Análisis de Estabilidad

BG Group also uses financial instruments, including derivatives, to manage foreign exchange and interest rate exposure. These instruments are required to be recognised at fair value or amortised cost on the balance sheet in accordance with IAS 39. Most of these instruments have been designated either as hedges of foreign exchange movements associated with the Group’s net investments in foreign operations, or as hedges of interest rate risk. Where these instruments represent economic hedges but cannot be designated as hedges under IAS 39, unrealised movements in fair value, together with foreign exchange movements associated with the underlying borrowings and certain inter-company balances, are recorded in the income statement and disclosed separately as disposals, re-measurements and impairments. Realised gains and losses relating to the instruments referred to above are included in Business Performance. This presentation best reflects the underlying performance of the business since it distinguishes between the temporary timing differences associated with re-measurements under IAS 39 rules and actual realised gains and losses. BG Group has also separately identified profits and losses associated with the disposal of non-current assets, impairments of non-current assets and certain other exceptional items, including taxation, as they require separate disclosure in order to provide a clearer understanding of the results for the period. For a reconciliation between Total Results  and Business Performance, and details of disposals, re-measurements and impairments, see note 1, page 98, note 4, page 105 and note 9, page 110.

JOINT VENTURES AND ASSOCIATES

Under IFRS, the results from joint ventures and associates, accounted for under the equity method, are required to be presented net of finance costs and tax on the face of the income statement. Given the relevance of these businesses within BG Group, the results of joint ventures and associates are presented before interest and tax, and after tax. This approach provides additional information on the source of BG Group’s operating profits. For a reconciliation between operating profit and earnings, including and excluding the results of joint ventures and associates, see note 1, page 98.

BG Group publishes certain additional information in a non-statutory format in order to provide readers with an increased insight into the underlying performance of the business. The measures the Group uses are explained below.

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

Business Performance excludes discontinued operations and disposals, certain re-measurements and impairments and certain other exceptional items (see below) as exclusion of these items provides a clear and consistent presentation of the underlying operating performance of the Group’s ongoing business.

BG Group uses commodity instruments to manage price exposures associated with its marketing and optimisation activity. This activity enables the Group to take advantage of commodity price movements. It is considered more appropriate to include both unrealised and realised gains and losses arising from the mark-to-market of derivatives associated with this activity in Business Performance.

DISPOSALS, CERTAIN RE-MEASUREMENTS AND IMPAIRMENTS

BG Group’s commercial arrangements for marketing gas include the use of gas sales contracts. While the activity surrounding these contracts involves the physical delivery of gas, certain gas sales contracts are classified as derivatives under the rules of IAS 39, ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’, and are required to be measured at fair value at the balance sheet date. Unrealised gains and losses on these contracts reflect the comparison between current market gas prices and the actual prices to be realised under the gas sales contracts, and are disclosed separately as disposals, re-measurements and impairments. BG Group also uses commodity instruments to manage certain price exposures in respect of optimising the timing and location of its physical gas, LNG and oil sales commitments. These instruments are also required to be measured at fair value at the balance sheet date under IAS 39 and, where practical, have been designated as formal hedges. However, IAS 39 does not always allow the matching of fair values to the economically hedged value of the related commodity, resulting in unrealised movements in fair value being recorded in the income statement. These movements in fair value, together with any unrealised gains and losses associated with discontinued hedge-accounting relationships that continue to represent economic hedges, are disclosed separately as disposals, re-measurements and impairments.

NET BORROWINGS AND RETURN ON AVERAGE CAPITAL EMPLOYED

BG Group provides a reconciliation of net borrowings and an analysis of the amounts included within net borrowings as this is an important liquidity measure for the Group.

Return on average capital employed represents Business Performance profit (excluding disposals, re-measurements and impairments) excluding net finance costs/(income) on net borrowings, as a percentage of average capital employed. Further information on these measures is provided on page 139.

FREE CASH FLOW

Free cash flow is defined in the Glossary, page 143.

