Chief Transition and Financial Officer): I will answer to the CapEx. Clearly, is a bit early now to discuss about capital market day because we are starting to work in the coming weeks on the plan that we are going to present next year.

Sure what you could expect is that the model that we have built and has proved has the potential to make you grow in different direction, different businesses, and geographies without compromising the amount of investment. Actually, maximizing the opportunity and therefore the speed of this transformation and growth while keeping a steady level of CapEx.

We could continue to expect something that is in the range of what we have seen this year and also last year. About the Venezuela, I leave now to Guido Brusco.

Yeah. On Venezuela, as it's a phased project, first of all, and then we will leverage on facilities with spare capacity.

Of course, over time, we will have to build the new facilities as the production volumes will increase. I would say we are still in an assessing phase to understand the level of capital.

For sure, at the very beginning, will be low intensity, utilizing spare capacity, which is in the country available.

Understood. Grazie.

That's great. Thanks, Alex.

We're going to now move to Michele Della Vigna at Goldman Sachs. Michele?

Thank you very much, and congratulations on the very strong results. I wanted to ask two questions.

First, on tanker rates for crude, we've seen a crazy increase over 20 times the normalized level. Could you give us an idea of how much of your crude transport needs are covered by long-term agreements versus spot rates?

It's never really mattered that much before, but it is very important, especially as we start to model the fourth-quarter realizations. Then secondly, you've achieved very low tax rates in the last two quarters.

You're guiding 36%-37% for this year. Is that also what we should use for modeling next year?

Or perhaps with a more normalized refining environment, let's say maybe something closer to 40%-45% would be more appropriate? Thank you.

I leave to Stefano Pugiatti, Head of Trading, the answer about the tankers rate, and then we'll come back to the tax rate.

Yes. In terms of shipping strategy, I would say 60% roughly of the shipping that we do is under long-term agreements.

This is providing us a mitigation on the current very high prices that we're seeing on the market from one side, and from the other is giving us a certainty of being able to deliver the volumes. The remaining 40% is more let's say on the spot market, but let's say more than half of those we are able through selling contracts actually to pass through those costs to the buyer.

Okay. About the tax rate, clearly, the tax rate evolution is related to two factors.

One is the level of pricing, clearly is the contribution of the different segments or different upstream geographies on one case, but also from the point of view of the different business: R&M on one side, or gas and power on another side, and Enilive who are supporting or helping to reduce the tax rate. The other factor that is more structural and not related to the price is the fact that the business combination reduced the tax rate, you receive just practically the net result from this company, and therefore you don't have any rate applied to that result.

For this reason, you should expect clearly a range that is much lower than the historical level that we had in the past in a normalized price environment. Clearly, if the price remain where it is now, this is also helping to keep it even lower.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks, Michele. We're going to move to Alessandro Pozzi at Mediobanca.

Alessandro?

Yeah. Thank you, John.

I have two questions. The first one is going back to Venezuela.

You talked about a phased approach. You talked about the initial phase of 200,000 barrels a day, increasing to potentially 1 million, which is quite significant.

I believe is that just for Junín 5? That's all what I understood.

I was wondering, can you give us a bit of maybe the timing within which you aim to get there? Also, I think Junín is in the Orinoco Belt and historically has been heavy oil.

You need a lot of diluents to extract the oil. I was wondering about any technical challenges that you may face there, basically.

On the second question is on Argentina. I believe there is an FID targeted around year end.

Can you give us an update about the regulatory approvals that you need, the RIGI framework, and financing as well? Can you clarify what will be the accounting for Argentina upstream and LNG?

Thank you.

I leave the both answer to Guido.

Starting from Venezuela, a bit of a timing. On the Phase 1, which would reach the 200,000 barrel of oil per day, we expect between 18 and 24 months.

Then we have another intermediate level, which is 400, which we will achieve by end of 2029. Then the one the 1 million is the potential, which we will achieve in mid-2030 in mid, let's say, 2032-2033.

You have to consider that this is a super giant with 35 billion barrel of oil in place. The potential is there.

Clearly, we have to build, as you have appreciated, the right logistic, the right supply chain, and this will take some time, of course. From a subsurface standpoint, we know the rocks, we know the reservoir.

You spotted the right point: we need a lot of diluents, but we also have synergies with our assets in Venezuela. We have condensate from Perla, and we expect to double the production of condensate in Perla with the future export of LNG.

This could be used as a diluent for the heavy oil of Junín 5. Equally, we have another asset, Corocoro, on which we have also a plan to increase production.

It's light oil or lighter than the oil of Junín 5, and this also could be used as a diluent. The amount required is large, but we have also some synergies we can leverage in-country to overcome that.

