TTFNF - TotalEnergies SE (TTE) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

2024-04-26 12:19:15 ET

TotalEnergies SE (TTE)

Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call

April 26, 2024, 07:00 ET

Company Participants

Patrick Pouyanne - Chairman & CEO

Jean-Pierre Sbraire - CFO

Conference Call Participants

Christopher Kuplent - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Irene Himona - Bernstein

Christyan Malek - JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lucas Herrmann - BNP Paribas Exane

Henri Patricot - UBS

Jean-Luc Romain - CIC Market Solutions

Alastair Syme - Citigroup

Martijn Rats - Morgan Stanley

Kim Fustier - HSBC

Lydia Rainforth - Barclays Bank

Biraj Borkhataria - RBC Capital Markets

Michele Vigna - Goldman Sachs Group

Bertrand Hodee - Kepler Cheuvreux

Paul Cheng - Scotiabank

Presentation

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to TotalEnergies First Quarter 2024 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions].

I now hand you over to Mr. Patrick Pouyanne, Chairman and CEO; and Jean-Pierre Sbraire, CFO, who will lead you through this call. Sir, please go ahead.

Patrick Pouyanne

Good morning, and good afternoon, everyone, for this quarterly result session. I'm happy to welcome you together with Jean-Pierre, who will go through all the details of these good, strong results in first quarter 2024. But before to do it, I would like to highlight the way we have implemented our 2-pillar strategy during this quarter. And first, to celebrate this -- to recognize that the company celebrated its 100th year anniversary on March 28.

We have been celebrating this event all through the company in 120 countries where we are present. We have company's ancestors who are really pioneers when they discovered oil in Iraq in 1927. And of course, it was the opportunity this anniversary to pay tribute to hundreds of thousands of pioneers who had followed them and who are, in fact, the past and the present employees of the company. And we have decided, by the way, by the signature of this anniversary, would be pioneers for 100 years.

So -- but today, I would say with the same pioneer spirit, that we have decided in 2020 to embark in our journey in the energy transition. And moving to TotalEnergies into an integrated, multi-energy company with a clear and simple strategy anchored on 2 pillars.

First, on oil and gas, mainly LNG, with the objective to continue producing hydrocarbons in a responsible way -- producing and growing hydrocarbons in a responsible way in order to answer the growing demand. And second, investing and developing integrated power energy for the future with objective to become net cash positive by 2028.

So this first quarter 2024 is really -- 2024 is about advancing this strategy. I would say we are off to a great start on both pillars. We have achieved several milestones during this quarter that I would like to underline. First, on the oil upstream. We successfully started up some operated operations in Nigeria with Akpo West and the Tyra development in Denmark, both of which are additive to our overall corporate cash margins, as well as Mero 2 Brazil, which started at the beginning of the year.

We continued to have success on the exploration appraisal front. We've recently finished a positive appraisal of the Venus oil discovery in Namibia, and we are now working towards FID targeting in 2025 for the FID. We have also captured in this prolific Orange Basin some new licenses of high interest on the South African side.

We are making -- also it's important -- I told you it's a matter of execution of growth towards 2028. So we are also making good progress on some FIDs, which were planned for 2024. We will sanction in this month of May as the Cameia project in Angola, 80,000 barrel per day, operated by us with 40%. And we also plan in May to first -- to place the LLI orders for Suriname projects. And we confirm that we envisage to take the FID before year-end 2024 in Suriname. Finally, I would like to also comment that we've done an interesting deal recently in Congo to increase our interest into a giant deepwater field, Moho and divested at same time some very mature assets....

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