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Vår Energi ASA

Investor Presentation Jul 26, 2022

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Second quarter 2022

Results presentation | 26 July 2022

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Today's Vår Energi presenters

Torger Rød CEO

Stefano Pujatti CFO

Ida Marie Fjellheim

Head of Investor Relations

Second quarter 2022 highlights

Operating performance impacted by maintenance activities

  • Successfully executed maintenance on operated fields according to plan
  • Full-year production guidance of 230-245 kboepd maintained

Strengthened gas position

  • Secured flexible long-term gas sales agreements in Germany
  • Maintained stable high gas production from previous quarter

Continued strong cash flow generation

  • CFFO impacted by higher taxes payable and working capital movements
  • Dividend guidance increased to USD 290 million for the third quarter, fullyear expectation of minimum USD 1 billion

Financial position further improved

  • Raised USD 500 million for partial refinancing of bridge-to-bond facility
  • Leverage ratio further reduced to 0.4x from 0.6x at end-Q1 2022

Delivering on the growth strategy

  • Strong exploration performance with two discoveries in the quarter
  • New organisational structure and management team introduced

Key performance indicators

Q2 2022 vs. Q1 2022

A new organisation preparing for future value-driven growth

Operational review Operational review

Key focus on safe and efficient operations

TRIF1 and SIF2

CO2 emission intensity for operated assets

kg CO2/boe

  • No serious incidents in the quarter
  • Increasing trend on TRIF related to project incidents at yards
  • Continuous focus on strengthening the safety culture through key safety tools
  • Increase in CO2 intensity due to high maintenance level resulting in lower production

Seasonally high maintenance impacting production

Production, production efficiency operated assets and product mix

  • Turnaround activities on operated assets executed according to plan
  • Increase in production year-on-year
  • Reduced NGL recovery to increase gas sales
  • 2022 production guidance of 230-245 kboepd maintained at the lower end of the range

Operational update on operated assets

Goliat Successful completion of turnaround

  • Q2 production efficiency of 75% reflecting planned maintenance
  • Successful turnaround executed safely on plan and budget
  • 1H 2022 production of 23 kboepd, ahead of 1H 2021 driven by additional volumes from wells drilled in 2021
  • Efficiency and opex improvement program progressing to plan

Balder/Ringhorne Uptime and production improvement

  • 1H 2022 production of ~20 kboepd, impacted by the subsea leak in Q1
  • Production efficiency improved from 74% in Q1 to 91% in Q2
  • Two-week turnaround activity and maintenance planned in Q3

Production cost impacted by seasonal maintenance activities

Production cost per boe produced1

USD/boe

  • Full year 2022 opex per boe guidance maintained at USD 12.5 to 13.5
  • Opex and unit cost improvement programs progressing according to plan
  • Medium term production cost target of 8 USD/boe

On track to deliver on end-2025 production target

Existing production and sanctioned developments

  • Generally good progress on project portfolio
  • Macro uncertainties and supply chain disturbances remain
  • Halten East and Eldfisk Nord PDO submitted to the MPE in May
  • Hywind Tampen progressing towards start-up in Q4 2022
  • Capex guidance for 2022 maintained
  • Entered strategic partnership with Aker Solutions, Havfram and Saipem for SPS/SURF deliveries

Major projects progressing according to schedule

Balder X

  • External factors and increased scope affecting the project
  • Progressing towards targeted first oil in Q4 2023

Johan Castberg

  • Heavy lift, subsea and marine campaigns progressing to plan
  • Phase one drilling campaign completed
  • On track for targeted first oil in Q4 2024

Breidablikk

  • Drilling operations started in May
  • High Activity Period on Grane topside ongoing into Q3
  • On track for targeted first oil in Q1 2024

Successful exploration with two discoveries in key hubs

License Prospect Operator Vår
Energi
share
Pre-drill
unrisked
mmboe
Pre-drill
unrisked
mmboe
VE
Timing Status
PL 057 Statfjord
Kile
Equinor 18.6% 6 1 Q1 Dry
PL 209 Ormen
Lange Deep
Equinor 10% 290 29 Q2 Dry
PL 532 Snøfonn Equinor 30% 44 13 Q2 Discovery
PL 532 Skavl Stø Equinor 30% 20 6 Q2 Discovery
PL 124 Othello
North
Equinor 10% 43 4 Q3/Q4 Planned
PL 229E Lupa Vår
Energi
50% 85 43 Q3/Q4 Planned
PL 938 Calypso Neptune 20% 34 7 Q4 Planned
PL 554 Angulata Equinor 30% 58 17 Q4/Q1
23'
Planned
PL 229 Countach Vår
Energi
65% 41 27 Q4/Q1
23'
Planned

