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Filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)
Registration
No. 333-136686
Prospectus
SESI, L.L.C.
Offer to Exchange
$300,000,000 Registered
67/8% Senior
Notes Due June 1, 2014
for
All Outstanding Unregistered
67/8% Senior
Notes Due June 1, 2014
We are offering to exchange, upon the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in this prospectus and the accompanying
letter of transmittal, all of our
67/8% senior
notes due June 1, 2014 that we have registered under the
Securities Act of 1933 for all of our outstanding
67/8% senior
notes due June 1, 2014. We refer to the registered notes as
the exchange notes and all outstanding
67/8% senior
notes due June 1, 2014 as the outstanding notes. In this
prospectus we refer to the exchange notes and the outstanding
notes collectively as the notes.
The Exchange Offer
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We hereby offer to exchange all outstanding notes that are
validly tendered and not withdrawn for an equal principal amount
of exchange notes which are registered under the Securities Act
of 1933. |
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The exchange offer will expire at 5:00 p.m. New York City
time, on November 27, 2006, unless we extend the offer. |
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You may withdraw tenders of your outstanding notes at any time
before the expiration of the exchange offer. |
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The exchange notes are substantially identical to the
outstanding notes, except that the transfer restrictions and
registration rights relating to the outstanding notes will not
apply to the exchange notes. |
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We believe that the exchange of outstanding notes will not be a
taxable event for federal income tax purposes, but you should
read Certain United States Federal Tax
Considerations beginning on page 83 for more
information. |
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We will not receive any cash proceeds from the exchange offer. |
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The outstanding notes are, and the exchange notes will be,
guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by Superior Energy
Services, Inc., substantially all of its current domestic
subsidiaries and certain of its future domestic subsidiaries. |
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There is currently no public market for the exchange notes. We
do not intend to list the exchange notes on any securities
exchange. Therefore, we do not anticipate that an active public
market for the exchange notes will develop. |
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Interest on the exchange notes will be paid at the rate of
67/8% per
annum, semi-annually in cash in arrears on each June 1 and
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Investing in the exchange notes involves risks that we
describe in the Risk Factors section beginning on
page 8.
Each broker-dealer that receives exchange notes for its own
account pursuant to the exchange offer must acknowledge that it
will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such
exchange notes. The letter of transmittal states that by so
acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer
will not be deemed to admit that it is an
underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act
of 1933. This prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented
from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection
with resales of exchange notes received in exchange for
outstanding notes where such outstanding notes were acquired by
such broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or
other trading activities. We have agreed that, for a period of
180 days after the date of this prospectus, we will make
this prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in
connection with any such resale. See Plan of
Distribution.
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state
securities commission has approved or disapproved the exchange
notes or passed on the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus
and any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
The date of this prospectus is October 25, 2006.
We have not authorized anyone to give any information or
represent anything to you other than the information in this
prospectus. You must not rely on any unauthorized information or
representations. We are not making an offer to sell the exchange
notes in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not
permitted.
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In this prospectus, Superior, the
Company, we, our and
us refer to SESI, L.L.C., our parent, Superior
Energy Services, Inc., and our subsidiaries, unless otherwise
indicated. References to Superior Energy are to
Superior Energy Services, Inc. and not to any of its
subsidiaries.
This prospectus incorporates business and financial information
about Superior Energy that is not included in or delivered with
this prospectus. This information is available without charge to
security holders upon written or oral request to Superior Energy
Services, Inc., 1105 Peters Road, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058,
(504) 362-4321, Attn.: Investor Relations. To ensure
timely delivery you should make your request at least five
business days before the date upon which you must make your
investment decision. See Where You Can Find More
Information for further information regarding this
important business and financial information.
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INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
We incorporate by reference in this prospectus
information that Superior Energy files with the SEC. This means
that we can disclose important information to you by referring
you to another document filed separately with the SEC. The
information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part
of this prospectus, except for any information that is
superseded by information that is included directly in this
document or in a more recent incorporated document. Any
statement contained in a document incorporated by reference in
this prospectus will be deemed to be modified or superseded for
purposes of this prospectus to the extent that a statement
contained in this prospectus or in any other subsequently filed
document that also is incorporated in this prospectus modifies
or replaces such statement. Any statement so modified or
superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or
superseded, to constitute a part of this prospectus. We
incorporate by reference the documents listed below and any
future filings made by Superior Energy with the SEC under
Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 until the exchange offer of the notes has been completed.
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Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2005; |
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Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for the
periods ended March 31, 2006 and June 30,
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Current Reports on
Form 8-K filed on
February 1, 2006, March 1, 2006, May 5, 2006,
May 9, 2006, May 11, 2006, May 17, 2006,
May 23, 2006, May 25, 2006, June 6, 2006,
June 26, 2006, July 27, 2006 and September 25,
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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain of the statements in this prospectus and the documents
incorporated by reference in this prospectus constitute
forward-looking statements. These statements include all
statements other than statements conveying historical
information or other facts.
Forward-looking statements involve numerous known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual
results, performance or achievements to differ materially from
those expressed or implied in such statements. These
forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of
terminology such as: believe, hope, may, anticipate, should,
intend, plan, will, expect, estimate, continue, project,
positioned, strategy and similar expressions.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize,
or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual
outcomes may vary materially from those indicated. In light of
these risks and uncertainties, you are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Except to
the extent required by applicable law or regulation, we do not
undertake any obligation to publicly update forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future
events or otherwise. You are advised, however, to consult any
further disclosures on related subjects contained in Superior
Energys filings, from time to time, with the SEC. Although
we believe the expectations reflected in our forward-looking
statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no
assurance that we will attain these expectations or that any
deviations will not be material.
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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
This summary highlights relevant information contained
elsewhere in this prospectus or incorporated by reference.
Because this is only a summary, it does not contain all of the
information that may be important to you. For a more complete
understanding of the exchange offer and the exchange notes, you
should read the following summary together with the more
detailed information included elsewhere and incorporated by
reference in this prospectus and the matters discussed under
Risk Factors.
Our Company
We are a leading, highly diversified provider of specialized
oilfield services and equipment focused on serving the drilling
and production-related needs of oil and gas companies. We
believe that we are one of the few companies capable of
providing the services, tools and liftboats necessary to
maintain, enhance and extend the life of offshore producing
wells, as well as plug and abandonment services at the end of
their life cycle. We also own and operate mature oil and gas
properties in the Gulf of Mexico. We believe that our ability to
provide our customers with multiple services and to coordinate
and integrate their delivery allows us to maximize efficiency,
reduce lead-time and provide cost-effective solutions for our
customers. In recent years, we have expanded geographically so
that we now also have a growing presence in select domestic land
and international markets.
Our Business
Our business is organized into the following four business
segments:
Well Intervention Services. We provide well intervention
services that stimulate oil and gas production using platforms
or our liftboats rather than through the use of a drilling rig,
which we believe provides a cost advantage to our customers. Our
well intervention services include coiled tubing, electric
wireline, pumping and stimulation, gas lift, well control,
snubbing, recompletion, engineering and well evaluation
services, platform and field management, offshore oil and gas
cleaning, decommissioning, plug and abandonment and mechanical
wireline. We believe we are the leading provider of mechanical
wireline services in the Gulf of Mexico with approximately 190
offshore wireline units, 20 land wireline units and 10
dedicated liftboats configured specifically for wireline
services. We also believe we are a leading provider of rigless
plug and abandonment services in the Gulf of Mexico. We recently
completed construction of an 880-ton derrick barge to expand our
decommissioning services. We also manufacture and sell
specialized drilling rig instrumentation equipment.
Rental Tools. We are a leading provider of rental tools.
We manufacture, sell and rent specialized equipment for use with
offshore and onshore oil and gas well drilling, completion,
production and workover activities. Through internal growth and
acquisitions, we have increased the size and breadth of our
rental tool inventory and now have 28 locations in all major
staging points in Louisiana and Texas for offshore oil and gas
activities in the Gulf of Mexico. Our rental tools segment also
has locations domestically in North Louisiana, Oklahoma and
Wyoming, and internationally in Venezuela, Trinidad, Mexico,
Eastern Canada, the North Sea, the Middle East and West Africa.
Our rental tools include pressure control equipment, specialty
tubular goods, connecting iron, handling tools, drill pipe,
bolting equipment, power swivels, stabilizers, drill collars and
on-site accommodations.
Marine Services. We own and operate a fleet of liftboats
that we believe is highly complementary to our well intervention
services. A liftboat is a self-propelled, self-elevating work
platform with legs, cranes and living accommodations. Our fleet
consists of 36 liftboats, including 10 liftboats configured
specifically for wireline services (used in our well
intervention segment) and 26 in our rental fleet with
leg-lengths ranging from 145 feet to 250 feet. We are
also currently refurbishing a 200-foot class liftboat and
anticipate returning it to service during the third quarter of
2006. Our liftboat fleet has leg-lengths and deck spaces that
are suited to deliver our production-related bundled services
and support customers in their construction, maintenance and
other production-enhancement projects. All of our liftboats are
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currently located in the Gulf of Mexico, but we may reposition
some of our larger liftboats to international market areas if
opportunities arise.
Oil and Gas Operations. Through our subsidiary SPN
Resources, LLC (SPN Resources), we acquire mature
oil and gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico to provide our
customers with a cost-effective alternative to the plugging,
abandoning and decommissioning process. Owning oil and gas
properties provides additional opportunities for our well
intervention, decommissioning and platform management services,
particularly during periods when demand from our traditional
customers is weak due to cyclical or seasonal factors. Once
properties are acquired, we utilize our production-related
assets and services to maintain, enhance and extend existing
production of these properties. At the end of a propertys
economic life, we plug and abandon the wells and decommission
and abandon the facilities. As of June 30, 2006, we had
interests in 35 offshore blocks containing 66 structures and
approximately 153 producing wells. As of December 31, 2005,
as adjusted to give effect to our acquisition of certain leases
from Explore Offshore, LLC in April, 2006, we had reserves of
16 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe) with a
pre-tax PV-10 of
$445.2 million and approximately 80% of our reserves were
classified as proved developed.
Our headquarters are located at 1105 Peters Road, Harvey,
Louisiana, 70058 and our telephone number is
(504) 362-4321.
Our Internet website is www.superiorenergy.com. The
information contained on our website or that can be accessed
through our website does not constitute a part of this
prospectus.
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The Exchange Offer
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The Initial Offering and
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We sold the outstanding notes on May 22, 2006 to Bear,
Stearns & Co., Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.,
Howard Weil Incorporated, Johnson Rice & Company
L.L.C., Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC, Raymond
James & Associates, Inc. and Simmons & Company
International. We collectively refer to those parties in this
prospectus as the initial purchasers. The initial purchasers
subsequently resold the outstanding notes to qualified
institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the
Securities Act and to
non-U.S. Persons
within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act. |
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We are offering to exchange the outstanding notes for the
exchange notes in the aggregate principal amount of up to
$300.0 million. The exchange notes will evidence the same
debt as the outstanding notes and will be entitled to the
benefits of the same indenture as the outstanding notes. The
terms of the exchange notes and outstanding notes are identical
in all material respects, except that (i) the exchange
notes will bear interest from May 22, 2006 or, if later,
from the most recent date of payment of interest on the
outstanding notes, and (ii) the transfer restrictions and
the registration rights relating to the outstanding notes shall
not apply to the exchange notes. |
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We are offering to exchange the exchange notes which have been
registered under the Securities Act for a like principal amount
of your outstanding notes. The outstanding notes may be
exchanged only in integral multiples of $1,000. The issuance of
the exchange notes is intended to satisfy our obligations
contained in a registration rights agreement among us and the
initial purchasers. |
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We believe that the exchange notes issued to you pursuant to the
exchange offer may be offered for sale, resold and otherwise
transferred by you without compliance with the registration and
prospectus delivery provisions of the Securities Act, if: |
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you are
acquiring the exchange notes in the ordinary course of your
business; |
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you have no
arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in
the distribution of the exchange notes; and |
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you are not
our affiliate as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities
Act. |
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If you fail to satisfy any of these conditions and you transfer
any exchange notes without delivering a proper prospectus or
without qualifying for an exemption from registration, you may
incur liability under the Securities Act. We will not assume,
nor will we indemnify you against, any such liability. |
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Each broker-dealer that is issued exchange notes in the exchange
offer for its own account in exchange for outstanding notes that
were acquired by that broker-dealer as a result of market-making |
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or other trading activities must acknowledge that it will
deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities
Act in connection with any resale of the Exchange Notes. A
broker-dealer may use this prospectus for an offer to resell,
resale or other retransfer of the exchange notes issued to it in
the exchange offer. |
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Expiration Date |
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The exchange offer expires at 5:00 p.m., New York City
time, on November 27, 2006, unless we decide to extend the
exchange offer. |
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Conditions to the Exchange Offer |
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The exchange offer is subject to customary conditions that may
be waived by us; however, the exchange offer is not conditioned
upon any minimum aggregate principal amount of outstanding notes
being tendered for exchange. We currently anticipate that each
of the conditions will be satisfied and that we will not need to
waive any conditions. We reserve the right to terminate or amend
the exchange offer at any time before the expiration date. For
additional information, see Exchange Offer
Conditions to the Exchange Offer. |
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Withdrawal Rights |
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You may withdraw the tender of your outstanding notes at any
time prior to the expiration of the exchange offer. We will
return to you any of your outstanding notes that we do not
accept for exchange for any reason without expense to you
promptly after the exchange offer expires or terminates. |
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Procedure for Tendering
Outstanding Notes |
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If you wish to tender your outstanding notes for exchange in
this exchange offer, you must transmit to the exchange agent on
or before the expiration date either: |
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an original or
a facsimile of a properly completed and duly executed copy of
the letter of transmittal, which accompanies this prospectus,
together with your outstanding notes and any other documentation
required by the letter of transmittal, at the address provided
on the cover page of the letter of transmittal; or |
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if the
outstanding notes you own are held of record by The Depository
Trust Company, or DTC, in book-entry form and you are making
delivery by book-entry transfer, a computer-generated message
transmitted by means of the Automated Tender Offer Program
System of DTC, or ATOP, in which you acknowledge and agree to be
bound by the terms of the letter of transmittal and which, when
received by the exchange agent, forms a part of a confirmation
of book-entry transfer. As part of the book-entry transfer, DTC
will facilitate the exchange of your outstanding notes and
update your account to reflect the issuance of the exchange
notes to you. ATOP allows you to electronically transmit your
acceptance of the exchange offer to DTC instead of physically
completing and delivering a letter of transmittal to the
exchange agent. |
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In addition, you must deliver to the exchange agent on or before
the expiration date: |
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if you are
effecting delivery by book-entry transfer, a timely confirmation
of book-entry transfer of your outstanding notes into the
account of the exchange agent at DTC; or |
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if necessary,
the documents required for compliance with the guaranteed
delivery procedures. |
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Special Procedures for
Beneficial Owners |
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If you are the beneficial owner of book-entry interests and your
name does not appear on a security position listing of DTC as
the holder of the book-entry interests or if you are a
beneficial owner of outstanding notes that are registered in the
name of a broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or
other nominee and you wish to tender the book-entry interest or
outstanding notes in the exchange offer, you should contact the
person in whose name your book-entry interests or outstanding
notes are registered promptly and instruct that person to tender
on your behalf. |
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United States Federal Income
Tax Consequences |
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We believe that the exchange of outstanding notes pursuant to
the exchange offer should not be a taxable event for United
States federal income tax purposes. See Certain United
States Federal Tax Considerations. |
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Use of Proceeds |
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We will not receive any cash proceeds from the issuance of the
exchange notes pursuant to the exchange offer. We will pay all
of our expenses incident to the exchange offer. |
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Exchange Agent |
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The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. is serving as the
exchange agent in connection with the exchange offer. |
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Effect on Holders of
Outstanding Notes |
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As a result of the making of this exchange offer, and upon
acceptance for exchange of all validly tendered outstanding
notes pursuant to the terms of this exchange offer, we will have
fulfilled a covenant contained in the registration rights
agreement among us and the initial purchasers and, accordingly,
the holders of the outstanding notes will have no further
registration or other rights under the registration rights
agreement, except under certain limited circumstances. Holders
of the outstanding notes who do not tender their outstanding
notes in the exchange offer will continue to hold such
outstanding notes and will be entitled to all rights and
limitations thereto under the indenture. All untendered, and
tendered but unaccepted, outstanding notes will continue to be
subject to the restrictions on transfer provided for in such
outstanding notes and the indenture. To the extent outstanding
notes are tendered and accepted in the exchange offer, the
trading market, if any, for the outstanding notes could be
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The Exchange Notes
The terms of the exchange notes and those of the outstanding
notes are substantially identical, except that the transfer
restrictions and registration rights relating to the outstanding
notes do not apply to the exchange notes. As a result, the
exchange notes will not bear legends restricting their transfer
and will not have the benefit of the registration rights
contained in the outstanding notes. The exchange notes represent
the same debt as the outstanding notes for which they are being
exchanged. Both the outstanding notes and the exchange notes are
governed by the same indenture.
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Securities |
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$300.0 million aggregate principal amount of
67/8% senior
notes due 2014. |
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June 1, 2014. |
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Interest |
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Annual rate of
67/8%,
payable semi-annually every six months on June 1 and
December 1 of each year, commencing on December 1,
2006. |
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Guarantees |
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The exchange notes will be guaranteed on a senior unsecured
basis by Superior Energy and substantially all of its current
domestic subsidiaries other than the issuer, and certain of its
future domestic subsidiaries. See Description of
Notes Guarantees and Certain
Definitions. The guarantees will be unsecured senior
indebtedness of Superior Energy and the subsidiary guarantors
and will have the same ranking with respect to indebtedness of
such guarantors as the notes will have with respect to our
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The exchange notes will be our, and the guarantees will be the
guarantors, direct, unsecured senior obligations.
