Axxis Geo Solutions
First quarter 2021 Ronny Bøhn, CEO and Nils Haugestad, CFO
26 May 2021
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Financial restructuring: platform for transformation and growth in place
- Financial restructuring in place
- Company offers a solid platform for growth and new business opportunities
- − Significant debt reduction and additional equity infusion
- − Solid liquidity
- We will continue to streamline current activities to remain agile and maintain our asset light and low fixed-cost strategy
- Focus on upcoming opportunities
- − OBN project in the North Sea with expected start-up late June
- − Looking to extract the full value of our high-quality data library
Financial restructuring: platform for transformation and growth in place (continued)
- Court-protected reconstruction filed 16 February 2021
- Reconstruction confirmed 30 April 2021 by District Court of Ringerike, Asker and Bærum
- − 106 of 110 creditors voted in favor of plan; 98% of claims eligible to vote supported the reconstruction
- − Voluntary agreements reached with creditors in subsidiaries not party to reconstruction
- − Approximately USD 6 million in cash payments and 424 million shares to be issued to creditors
- − Equity private placement of NOK 144.5 million for 1,445 million new shares
- Subject to no appeals, the reconstruction plan will become legally binding 1 June 2021; cash payments will be made and shares issued within 14 working days thereafter
- Company considering a repair offering of up to 200,000,000 new shares at NOK 0.10 per share to eligible shareholders (see release 3 May 2021 for key information)
- − Awaiting prospectus approval expected late June or early July
- − Available to holders of record as of 4 May 2021
- Agreement reached for sale of Neptune Naiad and related seismic equipment
Pro forma capitalization
| (USD millions) |
31 March 21 |
Adjustments arising from reconstruction activities1 |
Adjustments resulting from sale of property, plant and equipment |
Adjustments arising from financing activities1, 2 |
Pro forma 31 March 21 |
| Cash |
4.3 |
-6.1 |
|
15.2 |
13.5 |
| Bond Loan |
24.1 |
-24.1 |
|
|
0.0 |
| Eksportkreditt |
1.2 |
-1.2 |
|
|
0.0 |
| Loan agreements |
9.6 |
-9.6 |
|
|
0.0 |
| TGS agreement |
6.9 |
-1.0 |
|
|
5.9 |
| Trade payables and other current liabilities |
22.5 |
-13.7 |
|
|
8.8 |
| Total |
64.3 |
-49.5 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
14.8 |
| Shareholders Equity |
-14.4 |
43.5 |
-4.5 |
15.2 |
39.8 |
1 Pro forma table incorporates transaction costs related to restructuring and financing activities.
2 Effects of potential repair issue is not included in proforma calculation.
- TGS maturity extended to 31 March 2023
- Trade payables and other current liabilities primarily consist of seismic data processing charges and tax liabilities
Pro forma shares outstanding
| Pro forma shares 31 March 2021 |
Number of shares |
% |
|
|
|
| Ordinary shares as of 31.03.2021 |
58 821 018 |
3.1% |
| Converted shares |
424 399 458 |
22.0% |
| Private placement |
1 445 000 000 |
74.9% |
| Pro forma shares |
1 928 220 476 |
100.0% |
Agenda
Financials
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Operations/business overview
Summary
AGS: A leading ocean bottom node company
Managing seismic cycles
Flexible cost structure to address market cycles
Tender and pipeline overview
Continued impact of the Covid-19 pandemic but improving tendering activity and pipeline into 2022
Multi-client approach
Focused efforts in prolific basis world-wide
- Strategic efforts in key areas suited for multi-client and infrastructure-led exploration (ILX)
- Established cooperation with large MC companies (project generation, funding, sales, cost/revenue sharing)
- Recurring revenue from «ultimate» seismic data with very high quality and value
- Project driven, opportunistic approaches in combination with contact work gives improved visibility and "degrees of freedom" in planning
Utsira multi-client project
Largest OBN multi-client survey in the Norwegian North Sea
Near-term opportunities are driven by several existing discoveries
Project description
- Superior imaging, high resolution OBN multiclient seismic survey in the North Sea, covering appx. 1,600 sqkm in the mature Utsira high area, acquired in 2018 & 2019
- Several producing fields, commercial discoveries and prospects
- − Investments around production hubs for rapid and robust field development is considered attractive
- − The Utsira program was fully processed in September 2020
- − Two small data sales announced in Q4-20
- Near term opportunities are driven by existing discoveries inside the survey area
- The OBN data is already licensed and used by the operator Equinor, with potential partner uplifts
- 50/50 ownership and revenue share with TGS
Gulf of Suez multi-client project
Attractive revenue opportunities from late sales
AGS receives 60% of all new late sales licensing agreements
Project description
- WesternGeco ("WG") Gulf of Suez OBN multiclient phase 2 consist of approximately 291 km2 of 3D coverage
- − AGS and WG have a multi-client late sales revenue share arrangement in this area of the program
- The objective is to image oil and gas fields complicated geological and geophysical conditions
- This part of the Gulf of Suez is considered a mature production region, but with recent discoveries such as ENI's 2019 Sidri South
- WG is handling marketing and sales activities, and AGS will receive a net revenue share of 60% of all new late sales licensing agreements up to an amount of USD 13.7 million
- Data processing expected to be completed in Q3-2021, with subsequent marketing efforts
First quarter segment financial review
- The company had no projects during the quarter
- Revenues from Covid-19 compensation of USD 0.8 million
- EBITDA of negative USD 1.7 million
- EBIT of negative USD 4.7 million
First quarter segment P&L
Financials segment overview
In USD million In USD million
Revenue EBITDA and EBIT
-4 -5 -2 -7 -9 -5 -10 -5 Q120 Q220 Q320 Q420 Q121 EBITDA EBIT
Segment financial position (pre restructuring)
31 March 2021
USD millions
| Assets |
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| Multi-client library |
34 |
| PP&E |
11 |
| Other current assets |
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| Cash |
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| Equity and liability |
|
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| Equity |
-14 |
|
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| Interest bearing debt |
35 |
|
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| Accounts payable |
14 |
|
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| Other current liabilities |
16 |
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SUMMARY
Financial restructuring in place
Strong liquidity
Solid platform for growth and new business opportunities
Agile asset-light operation with low fixed cost
Focus on extracting full value of data libraries
Seismic market showing signs of improvement
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