Core Viewpoint - Kunlun Energy reported its mid-year performance for 2025, showing a slight increase in revenue but a decrease in net profit attributable to shareholders, leading to a proposed interim dividend of 0.1791 HKD per share [1] Group 1: Financial Performance - In the first half of 2025, the company achieved operating revenue of 97.543 billion CNY, a year-on-year increase of 4.97%, while net profit attributable to shareholders was 3.161 billion CNY, a decrease of 4.36%, slightly below expectations [1] - The company's natural gas sales revenue reached 80.078 billion CNY, with a year-on-year growth of 6.06%, but the tax-pre profit from natural gas sales decreased by 10.55% to 4.477 billion CNY [2] - The company plans to increase its dividend payout ratio to 45% for 2025, with a current dividend yield of approximately 4.4% [4] Group 2: Natural Gas Sales - Total natural gas sales volume in the first half of 2025 was 29.095 billion m³, a year-on-year increase of 10.05%, with retail gas volume at 16.666 billion m³, up 2.23% [2] - The company added 5 new city gas projects and 398,800 new users, bringing the total user base to 16.8526 million by the end of the first half of 2025 [2] - The gross margin for natural gas sales was 0.44 CNY/m³, a decrease of 0.01 CNY/m³ year-on-year, attributed to a decline in sales volume from commercial and refueling stations [2] Group 3: LNG and LPG Performance - The average load factor of LNG receiving stations reached 86.8%, an increase of 1.4 percentage points year-on-year, with LNG loading volume increasing by 75.5% [3] - Tax-pre profit from LNG processing and storage grew by 11.4% to 1.836 billion CNY, with steady profit growth from both receiving stations and processing plants [3] - LPG sales volume increased by 4.9% to 3.0684 million tons, but tax-pre profit from LPG business decreased by 3.03% to 544 million CNY due to a decline in unit selling price [3]