Accordingly, they will rank: |
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equal to all
of our and the guarantors existing and future unsecured,
senior indebtedness; |
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senior to all
of our and the guarantors existing and future subordinated
indebtedness; |
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effectively
subordinated to all of our and the guarantors existing and
future secured indebtedness, including indebtedness under our
credit facility, to the extent of the assets securing such
indebtedness; and |
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effectively
subordinated to all existing and any future indebtedness and
other liabilities of our subsidiaries that are not guaranteeing
the notes, to the extent of the assets of such subsidiaries. |
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We may, at our option, redeem some or all of the exchange notes
at any time on or after June 1, 2010 at the redemption
prices described in the section Description of
Notes Optional Redemption, plus accrued and
unpaid interest, if any. |
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In addition, prior to June 1, 2009, we may, at our option,
redeem up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of
the notes with the net cash proceeds of certain sales of equity
securities at the redemption prices described in the section
Description of |
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Notes Optional Redemption, plus accrued and
unpaid interest, if any. We may make the redemption only to the
extent that, after the redemption, at least 65% of the original
aggregate principal amount of the notes remains outstanding. |
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Prior to June 1, 2010, we may, at our option, redeem some
or all of the notes at the make whole price set
forth under Description of Notes Optional
Redemption. |
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Mandatory Redemption |
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If we or Superior Energy experience specific kinds of changes in
control, we must offer to repurchase the exchange notes at 101%
of their face amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
See Description of Notes Repurchase at the
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Certain Covenants |
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We will issue the exchange notes under an indenture among us,
Superior Energy, our subsidiary guarantors and the trustee. The
indenture will, among other things, limit our and the guarantors
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incur, assume
or guarantee additional indebtedness; |
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repurchase
capital stock; |
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make other
restricted payments, including without limitation dividends or
other distributions; |
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redeem debt
that is junior in right of payment to the notes; |
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create liens
without securing the notes; |
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sell or
otherwise dispose of assets, including capital stock of
subsidiaries; |
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enter into
agreements that restrict dividends or distributions from
subsidiaries; |
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merge,
consolidate or sell, or otherwise dispose of, substantially all
of our assets; and |
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enter into
transactions with affiliates. |
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These covenants are subject to important exceptions. See
Description of Notes Certain Covenants
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RISK FACTORS
You should carefully consider the following factors in
addition to the other information contained in this prospectus
and the documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus
before you participate in the exchange offer. The risks
described below are the material risks of which we are currently
aware; however, they may not be the only material risks that we
face. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to
us or that we currently view as immaterial may also impair our
business operations. Any of these risks could materially and
adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of
operations and cash flows. In that case, you may lose all or
part of your investment.
Risks Related to the Exchange Offer
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Because there is no public market for the notes, you may
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The exchange notes will be registered under the Securities Act,
but will constitute a new issue of securities with no
established trading market, and there can be no assurance as to:
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the liquidity of any trading market that may develop; |
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the ability of holders to sell their exchange notes; or |
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the price at which the holders would be able to sell their
exchange notes. |
If a trading market were to develop, the exchange notes might
trade at higher or lower prices than their principal amount or
purchase price, depending on many factors, including prevailing
interest rates, the market for similar securities and our
financial performance.
The initial purchasers presently make a market in the exchange
notes. However, they are not obligated to do so, and any
market-making activity with respect to the notes may be
discontinued at any time without notice. In addition, any
market-making activity will be subject to the limits imposed by
the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and may be limited
during the exchange offer or the pendency of an applicable shelf
registration statement. There can be no assurance that an active
trading market will exist for the notes or that any trading
market that does develop will be liquid.
In addition, any outstanding note holder who tenders in the
exchange offer for the purpose of participating in a
distribution of the exchange notes may be deemed to have
received restricted securities, and if so, will be required to
comply with the registration and prospectus delivery
requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale
transaction. For a description of these requirements, see
Exchange Offer Resale of the Exchange
Notes.
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Your notes will not be accepted for exchange if you fail
to follow the exchange offer procedures and, as a result, your
notes will continue to be subject to existing transfer
restrictions and you may not be able to sell your notes. |
We will not accept outstanding notes for exchange if you do not
follow the exchange offer procedures. We will issue exchange
notes as part of this exchange offer only after a timely receipt
of outstanding notes, a properly completed and duly executed
letter of transmittal and all other required documents.
Therefore, if you want to tender outstanding notes, please allow
sufficient time to ensure timely delivery. If we do not receive
outstanding notes tendered by you, your letter of transmittal
and other required documents by the expiration date of the
exchange offer, we will not accept those outstanding notes for
exchange. If there are defects or irregularities with respect to
your tender of outstanding notes, we will not accept such notes
for exchange. We are under no duty to give notification of
defects or irregularities with respect to the tenders of
outstanding notes for exchange.
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If you do not exchange your notes, your notes will
continue to be subject to the existing transfer restrictions and
you may not be able to sell your notes. |
We did not register the outstanding notes, nor do we intend to
do so following the exchange offer. Outstanding notes that are
not tendered will therefore continue to be subject to the
existing transfer restrictions and may be transferred only in
limited circumstances under the securities laws. If you do not
exchange outstanding notes for exchange notes pursuant to the
exchange offer, you will lose your right to have such notes
registered under the federal securities laws. As a result, if
you hold outstanding notes after the exchange offer, you may not
be able to sell your outstanding notes.
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The reoffering and resale of the outstanding notes is
subject to significant legal restrictions. |
The outstanding notes have not been registered under the
Securities Act or any state securities laws. As a result,
holders of outstanding notes may reoffer or resell outstanding
notes only if:
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there is an applicable exemption from the registration
requirement of the Securities Act and applicable state laws that
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Risks Relating to the Notes and Our Indebtedness
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Our substantial indebtedness could adversely affect our
financial health and prevent us from fulfilling our obligations
under the notes. |
We have now, and after the offering of the exchange notes, will
continue to have, a significant amount of indebtedness. As of
June 30, 2006, we had total indebtedness of
$317.0 million, of which $300.0 million would have
consisted of the notes and the balance would have consisted of
other indebtedness.
Our substantial indebtedness could have important consequences
to you. For example, it could:
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make it more difficult for us to satisfy our obligations with
respect to the notes; |
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increase our vulnerability to general adverse economic and
industry conditions; |
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require us to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flow
from operations to payments on our indebtedness, thereby
reducing the availability of our cash flow to fund working
capital, capital expenditures, research and development efforts
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limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes
in our business and the industry in which we operate; |
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place us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our
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limit our ability to borrow additional funds. |
In addition, the indenture will contain, and our credit facility
contains, financial and other restrictive covenants that limit
our ability to engage in activities that may be in our long-term
best interests. Our failure to comply with those covenants could
result in an event of default which, if not cured or waived,
could result in the acceleration of all of our indebtedness.
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Despite current indebtedness levels, we may still be able
to incur substantially more indebtedness. This could further
exacerbate the risks associated with our substantial
leverage. |
We may be able to incur substantial additional indebtedness in
the future. The terms of the indenture do not fully prohibit us
or our subsidiaries from doing so, either directly or through
Superior Energy or our subsidiaries. Our credit facility permits
additional borrowings of up to $150.0 million, with an
option to increase to $250.0 million, and all of those
borrowings would rank senior to the notes and the guarantees
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to the extent of the collateral securing such indebtedness. If
new indebtedness is added to our and our subsidiaries
current indebtedness levels, the related risks that we and they
now face could intensify.
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Servicing our indebtedness will require a significant
amount of cash, and our ability to generate sufficient cash
depends on many factors, some of which are beyond our
control. |
Our ability to make payments on and to refinance our
indebtedness, including the notes, and to fund working capital
needs and planned capital expenditures will depend on our
ability to generate cash in the future. This, to a certain
extent, is subject to general economic, financial, competitive,
legislative, regulatory and other factors that are beyond our
control. Our business may not generate cash flow from
operations, and future borrowings may not be available to us
under our credit facility or otherwise in an amount sufficient
to enable us to pay our indebtedness or to fund other liquidity
needs. As a result, we may need to refinance all or a portion of
our indebtedness, including the notes on or before maturity. We
cannot assure you that we will be able to refinance any of our
indebtedness, including our credit facility and the notes, on
commercially reasonable terms or at all. In addition, if for any
reason we are unable to meet our indebtedness service
obligations, we would be in default under the terms of the
agreements governing our outstanding indebtedness. If such a
default were to occur, the lenders under our credit facility
could elect to declare all amounts outstanding under the credit
facility immediately due and payable, and the lenders would not
be obligated to continue to advance funds under our credit
facility. In addition, if such a default were to occur, the
notes would become immediately due and payable. If the amounts
outstanding under these indebtedness agreements are accelerated,
we cannot assure you that our assets will be sufficient to repay
in full the money owed to our creditors, including holders of
notes.
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The notes and guarantees are unsecured, and the notes are
effectively subordinated to our secured indebtedness and the
guarantees are effectively subordinated to the guarantors
secured indebtedness. |
Holders of our secured indebtedness and the secured indebtedness
of the guarantors will have claims that rank senior to your
claims as holders of the notes to the extent of the collateral
securing that other indebtedness. Notably, we and certain of our
subsidiaries, including the guarantors, are a party to our
credit facility, which is secured by liens on substantially all
of our assets and the assets of the guarantors. The notes will
be effectively subordinated to all of that secured indebtedness.
In the event of any distribution or payment of our assets in any
foreclosure, dissolution, winding-up, liquidation,
reorganization or other bankruptcy proceeding, holders of
secured indebtedness will have prior claim to those of our
assets that constitute their collateral. Holders of the notes
will participate ratably with all holders of our unsecured
indebtedness that is deemed to be of the same class as the
notes, and potentially with all of our other general creditors,
based upon the respective amounts owed to each holder or
creditor, in our remaining assets. In any of the foregoing
events, we cannot assure you that there will be sufficient
assets to pay amounts due on the notes. As a result, holders of
notes may receive less, ratably, than holders of secured
indebtedness.
As of June 30, 2006, the aggregate amount of our secured
indebtedness would have been approximately $17.0 million,
and approximately $130.5 million would have been available
for additional borrowing under our credit facility, all of which
would rank senior to your claims as holders of the notes. We
will be permitted to borrow substantial additional indebtedness,
including senior indebtedness, in the future under the terms of
the indenture.
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SESI, L.L.C. and Superior Energy are holding companies and
depend on cash flows from our subsidiaries to meet our
obligations. |
SESI, L.L.C. is a holding company, and conducts substantially
all of its operations through its subsidiaries. Consequently it
does not have any income from operations and does not expect to
generate any income from operations in the future. Further, none
of SESI, L.L.C.s subsidiaries are obligated to make funds
available to it for payment of the notes. Accordingly, SESI,
L.L.C.s ability to make payments on the notes is dependent
on the earnings and the distribution of funds from its
subsidiaries.
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Our parent, Superior Energy, is also a holding company and
conducts substantially all of its operations through SESI,
L.L.C. Therefore, Superior Energys ability to perform on
its guarantee of the notes depends on SESI, L.L.C.s
earnings and distributions.
In addition, our subsidiaries will be permitted under the terms
of the indenture to incur additional indebtedness that may
severely restrict or prohibit the making of distributions, the
payment of dividends or the making of loans by such subsidiaries
to us or SESI, L.L.C. We cannot assure you that the agreements
governing the current and future indebtedness of our
subsidiaries will permit our subsidiaries to provide us or SESI,
L.L.C. with sufficient dividends, distributions or loans to fund
payments on the notes when due.
Our non-guarantor subsidiaries are separate and distinct legal
entities with no obligation to pay any amounts due pursuant to
the notes or the guarantees or to provide us or the guarantors
with funds for our payment obligations. Our cash flows and our
ability to service our indebtedness, including the notes,
depends in part on the earnings of our non-guarantor
subsidiaries and on the distribution of earnings, loans or other
payments to us by these subsidiaries. In fiscal year 2005, the
non-guarantor subsidiaries contributed approximately 10.0% of
our consolidated revenue and approximately 13.0% of our
consolidated earnings from continuing operations, and
represented approximately 11.0% of our consolidated assets. In
addition, the ability of these non-guarantor subsidiaries to
make any dividend, distribution, loan or other payment to us or
a guarantor could be subject to statutory or contractual
restrictions. Payments to us or a guarantor by these
non-guarantor subsidiaries will also be contingent on their
earnings and their business considerations. Because we depend in
part on the cash flows of these non-guarantor subsidiaries to
meet our obligations, these types of restrictions may impair our
ability to make scheduled interest and principal payments on the
notes.
Furthermore, in the event of any bankruptcy, liquidation or
reorganization of a non-guarantor subsidiary, you will not have
any claim as a creditor against such subsidiary. As a result,
all indebtedness and other liabilities, including trade
payables, of the non-guarantor subsidiaries, whether secured or
unsecured, must be satisfied before any of the assets of such
subsidiaries would be available for distribution, upon a
liquidation or otherwise, to us in order for us to meet our
obligations with respect to the notes. As of June 30, 2006,
the notes were effectively junior to $17.0 million of
indebtedness (excluding trade payables) of our non-guarantor
subsidiaries.
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Covenant restrictions under our credit facility and the
indenture may limit our ability to operate our business. |
Our credit facility contains, and the indenture governing the
notes will contain, among other things, covenants that restrict
our and our subsidiaries activities. Our credit facility
limits, among other things, our and the guarantors ability
to: borrow money; pay dividends or distributions; purchase or
redeem stock; make investments; engage in transactions with
affiliates; engage in sale and leaseback transactions;
consummate specified asset sales; effect a consolidation or
merger or sell, transfer, lease, or otherwise dispose of all or
substantially all of our assets; and create liens on our assets.
In addition, our credit facility contains specific limits on
capital expenditures. Furthermore, our credit facility requires
us to maintain specified financial ratios and satisfy financial
condition tests. The indenture governing the notes will restrict
our and the guarantors ability to create liens on assets,
enter into sale and leaseback transactions and merge or
consolidate with other companies. Our and our subsidiaries
future indebtedness may contain similar or even more restrictive
covenants.
These covenants may require that we take action to reduce our
indebtedness or to act in a manner contrary to our business
objectives. In addition, events beyond our control, including
changes in general economic and business conditions, may affect
our ability to satisfy these covenants. We might not meet those
covenants, and the lenders might not waive any failure to meet
those covenants. A breach of any of those covenants could result
in a default under such indebtedness. If an event of default
under our credit facility occurs, the lenders could elect to
declare all amounts outstanding thereunder, together with
accrued interest, to be immediately due and payable. Any such
declaration would also result in an event of default under the
indenture governing the notes. See Description of
Notes.
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We may not have the ability to raise the funds necessary
to finance the change of control offer required by the
indenture. |
Upon the occurrence of certain specific kinds of change of
control events, we will be required to offer to repurchase all
outstanding notes at 101% of the principal amount thereof plus
accrued and unpaid interest and additional interest, if any, to
the date of repurchase. The source of funds for any such
purchase of notes will be our available cash or cash generated
from our subsidiaries operations or other sources,
including borrowings, sales of assets, sales of equity or funds
provided by a new controlling person. Sufficient funds may not
be available at the time of any change of control to make any
required repurchases of notes tendered. In addition, the terms
of our credit facility limit our ability to purchase your notes
in those circumstances. Under our credit facility, a change of
control is an event of default which would require us to repay
all amounts outstanding under the credit facility. Any of our
future indebtedness agreements may contain similar restrictions
and provisions. If the holders of the notes exercise their right
to require us to repurchase all of the notes upon a change of
control, the financial effect of this repurchase could cause a
default under our other indebtedness, even if the change in
control itself would not cause a default. Accordingly, it is
possible that we will not have sufficient funds at the time of
the change of control to make the required repurchase of notes
or that restrictions in our credit facility or other
indebtedness that may be incurred in the future will not allow
the repurchases. See Description of Notes
Repurchase at the Option of Holders.
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The guarantees may not be enforceable because of
fraudulent conveyance laws. |
Under the federal bankruptcy law and comparable provisions of
state fraudulent transfer laws, a guarantee could be voided, or
claims in respect of a guarantee could be subordinated to all
other indebtedness of that guarantor if, among other things, the
guarantor, at the time it incurred the indebtedness evidenced by
its guarantee:
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received less than reasonably equivalent value or fair
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was insolvent or rendered insolvent by reason of such
incurrence; or |
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was engaged in a business or transaction for which the
guarantors remaining assets constituted unreasonably small
capital; or |
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intended to incur, or believed that it would incur, indebtedness
beyond its ability to pay such indebtedness as it matures. |
In addition, any payment by that guarantor pursuant to its
guarantee could be voided and required to be returned to the
guarantor, or to a fund for the benefit of the creditors of the
guarantor.
