Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. I am Maria, your Chorus Call operator. Welcome and thank you for joining the HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings conference call and live webcast to present and discuss the first quarter 2023 financial results. All participants will be in a listen only mode, and the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Should anyone need assistance during the conference call, you may signal an operator by pressing star and zero on your telephone. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Andreas Shiamishis, CEO, Mr. Vasilis Tsaitas, Group CFO, Mr. Dinos Panas, General Manager, Oil Supply and Sales, and Mr. Nikos Katsenos, Head of Investor Relations. Gentlemen, you may now proceed. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you very much for joining this presentation of our first quarter results. I will try and walk you through the first couple of pages with the main highlights of the quarter and maybe some views about what we see happening as far as the environment and the company is concerned. A slightly different presentation on page four. We have tried to make it even easier and more pleasing to the eye as far as the story to be told. In terms of the market, clearly a positive benchmark margin environment. It continues for the fourth quarter in a row. Compared to the first quarter of 2022, definitely a much stronger margin environment. Another piece of good news has to do with the Greek economy macros, which are demonstrating quite significant resilience and rebound from the COVID crisis that we have seen for a number of quarters now. The underlying demand increase growing, which is partly because of increased tourism and longer touristic period, but also as an overall economic climate improvement. Crude oil prices dropped significantly during the quarter. We're still trending higher than the pre-energy crisis, but the crude oil price has dropped by 21%, leading to some inventory losses in the quarter. We've seen the energy crisis impact unfolding, unwinding over the last few months. Natural gas prices are dropping even more since the end of the quarter, and that's clearly a good sign for the European economy. However, it is something which we don't know how it will evolve towards the third quarter and particularly if we have increased demands for power generation, which will be met by CCGT units. It is something to look out for. So far, I would say it's a positive development. Another important aspect of the environment which affects our business, and more so as we move into more capital-intensive renewable projects, has to do with the increase in the borrowing cost. As EURIBOR as a base is increasing, we see the total cost of funding going up as well. Now in terms of operations, not only did we have stronger benchmark margins during the quarter compared to 2022 first quarter, we also had improved refinery runs. The Elefsina refinery was almost in full operation for the quarter, which meant that our production and exports were significantly up from last year. Even though the Greek market is improving, with the exception of heating gas oil, we have been able to increase our exports significantly. In terms of other portfolio developments, we've completed the 2D and 3D seismic work in the offshore blocks. We still have some work to do in terms of understanding them, analyzing them, and reaching a decision for a go/no-go drilling campaign, which I would not expect to see within 2023, the decision that is. The drilling campaign will be even longer after 2023. On the performance of the company, we have just over EUR 400 million of adjusted EBITDA. If you take the last 12 months trailing, we have just shy of EUR 2 billion of EBITDA. Clearly an exceptionally good performance, the best 12 months that we have seen in the group. I have to say that we don't expect this strong performance to last, at least not in this quarter, as we have seen a softening of, and that's putting it mildly, of the benchmark margins. Effectively, we are moving into more normal territories from Q2 onwards. The reported results have been affected by inventory losses, roughly about EUR 150 million of that. If you compare this year with last year, reported net income, there is a delta of roughly about EUR 400 million because we had EUR 200 something inventory gain in 2022 in the first quarter compared to EUR 150 almost lost in this quarter. This is something that we know, we've learned to live with that. It just demonstrates the volatility of reported results. We do have improved contribution from our power and gas and renewables, businesses, which is a good thing given that we are investing in that business section. In terms of cash flows, a very strong quarter. We've had a massive reduction of net debt. However, I need to point out that this is before the payment of dividends and any taxes and solidarity contributions which will be coming up in the next quarter or so, Q2 and Q3. We have good environment, strong operations, and very healthy financial results. In terms of strategy, we completed in 2022, the first round of Vision 2025, and that's about reshaping the portfolio of the company and moving in a totally different direction than the one we have been following for the last 30 years. A number of things have been done, and we are very proud of those things. Going forward, we have a priorities list, which effectively includes operational excellence. It includes decarbonization of our core business. It includes developing of renewables production and storage