Thank you, Carmen, and welcome to Tenaris 2026 first quarter conference call. Before we start, I would like to remind you that we will be discussing forward-looking information during the call and that our actual results may vary from those expressed or implied in this call.

With me on the call today are Gabriel Podskubka, our newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, Carlos Gomez Alzaga, our Chief Financial Officer, and Guillermo Moreno, President of our US Operations. Before passing over the call to Gabriel for his opening remarks, I would like to briefly comment our quarterly results.

Our first quarter sales reached $3.1 billion, up 6% year-on-year and 4% sequentially, despite the disruption in the Middle East caused by the conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, as sales benefited from seasonally higher activity in Canada, a limited recovery of activity in Mexico, higher offshore sales in Brazil, some stock building in North Africa, and an advance of shipment in Saudi Arabia. Average selling prices in our Tubes operating segment increased 5% compared to the corresponding quarter of 2025 and 1% sequentially.

Our quarterly EBITDA rose 3% sequentially to $735 million, while our net income increased 22% to $564 million due to better results below the operating line. Our EBITDA margin remained at 24%, as higher costs for maintenance shutdowns were offset by lower tariff costs.

With operating cash flow of $618 million and capital expenditure of $114 million, our free cash flow for the quarter was $503 million. Following share buybacks of $90 million during the quarter, our net cash position at the end of the quarter increased to $3.8 billion.

Now, I will ask Gabriel to say a few words before we open the call to questions.

Thank you, Giovanni, and I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you. Before we go to our results, I would like to express that I am deeply honored by the trust that Paolo Rocca and the Tenaris Board of Directors have placed in me, and with it, the enormous responsibility of leading this company in the next phase of growth.

At the same time, I am very pleased that we will be able to count on the continued support and leadership of Paolo as Chairman of the Board. When I joined the company as a graduate engineer in 1995, I never imagined how Tenaris would grow so quickly and come to play the leading role in serving the world's energy industry that it does today.

During all these years, Paolo has been the architect of the growth and the transformation of Tenaris, and a constant presence and inspiration to all of us. The journey has been truly extraordinary, and it has been a privilege to experience it from the inside and to have had so many opportunities for professional growth.

I look forward to building on his remarkable achievements. Now let's move on to our first quarter results and the panorama that we have ahead.

This quarter reminding us that the geopolitical risk and uncertainty is ever-present in the oil and gas industry. As is well-known, the conflict in the Middle East has led to the closure of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil and LNG normally passes.

During this time, our first priority has been the safety of our 1,000 employees in the region. I would like to give a special thanks to them for their unwavering commitment to serving our customers through this turbulent period.

In Saudi Arabia and the UAE, our customers have continued their operations, and we continue to support them. However, customers in Kuwait, Qatar, and Iraq have had to shut in most of their operations.

We expect our sales in the region to be affected in the second quarter in around $140 million. We are also seeing higher logistics costs as we seek alternative routes to the region, and also from the global increase in fuel prices.

Amidst the regional turmoil, we continue to differentiate our service in the region. ADNOC Offshore recognized our reliable service and HSE performance with a Supplier of the Year award.

In Kuwait, we have been awarded a 5-year contract for the supply of casing products and accessories to be used in the development of a complex new field. As an immediate consequence of the supply disruption in the Middle East, oil and gas companies and consuming countries are looking at diversifying supply.

Investment in short-cycle shale plays in the Americas are likely to benefit, and some Rig Direct customers in the United States and Argentina are already confirming that they are adding rigs. The fleet of high-spec rigs operating in Vaca Muerta is expected to increase by 15% by the year-end as new rigs and hydraulic fracturing sets are brought into the country.

Tenaris will start to operate its third set of hydraulic fracturing equipment towards the end of the year. We are preparing for an increase of activity in the United States in the second half of the year, while in Canada, industry and government are working to increase LNG and pipeline takeaway capacity, which will allow activity growth in the years ahead.

We are also strengthening our Rig Direct service through the integration of Alterk's hardware and software for torque-turn monitoring operations. We recently acquired this specialized technology and know-how that now forms part of our well integrity service and will add further value to our customers.

The outlook for deepwater drilling, offshore pipeline construction, and further exploration activity during the next 3 years is promising. There is a significant number of deepwater projects in Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean, which are nearing final investment decisions, while in the United States, Brazil, and the Guyana-Suriname basin, developments are also moving forward.