The measures of insolvency for purposes of these fraudulent
transfer laws will vary depending upon the law applied in any
proceeding to determine whether a fraudulent transfer has
occurred. Generally, however, a guarantor would be considered
insolvent if:
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the sum of its indebtedness, including contingent liabilities,
was greater than the fair saleable value of all of its
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if the present fair saleable value of its assets was less than
the amount that would be required to pay its probable liability
on its existing indebtedness, including contingent liabilities,
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it could not pay its indebtedness as they become due. |
If a guarantee is avoided as a fraudulent conveyance or found to
be unenforceable for any other reason, you will not have a claim
against that obligor and will only be a creditor of our or any
guarantor whose obligation was not set aside or found to be
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Risks Relating to Our Business
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We are subject to the cyclical nature of the oil and gas
industry. |
Our business depends primarily on the level of activity by the
oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Gulf
Coast. This level of activity has traditionally been volatile as
a result of fluctuations in oil and gas prices and their
uncertainty in the future. The purchases of the products and
services we provide are, to a substantial extent, deferrable in
the event oil and gas companies reduce capital expenditures.
Therefore, the willingness of our customers to make expenditures
is critical to our operations. The levels of such capital
expenditures are influenced by:
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oil and gas prices and industry perceptions of future price
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the cost of exploring for, producing and delivering oil and gas; |
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the ability of oil and gas companies to generate capital; |
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local and international political and economic conditions. |
Although activity levels in the production and development
sectors of the oil and gas industry are less immediately
affected by changing prices and as a result, less volatile than
the exploration sector, producers generally react to declining
oil and gas prices by reducing expenditures. This has in the
past adversely affected and may in the future, adversely affect
our business. We are unable to predict future oil and gas prices
or the level of oil and gas industry activity. A prolonged low
level of activity in the oil and gas industry will adversely
affect the demand for our products and services and our
financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
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Our industry is highly competitive. |
We compete in highly competitive areas of the oilfield services
industry. The products and services of each of our principal
industry segments are sold in highly competitive markets, and
our revenues and earnings may be affected by the following
factors:
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changes in competitive prices; |
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fluctuations in the level of activity in major markets; |
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an increased number of liftboats in the Gulf of Mexico; |
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general economic conditions; and |
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governmental regulation. |
We compete with the oil and gas industrys largest
integrated and independent oilfield service providers. We
believe that the principal competitive factors in the market
areas that we serve are price, product and service quality,
availability and technical proficiency.
Our operations may be adversely affected if our current
competitors or new market entrants introduce new products or
services with better features, performance, prices or other
characteristics than our products and services. Further,
additional liftboat capacity in the Gulf of Mexico would
increase competition for that service. Competitive pressures or
other factors also may result in significant price competition
that could have a material adverse effect on our results of
operations and financial condition. Finally, competition among
oilfield service and equipment providers is also affected by
each providers reputation for safety and quality. Although
we believe that our reputation for safety and quality service is
good, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to maintain our
competitive position.
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We may not be able to acquire oil and gas properties to
increase our asset utilization. |
Our strategy to increase our asset utilization by performing
work on our own properties depends on our ability to find,
acquire, manage and decommission mature Gulf of Mexico oil and
gas properties. Factors that may hinder our ability to acquire
these properties include competition, prevailing oil and natural
gas prices and the number of properties for sale. Another factor
that could hinder our ability to acquire oil and gas properties
is our ability to assume additional decommissioning liabilities
without posting bonds or providing other financial security to
the U.S. Department of Interior, Minerals Management
Service, or MMS, or the sellers of these properties, the cost of
which may render our proposal unattractive to us or the sellers.
In certain instances, the sellers of these properties may have
continuing obligations to us that are unsecured, and although we
believe these arrangements represent minimal credit risk, we
cannot guarantee that any seller will not become a credit risk
in the future. If we are unable to find and acquire properties
meeting our criteria on acceptable terms to us, we will not be
able to increase the utilization of our assets and services by
performing work on our own properties during seasonal downtime
and when we have available equipment not being utilized by our
traditional customer base. We cannot guarantee that we will be
able to locate and acquire such properties.
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Estimates of our oil and gas reserves and potential
liabilities relating to our oil and gas properties may be
incorrect. |
We acquire mature oil and gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico
on an as is basis and assume all plugging,
abandonment, restoration and environmental liability with
limited remedies for breaches of representations and warranties.
In addition, we acquire these properties without obtaining
bonds, other than as required by MMS, to secure the plugging and
abandonment obligations. Acquisitions of these properties
require an assessment of a number of factors beyond our control,
including estimates of recoverable reserves, future oil and gas
prices, operating costs and potential environmental and plugging
and abandonment liabilities. These assessments are complex and
inherently imprecise and, with respect to estimates of oil and
gas reserves, require significant decisions and assumptions in
the evaluation of available geological, geophysical, engineering
and economic data for each reservoir. In addition, since these
properties are typically older and near the end of their
economic lives, our facilities and operations may be more
susceptible to hurricane damage, equipment failure or mechanical
problems. In connection with these assessments, we perform due
diligence reviews that we believe are generally consistent with
industry practices. However, our reviews may not reveal all
existing or potential problems. In addition, our reviews may not
permit us to become sufficiently familiar with the properties to
fully assess their deficiencies and capabilities. We may not
always discover structural, subsurface, environmental or other
problems that may exist or arise.
Actual future production, cash flows, development expenditures,
operating and abandonment expenses and quantities of recoverable
oil and gas reserves may vary substantially from those estimated
by us and any significant variance in these assumptions could
materially affect the estimated quantity and value of our proved
reserves. Therefore, the risk is that we may overestimate the
value of economically recoverable reserves and/or underestimate
the cost of plugging wells and abandoning production facilities.
If costs of abandonment are materially greater or actual
reserves are materially lower than our estimates, they could
have an adverse effect on earnings.
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We are susceptible to adverse weather conditions in the
Gulf of Mexico. |
Certain areas in and near the Gulf of Mexico experience
hurricanes and other extreme weather conditions on a relatively
frequent basis. Substantially all of our facilities and assets
offshore and along the Gulf of Mexico, including the structures
and pipelines on our offshore oil and gas properties, are
susceptible to damage and/or total loss by these storms. Damage
caused by high winds and turbulent seas could potentially cause
us to curtail both service and production operations for
significant periods of time until damage can be assessed and
repaired. Moreover, even if we do not experience direct damage
from any of these storms, we may experience disruptions in our
operations because customers may curtail their development
activities due to damage to their platforms, pipelines and other
related facilities.
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Due to the losses as a consequence of the hurricanes that
occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 and 2004, we may not be
able to obtain future insurance coverage comparable with that of
prior years, thus putting us at a greater risk of loss due to
severe weather conditions. We are also likely to experience
increased cost for available insurance coverage which will
likely impose higher deductibles and limit maximum aggregate
recoveries for certain perils such as hurricane related
windstorm damage or loss. Any significant uninsured losses could
have a material adverse effect on our financial position,
results of operations and cash flows.
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We depend on key personnel. |
Our success depends to a great degree on the abilities of our
key management personnel, particularly our chief executive and
operating officers and other high-ranking executives. The loss
of the services of one or more of these key employees could
adversely affect us.
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We might be unable to employ a sufficient number of
skilled workers. |
The delivery of our products and services require personnel with
specialized skills and experience. As a result, our ability to
remain productive and profitable will depend upon our ability to
employ and retain skilled workers. In addition, our ability to
expand our operations depends in part on our ability to increase
the size of our skilled labor force. The demand for skilled
workers in the Gulf Coast region is high, and the supply is
limited. In addition, although our employees are not covered by
a collective bargaining agreement, the marine services industry
has been targeted by maritime labor unions in an effort to
organize Gulf of Mexico employees. A significant increase in the
wages paid by competing employers or the unionization of our
Gulf of Mexico employees could result in a reduction of our
skilled labor force, increases in the wage rates that we must
pay or both. If either of these events were to occur, our
capacity and profitability could be diminished and our growth
potential could be impaired.
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We depend on significant customers. |
We derive a significant amount of our revenue from a small
number of major and independent oil and gas companies. In 2005,
Shell accounted for approximately ten percent of our total
revenue. We did not have a single customer account for more than
ten percent of our total revenue in 2004, and in 2003, sales to
a single customer accounted for approximately 11% of our total
revenue. Our inability to continue to perform services for a
number of our large existing customers, if not offset by sales
to new or other existing customers could have a material adverse
effect on our business and operations.
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The dangers inherent in our operations and the limits on
insurance coverage could expose us to potentially significant
liability costs and materially interfere with the performance of
our operations. |
Our operations are subject to numerous operating risks inherent
in the oil and gas industry that could result in substantial
losses. These risks include:
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explosions, blowouts, and cratering; |
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well blowouts; |
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hurricanes and other extreme weather conditions; |
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mechanical problems, including pipe failure; |
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abnormally pressured formations; and |
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environmental accidents, including oil spills, gas leaks or
ruptures, uncontrollable flows of oil, gas, brine or well
fluids, or other discharges of toxic gases or other pollutants. |
Our liftboats are also subject to operating risks such as
catastrophic marine disaster, adverse weather conditions,
collisions and navigation errors.
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The occurrence of these risks could result in substantial losses
due to personal injury, loss of life, damage to or destruction
of wells, production facilities or other property or equipment,
or damages to the environment. In addition, certain of our
employees who perform services on offshore platforms and marine
vessels are covered by provisions of the Jones Act, the Death on
the High Seas Act and general maritime law. These laws make the
liability limits established by federal and state workers
compensation laws inapplicable to these employees and instead
permit them or their representatives to pursue actions against
us for damages for job-related injuries. In such actions, there
is generally no limitation on our potential liability.
Any litigation arising from a catastrophic occurrence involving
our services, equipment or oil and gas production operations
could result in large claims for damages. The frequency and
severity of such incidents affect our operating costs,
insurability and relationships with customers, employees and
regulators. Any increase in the frequency or severity of such
incidents, or the general level of compensation awards with
respect to such incidents, could affect our ability to obtain
projects from oil and gas companies or insurance. We maintain
several types of insurance to cover liabilities arising from our
services, including onshore and offshore non-marine operations,
as well as marine vessel operations. These policies include
primary and excess umbrella liability policies with limits of
$50 million per occurrence, including sudden and accidental
pollution incidents. We also maintain property insurance on our
physical assets, including marine vessels, and operating
equipment. Successful claims for which we are not fully insured
may adversely affect our working capital and profitability.
For our oil and gas operations, we maintain control of well,
operators extra expense and pollution liability coverage, to
include our liabilities under the federal Oil Pollution Act of
1990, or OPA. Limits maintained for these operations are
$50 million per occurrence for well control incidents
unrelated to windstorm, and $75 million in the aggregate
for windstorm related events. The liability limit is
$50 million per occurrence for non-well control events. We
also maintain property insurance on our physical assets,
including offshore production facilities, pipelines and
operating equipment. As a result of the losses caused by recent
hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, we experienced very
substantial increases in our costs of insurance, as well as
increased deductibles and self-insured retentions. Any
significant uninsured losses could have a material adverse
effect on our financial position, results of operations and cash
flows.
The cost of many of the types of insurance coverage maintained
by us has increased significantly during recent years and
resulted in the retention of additional risk by us, primarily
through higher insurance deductibles. Very few insurance
underwriters offer certain types of insurance coverage
maintained by us, and there can be no assurance that any
particular type of insurance coverage will continue to be
available in the future, that we will not accept retention of
additional risk through higher insurance deductibles or
otherwise, or that we will be able to purchase our desired level
of insurance coverage at commercially feasible rates. Further,
due to the losses as a result of hurricanes that occurred in the
Gulf of Mexico in 2005 and 2004, we were not able to obtain
insurance coverage comparable with that of prior years, thus
putting us at a greater risk of loss due to severe weather
conditions. In addition, we are experiencing increased costs for
available insurance coverage which also impose higher
deductibles and limit maximum aggregate recoveries for certain
perils such as hurricane related windstorm damage or loss. As a
result, we have been forced to modify our risk management
program in response to changes in the insurance market,
including increased risk retention.
Any significant uninsured losses could have a material adverse
effect on our financial position, results of operations and cash
flows.
The occurrence of any of these risks could also subject us to
clean-up obligations,
regulatory investigation, penalties or suspension of operations.
Further, our operations may be materially curtailed, delayed or
canceled as a result of numerous factors, including:
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compliance with governmental requirements; and |
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shortages or delays in obtaining drilling rigs or in the
delivery of equipment and services. |
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Oil and gas prices are volatile, and low prices could have
a material adverse impact on our business. |
Our revenues, profitability and future growth and the carrying
value of our oil and gas properties depend substantially on the
prices we realize for our production. Our realized prices also
affect the amount of cash flow available for capital
expenditures and our ability to borrow and raise additional
capital.
Historically, the markets for oil and gas have been volatile,
and they are likely to continue to be volatile in the future.
Among the factors that can cause this volatility are:
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worldwide or regional demand for energy, which is affected by
economic conditions; |
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the domestic and foreign supply of oil and gas; |
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weather conditions; |
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domestic and foreign governmental regulations; |
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political conditions in oil and gas producing regions; |
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the ability of members of the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries to agree upon and maintain oil prices and
production levels; and |
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the price and availability of alternative fuel sources. |
It is impossible to predict oil and gas price movements with
certainty. Lower oil and gas prices may not only decrease our
revenues on a per unit basis but also may reduce the amount of
oil and gas that we can produce economically. A substantial or
extended decline in oil or gas prices may materially and
adversely affect our future business, financial condition,
results of operations, liquidity and ability to finance planned
capital expenditures. Further, oil prices and gas prices do not
necessarily move together.
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Our oil and gas revenues are subject to commodity price
risk. |
We are subject to market risk exposure in the pricing applicable
to our oil and gas production. Considering the historical and
continued volatility and uncertainty of prices received for oil
and gas production, we have and may continue to enter into
hedging arrangements to reduce our exposure to decreases in the
prices of natural gas and oil.
Hedging arrangements expose us to risk of significant financial
loss in some circumstances, including circumstances where:
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there is a change in the expected differential between the
underlying price in the hedging agreement and actual prices
received; |
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our production and/or sales of natural gas are less than
expected; |
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payments owed under derivative hedging contracts typically come
due prior to receipt of the hedged months production
revenue; and |
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the other party to the hedging contract defaults on its contract
obligations. |
We cannot assure you that the hedging transactions we enter into
will adequately protect us from declines in the prices of
natural gas and oil. In addition, our hedging arrangements will
limit the benefit we would receive from increases in the prices
for natural gas and oil.
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Factors beyond our control affect our ability to market
oil and gas. |
The availability of markets and the volatility of product prices
are beyond our control and represent a significant risk. The
marketability of our production depends upon the availability
and capacity of gas
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gathering systems, pipelines and processing facilities. The
unavailability or lack of capacity of these systems and
facilities could result in the shut-in of producing wells or the
delay or discontinuance of development plans for properties. Our
ability to market oil and gas also depends on other factors
beyond our control, including:
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the level of domestic production and imports of oil and gas; |
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the proximity of gas production to gas pipelines; |
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the availability of pipeline capacity; |
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the demand for oil and natural gas by utilities and other end
users; |
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the availability of alternate fuel sources; |
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state and federal regulation of oil and gas marketing; and |
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federal regulation of gas sold or transported in interstate
commerce. |
If these factors were to change dramatically, our ability to
market oil and gas could be adversely affected.
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We are vulnerable to the potential difficulties associated
with rapid expansion. |
We have grown rapidly over the last several years through
internal growth and acquisitions of other companies. We believe
that our future success depends on our ability to manage the
rapid growth that we have experienced and the demands from
increased responsibility on our management personnel. The
following factors could present difficulties to us:
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lack of sufficient executive-level personnel; |
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increased administrative burden; and |
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|
|
increased logistical problems common to large, expansive
operations. |
If we do not manage these potential difficulties successfully,
our operating results could be adversely affected.
|
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Our inability to control the inherent risks of acquiring
businesses could adversely affect our operations. |
Acquisitions have been and we believe will continue to be a key
element of our business strategy. We cannot assure you that we
will be able to identify and acquire acceptable acquisition
candidates on terms favorable to us in the future. We may be
required to incur substantial indebtedness to finance future
acquisitions. Such additional indebtedness service requirements
may impose a significant burden on our results of operations and
financial condition. We cannot assure you that we will be able
to successfully consolidate the operations and assets of any
acquired business with our own business. Acquisitions may not
perform as expected when the acquisition was made and may be
dilutive to our overall operating results. In addition, our
management may not be able to effectively manage our increased
size or operate a new line of business.
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The nature of our industry subjects us to compliance with
regulatory and environmental laws. |
Our business is subject to a wide range of local, state and
federal statutes, rules, orders and regulations relating to the
oil and gas industry in general, and more specifically with
respect to the environment, health and safety, waste management
and the manufacture, storage, handling and transportation of
hazardous wastes. The failure to comply with these rules and
regulations can result in the revocation of permits, corrective
action orders, administrative or civil penalties and criminal
prosecution. Further, laws and regulations in this area are
complex and change frequently. Changes in laws or regulations,
or their enforcement, could subject us to materials costs.
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Our oil and gas operations are conducted on federal leases that
are administered by MMS and are required to comply with the
regulations and orders promulgated by MMS under the Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act. MMS regulations also establish
construction requirements for production facilities located on
federal offshore leases and govern the plugging and abandonment
of wells and the removal of production facilities from these
leases. Under limited circumstances, MMS could require us to
suspend or terminate our operations on a federal lease. MMS also
establishes the basis for royalty payments due under federal oil
and natural gas leases through regulations issued under
applicable statutory authority.