and energy management solutions, and of course, improving our ESG reporting. On those fronts, we've reached the 340 MW of operating capacity on renewables and even bigger pipeline at various stages of development. Most of them have to be clear at the early stage of development. A relatively small part of this portfolio is at a ready-to-build stage, but we're working on that basis. In terms of the decarbonization projects, we have made our first attempt at carbon capture and storage at the Elefsina refinery. We have filed for a grant under the Innovation Fund. Again, being fully transparent, it is something that we don't see the investment decision, if you will, being taken in the next immediate period. The reason for that is pretty nebulous environment with respect to Europe, whether they like blue hydrogen or whether they don't want blue hydrogen at all. I have to say that, without blue hydrogen, it's very difficult to achieve the aggressive climate change targets. Otherwise, you need to shut down all of your heavy industrial base in Europe and effectively shift the production somewhere in the nearby countries. I think we all understand that this is not gonna benefit the greenhouse gas emissions target. Excuse me. On the contrary, that's gonna make it even worse. We are pushing on that direction and hopefully, we will be able to get traction and eventually achieve this part of the decarbonization plan. In terms of the green hydrogen and the biofuels initiatives, they are moving. The green hydrogen is edging closer to a final investment decision. On the biofuels, we moved into the implementation phase in the Thessaloniki Refinery for HVO. Hopefully, that's something which is a good pilot case, if pilot test, if I may call it that, given the volumes for further investments into this space, which has to do with bio and sustainable air fuel. Digital transformation is something which has to do with operational excellence, and we have progressed significantly in that. It's not an easy target given that this is about changing cultures, it's about shifting the way people think and act. If you stay committed behind this target, then it gradually starts delivering its benefits and eventually you end up with a changed mindset of the organization. ESG, again, something which is high on the agenda. Clearly it covers a number of things, starting from the strategic direction to the actual specifics of governance. There we have made improvements on the risk management structure. We're working on putting together a holistic group ESG framework, which will effectively put together everything that we do in the various businesses. The following page, which relates to transformation agenda, I think it pretty much summarizes or sort of covers the things that I've talked about just now. 21, 22 was the first cycle of the Vision 2025, which included the change of the strategy. It included moving the organization towards a different direction. Changing the corporate governance, something which was done with a lot of noise, if you will, because of the nature of the company that we are. Eventually it went through, and it's been working fine. The corporate structure was implemented as scheduled, one of the fastest deliveries in a large scale corporate transformation of the last few years. Of course, our new corporate identity, which was launched in September 2022. As I said, for 2023, we are slightly changing our angle, and we are focusing behind the four priorities which have to do with operational excellence, with decarbonization of the core business portfolio, the development of renewables production and and storage, not only in Greece but also abroad, and the ESG. A notable development in the last months or so after the quarter end has been the appointment of deputy CEOs, both at the holding company as well as at the major subsidiaries, which is HELPE and EKO. That's something which is done in order to improve the management structure and the succession planning of the group and the individual companies. I'm sure it will allow us to operate even better going forward. At that point in time, I will turn over to Dinos. Dinos will effectively cover the markets and the environment for our businesses. Well, thank you, Andreas. Good afternoon, everybody. On page eight, we see the industry environment concerning the crude and the foreign exchange. Crude in a downward trend for the last four quarters at $81 a barrel on an average for the quarter. 1.07, the average of the euro versus the U.S. dollar during the first quarter of the year. On page nine, you can see the graphs that you all know. At the left part of the page, we see that the USD is in a downward trend, which continues after March. Gasoline resilient at $19 a barrel. Naphtha at - $9 a barrel. HSFO on an upward trend average during the quarter at - $25 a barrel. We can see the margins, our benchmark margins, 10.7 for an FCC refinery with an FCC, like Aspropyrgos, compared to $3.6 a barrel in the 1st quarter of 2022. The co-gen refinery, like Hellenic PET, was at a benchmark margin of $14.2 a barrel, compared to $6.7 a barrel in 2022. The next page about the energy prices. What is very important for us is that we have seen natural gas prices going significantly lower, at lower levels than before. Now it is feasible to burn natural gas in the refineries instead of burning alternative fuels. That was the case during the previous quarter. Electricity prices, of course, were down. We see that the EUAs remain at high levels, averaging at EUR 89 per ton during the quarter. Finally, on page 11, you