Going to Argentina, there are a few things required for the FID. From a technical point of view, commercial point of view, and also supply chain contractors have been identified, so that part of the work is done.

RIGI, we have just submitted the application, and we expect to get it approved before, of course, the FID. The government and the stakeholders are very supportive, and RIGI have been designed for this kind of project.

RIGI is all about mega project like this one. The financing, of course, we made market sounding, we've tested the market, there is a very strong appetite.

Our target is to achieve a 65% to 70% financing for this project. On the accounting, I would leave

I will complement that. Yes, on the accounting, both the upstream and the midstream activities will be deconsolidated because will be structured around special purpose vehicle that, as also Guido said, will attract specific financing tools.

Okay. That includes the LNG, the midstream part?

Correct.

Yes, it's midstream.

All right. Thank you.

Thanks, Alessandro. We're now going to move to Lydia Rainforth at Barclays.

Lydia?

Thanks, John, and good afternoon, everyone. Again, thank you for the results and the presentation.

A quick one. Just on Venezuela, I just want to come back to, I think it was slide 5 where you talk about 600,000 barrels a day of new production in 2030 alone has been sanctioned in 2026.

Can I just check, does that include Venezuela or not? Obviously, that one hasn't been sanctioned yet, I just want to check on that one.

Then just when you look at that idea of 2026 for materially changing the portfolio and adding as much resources as you have, can you just give us a sense of the scale of that change in terms of do you feel like this has been a year where actually for Eni has been a step change in the resource additions? Thanks.

I think Guido is the right person.

Yeah. On those in the 600, Venezuela is not included to give you a straight answer.

On 2026 was clearly a very strategic and turning point for us. We've continued our phenomenal exploration success, but we also, with the strategic agreement in Venezuela and Argentina, we've accessed very large resources in Vaca Muerta and, of course, in Junín 5.

The 4.6 billion of BOE reflects that access. Of course, the lion's share is done by Argentina and Venezuela, but you could have appreciated also in the slide, we have created four major hubs, engine of growth.

It's not only Americas, it's also Indonesia with the two FID and the third hub coming with Galla, but it's also Africa and Mediterranean with Cronos in the Mediterranean, with the discovery of Denis in Egypt, with Baleine Phase 3, with Greater Paxi in Angola, with the ramp-up of Congo LNG, Coral North in Mozambique. It is Venezuela and Argentina, but not only that.

That's great. Thank you.

Thanks, Lydia. We're going to move now to Josh Stone at UBS.

Josh?

Thanks, John, and thanks, Francesco, thanks for your help. One question on the balance sheet.

It is quite striking your gearing now being below 10% on a pro forma basis. Wondering how you're thinking about that, Francesco, looking into 2027.

If the current upturn continues, would you consider going net cash, potentially? Or is the idea just keep giving excess cash back to shareholders?

Just curious your thoughts there. Then second question on chemicals.

Everything seems to be going best than expected, but except for Versalis, where it seems to be losing more money than it was at least in the nine months versus last year, if I include the transformation costs. I understand the macro's been very difficult for petrochemicals, but is there anything else you think that can be done to help stop the losses here?

Thanks.

Thank you, Joshua, for the question about gearing. Clearly, we have a model that allow us to grow and distribute, as we said, at record level, but also to manage a different cycles in the oil prices and commodity prices.

What is the real advantage of what we built is a sort of ship that is able to navigate different seas. Clearly, in a period as the one that we have seen in this 2026, there is, let's say, an amount of cash that was originally not included, but that we considered in any case, and I would say we were quite able to anticipate a potential scenario to share this upside to the shareholder.

On the other side, to use this upside for our balance sheet. 2027, clearly, we have to see how the crisis is evolving in the coming months.

It will take time to recover a normalized price environment, but what is more important is that, for us, the opportunity is to use at the best the financial potential that we have inside the company is not only gearing of Eni is a reference, but also are the different financial potential that is inside the different combination, the different entity that we have built. Do we expect to reach positive cash is not in our assumption, but is something that could happen in the case of scenario.

The distribution policy, I think is something that we are going to discuss with the board with the plan under our eyes with the board next year, but clearly is something that will follow the same logic. If there is an upside related to our capability to capture and to execute better than expected, we like to share the upside.

Now I leave to Adriano for the Versalis answer.

Yes. Thanks, Josh, for the question.

I think we need to make a distinction between what is the trajectory and what was the second quarter of 2026 that was a special quarter, let me say, special from the impact of Hormuz. When we look, as you ask, compared to the same quarter of 2025, the EBIT pro forma is slightly better, I would say in line slightly better than the third quarter of 2025 as a result of a scenario that remain extremely weak from a demand point of view, but that is significantly worse from utilities point of view.