Our oil and gas operations are also subject to certain
requirements under OPA. Under OPA and its implementing
regulations, responsible parties, including owners
and operators of certain vessels and offshore facilities, are
strictly liable for damages resulting from spills of oil and
other related substances in United States waters, subject to
certain limitations. OPA also requires a responsible party to
submit proof of its financial ability to cover environmental
cleanup and restoration costs that could be incurred in
connection with an oil spill. Further, OPA imposes other
requirements, such as the preparation of oil spill response
plans. In the event of a substantial oil spill originating from
one of our facilities, we could be required to expend
potentially significant amounts of capital which could have a
material adverse effect on our future operations and financial
results.
We have compliance costs and potential environmental liabilities
with respect to our offshore and onshore operations, including
our environmental cleaning services. Certain environmental laws
provide for joint and several liabilities for remediation of
spills and releases of hazardous substances. These environmental
statutes may impose liability without regard to negligence or
fault. In addition, we may be subject to claims alleging
personal injury or property damage as a result of alleged
exposure to hazardous substances. We believe that our present
operations substantially comply with applicable federal and
state pollution control and environmental protection laws and
regulations. We also believe that compliance with such laws has
not had a material adverse effect on our operations. However, we
are unable to predict whether environmental laws and regulations
will have a material adverse affect on our future operations and
financial results.
Federal, state and local statutes and regulations require
permits for drilling operations, drilling bonds and plugging and
abandonment and reports concerning operations. Federal and state
laws that also require owners of non-producing wells to plug the
well and remove all exposed piping and rigging before the well
is permanently abandoned significantly affect the demand for our
plug and abandonment services. A decrease in the level of
enforcement of such laws and regulations in the future would
adversely affect the demand for our services and products. In
addition, demand for our services is affected by changing taxes,
price controls and other laws and regulations relating to the
oil and gas industry generally. The adoption of laws and
regulations curtailing exploration and development drilling for
oil and gas in our areas of operations for economic,
environmental or other policy reasons could also adversely
affect our operations by limiting demand for our services.
The regulatory burden on our business increases our costs and,
consequently, affects our profitability. We are unable to
predict the level of enforcement of existing laws and
regulations, how such laws and regulations may be interpreted by
enforcement agencies or court rulings, or whether additional
laws and regulations will be adopted.
We are also unable to predict the effect that any such events
may have on us, our business, or our financial condition.
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|
A terrorist attack or armed conflict could harm our
business. |
Terrorist activities, anti-terrorist efforts and other armed
conflict involving the United States may adversely affect the
United States and global economies and could prevent us from
meeting our financial and other obligations. If any of these
events occur, the resulting political instability and societal
disruption could reduce overall demand for oil and natural gas,
potentially putting downward pressure on demand for our services
and causing a reduction in our revenues. Oil and gas related
facilities could be direct targets of terrorist attacks, and our
operations could be adversely impacted if infrastructure
integral to customers
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operations is destroyed or damaged. Costs for insurance and
other security may increase as a result of these threats, and
some insurance coverage may become more difficult to obtain, if
available at all.
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|
We will be subject to additional political, economic, and
other uncertainties as we expand our international
operations. |
A key element of our business strategy is to continue our
international expansion into international oil and gas producing
areas such as Mexico, Trinidad, Venezuela, West Africa, the
Middle East, the Far East, Australia, Eastern Canada and the
North Sea. Our international operations are subject to a number
of risks inherent in any business operating in foreign
countries, including, but not limited to:
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political, social and economic instability; |
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|
potential seizure or nationalization of assets; |
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|
|
increased operating costs; |
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|
|
modification or renegotiating of contracts; |
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|
|
import-export quotas; |
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|
|
currency fluctuations; and |
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|
|
other forms of government regulation which are beyond our
control. |
Our operations have not yet been affected to any significant
extent by such conditions or events, but as our international
operations expand, the exposure to these risks will increase. We
could, at any one time, have a significant amount of our
revenues generated by operating activity in a particular
country. Therefore, our results of operations could be
susceptible to adverse events beyond our control that could
occur in the particular country in which we are conducting such
operations. We anticipate that our contracts to provide services
internationally will generally provide for payment in
U.S. dollars and that we will not make significant
investments in foreign facilities. To the extent we make
investments in foreign facilities or receive revenues in
currencies other than U.S. dollars, the value of our assets
and our income could be adversely affected by fluctuations in
the value of local currencies.
Additionally, our competitiveness in international market areas
may be adversely affected by regulations, including, but not
limited to, regulations requiring:
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|
|
the awarding of contracts to local contractors; |
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|
|
the employment of local citizens; and |
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|
|
the establishment of foreign subsidiaries with significant
ownership positions reserved by the foreign government for local
citizens. |
We cannot predict what types of the above events may occur.
20
USE OF PROCEEDS
This exchange offer is intended to satisfy our obligations under
the registration rights agreement we entered into with the
initial purchasers in connection with the private offering of
the outstanding notes. We will not receive any proceeds from the
issuance of the exchange notes in the exchange offer. In
consideration for issuing the exchange notes as contemplated in
this prospectus, we will receive, in exchange, outstanding notes
in like principal amount. We will cancel outstanding notes
surrendered in exchange for exchange notes in the exchange
offer. As a result, the issuance of the exchange notes will not
result in any increase or decrease in our indebtedness.
The net proceeds from the sale of the outstanding notes was
approximately $289.5 million, after deducting estimated
fees and expenses. We used approximately $209.1 million of
those proceeds to purchase and redeem all of our outstanding
87/8% Senior
Notes due 2011. We also used approximately $57.7 million of
the proceeds to fund our investment in Coldren Resources LP. The
remaining proceeds are intended to be used for general corporate
purposes.
21
CAPITALIZATION
The following table sets forth our unaudited cash and cash
equivalent investments and consolidated capitalization as of
June 30, 2006:
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|
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on an actual basis; and |
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|
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as adjusted to give effect to the consummation of our investment
in Coldren Resources LP made subsequent to the June 30,
2006 quarter end as described under Use of Proceeds. |
This table should be read in conjunction with Selected
Historical Consolidated Financial Data included in this
prospectus and our consolidated financial statements and related
notes incorporated by reference.
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|
|
As of June 30, 2006 | |
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| |
|
|
Actual | |
|
As Adjusted | |
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| |
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| |
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|
(Unaudited, in thousands) | |
Cash and cash equivalents
|
|
$ |
115,846 |
|
|
$ |
88,394 |
|
Long-term indebtedness, including current maturities:
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Credit facility
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6.45% MARAD due 2027
|
|
|
17,001 |
|
|
|
17,001 |
|
|
67/8% Senior
Notes due 2014
|
|
|
300,000 |
|
|
|
300,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total long-term indebtedness
|
|
|
317,001 |
|
|
|
317,001 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stockholders Equity:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Preferred Stock, $.01 par value; authorized,
5,000,000 shares none issued and outstanding
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Common Stock, $.001 par value; authorized,
125,000,000 shares; 79,815,021 issued and outstanding(1)
|
|
|
80 |
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|
|
80 |
|
Additional paid-in capital
|
|
|
433,415 |
|
|
|
433,415 |
|
Accumulated other comprehensive loss, net
|
|
|
1,104 |
|
|
|
1,104 |
|
Retained earnings
|
|
|
171,599 |
|
|
|
171,599 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total stockholders equity
|
|
|
606,198 |
|
|
|
606,198 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total capitalization
|
|
$ |
923,199 |
|
|
$ |
923,199 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) |
This amount does not include 3,882,665 shares subject to
options outstanding that have been granted pursuant to our stock
incentive plans. As of June 30, 2006, there were
79,815,021 shares issued and outstanding, not including
3,882,665 shares subject to options outstanding that have
been granted pursuant to our stock incentive plans. |
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SELECTED HISTORICAL CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA
The following table sets forth our selected historical
consolidated financial data as of and for the five fiscal years
ended December 31, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, and as
of and for the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2006. The
summary historical consolidated financial data as of and for
each of the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004 and 2005
were derived from our audited consolidated financial statements
included elsewhere in this prospectus. The summary historical
consolidated financial data as of and for each of the years
ended December 31, 2001 and 2002 were derived from our
audited consolidated financial statements, which are not
included in this prospectus. The summary historical consolidated
financial data for the six-months ended June 30, 2005 and
2006 were derived from our unaudited condensed consolidated
financial statements included in our
Form 10-Q for the
quarter ended June 30, 2006, incorporated by reference in
this prospectus. You should read this information in conjunction
with the discussion under Managements Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,
included in our Current Report on
Form 8-K filed
with the Commission on May 11, 2006 and in our
Form 10-Q for the
quarter ended June 30, 2006, all of which are incorporated
by reference in this prospectus and our consolidated financial
statements.
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Six Months | |
|
|
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, | |
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Ended June 30, | |
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| |
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| |
|
|
2001 | |
|
2002 | |
|
2003 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2005 | |
|
2005 | |
|
2006 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) | |
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|
(In thousands, except per share data) | |
Statement of Operations Data:
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues
|
|
$ |
449,042 |
|
|
$ |
443,147 |
|
|
$ |
500,625 |
|
|
$ |
564,339 |
|
|
$ |
735,334 |
|
|
$ |
363,247 |
|
|
$ |
484,228 |
|
Costs and expenses:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of services
|
|
|
237,355 |
|
|
|
258,334 |
|
|
|
289,607 |
|
|
|
310,108 |
|
|
|
376,004 |
|
|
|
177,070 |
|
|
|
227,448 |
|
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
33,446 |
|
|
|
41,595 |
|
|
|
48,853 |
|
|
|
67,337 |
|
|
|
89,288 |
|
|
|
45,977 |
|
|
|
48,642 |
|
|
General and administrative
|
|
|
73,288 |
|
|
|
86,197 |
|
|
|
94,822 |
|
|
|
110,605 |
|
|
|
140,989 |
|
|
|
65,550 |
|
|
|
77,739 |
|
|
Reduction in value of assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,994 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gain on sale of liftboats
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,544 |
|
|
|
3,269 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total costs and expenses
|
|
|
344,089 |
|
|
|
386,126 |
|
|
|
433,282 |
|
|
|
488,050 |
|
|
|
609,731 |
|
|
|
285,328 |
|
|
|
353,829 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income from operations
|
|
|
104,953 |
|
|
|
57,021 |
|
|
|
67,343 |
|
|
|
76,289 |
|
|
|
125,603 |
|
|
|
77,919 |
|
|
|
130,399 |
|
Other income (expense):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest expense, net of amounts capitalized
|
|
|
(20,087 |
) |
|
|
(21,884 |
) |
|
|
(22,477 |
) |
|
|
(22,476 |
) |
|
|
(21,862 |
) |
|
|
(11,093 |
) |
|
|
(10,400 |
) |
|
Interest income
|
|
|
1,892 |
|
|
|
530 |
|
|
|
209 |
|
|
|
1,766 |
|
|
|
2,201 |
|
|
|
731 |
|
|
|
2,222 |
|
|
Loss on extinguishment of debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(12,596 |
) |
|
Other income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,762 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings in equity-method investments, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(80 |
) |
|
|
985 |
|
|
|
1,329 |
|
|
|
1,339 |
|
|
|
778 |
|
|
|
1,148 |
|
|
Reduction in value of investment in affiliate
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,250 |
) |
|
|
(1,250 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income before income taxes
|
|
|
86,758 |
|
|
|
35,587 |
|
|
|
48,822 |
|
|
|
56,908 |
|
|
|
106,031 |
|
|
|
67,085 |
|
|
|
110,773 |
|
Income taxes
|
|
|
35,571 |
|
|
|
13,701 |
|
|
|
18,308 |
|
|
|
21,056 |
|
|
|
38,172 |
|
|
|
24,822 |
|
|
|
39,878 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income before cumulative effect of change in accounting
principle, net
|
|
$ |
51,187 |
|
|
$ |
21,886 |
|
|
$ |
30,514 |
|
|
$ |
35,852 |
|
|
$ |
67,859 |
|
|
$ |
42,263 |
|
|
$ |
70,895 |
|
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of taxes
|
|
|
2,589 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net Income
|
|
$ |
53,776 |
|
|
$ |
21,886 |
|
|
$ |
30,514 |
|
|
$ |
35,852 |
|
|
$ |
67,859 |
|
|
$ |
42,263 |
|
|
$ |
70,895 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic earnings per share
|
|
$ |
0.78 |
|
|
$ |
0.30 |
|
|
$ |
0.41 |
|
|
$ |
0.48 |
|
|
$ |
0.87 |
|
|
$ |
0.55 |
|
|
$ |
0.89 |
|
Diluted earnings per share
|
|
$ |
0.77 |
|
|
$ |
0.30 |
|
|
$ |
0.41 |
|
|
$ |
0.47 |
|
|
$ |
0.85 |
|
|
$ |
0.53 |
|
|
$ |
0.87 |
|
23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Six Months | |
|
|
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, | |
|
Ended June 30, | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
2001 | |
|
2002 | |
|
2003 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2005 | |
|
2005 | |
|
2006 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) | |
|
|
(In thousands) | |
Weighted average common shares used in computing earnings per
share:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic
|
|
|
68,545 |
|
|
|
72,912 |
|
|
|
73,970 |
|
|
|
74,896 |
|
|
|
78,321 |
|
|
|
77,544 |
|
|
|
79,719 |
|
Incremental common shares from stock options
|
|
|
1,047 |
|
|
|
960 |
|
|
|
678 |
|
|
|
1,004 |
|
|
|
1,414 |
|
|
|
1,513 |
|
|
|
1,458 |
|
Diluted
|
|
|
69,592 |
|
|
|
73,872 |
|
|
|
74,648 |
|
|
|
75,900 |
|
|
|
79,735 |
|
|
|
79,057 |
|
|
|
81,177 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Six Months | |
|
|
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, | |
|
Ended June 30, | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
2001 | |
|
2002 | |
|
2003 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2005 | |
|
2005 | |
|
2006 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) | |
|
|
(In thousands, except ratio and percentage data) | |
Statement of Cash Flow Data:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from operating activities
|
|
|
89,349 |
|
|
|
87,283 |
|
|
$ |
100,240 |
|
|
$ |
91,331 |
|
|
$ |
158,379 |
|
|
$ |
79,658 |
|
|
$ |
122,685 |
|
Cash flows from investing activities
|
|
|
(191,296 |
) |
|
|
(112,105 |
) |
|
|
(56,160 |
) |
|
|
(109,162 |
) |
|
|
(96,935 |
) |
|
|
(47,280 |
) |
|
|
(153,011 |
) |
Cash flows from financing activities
|
|
|
101,462 |
|
|
|
24,533 |
|
|
|
(27,766 |
) |
|
|
13,325 |
|
|
|
(21,588 |
) |
|
|
522 |
|
|
|
91,252 |
|
Capital investments:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
(104,999 |
) |
|
|
(7,653 |
) |
|
$ |
(14,298 |
) |
|
$ |
(35,037 |
) |
|
$ |
(2,749 |
) |
|
$ |
(5,273 |
) |
|
$ |
(56,453 |
) |
Cash contributed to equity-method investment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(30,441 |
) |
Payments for capital expenditures
|
|
|
(83,863 |
) |
|
|
(104,452 |
) |
|
|
(50,175 |
) |
|
|
(74,125 |
) |
|
|
(125,166 |
) |
|
|
(60,112 |
) |
|
|
(82,048 |
) |
Balance Sheet Data (at end of period):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents
|
|
$ |
3,769 |
|
|
$ |
3,480 |
|
|
$ |
19,794 |
|
|
$ |
15,281 |
|
|
$ |
54,457 |
|
|
$ |
47,877 |
|
|
$ |
115,846 |
|
Property, plant and equipment net
|
|
|
345,878 |
|
|
|
418,047 |
|
|
|
427,360 |
|
|
|
515,151 |
|
|
|
534,962 |
|
|
|
510,756 |
|
|
|
608,548 |
|
Total assets
|
|
|
665,520 |
|
|
|
727,620 |
|
|
|
832,863 |
|
|
|
1,003,913 |
|
|
|
1,097,250 |
|
|
|
1,047,212 |
|
|
|
1,316,483 |
|
Long-term indebtedness, including current maturities
|
|
|
286,360 |
|
|
|
270,064 |
|
|
|
269,726 |
|
|
|
256,716 |
|
|
|
217,406 |
|
|
|
250,811 |
|
|
|
312,504 |
|
Total stockholders equity
|
|
|
269,576 |
|
|
|
335,342 |
|
|
|
368,129 |
|
|
|
433,879 |
|
|
|
524,374 |
|
|
|
476,514 |
|
|
|
606,198 |
|
Other Financial Data:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
EBITDA(1)
|
|
$ |
138,399 |
|
|
$ |
98,536 |
|
|
$ |
117,181 |
|
|
$ |
144,955 |
|
|
$ |
219,680 |
|
|
$ |
121,405 |
|
|
$ |
180,189 |
|
EBITDA/ Fixed charges
|
|
|
2.74 |
x |
|
|
4.75 |
x |
|
|
3.68 |
x |
|
|
3.38 |
x |
|
|
2.84 |
x |
|
|
2.54 |
x |
|
|
2.92x |
|
EBITDA/ Interest expense
|
|
|
6.89 |
x |
|
|
4.50 |
x |
|
|
5.21 |
x |
|
|
6.45 |
x |
|
|
10.05 |
x |
|
|
12.71 |
x |
|
|
13.84x |
|
Total debt/ EBITDA
|
|
|
2.07 |
x |
|
|
2.74 |
x |
|
|
2.30 |
x |
|
|
1.77 |
x |
|
|
0.99 |
x |
|
|
* |
|
|
|
* |
|
Total debt/ Book capitalization
|
|
|
52% |
|
|
|
45% |
|
|
|
42% |
|
|
|
37% |
|
|
|
29% |
|
|
|
34% |
|
|
|
34% |
|
|
|
* |
Not meaningful data for periods less than a year. |
|
(1) |
Earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization
(EBITDA) is a non-GAAP financial measurement. We use EBITDA
because we believe that such a measurement is a widely accepted
financial indicator used by investors and analysts to analyze
and compare companies on the basis of operating performance and
that this measurement may be used by some investors and others
to make informed investment decisions. In addition, EBITDA is
used in the financial ratios included in our credit facility and
67/8
Senior Notes indenture. You should not consider it in isolation
from or as a substitute for net income or cash flow measures
prepared in accordance with GAAP or as a measure of
profitability or liquidity. EBITDA calculations by one company
may not be comparable to |
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|
|
|
EBITDA calculations made by another company. The following table
provides a reconciliation of net income (loss) (a GAAP financial
measure) and EBITDA (a non-GAAP financial measure): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Six Months Ended | |
|
|
Year Ended December 31, | |
|
June 30, | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
2001 | |
|
2002 | |
|
2003 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2005 | |
|
2005 | |
|
2006 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(In thousands) | |
|
|
Net income
|
|
$ |
53,776 |
|
|
$ |
21,886 |
|
|
$ |
30,514 |
|
|
$ |
35,852 |
|
|
$ |
67,859 |
|
|
$ |
42,263 |
|
|
$ |
70,895 |
|
Add:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest, net
|
|
|
18,195 |
|
|
|
21,354 |
|
|
|
22,268 |
|
|
|
20,710 |
|
|
|
19,661 |
|
|
|
10,362 |
|
|
|
8,178 |
|
|
Income taxes
|
|
|
35,571 |
|
|
|
13,701 |
|
|
|
18,308 |
|
|
|
21,056 |
|
|
|
38,172 |
|
|
|
24,822 |
|
|
|
39,878 |
|
|
Depreciation and amortization
|
|
|
33,446 |
|
|
|
41,595 |
|
|
|
48,853 |
|
|
|
67,337 |
|
|
|
89,288 |
|
|
|
45,977 |
|
|
|
48,642 |
|
Less:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other income (loss)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,762 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(4,700 |
)(a) |
|
|
2,019 |
(a) |
|
|
|
|
|
Loss on extinguishment of debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(12,596 |
) |
|
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net
|
|
|
2,589 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
EBITDA
|
|
$ |
138,399 |
|
|
$ |
98,536 |
|
|
$ |
117,181 |
|
|
$ |
144,955 |
|
|
$ |
219,680 |
|
|
$ |
121,405 |
|
|
$ |
180,189 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(a) |
Includes Other income (expense), less reduction in value of
assets and investments in affiliates, plus gains on sales of
assets. |
25
EXCHANGE OFFER
Purpose of the Exchange Offer
We sold the outstanding notes on May 22, 2006 to Bear,
Stearns & Co., Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.,
Howard Weil Incorporated, Johnson Rice & Company
L.L.C., Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC, Raymond
James & Associates, Inc. and Simmons & Company
International. We collectively refer to those parties in this
prospectus as the initial purchasers. The initial purchasers
subsequently resold the outstanding notes to qualified
institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the
Securities Act and to
non-U.S. Persons
within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act.