can see what is happening with the consumption in Greece. In the domestic market, with the exception of the gasoil, the heating gasoil, which shows a significant decrease. We had a big increase in all other products. Gasoline was 4% up. Diesel 5% up. Higher than the previous year and the rest of the products like LPG, HSFO and bitumen at +14%. I must say here that the - 34% is of the heating gas oil was mostly during two parts. One was that we had a milder weather, the most significant one was that during the fourth quarter of the year, the previous year, there was significant subsidy to the retail price of the heating gas oil, so most of the filled up their tanks. If you count winter of this winter with the previous winter, the overall drop was in the range of 7.8%. We see a strong aviation demand, + 25% during the quarter, and bunkers remaining at bunkers demand remaining at the levels of the previous, of the quarter of the previous year. With this, I will pass to Vasilis Tsaitas to discuss the group performance. Thank you, Dinos. Good afternoon to all attending our call today. On page 13, having a look at our numbers, as we discussed before, high utilization at our refineries enabled higher sales by 12% versus last year at 3.7 million tons. Flat marketing sales, including domestic and our international marketing. Certainly a rebasing of our renewables business, with generated capacity 4 x as last year. In terms of adjusted EBITDA, refinery supply and trading continued a strong ground for another quarter, accounting for around 90% of the total EBITDA of the group at EUR 404 million. In terms of associated performance, both HELLENiQON and DEPA improved performance, and we'll discuss in detail further on, leading to an adjusted net income of EUR 250 million. Not to forget to mention that the impact of benchmark rates on interest is affecting our funding costs, which are, as expected, higher than last year. Moving on to page 14, where we see a more graphical representation of the main drivers that affected our performance versus last year. The key element is the refining margins that contributed just over EUR 200 million. That was partially offset by petroleum margins that remain close to all-time lows. In terms of the inventory impact, let us remind you that we adjust for the inventory impact in refining. However, I think it's important to highlight that our domestic marketing business does carry a few days of inventories, and the result of the inventory losses this year versus inventory gains in the first quarter of 2022 had a cumulative impact of EUR 17 million, negative impact of EUR 17 million. The strong dollar, although a little bit weaker, quarter-on-quarter, still have positive impact. The normal operational tower refineries versus the turnaround that Elefsina was undergoing for most of the quarter in 2022, had a significant positive impact in terms of our performance at close to EUR 100 million versus last year, and leading to the EUR 404 million. In terms of our funding and balance structure, our gross debt is at EUR 2.4 billion. This is the lowest in the last 14 years or so. As taking advantage of the, of the, of the good performance in our core business, we were able to deleverage our balance sheet significantly, and net debt just below EUR 1.5 billion. The finance this is helping us. The lower base of our gross debt is helping us partially mitigate the impact of higher EURIBOR rates, together with the negotiation of credit facilities that have been refinanced in the last two quarters at lower spreads. Moving on to the performance of our business segment, starting with refinery supply and trading on page 18. As we discussed before, production is 30% higher than last year. That drove a significant increase in sales volumes, higher adjusted EBITDA and a very strong overperformance with realized margins at $22 per barrel, over $12 per barrel, more or less, over benchmark. On page 19, the normal operations at Elefsina refinery, despite the few issues that we had in the first quarter, but certainly, a much higher utilization and much more normal operation versus last year, are reflected on both total sales volume, product yields, more skewed towards middle distillates and the rest of white products. As a result of that, on page 20, sales at 3.7 million tons, 12% higher than last year, with exports staging a very strong performance at 2.2 million tons. This is the highest, both in absolute terms as well as a percentage of our total sales. 60% of our total sales are coming from exports, which is the best performance in both terms for the last couple of years. On page 21, you can see the evolution of our realized versus benchmark margins. For another quarter, we were able to take advantage of the crude differentials in the area and the strong exports with good premium and higher volume also contributed to the very good performance. Moving on to petrochemicals on page 23. As we mentioned before, it's the third consecutive quarter of low, below mid-cycle benchmark margins, polypropylene margins. This is partially mitigated by the higher sales volumes. However, profitability at EUR 50 million lags last year by around 47%. In terms of our fuel margin business, as we mentioned before, the price impact, the price had a significant impact on the EBITDA. Adjusting for that, performance is more or less flat versus last year. We still can see the negative effect of inflation on a number of cost-based elements of our business. Otherwise, in auto fuels, we report a small market share gains, and similarly on our aviation