Group indicators

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For a better comparison 2015 data were recalculated to take into account Italgas demerger.

Operating data

	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Natural gas transportation
Gas injected into the network (10⁹ m³)	72.82	74.59	70.63	67.25	62.25
Gas pipeline network (km)	32,625	32,584	32,508	32,534	32,339
Average distance covered by gas in the Italian transportation network (km)	510	551	582	419	404
Gas compression stations for transportation (no.)	13	11	11	11	11
Installed capacity at gas compression stations (MW)	961	902	922	877	894
Regasification of liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas injected into the network (10⁹ m³)	0.91	0.62	0.21	0.03	0.01
Number of methane tankers unloaded	21	15	5	1	1
Natural gas storage
Gas injected into storage sites (10⁹ m³)	10.64	9.80	9.97	9.84	8.13
Gas withdrawn from storage sites (10⁹ m³)	10.43	10.12	10.03	9.74	7.57
Operating concessions (no.)	9	9	9	9	8

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Economic data (*)

	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Total revenues (€ million)	2,586	2,533	2,560	2,627	2,578
Operating profit adjusted - EBIT adjusted (€ million)	1,405	1,363	1,336	1,481	1,496
Net Group reported profit (€ million)	960	897	861	1,238	2,911
Technical Investments (€ million)	882	1,304	906	879	1,313
Net invested capital at 31 December (€ million)	17,533	17,738	17,553	21,365	20,824
Group shareholders’ equity at 31 December (€ million)	5,985	6,188	6,497	7,585	7,171
Net financial debt at 31 December (€ million)	11,548	11,550	11,056	13,779	13,652
Free Cash Flow (€ millions)	1,161	423	1,707	771	297
Number of shares of share capital (million)	3,469	3,501	3,501	3,501	3,501
Number of shares outstanding at 31 December (millions)	3,301	3,415	3,471	3,500	3,500
Average number of shares outstanding during the year (in millions)	3,358	3,422	3.497	3,500	3,385
Year-end official share price (€)	3.820	4.086	3.923	4.002	4.11
Average official share price for the year (€)	3.747	4.043	4.101	3.721	4.23
Market capitalisation (€ million))	12,606	13,953	13.612	16,973	14,383
Dividends paid during the period (€ million)	731	718	875	875	507
Environmental expenditure (€ million)	100.3	120.6	139.8	154.8	159.9
Health and safety expenditures (€ million)	32.4	34.7	47.9	37.5	41.0

(*)For comments on the economic and financial results please refer to the annual financial report

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Social indicators

	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Employees (no.)	3,016	2,919	2,883	3,005	2,948
Executives (no.)	107	93	87	99	99
Managers (no.)	480	456	421	449	447
Office workers (no.)	1,682	1,655	1,651	1,736	1,689
Manual workers (no.)	747	715	724	721	713
Men (no.)	2,597	2,526	2,514	2,578	2,537
Women (no.)	419	393	369	427	411
Women/men compensation differential (executive category)	0.98	1.03	1.02	0.93	0.90
Women/men compensation differential (manager category)	0.93	0.96	0.96	0.96	0.95
Women/men compensation differential (office worker category)	0.89	0.89	0.89	0.88	0.88
Employee average age (years)	44.9	45.7	46.1	46.6	46.8
Length of service (years)	19.5	21.0	21.1	21.7	21.5
Recruitment during the year from the market (no.)	195	148	141	162	152
Other incoming employees (non-consolidated companies, acquisitions, etc.) (no.)	126	36	36	4	6
Percentage of university graduates hired (%)	55	67	52	46	49
Departures during the year (no.)	189	69	53	68	223
Employee accident frequency index	0.84	1.24	0.81	0.62	1.84
Employee accident severity index	0.02	0.05	0.04	1.55	0.11
Contractor accident frequency index	0.41	0.54	0.71	1.07	2.13
Contractor accident severity index	0.03	0.83	0.05	0.07	0.10
Hours of training/no. of employees	35.7	29.2	28.5	29.2	28.0
Hours of training on health and safety and environmental matters	28,345	9,641	19,288	24,305	20,064
Total HSEQ audits performed (no.)	237	163	212	203	217
Environmental investigations (no.)	247	279	172	203	386
Doctor’s visits (no.)	1,350	1,914	1,561	1,270	1,210
Diagnostic exams (no.)	2,020	3,508	2,252	1,828	1,231

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Environmental indicators

	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Energy consumption (TJ)	13,281	12,582	10,957	9,087	8,331
Natural gas emissions (10 ⁶ m ³⁾	44.4	46.8	48.2	49.7	50.8
GHG emissions Scope 1-2-3 (10³ t CO_2eq)	1,967	1,749	1,801	1,701	1,646
GHG emissions Scope 1 (10³ t CO_2eq)	1,497	1,500	1,439	1,373	1,350
GHG emissions Scope 2 (10³ t CO_2eq) - Market based	32	29	27	26	27
GHG emissions Scope 3 (10³ t CO_2eq)	438	217	334	301	270
NOx emissions (t)	564	532	434	400	465
CO emissions (t)	196	329	281	257	231
Total waste production (t)	28,286	54,413	52,513	29,649	42,140
Non-hazardous waste production (t)	24,187	50,604	48,954	26,567	38,491
Hazardous waste production (t)	4,099	3,809	3,558	3,082	3,649
Waste recovered from production activities (%)	60	80	77	54	45
Water procurement (10 ³ m ³)	4,134	4,170	4,177	4,182	4,178
Water discharges (10 ³ m ³)	4,068	4,112	4,139	4,132	4,114

	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Natural gas transportation
Energy consumption/energy compressed (%)	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.23	0.23
CO₂emissions/gas compressed (kg /10⁶ m³)	5,644	5,767	6,023	5,805	5,941
NOx emissions/gas compressed (kg /10⁶ m³)	4.2	4.8	4.4	5.7	6.3
Natural gas emissions/km of network (m³/ km)	1,007	1,057	1,066	1,138	1,151
DLE turbine hours of operation/total turbine hours of operation (%)	97	93	94	88	87
Average rated turbine NOx emissions/total installed capacity ([mg/Nm³]/MW)	4.2	4.4	4.4	4.6	5.7
Liquefied natural gas regasification
Energy consumption/LNG injected into the network (%)	(*)	(*)	(*)	(*)	(*)
CO_2eqemissions/LNG injected into the network (kg/10⁶ m³)	(*)	(*)	(*)	(*)	(*)
Natural gas storage
Natural gas emissions for storage/gas stored (%)	0.041	0.048	0.047	0.051	0.067
NOx emissions/gas stored (kg/10⁶ m³)	22.1	17.9	20.1	17.8	28.0
Average rated turbine NOx emissions/total installed capacity ([mg/Nm³]/MW)	5.2	5.2	5.4	5.6	6.2