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Akastor Investor Presentation 2019

Jul 17, 2019

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Second Quarter Results 2019 Akastor ASA

Karl Erik Kjelstad (CEO) & Leif Borge (CFO)

Fornebu | 17 July 2019

Presenters and agenda

Leif Borge Chief Financial Officer Group highlights

Portfolio highlights

Financial update

Q&A session

2Q 2019 highlights

  • Revenue of NOK 1.3 billion, 49 percent growth year-on-year
  • Revenue of NOK 234 million from AKOFS Offshore (not consolidated)

▪ EBITDA of NOK 114 million

  • Including positive effect of IFRS 16 (new leasing standard) of NOK 30 million
  • EBITDA of NOK 104 million from AKOFS Offshore (not consolidated)

▪ Net interest-bearing debt of NOK 898 million, increase of NOK 608 million in the quarter

  • NOK 154 million external debt in AGR (non recourse to Akastor)
  • Acquisition of Bronco Manufacturing cash effect of NOK 269 million
  • Cash Flow from operations negative with NOK 143 million, mainly due to increase in working capital
  • MHWirth completes acquisition of Bronco Manufacturing in June 2019, strengthening its onshore aftermarket services

Note: Financial figures for 1Q 2019 and onwards include effects of IFRS 16, comparative figures have not been re-stated

Portfolio companies highlights

Akastor portfolio composition

Industrial investments Financial investments

100%
Leading global provider of first-class drilling systems,
products and services
50%
Global provider of subsea well construction and
intervention services
Global provider of well design and drilling project
management, HSEQ, reservoir and field management
services
55%1)
100%
Global provider of solids control and drilling waste
management services
100%
Supplier of vapour recovery technology, systems and
services to O&G installations

1) Economic ownership | 100% legal ownership

Portfolio Highlights 2Q 2019

MHWirth strengthens onshore aftermarket services through acquisition of Bronco Manufacturing

Transaction rationale

Bronco brings MHWirth with an immediate and established presence in the onshore drilling market

Both businesses are complementary with regards to each respective product portfolio and market areas (offshore/onshore)

MHWirth's aim is to increase Bronco's market share globally through utilizing MHWirth's established offshore relationships and to strengthen the position in the US onshore market by leveraging the relationships of MHWirth's new management team

Key areas for cost synergies include efficient use of facilities, improved supply chain management, corporate overhead and optimization of R&D spending

Bronco Manufacturing in brief

About Bronco Manufacturing Key financials

  • Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Tulsa (US), Bronco is a leading provider of critical aftermarket solutions and products to the global onshore and offshore drilling market
  • Bronco's primary product offering includes components and spare parts for Mud Pumps, Drawworks, Travelling Blocks, Hooks, Swivels, Rotary Tables, Mobile Rig and Iron Roughneck
  • Bronco has in-house manufacturing capabilities, engineering and design expertise, global scales of operations, long-standing customer relationships, and a broad product portfolio

Revenue (USDm) vs EBITDA margin

Global geographic footprint

Financial update

Financial highlights 2Q 2019

NOK million 2Q
2019
2Q
2018
1H
2019
1H
2018
Revenue 1 304 873 2 375 1 754
EBITDA 114 78 206 141
EBIT 27 31 58 47
Net financials (53) 103 (16) 54
Profit (loss) before tax (26) 134 42 102
Tax income (expense) (12) (14) (18) (15)
Profit (loss) from continuing operations (38) 121 24 86
Net profit (loss) from disc. operations (40) (372) (40) (357)
Profit (loss) for the period (78) (251) (16) (271)
Order intake 1 786 1 635 2 932 2 703
Order backlog 3 529 2 907 3 529 2 907
NCOA 876 617 876 617
Net Capital Employed 5 236 6 035 5 236 6 035

2Q 2019 highlights

  • Revenues in 2Q up 49% year-over-year
  • EBITDA of NOK 114 million includes effect from IFRS 16 (new leasing standard) of NOK 30 million
  • Depreciation, amortization and impairment of NOK 87 million includes effect from IFRS 16 of NOK 35 million
  • Net financial items of negative NOK 53 million include net non-cash items from financial investments of NOK 39 million and net effect from IFRS 16 of NOK 7 million

Note: Financial figures for 1Q 2019 and onwards include effects of IFRS 16, comparative figures have not been re-stated