Simultaneously with the sale of the outstanding notes, we
entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with the initial
purchasers. The Registration Rights Agreement provides that we
will take the following actions, at our expense, for the benefit
of the holders of the outstanding notes:
|
|
|
|
|
Within 90 days after May 22, 2006, the date of the
Registration Rights Agreement, we will file the exchange offer
registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part,
relating to the exchange offer. The exchange notes will have
terms substantially identical in all material respects to the
outstanding notes except that the exchange notes will not
contain transfer restrictions. |
|
|
|
We will use our commercially reasonable best efforts to cause
the exchange offer registration statement to be declared
effective under the Securities Act within 180 days after
the date of the Registration Rights Agreement. |
|
|
|
We will keep the exchange offer open for a period of not less
than the minimum period required under applicable federal and
state securities laws to consummate the exchange offer;
provided, however, that in no event shall such period be less
than 20 business days. |
We will be required to file a shelf registration statement
covering resales of the outstanding notes if:
|
|
|
|
|
because of any change in law or in currently prevailing
interpretations of the staff of the SEC, we are not permitted to
effect an exchange offer; or |
|
|
|
any holder of outstanding notes notifies us in writing within 20
business days after the consummation of the exchange offer that
it (i) is prohibited by law or SEC policy from
participating in the exchange offer, (ii) may not resell
the exchange notes acquired by it in the exchange offer to the
public without delivering a prospectus and the prospectus
contained in this registration statement is not appropriate or
available for such resales or (iii) is a broker-dealer and
holds outstanding notes acquired directly from us or one of our
affiliates. |
Following the consummation of the exchange offer, holders of the
outstanding notes who were eligible to participate in the
exchange offer, but who did not tender their outstanding notes,
will not have any further registration rights and the
outstanding notes will continue to be subject to certain
restrictions on transfer. Accordingly, the liquidity of the
market for the outstanding notes could be adversely affected.
Terms of the Exchange Offer
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this
prospectus and in the letter of transmittal, we will accept any
and all outstanding notes validly tendered and not withdrawn
prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the expiration
date. We will issue $1,000 principal amount of exchange notes in
exchange for each $1,000 principal amount of outstanding notes
accepted in the exchange offer. Any holder may tender some or
all of its outstanding notes pursuant to the exchange offer.
However, outstanding notes may be tendered only in integral
multiples of $1,000.
26
The form and terms of the exchange notes are the same as the
form and terms of the outstanding notes except that:
|
|
|
|
|
the exchange notes bear a different CUSIP Number from the
outstanding notes; |
|
|
|
the exchange notes have been registered under the Securities Act
and hence will not bear legends restricting the transfer
thereof; and |
|
|
|
the holders of the exchange notes will not be entitled to
certain rights under the Registration Rights Agreement,
including the provisions providing for additional interest in
certain circumstances relating to the timing of the exchange
offer, all of which rights will terminate when the exchange
offer is terminated. |
The exchange notes will evidence the same debt as the
outstanding notes and will be entitled to the benefits of the
indenture.
As of the date of this prospectus, $300,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding notes are outstanding. We
intend to conduct the exchange offer in accordance with the
applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and
regulations of the SEC thereunder.
We will be deemed to have accepted validly tendered outstanding
notes when, as and if we have given oral or written notice
thereof to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (the
exchange agent). The exchange agent will act as
agent for the tendering holders for the purpose of receiving the
exchange notes from us.
If any tendered outstanding notes are not accepted for exchange
because of an invalid tender, the occurrence of specified other
events set forth in this prospectus or otherwise, the
certificates for any unaccepted outstanding notes will be
returned, without expense, to the tendering holder thereof as
promptly as practicable after 5:00 p.m., New York City
time, on the expiration date of the exchange offer.
Holders who tender outstanding notes in the exchange offer will
not be required to pay brokerage commissions or fees or, subject
to the instructions in the letter of transmittal, transfer taxes
with respect to the exchange of outstanding notes pursuant to
the exchange offer. We will pay all charges and expenses, other
than transfer taxes in certain circumstances, in connection with
the exchange offer. See Fees and Expenses and
Transfer Taxes below.
Expiration Date; Extensions; Amendments
The term expiration date means 5:00 p.m., New
York City time, on November 27, 2006, unless we, in our
sole discretion, extend the exchange offer, in which case the
term expiration date will mean the latest date and
time to which the exchange offer is extended. We reserve the
right to extend the exchange offer at any time and from time to
time prior to the expiration date by giving written notice to
the exchange agent and by timely public announcement
communicated, unless otherwise required by applicable law or
regulation, by making a press release. During any extension of
the exchange offer, all outstanding notes previously tendered
pursuant to the exchange offer will remain subject to the
exchange offer.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, (i) to delay
accepting any outstanding notes, to extend the exchange offer or
to terminate the exchange offer if any of the conditions set
forth below under Conditions to the Exchange
Offer have not been satisfied, or (ii) to amend the
terms of the exchange offer in any manner. If any such
termination or amendment occurs, we will notify the exchange
agent in writing and will either issue a press release or give
written notice to the holders of the outstanding notes as
promptly as practicable.
Interest on the Exchange Notes
The exchange notes will bear interest from their date of
issuance. Holders of outstanding notes that are accepted for
exchange will receive, in cash, accrued interest thereon to, but
not including, the date of
27
issuance of the exchange notes. Such interest will be paid with
the first interest payment on the exchange notes on
December 1, 2006. Interest on the outstanding notes
accepted for exchange will cease to accrue upon issuance of the
exchange notes. Interest on the exchange notes is payable
semi-annually in cash in arrears on each June 1 and
December 1 of each year commencing on December 1, 2006.
Procedures for Tendering Outstanding Notes
Only a holder of outstanding notes may tender outstanding notes
in the exchange offer. To tender in the exchange offer, a holder
must complete, sign and date the letter of transmittal, or a
facsimile thereof, have the signatures thereon guaranteed if
required by the letter of transmittal or transmit an
agents message in connection with a book-entry transfer,
and mail or otherwise deliver the letter of transmittal or the
facsimile, together with the outstanding notes and any other
required documents, to the exchange agent prior to
5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the expiration date. To
be tendered effectively, the outstanding notes, letter of
transmittal or an agents message and other required
documents must be completed and received by the exchange agent
at the address set forth below under Exchange
Agent prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the
expiration date. Delivery of the outstanding notes may be made
by book-entry transfer in accordance with the procedures
described below. Confirmation of the book-entry transfer must be
received by the exchange agent prior to 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on the expiration date.
The term agents message means a message,
transmitted by a book-entry transfer facility to, and received
by, the exchange agent forming a part of a confirmation of a
book-entry, which states that the book-entry transfer facility
has received an express acknowledgment from the participant in
the book-entry transfer facility tendering the outstanding notes
that the participant has received and agrees: (1) to
participate in ATOP; (2) to be bound by the terms of the
letter of transmittal; and (3) that we may enforce the
agreement against the participant.
To participate in the exchange offer, each holder will be
required to furnish to us a written representation to the effect
that:
|
|
|
|
|
it is not an affiliate of ours; |
|
|
|
it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, and has
no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate
in, a distribution of the exchange notes to be issued in the
exchange offer; and |
|
|
|
it is acquiring the exchange notes in its ordinary course of
business. |
The tender by a holder and our acceptance thereof will
constitute agreement between the holder and us in accordance
with the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this
prospectus and in the letter of transmittal or agents
message.
The method of delivery of outstanding notes and the letter of
transmittal or agents message and all other required
documents to the exchange agent is at the election and sole risk
of the holder. As an alternative to delivery by mail, holders
may wish to consider overnight or hand delivery service. In all
cases, sufficient time should be allowed to assure delivery to
the exchange agent before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the expiration date. No letter of transmittal or outstanding
notes should be sent to us. Holders may request their respective
brokers, dealers, commercial banks, trust companies or nominees
to effect the above transactions for them.
Any beneficial owner whose outstanding notes are registered in
the name of a broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or
other nominee and who wishes to tender should contact the
registered holder promptly and instruct the registered holder to
tender on the beneficial owners behalf.
Signatures on a letter of transmittal or a notice of withdrawal,
as the case may be, must be guaranteed by a member of the
Medallion System unless the outstanding notes tendered pursuant
to the letter of transmittal are tendered (1) by a
registered holder who has not completed the box entitled
Special Issuance Instructions or Special
Delivery Instructions on the letter of transmittal or
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the account of a member firm of the Medallion System. In the
event that signatures on a letter of transmittal or a notice of
withdrawal, as the case may be, are required to be guaranteed,
the guarantee must be by a member firm of the Medallion System.
If the letter of transmittal is signed by a person other than
the registered holder of any outstanding notes listed in this
prospectus, the outstanding notes must be endorsed or
accompanied by a properly completed bond power, signed by the
registered holder as the registered holders name appears
on the outstanding notes with the signature thereon guaranteed
by a member firm of the Medallion System.
If the letter of transmittal or any outstanding notes or bond
powers are signed by trustees, executors, administrators,
guardians,
attorneys-in-fact,
officers of corporations or others acting in a fiduciary or
representative capacity, the person signing should so indicate
when signing, and evidence satisfactory to us of its authority
to so act must be submitted with the letter of transmittal.
We understand that the exchange agent will make a request
promptly after the date of this prospectus to establish accounts
with respect to the outstanding notes at DTC for the purpose of
facilitating the exchange offer, and subject to the
establishment thereof, any financial institution that is a
participant in DTCs system may make book-entry delivery of
outstanding notes by causing DTC to transfer the outstanding
notes into the exchange agents account with respect to the
outstanding notes in accordance with DTCs procedures for
the transfer. Although delivery of the outstanding notes may be
effected through book- entry transfer into the exchange
agents account at DTC, unless an agents message is
received by the exchange agent in compliance with ATOP, an
appropriate letter of transmittal properly completed and duly
executed with any required signature guarantee and all other
required documents must in each case be transmitted to and
received or confirmed by the exchange agent at its address set
forth below on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time,
on the expiration date, or, if the guaranteed delivery
procedures described below are complied with, within the time
period provided under the procedures. Delivery of documents to
DTC does not constitute delivery to the exchange agent.
All questions as to the validity, form, eligibility, including
time of receipt, acceptance of tendered outstanding notes and
withdrawal of tendered outstanding notes will be determined by
us in our sole discretion, which determination will be final and
binding. We reserve the absolute right to reject any and all
outstanding notes not properly tendered or any outstanding notes
our acceptance of which would, in the opinion of our counsel, be
unlawful. We also reserve the right in our sole discretion to
waive any defects, irregularities or conditions of tender as to
particular outstanding notes. Our interpretation of the terms
and conditions of the exchange offer, including the instructions
in the letter of transmittal, will be final and binding on all
parties. Unless waived, any defects or irregularities in
connection with tenders of outstanding notes must be cured
within the time we determine. Although we intend to notify
holders of defects or irregularities with respect to tenders of
outstanding notes, neither we, the exchange agent nor any other
person will incur any liability for failure to give the
notification. Tenders of outstanding notes will not be deemed to
have been made until the defects or irregularities have been
cured or waived. Any outstanding notes received by the exchange
agent that are not properly tendered and as to which the defects
or irregularities have not been cured or waived will be returned
by the exchange agent to the tendering holders, unless otherwise
provided in the letter of transmittal, as soon as practicable
following the expiration date.
Guaranteed Delivery Procedures
Holders who wish to tender their outstanding notes and
(1) whose outstanding notes are not immediately available,
(2) who cannot deliver their outstanding notes, the letter
of transmittal or any other required documents to the exchange
agent or (3) who cannot complete the procedures for
book-entry transfer, prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City
time, on the expiration date, may effect a tender if:
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transmission, mail or hand delivery setting forth the name and
address of the holder, the certificate number(s) of the
outstanding notes and the principal amount of outstanding notes
tendered, stating that the tender is being made thereby and
guaranteeing that, within three New York Stock Exchange trading
days after the expiration date, the letter of transmittal or
facsimile thereof together with the certificate(s) representing
the outstanding notes or a confirmation of book-entry transfer
of the outstanding notes into the exchange agents account
at DTC, and any other documents required by the letter of
transmittal will be deposited by the member firm of the
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the properly completed and executed letter of transmittal or
facsimile thereof, as well as the certificate(s) representing
all tendered outstanding notes in proper form for transfer or a
confirmation of book-entry transfer of the outstanding notes
into the exchange agents account at DTC, and all other
documents required by the letter of transmittal are received by
the exchange agent within three New York Stock Exchange trading
days after the expiration date. |
Upon request to the exchange agent, a Notice of Guaranteed
Delivery will be sent to holders who wish to tender their
outstanding notes according to the guaranteed delivery
procedures set forth above.
Withdrawal Rights
Except as otherwise provided in this prospectus, tenders of
outstanding notes may be withdrawn at any time prior to the
expiration date.
To withdraw a tender of outstanding notes in the exchange offer,
a telegram, telex, letter or facsimile transmission notice of
withdrawal must be received by the exchange agent at its address
set forth in this prospectus prior to 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on the expiration date of the exchange offer. Any
notice of withdrawal must:
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certificate number(s) and principal amount of the outstanding
notes, or, in the case of outstanding notes transferred by
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be signed by the holder in the same manner as the original
signature on the letter of transmittal by which the outstanding
notes were tendered, including any required signature
guarantees, or be accompanied by documents of transfer
sufficient to have the trustee with respect to the outstanding
notes register the transfer of the outstanding notes into the
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specify the name in which any outstanding notes are to be
registered, if different from that of the person depositing the
outstanding notes to be withdrawn. |
All questions as to the validity, form and eligibility,
including time of receipt, of the notices of withdrawal will be
determined by us. Our determination will be final and binding on
all parties. Any outstanding notes so withdrawn will be deemed
not to have been validly tendered for purposes of the exchange
offer and no exchange notes will be issued with respect thereto
unless the outstanding notes so withdrawn are validly
retendered. Any outstanding notes which have been tendered but
which are not accepted for exchange will be returned to the
holder thereof without cost to the holder as soon as practicable
after withdrawal, rejection of tender or termination of the
exchange offer. Properly withdrawn outstanding notes may be
retendered by following one of the procedures described above
under Procedures for Tendering Outstanding
Notes at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City
time, on the expiration date.