Operators are looking to shorten time from discovery to first production, and Tenaris is supporting them by fast-tracking the integrated supply of OCTG, line pipe, coating, and accessories. As we look into the eventual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Tenaris, with its extensive presence, flexible supply options around the world, its differentiated service and technology for shale and deepwater operations, and the strength of its financial position, is well placed to serve our customers as they respond to the need to replenish oil and gas inventories and increase drilling activity.

I would now open the floor for questions.

Hi. Good morning, gentlemen, and Gabriel, best wishes to you on the new chapter here as CEO.

My first question actually on the 2Q kind of guide. You indicated $140 million impact from kind of lower revenue, and then the higher kind of cost impact.

Could you maybe venture and give a sense of what that looks like in terms of absolute EBITDA impact from the higher costs? I presume, if I assume decrementals of sort of 50%, and then obviously the logistics cost in absolute terms, but any color on what that might look like to EBITDA?

Then should we expect you to operate at a sort of lower end of that 20% to 25% sort of medium-term target?

Very good. Thank you, Sebastian, for the question and for the kind remarks.

Regarding the second quarter, as I was anticipating, due to the situation in the Middle East, we expect in the second quarter a lower revenues. Probably mid to high single digits is the range that we would like to guide today.

There is still uncertainty, and this is mainly driven by the Middle East conflict, this $140 million that we had earmarked for invoicing in the second quarter. $40 million of that was anticipated into the first quarter, and the balance, due to the difficulties to get into the region, are probably going to go into the third quarter delay.

This is on the revenue side. Then you are talking about EBITDA margin.

There we expect the EBITDA margin to contract a couple of points. This is going to be 1/3 related to the logistics costs that I will comment in a minute and 2/3 related to the lower absorption of fixed costs, semifixed costs, related to the lower volumes that we expect this quarter.

Logistics is an important component. We expect about $32 million of higher logistics costs in this second quarter due to the conflict.

Here we need to separate two effects. One, the difficulty in arriving to our customers through the Strait of Hormuz.

We have additional costs on vessels that are waiting for berth in ports that are either in Fujairah or Khor Fakkan in the outer part of Hormuz on the Emirates or Oman as well, some ports in Oman that we are using, or even Jeddah in the Red Sea to access to Saudi. Waiting times, unloading, and a second leg, an inland transportation that is additional to the costs that we would normally have if the strait would be open.

This accounts to around $8 million of estimate additional costs in the quarter. In addition to that, and related to the price of oil, fuel prices are going up all over the world.

This creates an additional cost of logistics, mainly in trucking, to some extent also in maritime freights, and also railroads. This is around, in our estimate, $24 million of higher freight costs related to the increase in fuel in the different parts of the world, clearly higher impact in North America given the amount of intensity and service that we have, especially in US and Canada.

These effects are temporary in this quarter, contracting the EBITDA margin.

That's very helpful. Thank you, Gabriel.

Then my second question is on the North American business. Obviously performing very well, and now in a higher commodity price environment, likely to see a ramp-up in spending at some point from E&Ps.

If I look at the business, do you expect the growth predominantly to be led by pricing, and we're seeing obviously Pipe Logix is now beginning to step up, or by volumes? Is there really that much more kind of share gain to take given your position already?

I'm just thinking about that. Is it pricing-led or volume-led in North America going forward?

Thank you.

Sebastian. On this point, I think the short answer is both, volume and pricing, but I will let Guillermo give you a bit of color about what we expect on North America on the second half of the year, where we're seeing activity increase and possible price increases.

This is part of the improved outlook towards the second half of the year for Tenaris.

Thank you, Gabriel, and good afternoon, Sebastian. As you said, we are expecting upside in both, in terms of activity and sales, and in prices moving forward.

By talking with our clients, we are starting them to say that they will be adding rigs, particularly led by the small private operators, but also some medium and large-size independents are planning to add rigs. Putting all together, our expectation is that activity by the end of the year, in terms of rig count, will increase around 50 rigs, in other words, around 10% of activity.

We expect that we will grow with our clients in line with this. In terms of prices, Pipe Logix has increased 4% in the last 2 months, and we expect this trend to continue in the following months.

Mainly pushed by the increase of raw material and logistics costs, but also because of the expectation of increase of demand.

Very helpful. Thanks very much.

I will turn it back now. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Giovanni, I didn't hear you introduce Paolo, but I'm sure he's listening.