Key financials reconciliation

Revenue (NOK million) 2Q
2019
2Q
2018
1H
2019
1H
2018
MHWirth 1 013 681 1 916 1 412
AGR 156 47 186 80
Step Oiltools 76 61 134 114
Cool Sorption 35 28 95 45
Other 33 70 63 124
Elimination (8) (13) (19) (19)
Reported Group revenue 1 304 873 2 375 1 754
AKOFS Offshore (100%) 234 289 491 551
EBITDA (NOK million) 2Q
2019
2Q
2018
1H
2019
1H
2018
MHWirth 109 68 197 137
AGR (1) 10 1 13
Step Oiltools 12 1 16 3
Cool Sorption 5 3 14 3
Other (11) (4) (22) (14)
Reported Group EBITDA 114 78 206 141
AKOFS Offshore (100%) 104 123 240 209
Net financial items (NOK million) 2Q
2019
2Q
2018
1H
2019
1H
2018
Odfjell Drilling 15 52 61 52
Awilco Drilling (16) 26 (4) 42
NES Global Talent 25 14 41 23
DOF Deepwater (28) (24) (34) (50)
AKOFS Offshore (26) - (34) -
Contribution from financial investments (31) 69 31 67
Net interest exp. on external borrowings (15) (18) (27) (35)
Net interest exp. on lease liabilities (9) - (17) -
Net foreign exchange gain (loss) 7 31 4 8
Other financial income (expenses) (5) 21 (24) 14
Net financial items (53) 103 (16) 54

▪ Odfjell Drilling: the result of NOK 15 million includes cash interests of NOK 8 million, PIK interests of NOK 8 million and valuation effects on the warrant structure of negative NOK 2 million

▪ DOF Deepwater and AKOFS Offshore: the negative results represent 50% of the companies' net profit – depreciation, impairment and financial costs explaining the negative results

Note: Financial figures for 1Q 2019 and onwards include effects of IFRS 16, comparative figures have not been re-stated

Cash flow and net debt position

  • Net interest-bearing debt position increased by NOK 608 million to NOK 898 million
  • Other Net Debt increase mainly driven by lease payments and funding of Seafarer capex
  • Liquidity reserve of NOK 1.3 billion
  • Operating CF impacted negatively by increased working capital of NOK 354 million
NOK million 2Q 2019
Non-current bank debt 1 538
Current bank debt 19
Non-recourse AGR debt 154
Cash and cash equivalents (281)
Net debt 1 430
AKOFS receivable (521)
Other receivables (10)
Net interest bearing debt (NIBD) 898

1) Acquisitions include cash effect of NOK 269 million from Bronco acquisition and net debt of NOK 120 million in AGR.

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Net Capital Employed as per 2Q 2019

NOK million

MHWirth

  • Project & Products revenues for 2Q were NOK 461 million, an increase of 89% compared to last year
  • DLS revenues for 2Q were NOK 552 million (including Digital Technologies), an increase of 26% compared to last year
  • Second quarter EBITDA of NOK 109 million (10.8% margin), including effect of IFRS 16 (new leasing standard) of NOK 18 million
  • Order backlog and order intake for the second quarter amounted to NOK 3.0 billion and NOK 1.6 billion, respectively
  • Revenue and EBITDA contribution from Bronco of NOK 19 million and negative NOK 1 million (net after transaction costs of NOK 5 million), respectively

Quarterly development in revenues and EBITDA-margin1)

Highlights 2Q 2019 Installed base per 2Q 2019

MHWirth installed base hit turning point mid 2017

AKOFS Offshore

Highlights 2Q 2019 Fleet overview

  • Revenues and EBITDA for 2Q of NOK 234 million and NOK 104 million, respectively
  • Skandi Santos revenue utilization impacted by planned engine overhaul
  • Aker Wayfarer continues to have good operational utilization
  • AKOS Seafarer financing proceeding according to plan and is expected to be completed in 3Q 2019

1) Figures presented on a 100% basis. Financial figures for 1Q 2019 and onwards include effects of IFRS 16, comparative figures have not been re-stated

Quarterly development in revenues and EBITDA-margin1) NOK million

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NES Global Talent

  • Continued strong contracting activity, with solid growth in total number of contractors also this period
  • Key growth drivers for the last period were Middle East and Americas, as well as the Managed Solutions business area
  • Continued focus on diversifying client portfolio, with good growth seen within life sciences and the onshore market
  • Akastor holds ~17% economic interest in NES