That the chemical sector is very energy-intensive. Also from negative impact of import duties that starting from the 1st of July of 2026 have been eliminated completely versus the US.

Of course, this is putting Europe even in a weaker position from a competitiveness point of view. What we have done and what we are doing is moving on with our transformation plan that on a quarterly base represent almost 90 million, but unfortunately this is offset completely by utilities and by the negative scenario.

What else we can do? You need to consider that, as we always discuss, that Europe does not have the strong demand of Asia, and Europe does not have the competitiveness in term of feedstock and energy that the Middle East and the US have.

Europe has to play with competencies and innovation to transform. This is what we are doing, and this is what we are going to share more also in the next capital market day on how we are going to accelerate our transformation.

Thanks, Adriano. Thanks, Josh.

Next up is Paul Redman at BNP Paribas. Paul?

Hello, everyone, and thank you very much for your time. My first question was just on refining margins.

If I look at your macro assumptions for 2026, I think you're implying about $25 per barrel SERM margin for 4Q. I wanted to ask what you've seen so far in October on SERM margins and whether that includes shipping costs, as was discussed at the beginning of the call.

Then secondly, as part of your Eni for Italy commitments, you've put in fuel caps. I wanted to ask what the quarterly impact on earnings and cash flow could be from those.

Thank you.

If you want to answer, Pino, Ricci, and then we'll answer about the cap.

Yes, thank you for the question about the refining margin. Of course, the adjusted SERM that standard margin that we use include the freight cost that increased a lot during the last period because of the Hormuz situation.

As include also the different yields that occurs changing the crude, changing completely the slate of crude.

Apologies for interrupting. I was just going to ask and what is the SERM today?

The SERM today, I tell you which is the figure, is 22, and the quarter today is 18.

Thank you.

About the cap that you mentioned, clearly, it's worthwhile to mention that for us doing business means managing a strategy to pursue sustainable and long-term value. We believe that companies have a social responsibility.

We cannot be a company that is, let's say, living in a sort of bubble outside the real world. We have to be realistic and thinking that supporting customer is a priority for a company that is working on a basic needs as energy.

For this reason, we have decided to introduce a cap to our sales of gasoline and diesel. This is a cap that will be, let's say, assessed periodically.

We, in term of impact, we estimate that under the current market condition, assuming the level that we have seen so far, the impact in a quarter will be in the range of a few hundred millions. This is the logic of what we have done and the magnitude of the impact.

Thank you for that.

Thank you, Paul. We're going to move on now to Henry Tarr at Berenberg.

Henry?

Hi there, and thanks for taking my question. Could we focus on Enilive, and another very strong quarter in Q3.

What's the outlook for that business into Q4 and then into 2027? It seems as though policy in Europe remains very supportive.

Do you see that continuing to be the case even if we continue with very high prices to consumers? Or do you think security of supply sort of trumps the cost issue?

Thank you.

Yes, I leave to Stefano Ballista, the CEO of Enilive.

The market scenario is very constructive, and the key point is mainly driven by fundamentals. Fundamentals means in Europe the Renewable Energy Directive that has been deployed already in 17 countries, and we got draft from other seven countries that are going to do it just after.

This demand it's going to stay there. In US, rational is the same.

On top of EPA new target we discussed in previous quarter, we got extra clarity on Clean Fuel Production Credit during this quarter that are going to increase, clearly, and reduce market uncertainty. On top, we got reallocation of small refinery exemption to all rest of demand, keeping the scenario very supportive.

Moving forward, we see this situation remaining, and the current geopolitics context actually is going to give the biofuel an extra contribution on top of the sustainability, environmental sustainability, in terms of security of supply, because value chain on biofuel are decoupled from the oil one, they can be used with the same distribution network and with the same engine. This is an extra value that we see on biofuel, enforcing current strong fundamentals.

Thank you. If I could just have a quick follow-up: are you exporting volumes to the US today?

Not today, we're not exporting volume to US because the optimal outlet is Europe, given the arbs. We got volume from US to Europe up to let's say a couple of months ago, due to open arbs.

Now, given the change of the economics in US that is at very high level, the optimal solution is to keep that volume in US.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Thanks, and thank you, Henry. We're going to move now to Massimo Bonisoli at Equita.

Massimo?

Hello, John. Thank you, and good afternoon.

One question on Plenitude. You lowered the EBITDA guidance to €1.2 billion from €1.3 billion, citing increasing competitive pressure in retail and weaker condition in renewable.

Could you elaborate on which factors are driving the downgrade and whether you expect this headwinds to persist into 2027? Thank you.

About Plenitude, the market environment, in particular retail, was particularly challenging because there are a number of players that are entering the market with aggressive policies. They are trying to build their customer bases, and therefore they are, let's say, defining aggressive marketing activities.

