joining us is luis araujo. great to have you on the show today. we noticed there's still pressure coming through. flesh out your outlook for 2017 for us. >> good morning, karen. pleasure to be with you. in terms of '17, we see some high activity in the front end as you call it. clients are look to the projects, that's very encouraging. but again, there are certain times and confidence curtails with investment, but we have seen good signs ahead of us. >> we've seen a cautious program on exploration from some companies that were cutting their capex programs for this year. i want to know whether the opec and non-opec production cuts have made a difference to the exploration outlook and impact your business? >> yes, we are very involved in all phases of exploration in europe. so we saw a long-term future. what we see for us are great opportunities on the brownfield market, as clients try to produce oil from these assets. so that's where we see the biggest uptick now. >> the norwegian off-shore oil industry has seen a lot of consolidation this year. th