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Conditions to the Exchange Offer
Notwithstanding any other term of the exchange offer, we will
not be required to accept for exchange, or exchange any exchange
notes for, any outstanding notes, and may terminate or amend the
exchange offer as provided in this prospectus before the
acceptance of the outstanding notes, if:
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any action or proceeding is instituted or threatened in any
court or by or before any governmental agency with respect to
the exchange offer which, in our sole judgment, might materially
impair our ability to proceed with the exchange offer or any
material adverse development has occurred in any existing action
or proceeding with respect to us or any of our
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any law, statute, rule, regulation or interpretation by the
staff of the SEC is proposed, adopted or enacted, which, in our
sole judgment, might materially impair our ability to proceed
with the exchange offer or materially impair the contemplated
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any governmental approval has not been obtained, which approval
we, in our sole discretion, deem necessary for the consummation
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If we determine in our sole discretion that any of the
conditions are not satisfied, we may (1) refuse to accept
any outstanding notes and return all tendered outstanding notes
to the tendering holders, (2) extend the exchange offer and
retain all outstanding notes tendered prior to the expiration of
the exchange offer, subject, however, to the rights of holders
to withdraw the outstanding notes (see
Withdrawal Rights above) or
(3) waive the unsatisfied conditions with respect to the
exchange offer and accept all properly tendered outstanding
notes which have not been withdrawn.
Exchange Agent
We have appointed The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. as
the exchange agent for the exchange offer. You should direct all
executed letters of transmittal to the exchange agent at the
address set forth below. Questions and requests for assistance,
requests for additional copies of this prospectus or of the
letter of transmittal and requests for notices of guaranteed
delivery should be directed to the exchange agent addressed as
follows:
By overnight courier, registered/certified mail and by
hand:
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Facsimile transmission:
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Fax cover sheets should include a call back telephone number and
request a call back, upon receipt.
Delivery of the letter of transmittal to an address other
than as set forth above or transmission of such letter of
transmittal via facsimile other than as set forth above does not
constitute a valid delivery of the letter of transmittal.
Fees and Expenses
The principal solicitation is being made by mail by the exchange
agent. We will pay the exchange agent customary fees for its
services, reimburse the exchange agent for its reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses
incurred in connection with the provision of these services and
pay other registration expenses, including fees and expenses of
the trustee under the indenture relating to the exchange notes,
filing fees,
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blue sky fees and printing and distribution expenses. We will
not make any payment to brokers, dealers or others soliciting
acceptances of the exchange offer.
Additional solicitation may be made by telephone, facsimile or
in person by our and our affiliates officers and regular
employees and by persons so engaged by the exchange agent.
Accounting Treatment
We will record the exchange notes at the same carrying value as
the outstanding notes, which is face value, as reflected in our
accounting records on the date of the exchange. Accordingly, we
will not recognize any gain or loss for accounting purposes as a
result of the exchange offer. The expenses of the exchange offer
will be amortized over the term of the exchange notes.
Transfer Taxes
You will not be obligated to pay any transfer taxes in
connection with the tender of outstanding notes in the exchange
offer unless you instruct us to register exchange notes in the
name of, or request that outstanding notes not tendered or not
accepted in the exchange offer be returned to, a person other
than the registered tendering holder. In those cases, you will
be responsible for the payment of any applicable transfer tax.
Consequences of Failure to Exchange
The outstanding notes that are not exchanged for exchange notes
pursuant to the exchange offer will remain restricted
securities. Accordingly, the outstanding notes may be resold
only:
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so long as the outstanding notes are eligible for resale
pursuant to Rule 144A, to a person inside the United States
whom the seller reasonably believes is a qualified institutional
buyer within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities
Act in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A,
or pursuant to another exemption from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act, which other exemption is
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non-U.S. person in
a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 904 under
the Securities Act; or |
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Securities Act, in each case in accordance with any applicable
securities laws of any state of the United States. |
Resale of the Exchange Notes
With respect to resales of exchange notes, based on
interpretations by the staff of the SEC set forth in no-action
letters issued to third parties, we believe that a holder or
other person who receives exchange notes, whether or not the
person is the holder, other than a person that is our affiliate
within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act, in
exchange for outstanding notes in the ordinary course of
business and who is not participating, does not intend to
participate, and has no arrangement or understanding with any
person to participate, in the distribution of the exchange
notes, will be allowed to resell the exchange notes to the
public without further registration under the Securities Act and
without delivering to the purchasers of the exchange notes a
prospectus that satisfies the requirements of Section 10 of
the Securities Act. However, if any holder acquires exchange
notes in the exchange offer for the purpose of distributing or
participating in a distribution of the exchange notes, the
holder cannot rely on the position of the staff of the SEC
expressed in the no-action letters or any similar interpretive
letters, and must comply with the registration and prospectus
delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with
any resale transaction, unless an exemption from registration is
otherwise available. Further, each broker-dealer that receives
exchange notes for its own account in exchange for outstanding
notes, where the outstanding notes were acquired by the
broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other
trading activities, must acknowledge that it will deliver a
prospectus in connection with any resale of the exchange notes.
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DESCRIPTION OF NOTES
The outstanding notes were issued by the Company under an
indenture among itself, Superior Energy, the Guarantors and the
Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. as trustee, in a private
transaction that is not subject to the registration requirements
of the Securities Act. The terms of the notes include those
stated in the indenture and those made part of the indenture by
reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
Any outstanding notes that remain outstanding after completion
of the exchange offer, together with the exchange notes issued
in the exchange offer will be treated as a single class of
securities under the indenture.
The following description is a summary of the material
provisions of the indenture and the Registration Rights
Agreement. It does not restate those agreements in their
entirety. We urge you to read the indenture and the Registration
Rights Agreement because they, and not this description, define
your rights as holders of the notes.
You can find the definitions of certain terms used in this
description below under the caption Certain
Definitions. Certain defined terms used in this
description but not defined below under the caption
Certain Definitions have the meanings
assigned to them in the indenture. In this description, the
words Issuer, we, us, or
our refer only to SESI, L.L.C. and not to any of its
Subsidiaries, and Superior Energy refers only to
Superior Energy Services, Inc. and not any of its Subsidiaries.
Brief Description of the Notes and the Guarantees
The notes:
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Subsidiary Guarantors. |
However, the notes are effectively subordinated to all
borrowings under the Credit Agreement, which is secured by
substantially all of the assets of Issuer, Superior Energy and
the Subsidiary Guarantors. See Risk Factors
The notes and guarantees are unsecured, and the notes are
effectively subordinated to our secured indebtedness and the
guarantees are effectively subordinated to the guarantors
secured indebtedness.
The notes are guaranteed by Superior Energy and each of
Issuers and Superior Energys existing and, under
certain circumstances described under the caption
Certain Covenants Future
Guarantors, future Subsidiaries, in each case, other than
Superior Energy Liftboats, L.L.C., Subsidiaries that constitute
Exempt Foreign Subsidiaries (except in the circumstances
described under the caption Certain
Covenants Limitation on Issuances of Guarantees by
Exempt Foreign Subsidiaries) and Subsidiaries that are
designated as Unrestricted Subsidiaries under certain
circumstances described under the caption
Certain Definitions Unrestricted
Subsidiary.
Each guarantee of the notes:
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Not all of the existing Subsidiaries of Issuer and Superior
Energy guarantee the notes. In the event of a bankruptcy,
liquidation or reorganization of any of these non-guarantor
Subsidiaries, the non-guarantor Subsidiaries will pay the
holders of their debt and their trade creditors before they will
be able to distribute any of their assets to us. The
non-guarantor Subsidiaries generated approximately 10.0% of
Superior Energys consolidated revenues in the six-month
period ended June 30, 2006 and held approximately 10.0% of
Superior Energys consolidated assets as of June 30,
2006.
As of the date of the indenture, all of Issuers and
Superior Energys Subsidiaries, other than Superior Energy
Liftboats, L.L.C., will be Restricted Subsidiaries.
However, under the circumstances described below in the
definition of Unrestricted Subsidiaries, Superior
Energy and Issuer will be permitted to designate certain of
their Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries.
Superior Energy and Issuers Unrestricted Subsidiaries are
not subject to many of the restrictive covenants in the
indenture. Superior Energy and Issuers Unrestricted
Subsidiaries are not guaranteeing the notes.
Principal, Maturity and Interest
Issuer will issue $300.0 million in aggregate principal
amount of notes in this offering. Issuer may issue additional
notes under the indenture from time to time after this offering.
Any issuance of additional notes is subject to all of the
covenants in the indenture, including the covenant described
below under the caption Certain
Covenants Limitation of Indebtedness. The
notes and any additional notes subsequently issued under the
indenture will be treated as a single class for all purposes
under the indenture, including, without limitation, waivers,
amendments, redemptions and offers to purchase. Issuer will
issue notes in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000. The notes will mature on June 1, 2014.
Interest on the notes accrues at the rate of
67/8% per
annum and will be payable semi-annually in arrears on
June 1 and December 1, commencing on December 1,
2006. Interest on overdue principal, interest and Additional
Interest, if any, will accrue at a rate that is 1% higher than
the then applicable interest rate on the notes. Issuer will make
each interest payment to the holders of record on the
immediately preceding May 15 and November 15.
Interest on the notes accrues from the date of original issuance
or, if interest has already been paid, from the date it was most
recently paid. Interest is computed on the basis of a
360-day year comprised
of twelve 30-day months.
Methods of Receiving Payments on the Notes
If a holder of notes has given wire transfer instructions to
Issuer, Issuer will pay all principal, interest and premium and
Additional Interest, if any, on that holders notes in
accordance with those instructions. All other payments on the
notes will be made at the office or agency of the paying agent
and registrar within the City and State of New York unless
Issuer elects to make interest payments by check mailed to the
Holders at their address set forth in the register of holders.
Paying Agent and Registrar for the Notes
The trustee will initially act as paying agent and registrar.
Issuer may change the paying agent or registrar without prior
notice to the holders of the notes, and Issuer or any of its
Subsidiaries may act as paying agent or registrar.
Transfer and Exchange
A holder may transfer or exchange notes in accordance with the
provisions of the indenture. The registrar and the trustee may
require a holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate
endorsements and transfer documents in connection with a
transfer of notes. Holders will be required to pay all taxes due
on transfer. Issuer will not be required to transfer or exchange
any note selected for redemption. Also,
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Issuer will not be required to transfer or exchange any note for
a period of 15 days before a selection of notes to be
redeemed.
Guarantees
The notes are guaranteed by Superior Energy and each of
Issuers and Superior Energys existing and, under
certain circumstances described under the caption
Certain Covenants Future
Guarantors, future Subsidiaries, in each case, other than
Superior Energy Liftboats, L.L.C., Subsidiaries that constitute
Exempt Foreign Subsidiaries (except in the circumstances
described under the caption Certain
Covenants Limitation on Issuances of Guarantees by
Exempt Foreign Subsidiaries) and Subsidiaries that are
designated as Unrestricted Subsidiaries under certain
circumstances described under the caption
Certain Definitions Unrestricted
Subsidiary. These Guarantees are joint and several
obligations of the Guarantors. The obligations of each Guarantor
under its Guarantee will be limited as necessary to prevent that
Guarantee from constituting a fraudulent conveyance under
applicable law. See Risk Factors The
guarantees may not be enforceable because of fraudulent
conveyance laws.
A Subsidiary Guarantor may not sell or otherwise dispose of all
or substantially all of its assets to, or consolidate with or
merge with or into (whether or not such Subsidiary Guarantor is
the surviving Person) another Person, other than Issuer or
another Guarantor, unless:
(1) immediately after giving effect to that transaction, no
Default or Event of Default exists; and
(2) either:
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disposition or the Person formed by or surviving any such
consolidation or merger assumes all the obligations of that
Subsidiary Guarantor under the indenture, its Guarantee and the
registration rights agreement pursuant to a supplemental
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The Guarantee of a Subsidiary Guarantor will be released:
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in connection with any sale or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of that Subsidiary Guarantor
(including by way of merger or consolidation) to a Person that
is not (either before or after giving effect to such
transaction) Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary
of Issuer, if the sale or other disposition does not violate the
covenant described below under the caption
Repurchase at Option of Holders
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in connection with any sale or other disposition of all of the
Capital Stock of that Subsidiary Guarantor to a Person that is
not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction)
Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of Issuer, if
the sale or other disposition does not violate the covenant
described below under the caption Repurchase
at Option of Holders Limitation on Sales of Assets
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if Issuer designates any Restricted Subsidiary that is a
Subsidiary Guarantor to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary in
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upon legal defeasance or satisfaction and discharge of the
indenture as provided below under the captions
Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
and Satisfaction and Discharge. |
See Repurchase at Option of Holders Limitation
on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock.
Optional Redemption
At any time prior to June 1, 2009, Issuer may on any one or
more occasions redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal
amount of notes issued under the indenture at a redemption price
of 106.875% of the
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principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest and
Additional Interest, if any, to the redemption date, with the
Net Cash Proceeds of one or more Public Equity Offerings;
provided that:
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includes issued additional notes, if any) issued under the
indenture (excluding notes held by Superior Energy and its
Subsidiaries) remains outstanding immediately after the
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closing of such Public Equity Offering. |
Except pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the notes will not
be redeemable at Issuers option prior to June 1, 2010.
On or after June 1, 2010, Issuer may redeem all or a part
of the notes upon not less than 10 nor more than
60 days notice, at the redemption prices (expressed
as percentages of principal amount) set forth below plus accrued
and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, on the
notes redeemed, to the applicable redemption date (subject to
the rights of holders of notes on the relevant record date to
receive interest on the relevant interest payment date), if
redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on June 1
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At any time prior to June 1, 2010, Issuer may also redeem
all or a part of the notes, upon not less than 10 nor more than
60 days prior notice mailed by first-class mail to
each holders registered address, at a redemption price
equal to 100% of the principal amount of notes redeemed plus the
Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest and
Additional Interest, if any, to the date of redemption, subject
to the rights of holders of notes on the relevant record date to
receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date.
Unless Issuer defaults in the payment of the redemption price,
interest will cease to accrue on the notes or portions thereof
called for redemption on the applicable redemption date.
Mandatory Redemption; Offers to Purchase; Open Market
Purchases
Issuer is not required to make any mandatory redemption or
sinking fund payments with respect to the notes. However, under
certain circumstances, Issuer may be required to offer to
purchase the notes as described under the captions
Repurchase at the Option of
Holders Change of Control and
Repurchase at the Option of
Holders Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary
Stock. Issuer may at any time and from time to time
purchase notes in the open market or otherwise.
Selection and Notice of Redemption
If less than all of the notes are to be redeemed at any time,
the trustee will select notes for redemption on a pro rata basis
unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange
requirements.
No notes of $1,000 or less can be redeemed in part. Notices of
redemption will be mailed by first class mail at least 10 but
not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each
holder of notes to be redeemed at its registered address, except
that redemption notices may be mailed more than 60 days
prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection
with a defeasance of the notes or a satisfaction and discharge
of the indenture. Notices of redemption may not be conditional.
If any note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of
redemption that relates to that note will state the portion of
the principal amount of that note that is to be redeemed. A new
note in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the
original note will be issued in the name of the holder of notes
upon cancellation of the original note. Notes called for
redemption become due on the date fixed for
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redemption. On and after the redemption date, interest ceases to
accrue on notes or portions of notes called for redemption.
Repurchase at the Option of Holders
Upon the occurrence of any of the following events (each a
Change of Control), each Holder shall have
the right to require that Issuer repurchase such Holders
notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal
amount thereof on the date of purchase plus accrued and unpaid
interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the date of
purchase (subject to the right of holders of record on the
relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant
interest payment date):
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any person (as such term is used in
Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the
beneficial owner (as defined in
Rules 13d-3 and
13d-5 under the
Exchange Act, except that for purposes of this clause (1)
such person shall be deemed to have beneficial
ownership of all shares that any such person has the right
to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or
only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of more
than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of
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individuals who on the Issue Date constituted the Board of
Directors of Superior Energy together with any new directors
whose election by such Board of Directors or whose nomination
for election by the stockholders of Superior Energy, as the case
may be, was approved by a vote of majority of the directors of
Superior Energy then still in office who were either directors
on the Issue Date or whose election or nomination for election
was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a
majority of the Board of Directors then in office; |
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the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or
dissolution of either Issuer or Superior Energy; or |
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the merger or consolidation of Issuer or Superior Energy, as the
case may be, with or into another Person or the merger of
another Person with or into Issuer or Superior Energy, as the
case may be, or the sale of all or substantially all the assets
of Issuer or Superior Energy, as the case may be (in each case,
determined on a consolidated basis) to another Person (other
than a Wholly Owned Subsidiary in the case of a merger or
consolidation involving Issuer), other than a transaction
following which, in the case of a merger or consolidation
transaction, securities that represented 100% of the Voting
Stock of Issuer or Superior Energy, as the case may be,
immediately prior to such transaction (or other securities into
which such securities are converted as part of such merger or
consolidation transaction) constitute at least a majority of the
voting power of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person in such
merger or consolidation transaction. |
Within 30 days following any Change of Control, Issuer will
mail a notice to each Holder with a copy to the Trustee (the
Change of Control Offer) stating:
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that a Change of Control has occurred and that such Holder has
the right to require us to purchase such Holders notes at
a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount
thereof on the date of purchase, plus accrued and unpaid
interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the date of
purchase (subject to the right of holders of record on the
relevant record date to receive interest on the relevant
interest payment date); |
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the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such Change of
Control (including information with respect to pro forma
historical income, cash flow and capitalization after giving
effect to such Change of Control); |
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the purchase date (which shall be no earlier than 10 days
nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is
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the instructions, as determined by us, consistent with the
covenant described hereunder, that a Holder must follow in order
to have its notes purchased. |
Issuer will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer
following a Change of Control if (1) a third party makes
the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and
otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in the
indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by Issuer
and purchases all notes validly tendered and not withdrawn under
such Change of Control Offer or (2) notice of redemption
has been given pursuant to the indenture as described under the
caption Optional Redemption, unless and
until there is a default in payment of the applicable redemption
price.