We are actually working and reacting, as you have seen also recently with the policy, with the new announcement that we have done, and we see improvement, return of, let's say, quite a number of new entry in our customer bases that was also enlarged by ACEA Energia acquisition that we completed this year. There is another factor that is impacting our performance this year that was a one-off.

It was related to the fact that during the summer, there was a spike in term of power demand, that has practically pushed well above any expectation the request of our customer, and therefore we had to buy on a spot basis that energy. This is something that will return positively, clearly, related to the weather or to the climate conditions.

Clearly, we have to continue to adapt our retail marketing activity to take into account of this new environment that is characterizing mainly Italian market. We do expect, clearly, an improvement.

We have also to consider that with the new injection of capital, Plenitude has probably one of the strongest position in term of financial power of the player of the sectors. We need to use this money in the best way.

Thank you, Francesco.

Thanks, Massimo. We're going to move now to Chris Kuplent at Bank of America.

Chris?

Thank you very much. In the same vein, if I may ask you, Francesco, maybe you can give us an overall estimate for the impact about all these price caps that you've press released in the last few weeks, whether it's on fuels, whether it's on power, etc.

In whatever shape or form, you can give us a little bit of an idea what the financial impact is on that. Then I was just going to follow up and ask you whether you can give us more insight into the timing of dividends from your affiliates so we can get a better handle for what is in your Q4 budget, what you're expecting there, because it seems like Q3 was a rather handsome receipt in terms of dividend payments to the mothership.

Thank you.

About the price cap, we have already said that assuming the current level of cap and assuming the current forward curve, we are speaking about a few hundred millions in a quarter. That is related to the fuel.

While for the marketing positioning of Plenitude is just some millions for this year and a bit more for the next year, but is not changing the overall number that I mentioned before. In the fourth quarter, the key contributor for the distribution policy will be Seara, that is material, and there is also some contribution coming from Vår Energi and I think also from Azul.

Great. Thank you.

Thank you, Chris. Getting to the end of the list, we have Alastair Syme at Citi Group.

Al, are you still with us?

I am, John. Hurry up.

Maybe just a question for Stefano. Looking at the Enilive sales data, and somewhat surprised to see quite strong growth, particularly in Italy.

I think you're talking about retail sales up 11% year-on-year. Maybe just share some perspective on that.

Are we looking at same-store sales data? We're kind of in the midst of an energy crisis.

It's unusual to see double-digit growth numbers. Thank you.

Yes, I leave to Stefano.

No, thanks for the question. The growth is driven by retail demand.

This is clearly related to our pricing strategy as well, this is part of the focus on customer, part of the social responsibility that Francesco just highlighted. On top, actually, we got a very focused let's say, before the price cap, pricing approach in order to optimize value, including also non-oil contribution, so as a whole.

Other side of this approach is in order to optimize portfolio, we reduced our wholesale exposure exactly to maximize the value, reducing exposure on the lowest-margin segment on the wholesale, given the current portfolio and given the ongoing market dynamics in terms of plus price plus premium.

Just to be clear, Stefano, what we're seeing is some sort of market share gain then on the retail side. Is that the way to interpret it?

Oh, yes, definitely. Sorry.

Absolutely. There is a significant market share gain, yes.

It's exactly the implication. These numbers are related to us, not to the global market.

Global market is pretty much in line. In Italy, there's not be any significant swing compared to the expectation.

This is an extra volume we are capturing thanks to the overall strategy we have in place.

Perfect. Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Thanks, Al. We're going to move to the last question.

That's Sasi at Jefferies. Sasi, are you there?

Yes, thanks for taking my question. I had one left on Venezuela regarding Perla.

I was just wondering if it was possible to provide a timeline for the development of the export facility there as well. Recent press reports have indicated that an additional partner could be brought into the project.

I was wondering if you can comment on those discussions if you're marketing it currently, and clarify whether a farm-down is necessary to take an FID on the export project there.

Guido, thank you.

Yeah. On Perla, we have submitted the plan of development, which foresee two steps: one is a debottlenecking of the current onshore plant to provide additional 90 million standard cubic feet per day to the domestic market, and then the second phase is the export through a floating LNG of about 3.4-3.5 million tons per annum.

We have stated already that once we will take the FID, it will take 3.5 years, give and take, to bring this volume on production. The FID, of course, is subject to the approval of the plan of development from the first party, from the government.

The good news is that the technical work has been done, and also the supply chain has been somehow identified.

Thank you.

Thanks, Sasi. Thanks, Guido.

With that, we're going to close the call. Thank you very much for your interest.

Any other questions, don't hesitate to reach out to the Investor Relations team, and have a great weekend. Thank you very much.

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