ANP Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels

API American Petroleum Institute CATS Central area transmission system CNOOC China National Offshore

Oil Corporation CPP Central processing plant CSG Coal seam gas

DD&A Depreciation, depletion and amortisation DRO Discovered resource opportunity DST Drill stem test

E&P Exploration and production EBIT Earnings before interest and tax EBITDA Earnings before interest, tax,

depreciation and amortisation ECCU Ethical Conduct Compliance Unit EY Ernst & Young LLP

EU European Union

FCA The Financial Conduct Authority FEED Front end engineering design FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FPSO Floating production, storage

and offloading (vessel) FRC The Financial Reporting Council FTA Free trade agreement GAAP Generally accepted

accounting principles

GDP Gross domestic product – The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a nation during a specified period GHG Greenhouse gas

Base asset Producing asset outside of Brazil and Australia, which are considered growth assets

BG Group or

the Group BG Group plc and its subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures and associated undertakings Capital

investment Expenditure on property, plant and equipment, other intangible assets and investments, including business combinations Capital investment on a cash basis

Cash flows on purchase of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets, loans to joint ventures and associates, and investments in subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates Coal

seam gas Gas trapped in underground coal seams by water and ground pressure the

Company BG Group plc bbl Barrel bcf Billion cubic feet bcfd Billion cubic feet per day bcma Billion cubic metres per annum billion or bn One thousand million

boe Barrels of oil equivalent. BG Group uses a conversion factor of 1 boe equals 6 000 cubic feet of natural gas boed Barrels of oil equivalent per day bopd Barrels of oil per day

CO2e Carbon dioxide equivalent

kboed Thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day

kbopd Thousand barrels of oil per day kt Thousand tonnes

m Million mmbbl Million barrels

mmboe Million barrels of oil equivalent mmbopd Million barrels of oil per day mmbtu Million British thermal units mmscfd Million standard cubic feet per day mt Million tonnes

mtpa Million tonnes per annum tcf Trillion cubic feet

therm Approximate energy equivalent of burning 100 cubic feet of natural gas

IAS International Accounting Standard IEA International Energy Agency

IFRS International Financial Reporting Standards IOC International Oil Company

IPIECA The global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues

LNG Liquefied natural gas OECD Organisation for Economic

Co-operation and Development OGP International Association

of Oil and Gas Producers OPEC The Organization of the

Petroleum Exporting Countries PSC Production sharing contract QCLNG Queensland Curtis LNG QGC QGC Pty Limited, Australia SEC The United States Securities

and Exchange Commission SPE-PRMS Petroleum Resources Management

System published by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, World Petroleum Council and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers

TRCF Total recordable case frequency – total recorded incidents per million work hours

WDDM West Delta Deep Marine Further acronyms are also defined in the

Remuneration report on page 63.

Free cash

flow Net cash flow from operating and investing activities after tax and interest but before disposals Frontier

acreage Areas where little or no exploration activity has taken place Fugitive Fugitive gas emissions refers to gases

that escape from the production, transportation or storage of oil and gas Gearing Ratio of net borrowings to total

shareholders’ funds (excluding balances associated with commodity financial instruments and related deferred tax) plus net borrowings

Monthly forward price

A price for commodity traded in a standard unit such as boe, purchased today but delivered in the next calendar month

Net

borrowings Comprise cash, current asset investments, finance lease liabilities/ assets, currency and interest rate

Spot A charter for a particular vessel to move a single cargo between specified ports in the immediate future. The contract rate (‘spot’ rate) covers total operating expenses

Spud(ded) To start the well drilling process Tie-back A connection between a new oil and gas

discovery and an existing production facility, improving the economics of marginal fields into profitable assets Tight Relatively impermeable reservoir rock.

Stimulation of tight formations can result in increased production from formations that previously might have been abandoned or been produced uneconomically

Total operating profit

Operating profit plus share of pre-tax operating results from joint ventures and associates

Total See page 132 Acronyms Terms – explained Unit of measurement STR A TE G IC R EP O R T C O R P O R A TE GO V ER N A N C E FI N A N C IA L S TA TE M EN TS SH A R EHOL D ER IN FOR M A TION

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