Issuer will comply, to the extent applicable, with the
requirements of Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act and any
other securities laws or regulations in connection with the
repurchase of notes as a result of a Change of Control. To the
extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations
conflict with the provisions of the covenant described
hereunder, Issuer will comply with the applicable securities
laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached
its obligations under the covenant described hereunder by virtue
of its compliance with such securities laws or regulations.
The Change of Control purchase feature of the notes may in
certain circumstances make more difficult or discourage a sale
or takeover of Superior Energy and, thus, the removal of
incumbent management. The Change of Control purchase feature is
a result of negotiations between Superior Energy and the initial
purchasers. Neither Superior Energy nor Issuer has any present
intention to engage in a transaction involving a Change of
Control, although it is possible that they could decide to do so
in the future. Subject to the limitations discussed below,
Superior Energy or Issuer could, in the future, enter into
certain transactions, including acquisitions, refinancings or
other recapitalizations, that would not constitute a Change of
Control under the indenture, but that could increase the amount
of indebtedness outstanding at such time or otherwise affect our
capital structure or credit ratings. Restrictions on our ability
to Incur additional Indebtedness are contained in the covenants
described under Certain Covenants
Limitation on Indebtedness, Limitation
on Liens and Limitation on Sale/
Leaseback Transactions. Such restrictions can only be
waived with the consent of the holders of a majority in
principal amount of the notes then outstanding. Except for the
limitations contained in such covenants, however, the indenture
will not contain any covenants or provisions that may afford
holders of the notes protection in the event of a highly
leveraged transaction.
The definition of Change of Control includes a phrase relating
to the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or
other disposition of all or substantially all of the
properties or assets of Issuer or Superior Energy and their
respective Subsidiaries taken as a whole. Although there is a
limited body of case law interpreting the phrase
substantially all, there is no precise established
definition of the phrase under applicable law. Accordingly, the
ability of a holder of notes to require us to repurchase the
notes as a result of a sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or
other disposition of less than all of the assets of Issuer or
Superior Energy and their respective Subsidiaries taken as a
whole to another Person or group may be uncertain.
The provisions under the indenture relative to our obligation to
make an offer to repurchase the notes as a result of a Change of
Control may be waived or modified with the written consent of
the holders of a majority in principal amount of the notes.
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Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock |
Each of Superior Energy and Issuer will not, and will not permit
any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, consummate
any Asset Disposition unless:
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Superior Energy, Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the
case may be, receives consideration at the time of such Asset
Disposition at least equal to the fair market value (including
as to the value of all non-cash consideration) as determined in
good faith by the Board of Directors of Superior Energy, an
officer of Superior Energy or an officer of such Restricted
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responsibility for such transaction, which determination shall
be conclusive evidence of compliance with this provision, of the
shares and assets subject to such Asset Disposition; |
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in the case of an Asset Disposition for consideration exceeding
$20.0 million, the fair market value is determined, in good
faith, by the Board of Directors of Superior Energy, and
evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors of Superior
Energy set forth in an Officers Certificate delivered to
the Trustee; |
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at least 75% of the consideration thereof received by Superior
Energy, Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may
be, is in the form of cash or Temporary Cash
Investments; and |
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an amount equal to 100% of the Net Available Cash from such
Asset Disposition is applied by Superior Energy, Issuer or such
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, within 365 days
after its receipt, at its option: |
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to repay Indebtedness and other Obligations under a Credit
Facility; |
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to acquire Additional Assets or to make capital expenditures in
a Related Business; and |
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to the extent of the balance of such Net Available Cash after
application in accordance with clauses (A) and (B), to
make an offer to the holders of the notes (and to holders of
other Indebtedness of Issuer that is pari passu with the
notes) to purchase notes (and such other Indebtedness of Issuer)
pursuant to and subject to the conditions contained in the
indenture; |
provided, however, that in connection with any
prepayment, repayment or purchase of Indebtedness pursuant to
clause (A) or (C) above, Issuer or such
Restricted Subsidiary shall permanently retire such Indebtedness
and shall cause the related loan commitment, if any, to be
permanently reduced in an amount equal to the principal amount
so prepaid, repaid or purchased. Notwithstanding the foregoing
provisions of this covenant, Superior Energy, Issuer and the
Restricted Subsidiaries will not be required to apply any Net
Available Cash in accordance with this paragraph except to the
extent that the aggregate Net Available Cash from all Asset
Dispositions which are not applied in accordance with this
covenant exceeds $20.0 million. Pending application of Net
Available Cash pursuant to this covenant, such Net Available
Cash shall be invested in Temporary Cash Investments or used to
reduce loans outstanding under any revolving credit facility
existing under a Credit Facility.
For the purposes of this covenant, the following are deemed to
be cash or Temporary Cash Investments: (i) the assumption
of Indebtedness of Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary (other than any of their Subordinated Obligations)
and the release of Superior Energy, Issuer or such Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be, from all liability on such
Indebtedness in connection with such Asset Disposition and
(ii) any securities received by Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary from the transferee that are promptly converted by
Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash on the maturity
date thereof but in no event later than 180 days after the
receipt thereof (to the extent of cash received).
The requirement of clause (a)(4) above shall be deemed to
be satisfied if an agreement (including a lease) committing to
make the acquisitions or expenditures referred to therein is
entered into by Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary within the time period specified in such clause and
such Net Available Cash is subsequently applied in accordance
with such agreement within six months following such agreement.
In the event of an Asset Disposition that requires the purchase
of the notes (and other pari passu Indebtedness of
Issuer) pursuant to clause (a)(4)(C) above, Issuer will
purchase notes tendered pursuant to an offer by Issuer for the
notes (and such other pari passu Indebtedness of Issuer)
at a purchase price of 100% of their principal amount (or, in
the event such other pari passu Indebtedness of Issuer
was issued with significant original issue discount, 100% of the
accreted value thereof), without premium, plus accrued but
unpaid interest and Additional Interest (or, in respect of such
other pari passu Indebtedness of Issuer, such lesser
price, if any, as may be provided for by the terms of such
Indebtedness of Issuer) in accordance with the procedures
(including prorating in the event of oversubscription) set forth
in the indenture. If the aggregate purchase price of the
securities tendered exceeds the Net Available Cash
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allotted to their purchase, Issuer will select the securities to
be purchased on a pro rata basis but in denominations of
$1,000 principal amount or multiples thereof.
Each of Superior Energy and Issuer will comply, to the extent
applicable, with the requirements of Section 14(e) of the
Exchange Act and any other securities laws or regulations in
connection with the repurchase of notes pursuant to this
covenant. To the extent that the provisions of any securities
laws or regulations conflict with provisions of this covenant,
each of Superior Energy and Issuer will comply with the
applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be
deemed to have breached its obligations under this clause by
virtue of its compliance with such securities laws or
regulations.
The agreements governing Issuers other Indebtedness
contain, and future agreements may contain, prohibitions of
certain events, including events that would constitute a Change
of Control or an Asset Sale and including repurchases of or
other prepayments in respect of the notes. In particular, the
acquisition by any person, or two or more persons acting in
concert of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of
Rules 13d-3 under
the Exchange Act) of 35% or more of the outstanding shares of
voting stock of Superior Energy, would constitute a default
under the Credit Agreement. In addition, the exercise by the
holders of notes of their right to require Issuer to repurchase
the notes upon a Change of Control or an Asset Sale could cause
a default under these other agreements, even if the Change of
Control or Asset Sale itself does not, due to the financial
effect of such repurchases on Issuer. In the event a Change of
Control or Asset Sale occurs at a time when Issuer is prohibited
from purchasing notes, Issuer could seek the consent of its
senior lenders to the purchase of notes or could attempt to
refinance the borrowings that contain such prohibition. If
Issuer does not obtain a consent or repay those borrowings,
Issuer will remain prohibited from purchasing notes. In that
case, Issuers failure to purchase tendered notes would
constitute an Event of Default under the indenture which could,
in turn, constitute a default under the other indebtedness.
Finally, Issuers ability to pay cash to the holders of
notes upon a repurchase may be limited by Issuers then
existing financial resources. See Risk Factors
We may not have the ability to raise the funds necessary to
finance the change of control offer required by the
indenture.
Certain Covenants
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Changes in Covenants when notes Rated Investment
Grade |
If on any date following the date of the indenture:
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the notes are rated Baa3 or better by Moodys and
BBB or better by S&P (or, if either such entity
ceases to rate the notes for reasons outside of the control of
Issuer, the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any
other nationally recognized statistical rating
organization within the meaning of
Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F)
under the Exchange Act selected by Issuer as a replacement
agency); and |
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no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing; |
then, beginning on that day and subject to the provisions of the
following paragraph, the covenants specifically listed under the
following captions in this prospectus will be suspended:
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Repurchase at Option of Holders
Limitation on Sale of Assets and Subsidiary Stock; |
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Certain Covenants Limitation on
Restricted Payments; |
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Certain Covenants Limitation on
Indebtedness; |
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Certain Covenants Limitation on
Restrictions on Dividends From Subsidiaries; |
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Certain Covenants Transactions
with Affiliates; |
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Certain Covenants Merger and
Consolidation (to the extent set forth in that
covenant); and |
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Certain Covenants Limitation on
Sale/ Leaseback Transactions (to the extent set forth in
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the rating assigned by either
such rating agency should subsequently decline to below Baa3 or
BBB-, respectively, the foregoing covenants will be reinstituted
as of and from the date of such rating decline. Calculations
under the reinstated Limitation on Restricted
Payments covenant will be made as if the Limitation
on Restricted Payments covenant had been in effect since
the date of the indenture except that no default will be deemed
to have occurred solely by reason of a Restricted Payment made
while that covenant was suspended. There can be no assurance
that the notes will ever achieve an investment grade rating or
that any such rating will be maintained.
The indenture contains covenants including, among others, the
following:
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Limitation on Indebtedness |
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Each of Superior Energy and Issuer will not, and will not permit
any Restricted Subsidiary to, Incur, directly or indirectly, any
Indebtedness; provided, however, that Superior Energy,
Issuer and any Subsidiary Guarantor may Incur Indebtedness if,
the Consolidated Coverage Ratio for the period of the most
recent four fiscal quarters ending at least 45 days prior
to (or, if less, the number of days after the end of such fiscal
quarter as the consolidated financial statements of Superior
Energy and its Subsidiaries, consisting of, at least, Issuer and
the Restricted Subsidiaries, shall be provided to the Holders
pursuant to the indenture) the date of such Incurrence would
have exceeded 2.0 to 1 and no Default would have occurred and be
continuing, in each case determined on a pro forma basis
(including a pro forma application of the net proceeds
therefrom), as if the additional Indebtedness had been incurred
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Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph (a), so long as no
Default has occurred and is continuing, Superior Energy, Issuer
and the Restricted Subsidiaries may Incur, to the extent
provided below, the following Indebtedness: |
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Indebtedness Incurred by Superior Energy, Issuer and any
Subsidiary Guarantor under Credit Facilities; provided,
however, that after giving effect to such Incurrence, the
aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred under
this clause (1) (with letters of credit and bankers
acceptances, if any, being deemed to have a principal amount
equal to the maximum potential liability of Issuer thereunder)
and then outstanding does not exceed the greater of
(A) $250.0 million and (B) the amount equal to
30% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the end of the
most recent fiscal quarter ending at least 45 days (or, if
less, the number of days after the end of such fiscal quarter as
the consolidated financial statements of Superior Energy shall
be provided to the Holders pursuant to the indenture) prior to
he date of the Incurrence of such Indebtedness; |
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the incurrence by Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary of intercompany Indebtedness between or among
Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary;
provided, however, that: |
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if Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary is the
obligor on such Indebtedness and the payee is not Superior
Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, such Indebtedness
must be expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in
cash of all Obligations then due with respect to the notes, in
the case of Issuer, or the Guarantee, in the case of a
Guarantor; and |
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(1) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Capital Stock
that results in any such Indebtedness being held by a Person
other than Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary
and (2) any sale or other transfer of any such Indebtedness
to a Person that is not either Superior Energy, Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary, will be deemed, in each case, to
constitute an incurrence of such Indebtedness by Superior
Energy, Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may
be, that was not permitted by this clause (b); |
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Indebtedness consisting of the notes and the related Guarantees
to be issued on the date of the indenture and the exchange notes
and the related Guarantees to be issued pursuant to the
registration rights agreement; |
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Indebtedness outstanding on the Issue Date (other than
Indebtedness described in clause (a), (b) or
(c) of this paragraph (2)); |
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Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary Incurred and outstanding
on or prior to the date on which such Subsidiary was acquired by
Superior Energy or Issuer, as the case may be (other than
Indebtedness Incurred in connection with, or to provide all or
any portion of the funds or credit support utilized to
consummate, the transaction or series of related transactions
pursuant to which such Subsidiary became a Subsidiary or was
acquired by Superior Energy or Issuer, as the case may be);
provided, however, that on the date of such acquisition
and after giving pro forma effect thereto, Issuer would
have been able to Incur at least $1.00 of additional
Indebtedness pursuant to paragraph (1) of this
covenant; |
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Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of Indebtedness Incurred
pursuant to paragraph (1) or pursuant to
clause (c), (d) or (e) of this
paragraph (2) or this clause (f); provided,
however, that to the extent such Refinancing Indebtedness
directly or indirectly Refinances Indebtedness of a Subsidiary
Incurred pursuant to clause (e) of this paragraph (2),
such Refinancing Indebtedness shall be Incurred only by such
Subsidiary; |
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Hedging Obligations entered into in the ordinary course of
business for the purpose of limiting risks that arise in the
ordinary course of business of Superior Energy, Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary; |
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Indebtedness incurred solely in respect of bankers
acceptances, letters of credit, performance and surety bonds and
completion guarantees and other reimbursement obligations (to
the extent that such incurrence does not result in the
Incurrence of any obligation for the payment of borrowed money
of others), in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of
business; |
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the incurrence by Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary of Indebtedness represented by Capital Lease
Obligations, mortgage financings or purchase money obligations,
in each case, incurred for the purpose of financing all or any
part of the acquisition or cost of design, construction,
installation, improvement or the carrying cost of assets used in
the business of Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary, in an aggregate principal amount, including all
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to renew, refund,
refinance, replace, defease or discharge any Indebtedness
incurred pursuant to this clause (i), not to exceed
$35.0 million at any time outstanding; |
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Indebtedness arising from any agreement providing for
indemnities, Guarantees, purchase price adjustments, holdbacks,
contingency payment obligations based on the performance of the
acquired or disposed assets or similar obligations (other than
Guarantees of Indebtedness) Incurred by any Person in connection
with the acquisition or disposition of assets; |
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in-kind obligations relating to net oil or natural gas balancing
positions arising in the ordinary course of business; |
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the guarantee by Issuer or any of the Guarantors of Indebtedness
of Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary that was
permitted to be incurred by another provision of this covenant;
provided that if the Indebtedness being guaranteed is
subordinated to or pari passu with the notes, then the
Guarantee shall be subordinated or pari passu, as
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the incurrence by Foreign Subsidiaries of Indebtedness in an
aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding pursuant to
this clause (m), including all Permitted Refinancing |
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Indebtedness incurred to renew, refund, refinance, replace,
defease or discharge any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this
clause (m), not to exceed $20.0 million (or the
equivalent thereof, measured at the time of each incurrence, in
applicable foreign currency); and |
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Indebtedness of Superior Energy, Issuer and any Restricted
Subsidiary in an aggregate principal amount which, together with
all other Indebtedness of such Persons outstanding on the date
of such Incurrence (other than Indebtedness permitted by
clauses (a) through (m) of this
paragraph (2) or paragraph (1) of this
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of Superior Energy and
Issuer will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary Guarantor
to, Incur any Indebtedness pursuant to the foregoing
paragraph (2) if the proceeds thereof are used,
directly or indirectly, to Refinance any Subordinated
Obligations of Superior Energy, Issuer or any Subsidiary
Guarantor unless such Indebtedness shall be subordinated to the
notes or the relevant Subsidiary Guarantee, as applicable, to at
least the same extent as such Subordinated Obligations. |
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Each of Superior Energy and Issuer will not, and will not permit
any Subsidiary Guarantor to Incur any Indebtedness (including
indebtedness permitted to be incurred by
paragraph (2) of this covenant) that is contractually
subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of
Issuer or such Guarantor unless such Indebtedness is also
contractually subordinated in right of payment to the notes and
the applicable Guarantee on substantially identical terms;
provided, however, that no Indebtedness will be deemed to
be contractually subordinated in right of payment to any other
Indebtedness of Issuer or such Guarantor solely by virtue of
being unsecured or by virtue of being secured on a first or
junior Lien basis. |
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For purposes of determining compliance with this
Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred
Stock covenant, in the event that an item of proposed
Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the
categories of permitted debt described in clauses (a)
through (n) of paragraph (2) of this covenant, or
is entitled to be incurred pursuant to
paragraph (l) of this covenant, Issuer will be
permitted to classify such item of Indebtedness on the date of
its incurrence, or later reclassify all or a portion of such
item of Indebtedness, in any manner that complies with this
covenant. The accrual of interest, the accretion or amortization
of original issue discount, the payment of interest on any
Indebtedness in the form of additional Indebtedness with the
same terms, the reclassification of preferred stock as
Indebtedness due to a change in accounting principles, and the
payment of dividends on Disqualified Stock in the form of
additional shares of the same class of Disqualified Stock will
not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness or an issuance
of Disqualified Stock for purposes of this covenant.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this covenant, the
maximum amount of Indebtedness that Superior Energy, Issuer or
any Restricted Subsidiary may incur pursuant to this covenant
shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of
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The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will
be: |
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the accreted value of the Indebtedness, in the case of any
Indebtedness issued with original issue discount; |
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the principal amount of the Indebtedness, in the case of any
other Indebtedness; and |
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in respect of Indebtedness of another Person secured by a Lien
on the assets of the specified Person, the lesser of: |
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the fair market value of such assets at the date of
determination; and |
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Each of Superior Energy and Issuer will not, and will not permit
any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into any Sale/ Leaseback
Transaction with respect to any property unless:
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Superior Energy, Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the
case may be, would be entitled to (A) Incur Indebtedness in
an amount equal to the Attributable Debt with respect to such
Sale/ Leaseback Transaction pursuant to
paragraph (a) of the covenant described under
Limitation on Indebtedness and
(B) create a Lien on such property securing such
Attributable Debt without equally and ratably securing the notes
pursuant to the covenant described under
Limitation on Liens; provided,
however, that clause (A) of this clause (1)
shall be suspended during any period in which Issuer, Superior
Energy and its Restricted Subsidiaries are not subject to the
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the gross proceeds of such Sale/ Leaseback Transaction are at
least equal to the fair market value (as determined in good
faith by the Board of Directors of Superior Energy) of such
property; and |
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the transfer of such property is permitted by, and Issuer
applies the proceeds of such transaction in compliance with, the
covenant described under Repurchase at the
Option of Holder Limitation on Sale of Assets and
Subsidiary Stock. |
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Limitation on Restricted Payments |
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Each of Superior Energy and Issuer will not, and will not permit
any Restricted Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to make a
Restricted Payment if at the time Superior Energy, Issuer or
such Restricted Subsidiary makes such Restricted Payment: |
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a Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or would result
therefrom); |
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Issuer is not entitled to Incur an additional $1.00 of
Indebtedness pursuant to paragraph (a) of the covenant
described under Limitation on
Indebtedness; or |
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(c) |
the aggregate amount of such Restricted Payment and all other
Restricted Payments since May 2, 2001 would exceed the sum
of (without duplication): |
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50% of the Consolidated Net Income accrued during the period
(treated as one accounting period) from April 1, 2001 to
the end of the most recent fiscal quarter ending at least
45 days (or, if less, the number of days after the end of
such fiscal quarter as the consolidated financial statements of
Superior Energy and its Subsidiaries, consisting of, at least,
Issuer and the Restricted Subsidiaries, shall be provided to the
Holders pursuant to the indenture) prior to the date of such
Restricted Payment (or, in case such Consolidated Net Income
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100% of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received by Superior
Energy from the issuance or sale of its Capital Stock (other
than Disqualified Stock) subsequent to May 2, 2001 (other
than an issuance or sale to any of its Subsidiaries and other
than an issuance or sale to an employee stock ownership plan or
to a trust established by Superior Energy or any of its
Subsidiaries for the benefit of their employees) or the fair
market value of the consideration (if other than cash) from such
issue or sale of Capital Stock and 100% of any capital cash
contribution received by Superior Energy from its stockholders
subsequent to May 2, 2001; plus |
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the amount by which Indebtedness of Superior Energy, Issuer or
any Restricted Subsidiary is reduced on Superior Energys
consolidated balance sheet, consisting of, at least, Issuer and
the Restricted Subsidiaries, upon the conversion or exchange
(other than by any Subsidiary of Superior Energy) subsequent to
the Issue Date of any Indebtedness of Superior Energy, Issuer or
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exchangeable for Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock)
of Superior Energy (less the amount of any cash, or the fair
market value of any other property, distributed by Superior
Energy upon such conversion or exchange); plus |
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an amount equal to the sum of (i) the net reduction in the
Investments (other than Permitted Investments) made by Superior
Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary in any Person
resulting from repurchases, repayments or redemptions of such
Investments by such Person, proceeds realized on the sale of
such Investment, proceeds representing the return of capital
(excluding dividends and distributions), in each case received
by Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, and
(ii) to the extent such Person is an Unrestricted
Subsidiary, the portion (proportionate to Issuers equity
interest in such Subsidiary) of the fair market value of the net
assets of such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time such
Unrestricted Subsidiary is designated a Restricted Subsidiary;
provided, however, that the foregoing sum shall not
exceed, in the case of any such Person or Unrestricted
Subsidiary, the amount of Investments (excluding Permitted
Investments) previously made (and treated as a Restricted
Payment) by Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary in such Person
or Unrestricted Subsidiary. |
Issuer estimates that as of June 30, 2006, the amounts in
clause (c)(i) through (c)(iv) above was approximately
$212.0 million.