I want to congratulate him on everything that the company has accomplished under his leadership, and, Gabriel, welcome into the role.

Thank you very much, Marc, for your comment. Probably later today or tomorrow, I'll talk to Paolo and pass along the message if he is not listening, which he probably is, but anyway.

Yeah. Great.

I guess maybe continuing the conversation of how the business is progressing here. Second quarter you've outlined pretty clearly, but the comment in the press release was that second half recovers, assuming the strait opens shortly.

Can you talk about how quickly that happens? Is the expectation that maybe third quarter can be back to be where first quarter was, and maybe unpack that a little bit for us if you could?

Sure. Indeed, we are seeing volumes recovering in the third and fourth quarter.

At this point, I would say probably towards a higher fourth quarter than the third, but is reasonable to assume that we will get very close to the first quarter levels during the second half. This is our best estimation today.

Then we have, as Willy anticipated, the trajectory on price increases that will offset the cost increases that we are having. Because besides the logistics that we talked about, that is an impact starting in the second quarter, we have had higher raw materials on the metallic side, scrap, ferroalloys, hot rolled coils.

The full impact on this cost increases of the last few months, we will start to see, to a large extent, the full impact on that on the third quarter. The pricing trajectory, with a better North America, with a better offshore as well in the second half, will support, together with the volume, an increase on the pricing, returning to EBITDA margin levels close to the first quarter.

Got it. Just specifically related to that, does the Pipe Logix price need to improve beyond what we've seen so far to get to that, or is it just what we've seen through April that gets you to where you just talked about by 4Q, or do we need additional Pipe Logix improvement?

Yeah.

I think we need some more steam on the Pipe Logix, but I will let Guillermo comment on which are our basic premises that are typically conservative on Pipe Logix increase.

Yes. We need some additional increases, but our expectation is that Pipe Logix will increase at least to allow us to offset those cost increases.

Yeah. Okay.

Very good. Thank you.

Then the other question I had was just back on the Middle East and the opportunity for perhaps some more pipeline work to try to reduce the risk of all of the volume going through the strait. There's been talk of expanding the East-West Pipeline within Saudi Arabia.

I'm curious what your opportunity is for that or any other similar type of investments in the region. Yeah.

In that regards, indeed, the East-West Pipeline in Saudi Arabia and the pipeline going to Fujairah in the Emirates have been contingency until now, but now are strategically important. I think it's a rational to assume that this is a strategy that might be continued and expanded.

There is no clear announcement that these projects are going ahead, but is very rational to assume that they will add a lot of value. From that point of view, we see how and if this will occur.

Probably for this type of pipelines, you are talking about a year, 2-year under a fast-track scenario. This is not something that can be produced and built over a few months.

In any case, we have a large-diameter facility in Jubail, GPC, in Saudi Arabia. We would be ideally positioned if this project goes ahead.

We have a capacity of around 450,000 tonnes in our facility in Saudi, and depending on the diameter, wall thickness, and the trajectory of these pipelines, these pipelines could demand hundreds of thousands of tonnes to be built. I think we will see how this develops over time, but we are ideally positioned to capture that from the pipeline point of view.

If there is pipeline capacity, there's going to be drilling behind. Both in Saudi Arabia and UAE, we also have a distinctive OCTG position, we will also benefit from that down the line.

Too early to tell, but important upside opportunity for Tenaris if this develops.

Thank you very much.

Hi there. Good morning, good afternoon.

Congrats from myself as well, Gabriel, and best wishes to Paolo, too. The first question, could I focus on tariffs?

The first part of that would be to ask what the current run rate you're seeing for Section 232 costs within your financials at the moment post the mitigation efforts that you've been carrying out and how you expect that cost line to evolve in the coming quarters. Then perhaps, would you mind if I add on to that, are you able to add any comments on Canadian antidumping headlines that we've seen in recent weeks?

Thank you.

Thank you, Matt, for the congrats. Regarding the first point on tariffs, we have arrived to a level of tariffs impacting our first quarter results of $110, $120 million.

We believe that we arrived to that steady state, and we will take this towards same level towards the end of the year. This is what to expect.

We know that there is a USMCA that starting to be discussed, but this will take probably all the second semester, no variations, I think, that we have in our forecast in the short term for further mitigation. As you said, this number used to be much higher than that, in the range of $140, $150, I believe, at the peak, and we are maximizing steel production and pipe manufacturing in the US to mitigate this tariff numbers.

