DOF Group ASA (“DOF”) is pleased to announce that Skandi Achiever has been awarded an offshore service and survey contract in Brazil in support of a SURF project with operations planned to start in early May and covering three campaigns during 2025.
Furthermore, Skandi Salvador has had its charter, service, and survey contract with Subsea7 in support of SURF projects in Brazil extended until July 2025. The contract foresees additional options.
For further information, please contact:
Eirik Vardøy, Investor Relations DOF Group ASA
Phone: +47 94 83 64 64
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Reference is made to previous announcements regarding the extension of standstill arrangements with the DOF group's secured lenders expiring 30 April 2022 and extension of standstill arrangements with bondholders in DOF Subsea AS' bond issues also expiring 30 April 2022.
DOF ASA and DOF Subsea AS are pleased to announce that each of the companies have agreed to further extend the principal and interest suspension agreements with, or received extensions of similar concessions from, secured lenders representing in total 91% of the secured debt of DOF ASA and DOF Rederi AS and in total 95% of the secured debt of companies within the DOF Subsea AS group (excluding DOF Subsea Brasil Servicos Ltda.) until 31 May 2022.
Reference is further made to the previous announcement on 12 April 2022 regarding summons to bondholders' meetings in DOFSUB07 (ISIN NO0010971005), DOFSUB08 (ISIN NO0010788177) and DOFSUB09 (ISIN NO0010836810) in which DOF Subsea AS requested an extension of the standstill period for the three bonds initially until 31 May 2022 and with the possibility to extend to 30 September 2022 with the approval of an ad-hoc committee of bondholders.
DOF Subsea AS is pleased to announce that the bondholders' meetings were held today and the proposed resolution received 100%, 92,53% and 100% of the votes in DOFSUB07, DOFSUB08, and DOFSUB09, respectively. Approval of the proposal set out in the summons required 2/3 majority in all three bonds, and the proposal wasconsequently approved. Please see the attached minutes from the bondholders' meetings.
The extensions of the standstill periods will facilitate the DOF group's continued dialogue with its secured lenders and the bondholders under the DOF group's bonds regarding a long-term financial restructuring of the DOF group.
Reference is made to the resolutions adopted in the bondholders' meetings in DOF Subsea AS' three bond loans (FRN DOF Subsea AS Senior Unsecured Bond Issue 2013/2020 with a possibility to further extend the standstill arrangement currently in place to 30 April 2022 with the approval of the ad-hoc committee of bondholders. Reference is further made to the announcements on 31 March 2022 regarding the ad-hoc committee's approval of extension of the standstill arrangement with the bondholders described above to 30 April 2022. Discussions and negotiations on the restructuring of the DOF group (the ""Group"") are progressing and the Group its secured lenders and the advisers to the bondholders have since the bondholders' meetings in February 2022 continued negotiations on an overall financial restructuring of the Group. Further progress has been made in such negotiations but there are still certain issues that remain to be resolved to achieve an overall consensual restructuring of the Group. Consequently no assurances can be made that the terms of a binding restructuring agreement will be agreed. DOF Subsea AS has requested Nordic Trustee AS to summon bondholders' meetings in the three bond loans to consider the extension of the standstill period initially until 31 May 2022 and with a possibility to extend the standstill period on one or more occasions to 30 September 2022 with the approval of an ad-hoc committee of bondholders to facilitate the finalisation of the negotiation and documentation of the proposed consensual restructuring. The proposal is further described in the attached summons to the bondholders in the three bond loans. A request will also be made to the Group's secured lenders to correspondingly extend the suspension of payments of principal and interest that have been granted by a majority of its secured lenders as necessary to finalise the restructuring. For further information please contact: Mons S. Aase CEO DOF Subsea. Tel: +47 91 66 10 12 Martin Lundberg CFO DOF Subsea. Tel +47 91 62 10 57 This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. The DOF Subsea Group is a specialist subsea service business that provides subsea construction subsea engineering inspection repair and maintenance and survey services which involve complex and challenging engineering in an international environment. DOF Subsea owns a large fleet of modern subsea construction intervention and survey vessels that enable it to offer differentiated positions with its clients and work in long term relationships which enhance service delivery and reduce the overall risk. The company’s core business is project management engineering vessel operations survey remote intervention and diving operations primarily for the Oil and Gas Marine Telecommunications and Renewables markets. www.dofsubsea.com"
Reference is made to the resolutions adopted in the bondholders' meetings in DOF Subsea AS' three bond loans (FRN DOF Subsea AS Senior Unsecured Bond Issue 2013/2020, DOF Subsea AS 9.50% Senior Unsecured Bond Issue 2017/2022 and FRN DOF Subsea AS Senior Unsecured Bond Issue 2018/2023) on 28 February 2022, whereby the bondholders on certain conditions approved to extend their waiver from, and suspension of, all payment obligations under each of the bond loans until 31 March 2022, with a possibility to further extend the standstill arrangement currently in place to 30 April 2022 with the approval of the ad-hoc committee of bondholders.
Reference is further made to the announcements on 31 March 2022 regarding the ad-hoc committee's approval of extension of the standstill arrangement with the bondholders described above to 30 April 2022.
Discussions and negotiations on the restructuring of the DOF group (the "Group") are progressing, and the Group, its secured lenders and the advisers to the bondholders have since the bondholders' meetings in February 2022 continued negotiations on an overall financial restructuring of the Group. Further progress has been made in such negotiations, but there are still certain issues that remain to be resolved to achieve an overall consensual restructuring of the Group. Consequently, no assurances can be made that the terms of a binding restructuring agreement will be agreed.
