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00:00 "The factors that led to these increases were a strong demand to enlarge the gas factories
00:06 in Ras Al-Affan.
00:07 The will to increase the number to 683 million was unexpected, a big demand.
00:18 With these increases, the profitability increased by 38%.
00:30 This led to good performance for the company at the end of the year."
00:37 "What about the performance of the infrastructure sector in 2013?"
00:42 "The performance of the infrastructure sector was at a loss of 18 million.
00:50 We had to take special measures to improve the performance.
00:58 All companies in Qatar took special measures.
01:03 The loss was 18 million.
01:06 Without these losses, our profits would have reached 42 million,
01:14 and now it is 28 million."
01:17 "What about the financial center and the size of the company's funds?
01:21 We noticed a decrease in the amount of the loans."
01:25 "The decrease in the amount of loans came from the wills we had.
01:30 Most of the loans we had were not cash loans,
01:36 but were loans to the energy sector and large companies.
01:42 These were not cash loans.
01:46 We had a cash balance of 70 million in the bank at the end of the year."
01:58 "We noticed a big jump in the company's profits,
02:01 but in the second half of 2013.
02:04 What were the reasons?"
02:06 "In the first half, we managed to reduce the losses in the infrastructure sector
02:15 and the total expenses.
02:18 We then moved to the energy sector, which had large demands.
02:23 In the last year, we made a profit of 50% in the energy sector."
02:39 "Do you expect the growth in the energy sector to continue with the company until 2028,
02:44 and with the continuation of the Northern Hemisphere development projects and the co-projects?"
02:49 "Of course, we expect that the energy sector will increase by 50%
03:00 from last year, because there will be no losses in the infrastructure sector."