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Development drilling programs continued to drive our growth, especially from North American unconventional assets. Production in the Eagle Ford and Bakken increased 35 percent year over year, re fl ecting another strong performance from our high-quality positions in the core areas of those plays. Across our unconventional portfolio we conducted appraisal activity and pilot tests to assess our resource positions and optimize our development plans. We increased our Eagle Ford resource estimate by more than 700 MMBOE. We believe that we are still in the early stages of fully capturing the resource potential of this and other unconventional assets in North America. 

Volume growth in 2014 was also spurred by fi rst production from fi ve major projects across the portfolio: Siakap North- Petai, Gumusut and Kebabangan in Malaysia; Foster Creek Phase F in the Canadian oil sands; and the Britannia Long-Term Compression Project in the United Kingdom. These projects will continue ramping up and delivering growth in 2015 and beyond. During the year we also progressed toward startup at APLNG in Australia and Surmont 2 in Canada, with both projects on track for startup in mid-2015. 

In exploration, we discovered oil at two wells o ff shore Senegal and continued appraisal of our North American 

unconventionals and previous deepwater discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico. We also added acreage in the Gulf of Mexico and o ff shore Canada. 

Additional information about our 2014 operations is available in our company fact sheets, as speci fi ed on page 14 of this report. 

In addition to our fi nancial and operational accomplishments, we continued making strides in developing and applying di ff erential technical capabilities, cultivating our world-class workforce and enhancing our reputation with stakeholders. These activities are vital to our success. 

We continued to focus on enhancing our technology, which we believe is a competitive advantage for our company. The year featured numerous technical advancements, particularly in areas where we have large captured resource positions, such as the unconventionals and the oil sands. Among these innovations, in the Lower 48 we are using data from our ongoing Eagle Ford pilot tests to optimize our well spacing and improve our drilling and completion cost e ffi ciencies. In the oil sands we are using technology to lower our cost of supply and accelerate production while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and steam-to-oil ratios. 

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