business. In international marketing, another quarter of very good performance, actually a third higher than last year, which is driven by higher volumes in most of our markets and very good performance, particularly in the Bulgarian and the North Macedonian markets. In terms of our new business in renewables, profitability is certainly very difficult to compare versus last year. However, it was supported by very strong wind conditions at our sites with load factors over 35%, while PV due to seasonality had a lower contribution and in the coming two quarters is expected to increase as a share of total. On page 29, we have an overview of our capacity and operation. HELLENiQ is the largest PV operator in Greece currently. In terms of our pipeline, we're other than PV and onshore wind, we're also developing in storage as we expect that it will play a significant role in the future as more capacity is coming online in the system in the next few years. Moving on to our associate business, starting from power, our 50% share in Elpedison. Very strong performance in Elpedison and with EUR 60 million of EBITDA, 30% higher versus last year. I think it's important on the bottom right to understand the contribution of each of the distinct activities with international natural gas trading accounting for more than 50% of the profitability. Energy management, mainly balancing services to the system, and other ancillary services like risk aggregation are also representing a significant proportion with generation that effectively day ahead market accounting for the rest. Retail has a very small contribution. It's actually almost negative, breakeven at the EBITDA level. It's mainly the international trading and the energy management that drove profitability in this business, similarly like the previous quarters. In terms of DEPA Commercial, also an improved performance. DEPA took advantage of the favorable pricing mix in their supply contracts for pipe gas mostly. They were able to also engage in international trading. As a result of that, they have a significant increase in their profitability and contribution to HELLENiQ ENERGY Group. I will stop here. That concludes the main part of the presentation and open the floor for any questions that you guys may have. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we will begin the question-and-answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star followed by one on their telephone. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, then you may press star and two. Those participating via the webcast, you may submit your questions using the Ask a Question window. To our audio participants, please use your handset when asking your question for better quality. Anyone who has a question may press star and one at this time. One moment for the first question, please. The first question is from the line of Nikos Athanassiou with Eurobank Equities. Please go ahead. Hello gentlemen, and congratulations on the great sales results. I have two short questions. The first one is regarding your view on the refining margins for 2023 and the abrupt decrease as we saw in April. Do you expect a stabilization near 2021 levels or even lower? That's the first question. The second one, what is your view and how do you see the alleged resourcing of Russian-related products through India, and how does this affect the demand in Europe, and how do you see this unfolding the next quarters? Thank you very much. Well, okay. It looks that the market is more or less starting to balance after quite a few months of big disturbances. We have seen refinery margins going down during April and May, recovering a bit during the last week again. We'll have to see where all this will end up. It's good that we have a strong demand in Greece increasing compared to last year. It's a significant market for us. It remains to be seen. Now on the imports from India and it's not only from India, although this is significant. We have also Russian barrels that are going to other countries like in the area, like to our neighbors in Turkey. We see it coming back into Europe. This is a concern with us. I think that this is something that policymakers about the whole situation and what is they're trying to do with Russia and they will have to take care. Thank you very much. The next question is from the line of Georgios Grigoriou with Pantelakis Securities. Please go ahead. Yes, hello. Congratulations on the focus beating results I think for everybody, especially on in terms of free cash flow on your net debt. Because of your net debt, at EUR 1.5 billion, and I know you mentioned obviously you have to pay taxes, the solidarity tax and dividends and everything. I was wondering, what should we think as CapEx for this year, excluding obviously acquisitions? On the subject of acquisitions, you've mentioned recently in the press that you're thinking, and you said it as well, I think, before the presentation, that you are thinking of going abroad for renewables. If you've got anything to share with us. My other question is if you could explain perhaps why Bulgaria did so well, both in terms of volumes and in EBITDA. My last question is on costs. You mentioned that you in the first quarter, you're obviously seeing inflation impact on your OpEx. Going forward, obviously that will ease out. Would you be so kind as to provide us a metric, either per barrel or in absolute numbers, if prices both for electricity and natural gas and whatever stayed where they are today, what would be the savings for the whole year versus 2022? That's it. Thank