Regarding your second point of antidumping against Mexico in Canada, this is something that, yes, was announced early last month. Let me tell you first that in Canada, like in many important bases in the world, we have a strategy of mainly domestic manufacturing and sourcing.

Today in Canada, 80% of our sales of OCTG come from domestic manufacturing, but still we import from our different mills around the world to complement this local manufacturing. The impact of this antidumping, I believe is quite limited going forward.

We expect 7% of our supply in Canada to be sourced from TAMSA going forward in line with the pricing indication of this result. This is specialized products, but that, by the way, are not manufactured by the local petitioners of the case.

We believe we have ability to continue to serving our customers in Canada with a mainly domestic base, which has been all along our strategy. This is something that we are factoring in our supply.

Had an impact on the first quarter, which was $14 million, and this is something that we expect not to have later on throughout the year.

All right. Thank you for that.

Perhaps could I switch tones for a second question towards the buyback? I think last quarter I asked Paolo whether the philosophy had changed at all, how you viewed the buyback.

Could I ask you the same question in this volatile environment? Does your philosophy in terms of how you implement that, how you size that, does that change at all?

Should we look to the AGM next week to hear news on it, please? Thank you.

Yeah. Thank you.

On that point, as this is a decision that is to be taken by the shareholder meeting first and then by the board. Next week, we will see, on May the 12th, the company shareholder meeting will consider, among other topics, the renewal of the authorization of a repurchase of shares.

Afterwards, it will be up to the board to decide on that. I cannot offer more color on that at this point.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Happy to pass it on.

Thank you.

Hi, guys, and thank you very much for your time. Gabriel, congratulations on the new role.

I just wanted to ask, you've been COO for a number of years. I wanted to ask where you see the greatest opportunities for Tenaris as you step into the role.

Then, secondly, just on the Middle East, can you provide a bit more detail by country in terms of where you're seeing the greatest issues around logistics, costs, delivery to customer? Just a bit more detail than Middle East in general.

Thank you.

Yep. Thank you very much for the congrats again.

Maybe I start from the second part related to the logistics costs into the Middle East. Clearly, Saudi and UAE, due to these pipeline capacities that we talked before, they have continued their drilling operations, okay?

It has been remarkable that the majority of the rigs have been operating under the challenging conditions that we had in the months of March and April. It has been very important for us to serve them every day with our local manufacturing, our local service centers, and bringing material into these two countries to replenish our inventories and support them.

We had zero rig stoppages, we have been able to serve them under this condition as in normal times. This is an important part of the effort, but again going through logistics outside through Hormuz with longer transit times and higher costs.

When you go to the upper part of the Gulf, it's much more difficult to reach, much more costly to reach. In Qatar, which is mainly producing LNG for export, and in Kuwait and in Iraq, the capabilities of export, alternative routes, is much limited.

Drilling activity there has reduced much more. There was less of a need for the customers to receive new material, and there was more of a difficulty for us to reach those locations, upper part of the Gulf, okay?

This is a way we will see how this unfolds in the next few weeks, in the next few months. Our base scenario continues to be that this is a resolution that will come in the short term, and we hope for that.

This is what we see today. The majority of the big delays have been in the norther part of the Gulf, while Saudi and UAE, we are finding alternative routes because the material is really needed, the rigs are working.

Regarding the first question, maybe you remind me again on the first point.

It was just as you step into the CEO role, where do you see the greatest opportunities

to add

value, yeah?

Yeah. I think there are a lot of opportunities for growth in Tenaris.

This situation in the Middle East creates and strengthens the importance of energy security, diversification of supply. I believe that, as we were saying in the opening remarks, we're going to see actions by customers increasing drilling in different parts of the world.

Guillermo mentioned about the US, but I think this creates and strengthen conditions for growth in Canada. Certainly, Venezuela was starting, but makes Venezuela even more interesting into the future.

We have Vaca Muerta, which is a world-class play, that is also strengthened by the outlook on this situation. The offshore, which has and will continue to have steam, we are seeing FIDs being even anticipated due to these conditions.

We believe that we're already entering an expansion cycle in the offshore in the deepwater, and this is something that we will carry into the balance of '26, '27, and '28. We're seeing projects that are already with FID and schedules even with 2, 3-year visibility.

I believe that in this different area and parts of the world, Tenaris has a lot of opportunity to increase its business.