DOF Subsea AS has requested Nordic Trustee AS to summon bondholders' meetings in the three bond loans to consider the extension of the standstill period initially until 31 May 2022 and with a possibility to extend the standstill period on one or more occasions to 30 September 2022 with the approval of an ad-hoc committee of bondholders to facilitate the finalisation of the negotiation and documentation of the proposed consensual restructuring. The proposal is further described in the attached summons to the bondholders in the three bond loans. A request will also be made to the Group's secured lenders to correspondingly extend the suspension of payments of principal and interest that have been granted by a majority of its secured lenders as necessary to finalise the restructuring.
DOF Subsea USA is pleased to announce the award of multiple contracts for the Ross Candies. The vessel will be utilised well into Q3 2022 pipelay support and IMR activities at multiple field locations in the Gulf of Mexico. For further information please contact: Mons S. Aase CEO DOF Subsea. Tel: +47 91 66 10 12 Marianne Møgster SVP Finance DOF Subsea. Tel: 99 30 69 16 About DOF Subsea: The DOF Subsea Group is a specialist subsea service business that provides subsea construction subsea engineering inspection repair and maintenance and survey services which involve complex and challenging engineering in an international environment. DOF Subsea owns a large fleet of modern subsea construction intervention and survey vessels that enable it to offer differentiated positions with its clients and work in long term relationships which enhance service delivery and reduce the overall risk. The company’s core business is project management engineering vessel operations survey remote intervention and diving operations primarily for the Oil and Gas Marine Telecommunications and Renewables markets. www.dofsubsea.com
The Board has in a board meeting +47 91 66 10 12 CFO Martin Lundberg +47 91 62 10 57 CSO Stig Clementsen +47 48 28 73 25 About DOF Subsea: The DOF Subsea Group is a specialist subsea service business that provides subsea construction subsea engineering inspection repair and maintenance and survey services which involve complex and challenging engineering in an international environment. DOF Subsea owns a large fleet of modern subsea construction intervention and survey vessels that enable it to offer differentiated positions with its clients and work in long term relationships which enhance service delivery and reduce the overall risk. The company’s core business is project management engineering vessel operations survey remote intervention and diving operations primarily for the Oil and Gas Marine Telecommunications and Renewables markets. www.dofsubsea.com
The Board has in a board meeting +47 91 66 10 12 CFO Martin Lundberg +47 91 62 10 57 CSO Stig Clementsen +47 48 28 73 25 About DOF Subsea: The DOF Subsea Group is a specialist subsea service business that provides subsea construction subsea engineering inspection repair and maintenance and survey services which involve complex and challenging engineering in an international environment. DOF Subsea owns a large fleet of modern subsea construction intervention and survey vessels that enable it to offer differentiated positions with its clients and work in long term relationships which enhance service delivery and reduce the overall risk. The company’s core business is project management engineering vessel operations survey remote intervention and diving operations primarily for the Oil and Gas Marine Telecommunications and Renewables markets. www.dofsubsea.com
The Board has in a board meeting, 6th of April 2022, approved the DOF ASA Integrated Annual Report 2021, including the sustainability report and the financial accounts.
The Board has in a board meeting, 6th of April 2022, approved the DOF Subsea AS Integrated Annual Report 2021, including the sustainability report and the financial accounts.
DOF Subsea USA is pleased to announce the award of multiple contracts for the Ross Candies.The vessel will be utilised well into Q3 2022, undertaking jumper installations, span remediation, pre-commissioning, decommissioning, pipelay support and IMR activities at multiple field locations in the Gulf of Mexico.
The DOF Group is pleased to announce a new contract award for its fleet in Brazil for Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. ("Petrobras"). The AHTS18000 Skandi Rio will support Petrobras' exploration and production activities on the Brazilian continental shelf. The vessel is owned and operated by Norskan Offshore Ltda. while DOF Subsea Brasil Servicios Ltda. will be responsible for the ROV operations. Both companies are 100% owned subsidiaries of DOF ASA.
The contract duration is for 3+1-year with expected commencement in December/January. Skandi Rio is a Brazilian built and flagged AHTS vessel equipped with Work Class ROV's for operations down to 3.000m water depth.
Mons Aase, CEO in DOF Group, states: I am very pleased with the contract award, which confirm the DOF Group's strong position in the South America region.
For further information, please contact:
Mons S. Aase, CEO Tel: +47 91 66 10 12
Hilde Drønen, CFO Tel: +47 91 66 10 09
With a multi-national workforce of about 3,150 personnel, DOF ASA is an
international group of companies which owns and operates a fleet of modern
offshore/subsea vessels, and engineering capacity to service both the offshore
and subsea market. With over 35 years in the offshore business, the group has
a strong position in terms of experience, innovation, product range, technology
and capacity.
DOF's core businesses are vessel ownership, vessel management, project
management, engineering, vessel operations, survey, remote intervention and
diving operations primarily for the oil and gas sector. From PSV charter to
Subsea engineering, DOF offers a full spectrum of top quality offshore
services
to facilitate an ever-growing and demanding industry.
The company's main operation centers and business units are located in
Norway,
the UK, the USA, Singapore, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Angola, and Australia.
DOF ASA is listed on the Oslo Exchange since 1997.