you. Thank you, George. A number of questions. I'll try to make sure that I get all of them just in case you may follow up. In terms of our net debt, it's a low baseline currently. As you rightly suggest, we have a tax payable of around half a billion in the second half of the year. Working capital inherently has some volatility. It's not something stable. You could expect to see more outflows in the second half of the year versus the first. In terms of CapEx, leaving the renewables out of the equation, we would expect anything between EUR 200 million-EUR 250 million for the rest of our business. For international expansions in renewables, you know, it's something that we're looking for in order to get to our target of the 2 GW, and 1 GW in the next few years, and 2 GW by the end of the decade, Greece won't suffice. We are on the look for specific opportunities, and hopefully we'll be able to be more precise in the later in the year. In terms of the Bulgarian market, there is the refining incumbent is actually driving the market there. We're price takers, so took advantage of the positive environment during the first quarter. That explains the higher profitability. In terms of the OpEx, It's not exactly like for like in terms of electricity prices because during 2022 we had the subsidy that alleviated part of the impact. I would say net of current prices, we could see savings of around $0.50 per barrel excluding, so take considering also the net impact from the subsidy and assuming that there won't be any subsidies for the rest of the year. Excellent. Many thanks. That's been very helpful. If I can just one last question, if I may, on, in terms of Elpedison. You kindly provided this breakdown for the EBITDA split of Elpedison. On a year-on-year basis, natural gas trading versus last year, do you have a sense, could you provide us a split in terms of percentage or absolute numbers? Thank you. That's it. George, actually, the high contribution of international natural gas trading is the main driver for the variance versus last year, as there were very good opportunities in the first quarter that Elpedison was able to take advantage and materialize. There's no significant change in the other activities. Super helpful. Many thanks. As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephones. There are no further audio questions. I will now pass the floor over to Mr. Katsanos to accommodate any written questions from the webcast participants. Mr. Katsanos, please proceed. Thank you, operator. We do have a question from Madam Milevis from PKO BP, who asks whether we see any signs of recovery in refining margins from recent drop. I guess we have already answered that question previously. Currently operator, we do not have any other questions, so I can pass again the floor to you. Ladies and gentlemen, there are no further questions at this time. I will now hand over the conference to management for any closing comments. Thank you. Thank you very much for for your time and the questions. Clearly, a good set of numbers for the quarter. Overall a good run for the last four to five four quarters definitely. The company has made strides in delivering, in designing and pushing forward a transformation agenda, which will probably not be changing the immediate future and performance of the company. It sets the scene for the next 10- 20 years in terms of the cash flow breakdown and the valuation of the company. In doing so, we are improving our internal processes and our structure things which have troubled us over the last many years in terms of governance and group model. We have, if you will, a good set of results. We have progress on strategic issues. I think we've managed well to stay clear of the crisis. There have been opportunities that could have pushed our numbers even higher, but we opted not to engage in trading of more gray origin hydrocarbons. That's a conscious decision. We are, if you will, at least confident that our performance is not inconsistent with our principles. In terms of the future, we have a weak benchmark environment in the next quarter. We have now we're halfway through a partial shutdown in the Elefsina refinery. We're fixing some issues that were leftovers from the power failures of the previous year. Operations overall are doing well, and we are optimistic about a strong fuels demand in the Greek market. All in all, I would probably say that we should be waiting a weaker 2Q, but then I would expect 3Q and 4Q to recover, maybe not to the last 12 months levels, but definitely to recover to a mid-cycle level performance. In the meantime, our investments in renewables will keep providing some additional stability to the cash flow, albeit small relatively to the very strong performance of the refining supply and trading business. As I said, it is a long-term decision. As far as announcements about potential acquisitions, I expect that in the next few weeks, we will be able to announce a couple of such agreements. Some of them with immediate impact on the results. Not on material, but as I said, it is a journey which is longer than just a hundred-meter sprint. It's something that we need to build, and we need to build it in a value-enhancing way, rather than going on a shopping spree simply because we have the cash. That is a fine balance to achieve, and we try our best to do that. Thank you very much once again and look forward to speaking to you in the next quarter. Ladies and gentlemen, the conference is now concluded and you may disconnect your telephone. Thank you for calling and have a pleasant evening.