Recent development Award winning workforce solution specialist

Highlights 2Q 2019

  • Revenue and EBITDA in 2Q of NOK 156 million and NOK -1 million, respectively
  • Most of AGR business comes from the offshore markets in Norway, UK, GoM and Australia
  • In Norway, the demand for consultants has been strong with substantial revenue growth compared with 2018
  • In UK, the tender activity is high, but revenues and profitability has been disappointing so far in 2019
  • In other regions the recovery is still slow but expected to increase from a low level

Key offering

Well Reservoir Software and
Management Management Consulting other services
World largest
independent well
management group
with ability to
deliver complete
well management
services
Independent
reservoir
management
advice and unique
products such as
Multi-Client
Regional Studies
Recruitment and
consultancy
solutions in the
form of single
placement of
experienced drilling
and engineering
personnel
Proprietary in
house developed
WM software and
other services such
as Operational
HSEQ, TRACS
training and
Facilities solutions

Global reach with offering through offices worldwide

Other Holdings

Highlights 2Q 2019

  • Other holdings reported pro-forma consolidated revenue and EBITDA in 2Q of NOK 110 million and NOK 17 million, respectively
  • Step Oiltools: Revenues in 2Q of NOK 76 million, up NOK 15 million from last year. EBITDA of NOK 12 million, up NOK 11 million from last year
  • Cool Sorption: Revenues in 2Q of NOK 35 million, up NOK 7 million from last year. EBITDA of NOK 5 million, up NOK 2 million from last year

Quarterly development in revenues and EBITDA-margin1)

1) Pro-forma figures for Step Oiltools and Cool Sorption. Financial figures for 1Q 2019 and onwards include effects of IFRS 16, comparative figures have not been re-stated

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Akastor as an investment company

Key priorities

MHWirth

  • Further strengthen MHWirth's leading market position with stateof-the-art technologies ready to capitalize on efficiency and automation trend in an improving offshore market
  • Ambitious growth agenda, both organically and through M&A

Other portfolio companies

▪ Improve operational performance and pursue structural opportunities

Balance Sheet / Capital Allocation

▪ Continued capital discipline with flexibility to pursue value enhancing M&A opportunities

Appendix

Transactions track-record since inception in 2014

1) Pref shares USD 75m + warrants 2) cash gain 3) Plus earnout of max USD 65m

ODL preferred equity and warrant instrument

Preferred equity of USD 75m Warrant structure

Instrument description:

  • 5% cash dividend + 5% PIK per annum (semi-annual payment)
  • Call price: 125% year 2, 120% year 3, 115% year 4, 110% year 5, 105% year 6, 100% thereafter
  • Cash dividend step-up: 8.0% p.a. from year 7 and an additional 1.0% step-up per year until a maximum cash dividend of 10.0% p.a.
  • Commitment fee of USD 5.75 million paid in 2Q 2019
  • Certain rights and covenants1) in favor of Akastor

Instrument payment profile:

USDm 2018e 2019e 2020e 2021e 2022e 2023e 2024e 2025e 2026e
Cash Dividend 2.2 3.9 4.1 4.3 4.5 4.8 8.0 9.5 11.0
Acc. PIK 77.2 81.1 85.2 89.5 94.1 98.8 103.8 109.1 114.6
Call price incl. PIK 99.9 100.2 100.8 101.6 102.6 103.8 109.1 114.6
Dividend 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 % 8 % 9 % 10 %
PIK interest 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 %
Call price n.a. 125 % 120 % 115 % 110 % 105 % 100 % 100 % 100 %

1) The agreement contain several covenants, including but not limited to an obligation not to pay dividends or other distributions exceeding 50% of the net profit from the preceding year (unless a similar portion of the preference capital is repaid prior to the distribution), and in any case not pay dividends or make distributions after year 6. Also the agreement includes a change of control covenant pertaining to restructurings with the effect that Odfjell Partner's shareholding falls below 25%

Instrument description:

▪ The total warrant issue comprise six tranches with 987,500 warrants per tranche, amounting to a total 5,925,000 warrants. Furthermore, one warrant can be exercised for one share (1-to-1 ratio) for a price of USD 0.01 per share. Maximum number of share allocation if share price in ODL has increased with 20% p.a.