Great. Thank you very much, and best of luck in the new role.

Thank you very much.

Hi there. Thanks for taking my questions.

Congratulations, Gabriel, and best wishes to Paolo. Firstly, I just wanted to ask on the international business.

Last quarter, you spoke to generally seeing some stability in pricing with balanced demand and supply. Can you just give us a sense of recent price moves in the different regions given the current geopolitical situation and a kind of best estimate as to how you see that evolving as we move forwards through the year?

Then, secondly, you already partially touched on this, but could you give us an update on how your offshore backlog is shaping up? You previously talked to an expectation of 1H '26 revenues offshore being higher than 2H '25 and that 2H '26 would likely be at least as positive as the first half.

Just wondering if you can give us a sense of how things have evolved since your last set of results. Thank you.

Yes. Jamie, thank you for the congrats.

On the second point, in the offshore, I confirmed what we said in the previous call. We are even seeing anticipation on some of the backlog of first half into the second half of '26.

Where I'm sitting today, we're seeing an increase in revenue for the offshore in the second half of '26 versus what we are having in the first half of '26 in the range of 10%, okay? This backlog for offshore is very important and continues to build up and even anticipate a bit.

I'm ready to be a bit even more optimistic that I was in the previous call. Regarding pricing in the international markets, probably we need to divide Europe from the international markets.

In Europe, as CBAM has started is the beginning of this year, and the new safeguard in Europe will be implemented July 1st. This is a safeguard that is much more stringent than the previous one.

The quotas are going to be reduced by half of what they were, and volumes in excess of the quota that today are paying a tariff of 25% to get it into Europe, this will go to 50%. This will protect and strengthen steelmaking and steel pipe making in Europe, which I think is positive for Tenaris as we supply our European customer mainly with European production.

We see a trend in pricing that already started and we're seeing in the second quarter of this year and probably continuing moving upwards in Europe. Then when we go to the international pricing, as I was saying in the last quarter, there's certain stability between supply and demand.

With the situation of the war in the Middle East, there is a pressure on costs, okay? We believe that this pressure of cost will be translated into the international pricing.

The majority of our work in international markets are contracts that have formulas in place from the different components. There is typically a legacy on 2 to 3 quarters for this to be seen in the invoicing of pricing.

I would believe that in our pricing, pricing in international business will go accompanying offsetting the increase in cost over time.

Very helpful. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Yeah. Good morning, Gabriel and Paolo.

Congratulations on your new roles, and great to see, Gabriel. Tenaris mentioned an increased focus on security and the diversification of supply in your release.

One of the things that in an era of more energy security, there's been thoughts that key players in the Middle East, the NOCs, may be focused on having more redundancy in terms of evacuation options via pipelines so they're less reliant on the Strait of Hormuz. I was wondering if you could talk about how Tenaris could be levered to this dynamic.

I know there's been news about a Gulf Super Express Pipeline that would take flows to the Red Sea and Mediterranean, but I just wanted to see if you could elaborate on this dynamic. Yeah.

Thank you, Arun, for the best wishes. Let me tell you, I think a similar question came up earlier in the call, but still I would tell you that this possibility or potential of additional pipeline capacity in Saudi and UAE is something that would look very rational today and a big business opportunity.

I was saying before that this will probably take a year or two under a fast-track scenario to be built, but it's something that we cannot take out of the equation. On the contrary, no announcements, media reports, this is something that we don't have anything to comment yet.

If that opportunity would materialize, Tenaris, with its GPC large-diameter facility in Jubail, we would be able to take an important part of this pipeline capacity going forward. This is a facility where we just last year expanded into the second line, and we have ability even to debottleneck with limited investment to take this capacity even higher.

These pipelines would entail a hundreds of thousand of tons of demand of tubulars, one way or the other, I believe that Tenaris would be well positioned to capitalize on that, and all the drilling of OCTG that will come behind to make this pipeline capacity full. We'll see.

A bit early to tell, but certainly a potential, maybe eventually into a 2027 type of scenario.

Great. Thank you for that.

I did join the call, because I had another call, apologize on the repeat question.

No worries. Thank you for joining anyway.

Then

my follow-up here is I did hear your comments on outlook. I know the stock is maybe reacting to the near-term impacts in 2Q relative to some of the Middle East impacts, but I just wanted to see if you could maybe clarify your comments on the second half.

