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.  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.  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  ConocoPhillips  2014 ANNUAL REPORT 3 The APLNG Project on Curtis Island progressed toward  fi rst LNG,  expected in mid-2015.  The Gumusut  fl oating production system o ff shore  Malaysia achieved  fi rst oil in October 2014.