Warrant overview:

Exercise dates

• Schedule 4.2: If any warrants remain unexercised at the ultimate exercise date in 2024, the holder will receive a number of shares determined linearly according to:

× [ ℎ @ 31 2024 − 36] (107.5 − 36)

Key figures

AKASTOR GROUP

NOK million 2Q 18 3Q 18 4Q 18 1Q 19 2Q 19 YTD 2019
Revenue and
other income
873 955 1 090 1 070 1 304 2 375
EBITDA 78 87 63 92 114 206
EBIT 31 41 21 31 27 58
CAPEX and R&D capitalization 8 68 37 16 23 39
NCOA 617 547 375 521 876 876
Net capital employed 6 035 4 771 4 556 4 721 5 236 5 236
Order intake 1 635 799 980 1 146 1 786 2 932
Order backlog 2 907 2 759 2 692 2 755 3 529 3 529
Employees 1 970 1 790 1 775 1 812 2 179 2 179

Note: Financial figures before 01.01.2019 are not adjusted for IFRS 16

Split per Company (1 of 4)

MHWIRTH

NOK million 2Q 18 3Q 18 4Q 18 1Q 19 2Q 19 YTD 2019
Revenue and
other income
681 751 893 904 1 013 1 916
EBITDA 68 71 73 88 109 197
EBIT 36 39 45 47 57 104
CAPEX and R&D capitalization 8 11 36 16 21 37
NCOA 671 613 655 734 1099 1099
Net capital employed 2 347 2 258 2 363 2 411 2 883 2 883
Order intake 1 466 640 713 1 013 1 599 2 611
Order backlog 2 504 2 398 2 282 2 394 2 985 2 985
Employees 1 412 1 422 1 424 1 457 1 531 1 531

Note: 1) Financial figures before 01.01.2019 are not adjusted for IFRS 16 2) NCOA in 4Q 18 and 1Q 19 has been restated to exclude the provision related to MPO arbitration (included in Other Holdings)

Split per Company (2 of 4)

AKOFS OFFSHORE 1)

NOK million 2Q 18 3Q 18 4Q 18 1Q 19 2Q 19 YTD 2019
Revenue and
other income
289 290 266 258 234 491
EBITDA 123 118 144 136 104 240
EBIT (280) 78 68 56 24 79
CAPEX and R&D capitalization (1) 54 124 144 110 254
NCOA 217 214 180 76 138 138
Net capital employed 2 203 3 371 3 441 3 431 3 520 3 520
Order intake 2 936 42 4 - - -
Order backlog 6 633 6 286 6 250 5 937 5 579 5 579
Employees 186 190 202 237 240 240

1) Figures presented on a 100% basis. Akastor's share of net profit from the joint venture is presented as part of "net financial items"

Note: Financial figures before 01.01.2019 are not adjusted for IFRS 16

Split per Company (3 of 4)

AGR

NOK million 2Q 18 3Q 18 4Q 18 1Q 19 2Q 19 YTD 2019
Revenue and
other income
47 53 36 30 156 186
EBITDA 10 15 (1) 2 (1) 1
EBIT 10 15 (1) 2 (6) (4)
CAPEX and R&D capitalization - - - - 2 2
NCOA (7) (13) (1) (2) 2 2
Net capital employed 12 1 14 12 154 154
Order intake 50 23 51 18 81 99
Order backlog 66 37 52 40 260 260
Employees 70 68 65 62 350 350

Financial figures before 01.01.2019 are not adjusted for IFRS 16. Financial figures before 2Q 2019 include First Geo only.

Split per Company (4 of 4)

OTHER HOLDINGS

NOK million 2Q 18 3Q 18 4Q 18 1Q 19 2Q 19 YTD 2019
Revenue and
other income
150 144 171 148 144 292
EBITDA (8) (10) (10) 2 6 8
EBIT (23) (23) (23) (18) (24) (42)
CAPEX and R&D capitalization 1 2 2 - - 1
NCOA (47) (52) (279) (210) (225) (225)
Net capital employed 1 473 1 371 1 094 1 221 1 157 1 157
Order intake 125 133 215 118 108 226
Order backlog 338 324 356 322 284 284
Employees 302 300 286 293 298 298

Note:

1) Financial figures before 01.01.2019 are not adjusted for IFRS 16

2) Other holdings has been restated (excluding First Geo which is consolidated into AGR)

3) NCOA in 4Q 18 and 1Q 19 has been restated to include the provision related to MPO arbitration (previously included in MHWirth)

Copyright and disclaimer

Copyright

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Disclaimer

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