2022 work programme Continued hub-focused exploration

Key financials

USD million Q2 2022 Q1 2022 Q2 2021 YtD 2022 YtD 2021
Petroleum revenues 2 423 2 483 1 108 4 906 2 147
EBIT 1 674 1 718 361 3 392 937
Profit before taxes 1 214 1 695 299 2 910 821
Production cost
(USD/boe)
14.7 12.1 13.5 13.3 11.5
Operating CF before tax 1 864 2 384 826 4 248 1 561
CFFO 1 535 2 201 1 310 3 736 2 279
CAPEX 573 622 600 1 195 1 147
NIBD
/ EBITDAX
0.4x 0.6x 1.5x 0.4x 1.5x
Available liquidity 4 492 3 799 1 311 4 492 1 311

Revenues driven by average weighted realised price of USD 124/boe

Realised prices

USD/boe

Robust gas sales portfolio with flexible contracts

~9% of Q2 production sold at favourable fixed prices

Optimised gas sales creating additional value

~9% of produced gas sold at average fixed price of 160 USD/boe65 USD/boe above the average UK spot price

Flexible gas sales agreements allowing for optimisation at exit points in Europe, generating USD 35m in additional revenues

Entered into 7-year gas sales agreements at Dornum, Germany to increase gas sales to the German market

Overlift position impacting production costs

Production cost (sold volumes)

USDm

  • High level of turnaround and maintenance activities in the quarter
  • Over/underlift impacted by change in calculation methodology for NGL volumes at Kårstø

Strong cash flow from operations in the quarter

CFFO impacted by tax payments and working capital changes

USDm USDm

539 22 892 Cash flow from investments Cash at end-Q1 2022 Net financing (146) CFFO before taxes and working capital Working capital 1 535 Taxes paid CFFO after tax Dividends paid FX Cash at end-Q2 2022 (596) (329) (382) (225) 2 010 539 892 28 4 492 Q1 2022 3 600 Q2 2022 3 799 3 260 Cash and cash equvivalents RCF

Available liquidity

21

Cash flow development Q2 2022

Strengthened financial position with continued deleveraging

Net interest-bearing debt and leverage ratio1

  • Raised USD 500 million in senior notes maturing 18 May 2027 for partial refinancing of bridge-to-bond facility
  • Coupon of 5.00% paid semi-annually
  • Repayment of revolving credit facility of USD 840 million
  • Committed to maintaining an Investment Grade rating
  • Target of 1.3x NIBD/EBITDAX maintained

1 Net interest-bearing debt (NIBD) is shown at end of period, including lease commitments. EBITDAX used is a LTM figure. NIBD includes final payment to Exxon of USD ~340 million 22

Dividend guidance raised to USD 290 million for Q3

Dividend distribution

USDm

  • Dividend for Q2 2022 of USD ~0.10 per share to be paid 11 August 2022
  • Paid in NOK at exchange rate of NOK/USD 9.8382
  • Dividend guiding for Q3 of USD 290 million (~0.12 USD per share)
  • Dividend expectation of minimum USD 1 billion full-year 2022
  • Dividend policy of 20-30% of cashflow from operations after tax from 2023 onwards

Outlook

Production
Production target in 2022 at the lower end of 230-245 kboepd
Production cost
Targeting USD 12.5 -
USD 13.5 in 2022
Expected to improve over the medium term towards USD 8/boe
as new projects come onstream and

improvement program is progressing
Capex 2022 capex guidance of USD 2.3 –
2.6 billion excluding exploration and abandonment (exploration USD ~150

million and abandonment USD ~50 milllion)
Limited cash outflow on decommissioning in the next ten years
Other Final payment to ExxonMobil of ~USD 340 million due in 2022 as part of the 2019 acquisition
Leverage Conservative through-the-cycle leverage target of 1.3x net debt / EBITDAX
Dividends Dividend guidance for 2022 of minimum USD 1 billion (~USD 0.40 per share) under current market conditions,

paid on a quarterly basis
Q3 dividend guidance of USD 290 million (~USD 0.12 per share)

From 2023 onwards plan to distribute around 20-30% of cash flow from operations (after tax) across the cycle

Concluding remarks

Summary

  • Operating performance impacted by maintenance activities
  • Strengthened gas position
  • Continued strong cash flow generation
  • Financial position further improved
  • Delivering on the growth strategy

Second quarter 2022

Results presentation | 26 July 2022

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