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statements regarding total shareholder
return;
statements regarding our growth and
expansion plans;
statements regarding our current or future
products and anticipated customer
demand for these products;
statements regarding acts of war,
terrorism or other events that may
adversely affect the group’s operations or
those of key stakeholders to the group;
statements and assumptions relating to
macroeconomics, in particular in relation
to the COVID-19 impact;
statements regarding climate change
impacts, and our climate change
strategies, our development of
sustainability within our Energy and
Chemicals Businesses, our energy
efficiency improvement, carbon and GHG
emission reduction targets, our net zero
carbon emissions ambition and future
low-carbon initiatives, including relating
to green hydrogen and sustainable
aviation fuel;
statements regarding our estimated carbon
tax liability;
statements regarding cyber security;
statements regarding tax litigation and
assessments; and
forward-looking statements will not be achieved. If one
or more of these risks materialise, or should underlying
assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results may
differ materially from those anticipated in such
forward-looking statements. You should understand
that a number of important factors could cause actual
results to differ materially from the plans, objectives,
expectations, estimates and intentions expressed in such
forward-looking statements. These factors include
among others, and without limitation:
statements of assumptions underlying
such statements.
Words such as “believe”, “anticipate”,
“expect”, “intend”, “seek”, “will”, “plan”, “could”,
“may”, “endeavour”, “target”, “forecast” and “project”
and similar expressions are intended to identify
forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive
means of identifying such statements.
By their very nature, forward-looking
statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties,
both general and specific, and there are risks that the
predictions, forecasts, projections and other
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the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,
and the related response measures, on the
company and on the economies in which
we operate;
the outcome in pending and developing
regulatory matters and the effect of
changes in regulation and government
policy;
the political, social and fiscal regime and
economic conditions and developments in
the world, especially in those countries in
which we operate;
the outcome of legal proceedings
including tax litigation and assessments;
our ability to maintain key customer
relations in important markets;
our ability to improve results despite
increased levels of competition;
our ability to utilise our oil, gas and coal
reserves as anticipated;
the continuation of substantial growth in
significant developing markets;
the ability to benefit from our capital
investment programme;
the accuracy of our assumptions in
assessing the economic viability of our
large capital projects and growth in
significant developing areas of our
business;
the ability to gain access to sufficient
competitively priced gas, oil, coal