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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to DNO's second quarter 2024 earnings call on this very pleasant day in August. My name is Jostein Löfvås, and I'm the communication manager here at DNO. The plan for today's call is to start with a brief presentation, which will be given by DNO's managing director, Chris Spencer, and CFO, Håkon Sandborg. After the presentation, we will open up up for questions in a Q&A session. Please note that the Q&A session is for investors and analysts and any media requests will be dealt with separately. During the presentation, all other participants in this call will be in a listen-only mode. If you want to ask a question in the Q&A, please click on the virtual hand on top of your screen. When you are selected, you will be notified on your screen that you are allowed to unmute, after which you must remember to unmute yourself. It could be nice if you introduce yourself before asking your question. And with that, let's start the presentation. I will hand over to Chris.

Thank you very much, Jostein. And once again, welcome to everyone joining this call this afternoon here in Oslo. Let me just start by explaining the picture that you are looking at. In DNO, we had a wonderful milestone during the quarter, actually on the 25th of June in 2004, some 20 years ago. The Taoki PSC first edition, if I can call it that, was signed in 2004. and it is from that that DNO has built the tremendous business that we have down in Kyrgyzstan. It was a wonderful occasion. I had the privilege of being down in the region and we had some wonderful events and also together with our partners in the Kyrgyzstan Regional Government and the Ministry of Natural Resources who we've obviously worked with very closely throughout those 20 years.

Thank you.