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Borr Drilling — Earnings Release 2020
Aug 28, 2020
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Borr Drilling Limited Announces Preliminary Results for the Second Quarter of 2020
Borr Drilling Limited Announces Preliminary Results for the Second Quarter of 2020
Hamilton, Bermuda, August 28, 2020: Borr Drilling Limited ("Borr", "Borr
Drilling" or the "Company") (NYSE: "BORR", OSE: "BDRILL") announces unaudited
results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020.
Highlights in the Second Quarter of 2020
· Total operating revenues of $84.0 million, net loss of $109.6 million and
Adjusted EBITDA* of $(1.9) million for the second quarter of 2020. The adjusted
EBITDA includes approximately $12 million of non-recurring costs related to the
agreements reached with the Company's creditors in June 2020
· The combined Adjusted EBITDA of the four separate Mexican JVs that the
Company has 49% ownership in was $30.1 million in the second quarter 2020,
compared to negative EBITDA in the first quarter of 2020 of ($2.3) million, an
increase of $32.4 million quarter on quarter
· On April 30, 2020, the Company sold two standard jack-up drilling rigs, the
"Dhabi II" and the "Paragon B152", for total cash proceeds of $15.8 million,
leading to a gain on disposal of $12.8 million
· In May 2020, the Company exited its position in forward contracts for
Valaris shares
· In June 2020, the Company completed an equity offering raising gross
proceeds of $30 million
· In June 2020, the Company made several amendments to loan facilities with
its creditors and to the delivery schedule of rigs with its shipyards, resulting
in liquidity improvement mainly through deferral of payments of more than $315
million until the beginning of 2022
Subsequent events
· On August 10, 2020, the Company announced the appointment of Patrick Schorn
as new Chief Executive Officer
· In August, Pemex communicated a regular monthly payment plan to OPEX, the JV
providing Integrated Well Services, which should substantially improve the JV's
liquidity position, which in turn will benefit Borr
The Chairman of the Board, Paal Kibsgaard, commented:
"In the second quarter, we saw the full impact of the anticipated activity
reductions linked to COVID-19, resulting in a sequential decrease in operating
revenues of 19% to $84.0 million, and Adjusted EBITDA of $(1.9) million. The
adjusted EBITDA includes $12 million of non-recurring costs related to the
agreements reached with the Company's creditors in June 2020.
In the current challenging operating environment, Borr Drilling has been focused
on improving its liquidity runway and conserving cash. Through negotiations with
creditors and shipyards in June, we improved the Company's liquidity by $315
million through the start of 2022, mainly through deferral of payments.
Operationally, the Mexican business has improved significantly quarter on
quarter. The four JVs that the Company has ownership in delivered USD30m in
Adjusted EBITDA in the quarter. Additionally, we estimate that COVID-19 impacted
our Mexican JVs directly by $5.5 million in lost revenue and additional expenses
combined. The wells delivered by Borr's integrated services have, based on
Pemex's Q2 2020 report, increased Pemex production by 72k barrels/day. With the
quick payback and low breakeven for the customer we expect the integrated well
delivery business model to gain further traction going forward.
From a liquidity perspective, the operations of our Mexican JVs have suffered
from irregular payments and difficulties with factoring of receivables, which in
turn has put further strain on the Company's liquidity position. However, in
late August 2020, Pemex confirmed their commitment to enter into a regular
monthly payment plan to our JVs, which will reduce the working capital
requirements and allow cash distributions from the JVs to Borr, and thereby
improve Borr's liquidity position.
The improvement in oil prices during the spring of 2020 triggered demand for
putting three of our warm stacked units back to work. This shows the resilience
of the shallow water offshore drilling market and, as oil prices continue to
improve, we expect to put further units back to work in the future.
The distress in the offshore drilling industry is likely to force both needed
consolidation and fleet rationalisation going forward. Borr Drilling has a brand
-new jack-up drilling rig fleet and is well positioned to participate in such
consolidation if it benefits our shareholders."
The full report and financial statements is available in the enclosed file to
this release.
August 28, 2020
The Board of Directors
Borr Drilling Limited
Hamilton, Bermuda
Questions should be directed to:
Magnus Vaaler: VP Investor Relations and Treasury, +47 22 48 30 00
This information is subject to disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12
of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.