Annual Report and Accounts 2007

* Business Performance excludes disposals, certain re-measurements and impairments as exclusion of these items provides readers with a clear and consistent presentation of the underlying operating performance of the Group’s ongoing business. Unless otherwise stated, financial operating information for the Group and its business segments presented in the statements of the Chairman and Chief Executive and in the Directors’ Report is based on BG Group’s Business Performance. See Presentation of non-GAAP measures. See also, Segmental analysis and results presentation, note 2,, and Earnings per ordinary share, note 10, for a reconciliation of the differences between Business Performance and Total Results.