What we heard is your expectations that second half EBITDA could be close to 1Q, which is in that 735 range, which would be a little bit above the Street. Just wanted if you could comment on that outlook.

Yeah. I would say that this would be a good estimate.

Give and take, it's a bit early. There is a lot of uncertainty.

The strait is not open yet, to be precise in the third and fourth quarter, to be honest, is kind of a challenging. From where we see, and based on this assumption of a relatively short-term resolution of the conflict, and the positive dynamics on volume in the offshore, in North America, and price in trajectory, I think this is where we're seeing our results heading into the second half.

Great. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Arun.

Yes. Good afternoon and congrats for the new role.

One question. Globally, when I look at the structure of the industry in terms of competition, the past 4 or 5 years have seen that probably reduced competition for companies like yours.

My question is, given the strengthening outlook for the next 3 to 5 years, is it reasonable to expect that at some stage, of course, it is much too early to worry about, but at some stage, you may face increasing competition by the end of the decade, for example, in North America with the recent combination of US Steel and Nippon Steel? Maybe I would like to have your view on the competitive landscape, very, very strong today, likely to remain, but how do you see it evolving over the next 3 to 5 years?

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Guillaume, for the congrats on the new role. Look, I think your question is very important.

I would say that it's difficult for me at this position to illustrate if in the next 5 years the competitive landscape will improve or deteriorate. I would say that we are competing every day.

Tenaris is built on being the best and bringing the best value proposition to our customers in different parts of the world. We are catering those segment, customers, countries where we can find differentiation, where we can be different, where we can be the partner of choice, differentiating on technology, service, local capacity.

These are some of the values that we bring, and we have building on these capabilities over time. I believe that there is a common threat for our industry that has been steel pipe manufacturing from China.

This has been what we consider in general in the majority of the international markets unfairly traded imports. This is a threat that we had that we confronted with technology, with services, and in certain areas of the world, also with antidumping and protective measures according what the different parts of the world where we operate consider that these were unfairly traded imports.

Difficult to see how this will progress into the future. We have been and we'll continue to be in a competitive world.

We don't take our customer trust, we don't take our differentiated EBITDA margins for granted, and we work every day to remain competitive and to become the best option. Difficult to project this into the future, but this is what we're all focusing every day.

We'll see.

Thank you very much. Highly appreciated.

Done.

Thank you, Guillaume. There is clearly a message of continuity in Tenaris and with my new appointment and the support of Paolo.

He has been planning this transition for the last 3 years as I have the role of COO. We traveled together, we worked together, and when I say on a daily basis, it's not a metaphor.

It was on a daily basis. I think the part of the message of the new role today is the continuity on the support on Paolo and the 25,000 25,000 employees that make Tenaris, and that probably is one of the secrets of the strength of this company.

Thank you very much. Highly appreciated.

Done.

Yeah. Thank you very much for a third question.

I wanted to touch on Venezuela. There has been a production increase over the past few months.

I wanted to ask how involved you are in terms of sales in that market, and when you think about Venezuela, where do you think production could go to and the opportunity that makes for Tenaris? Thank you.

Thank you, Paul. On Venezuela, we continue to have a favorable look and outlook.

After the legal framework that we had in the previous quarter, there have been licenses granted to some of the companies. Some of the companies, even of the majors, that are starting to operate have made some announcement of additional areas.

We see things progressing in the right direction, obviously from a small size. Tenaris has never left Venezuela.

We have always remained closed and waiting for this opportunity to return. We are mobilizing more resources, and we have plenty of Venezuelan colleagues in different parts of the world.

We are stepping up our presence in the country, from the commercial, the technical, and the service sides. We will start Rig Direct services in Venezuela in the Orinoco area starting in July.

We are certainly a first mover, and we are the front-runner as Venezuela recovers. Today, the business is important.

I gave a figure of around $50 million for this 2026 in the last call. I think we're going to be in that range still, and we see rigs growing up from the different operators that are early positioning in Venezuela.

This would be a country that for us will increase substantially from this level into 2027. We're quite positive about the opportunity of Venezuela.

The range of production increase varies and is still a bit uncertain, but with the outlook that we described before of the need of diversifying supply of oil, I think Venezuela becomes even more attractive and important to the global matrix than it was before the conflict. We see that this is going to increase, and Tenaris would be an important part of that.

Thank you, Carmen, and well, thank you all of you for joining us during the call. Thanks.