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The provisions of the foregoing paragraph (a) will not
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any Restricted Payment (other than a Restricted Payment
described in clause (1) of the definition of
Restricted Payment) made by exchange for, or
out of the Net Cash Proceeds of the substantially concurrent
sale of, Capital Stock of Superior Energy (other than
Disqualified Stock and other than Capital Stock issued or sold
to a Subsidiary of Superior Energy or an employee stock
ownership plan or to a trust established by Superior Energy,
Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiaries for the benefit of their
employees) or the fair market value of the consideration (if
other than cash) from such issue or sale of Capital Stock or a
substantially concurrent capital cash contribution received by
Superior Energy from its stockholders; provided, however,
that (A) such Restricted Payment shall be excluded in the
calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments and
(B) the Net Cash Proceeds or the fair market value of the
consideration (if other than cash) from such sale or such
capital cash contribution (to the extent so used for such
Restricted Payment) shall be excluded from the calculation of
amounts under clause (c)(ii) of
paragraph (1) above; |
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any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other
acquisition or retirement for value of Subordinated Obligations
made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the
substantially concurrent sale of, Indebtedness which is
permitted to be Incurred pursuant to the covenant described
under Limitation on Indebtedness;
provided, however, that such purchase, repurchase,
redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for
value shall be excluded in the calculation of the amount of
Restricted Payments; |
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dividends paid within 60 days after the date of declaration
thereof if at such date of declaration such dividend would have
complied with this covenant; provided, however, that at
the time of payment of such dividend, no other Default shall
have occurred and be continuing (or result therefrom);
provided further, however, that such dividend shall be
included in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments; |
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so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing, the
repurchase or other acquisition of shares of Capital Stock of
Superior Energy or any of its Subsidiaries, other than an
Unrestricted Subsidiary, from employees, former employees,
directors or former directors of Superior Energy or any of its
Subsidiaries, other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary (or
permitted transferees of such employees, former employees,
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pursuant to the terms of the agreements (including employment
agreements) or plans (or amendments thereto) approved by the
Board of Directors of Superior Energy under which such
individuals purchase or sell or are granted the option to
purchase or sell, shares of such Capital Stock; provided,
however, that the aggregate amount of such repurchases and
other acquisitions shall not exceed $5.0 million in any
calendar year; provided further, however, that such
repurchases and other acquisitions shall be excluded in the
calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments; |
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repurchase of Capital Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise of
stock options if such Capital Stock represents a portion of the
exercise price thereof; provided, however, that such
repurchases shall be excluded in the calculation of the amount
of Restricted Payments; |
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Investments in the Special Purpose Vessel Entity in the form of
one or more Vessel Guarantees in an aggregate amount not to
exceed $45.0 million; provided, however, that such
Investments shall be excluded in the calculation of the amount
of Restricted Payments; and |
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other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$10.0 million; provided, however, that (A) at
the time of such Restricted Payments, no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing (or result therefrom) and
(B) such Restricted Payments, when made and in the amount
so made, shall thereafter be included in the calculation of the
amount of Restricted Payments. |
The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) will be
the fair market value on the date of the Restricted Payment of
the asset(s) or securities proposed to be transferred or issued
by Superior Energy, Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the
case may be, pursuant to the Restricted Payment. The fair market
value of any assets or securities that are required to be valued
by this covenant will be determined by the Board of Directors of
Superior Energy whose resolution with respect thereto will be
delivered to the trustee.
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Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted
Subsidiaries |
Each of Superior Energy and Issuer will not, and will not permit
any Restricted Subsidiary to, create or otherwise cause or
permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance
or restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to
(a) pay dividends or make any other distributions on its
Capital Stock to Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary or pay any Indebtedness owed to Issuer, (b) make
any loans or advances to Issuer or (c) transfer any of its
property or assets to Issuer, except:
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any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to an agreement in
effect at or entered into on the Issue Date, including any such
Credit Facility and the notes and the indenture; |
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any encumbrance or restriction with respect to a Restricted
Subsidiary pursuant to an agreement relating to any Indebtedness
Incurred by such Restricted Subsidiary on or prior to the date
on which such Restricted Subsidiary was acquired by Superior
Energy or Issuer, as the case may be (other than Indebtedness
Incurred as consideration in, or to provide all or any portion
of the funds or credit support utilized to consummate, the
transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which
such Restricted Subsidiary became a Restricted Subsidiary or was
acquired by Issuer), and outstanding on such date; |
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any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to an agreement
effecting a Refinancing of Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to an
agreement referred to in clause (1) or (2) of this
covenant or this clause (3) or contained in any amendment
to an agreement referred to in clause (1) or (2) of
this covenant or this clause (3); provided, however,
that the encumbrances and restrictions with respect to such
Restricted Subsidiary contained in any such refinancing
agreement or amendment are no more restrictive than the
encumbrances and restrictions with respect to such Restricted
Subsidiary contained in such predecessor agreements; |
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any such encumbrance or restriction consisting of customary
non-assignment provisions in leases governing leasehold
interests to the extent such provisions restrict the transfer of
the lease or the property leased thereunder; |
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in the case of clause (c) above, restrictions contained in
security agreements or mortgages securing Indebtedness of
Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary to the extent
such restrictions restrict the transfer of the property subject
to such security agreements or mortgages; |
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provisions limiting the disposition or distribution of assets or
property in joint venture agreements, limited liability
agreements, joint operating agreements, asset sale agreements,
sale-leaseback agreements, stock sale agreements and other
similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of
business, which limitation is applicable only to the assets that
are the subject of such agreements; |
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restrictions imposed by customers on cash or other amounts
deposited by them pursuant to contracts entered into in the
ordinary course of business; |
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purchase money obligations for property acquired in the ordinary
course of business and Capital Lease Obligations that impose
restrictions on the property purchased or leased of the nature
described in clause (c) of the preceding paragraph; |
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(9) |
restrictions on the transfer of property or assets required by
any regulatory authority having jurisdiction over Superior
Energy, Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary; |
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encumbrances and restrictions contained in contracts entered
into in the ordinary course of business, not relating to any
Indebtedness, and that do not, individually or in the aggregate,
detract from the value of, or from the ability of Superior
Energy, Issuer and the Restricted Subsidiaries to realize the
value of, property or assets of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary in any manner material to Superior Energy, Issuer or
any Restricted Subsidiary; and |
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Liens permitted to be incurred under the provisions of the
covenant described above under the caption
Limitation on Liens that limit the right
of the debtor to dispose of the assets subject to such Liens. |
Superior Energy will not create or otherwise cause or permit to
exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or
restriction on its ability to (a) make capital
contributions or other Investments in Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary or pay any Indebtedness owed to Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary, (b) make any loans or advances to
Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary or (c) transfer any of
its property or assets to Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary,
except:
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any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to any Credit Facilities
and any agreement in effect at or entered into on the Issue
Date; and |
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any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to an agreement
effecting a Refinancing of Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to an
agreement referred to in the immediately preceding
clause (1) of this covenant or this clause (2) or
contained in any amendment to an agreement referred to in the
immediately preceding clause (1) of this covenant of this
clause (2); provided, however, that the encumbrances
and restrictions with respect to Superior Energy contained in
any such refinancing agreement or amendment are no more
restrictive in any material respect than the encumbrances and
restrictions with respect to Superior Energy contained in such
predecessor agreements. |
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Each of Superior Energy and Issuer will not, and will not permit
any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into or permit to exist any
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any property, employee compensation arrangements or the
rendering of any service) with, or for the benefit of, any
Affiliate of Issuer or Superior Energy (an Affiliate
Transaction) unless: |
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the terms of the Affiliate Transaction are no less favorable to
Superior Energy, Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary than those
that could be obtained at the time of the Affiliate Transaction
in arms-length dealings with a Person who is not an
Affiliate; |
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if such Affiliate Transaction involves an amount in excess of
$10.0 million, the terms of the Affiliate Transaction are
set forth in writing and a majority of the Board of Directors of
Superior Energy having no personal stake in such Affiliate
Transaction have determined in good faith that the criteria set
forth in clause (a) are satisfied and have approved the
relevant Affiliate Transaction as evidenced by a resolution of
the Board of Directors of Superior Energy; and |
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if such Affiliate Transaction involves an amount in excess of
$20.0 million, the Board of Directors of Superior Energy
shall also have received a written opinion from a nationally
recognized investment banking, appraisal or accounting firm that
is not an Affiliate of Issuer or Superior Energy to the effect
that such Affiliate Transaction is fair, from a financial
standpoint, to Superior Energy, Issuer and the Restricted
Subsidiaries, as the case may be. |
(2) The provisions of the preceding
paragraph (a) will not prohibit:
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a Restricted Payment or Permitted Investment, in each case
permitted to be made pursuant to the covenant described under
Limitation on Restricted Payments; |
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any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards or grants
in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of,
employment arrangements, stock options and stock ownership plans
approved by the Board of Directors of Superior Energy; |
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loans or advances to employees in the ordinary course of
business of Superior Energy, Issuer or any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries, but in any event not to exceed $2.0 million
in the aggregate outstanding at any one time; |
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any transaction with a Restricted Subsidiary or joint venture or
similar entity which would constitute an Affiliate Transaction
solely because Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary owns an equity interest in or otherwise controls such
Restricted Subsidiary, joint venture or similar entity; |
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reasonable fees and reasonable compensation paid to, and
indemnity and similar arrangements provided on behalf of,
officers, directors and employees of Superior Energy, Issuer or
any Restricted Subsidiary as determined in good faith by the
Board of Directors of Superior Energy or its senior management; |
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any Affiliate Transaction between Issuer and a Restricted
Subsidiary or between Restricted Subsidiaries; |
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the issuance or sale of any Capital Stock (other than
Disqualified Stock) of Superior Energy; and |
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transactions where the rates or charges involved, and related
terms of payment, are determined by competitive bids and the
interest of the Affiliate arises solely from such Persons
status as a non-employee member of the Board of Directors of
Superior Energy and which otherwise comply with clauses (a)
and (b), as applicable, of the preceding paragraph (1). |
Each of Superior Energy and Issuer will not, and will not permit
any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, Incur or
permit to exist any Lien securing any Indebtedness of any kind
except for Permitted
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Liens (the Initial Lien) of any nature
whatsoever on any of its properties (including Capital Stock of
a Restricted Subsidiary), whether owned at the Issue Date or
thereafter acquired, without effectively providing that the
notes shall be secured equally and ratably with (or prior to)
the obligations so secured for so long as such obligations are
so secured.
Any Lien created for the benefit of the Holders of the notes
pursuant to the preceding sentence shall provide by its terms
that such Lien shall be automatically and unconditionally
released and discharged upon the release and discharge of the
Initial Lien.
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Neither Issuer will, nor will Superior Energy permit Issuer to,
consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey or transfer,
in one transaction or a series of transactions, directly or
indirectly, all or substantially all its assets to, any Person,
unless: |
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Issuer shall be the surviving Person, or the resulting,
surviving or transferee Person (the Successor
Company) shall be a Person organized and existing
under the laws of the United States of America, any State
thereof or the District of Columbia and the Successor Company
(if not Issuer) shall expressly assume, by an indenture
supplemental thereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in
form satisfactory to the Trustee, all the obligations of Issuer
under the notes, the indenture and the registration rights
agreement; |
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immediately after giving pro forma effect to such
transaction (and treating any Indebtedness which becomes an
obligation of the Successor Company or any Subsidiary as a
result of such transaction as having been Incurred by such
Successor Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such
transaction), no Default shall have occurred and be continuing; |
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immediately after giving pro forma effect to such
transaction, either (a) the Successor Company would be able
to Incur an additional $1.00 of Indebtedness pursuant to
paragraph (1) of the covenant described under
Limitation on Indebtedness or
(b) the Consolidated Coverage Ratio of the Successor
Company will be greater than the Consolidated Coverage Ratio of
Issuer and its Subsidiaries immediately prior to such
transaction; provided, however, that this clause (c)
shall be suspended during any period in which Issuer, Superior
Energy and its Restricted Subsidiaries are not subject to the
Suspended Covenants; and |
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Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers
Certificate of Superior Energy and an Opinion of Counsel, each
stating that such consolidation, merger or transfer and such
supplemental indenture (if any) comply with the indenture; |
provided, however, that clause (c) will not be
applicable to (A) a Restricted Subsidiary consolidating
with, merging into or transferring all or part of its properties
and assets to Issuer or (B) if determined in good faith by
the Board of Directors of Superior Energy (as evidenced by a
resolution of such board), Issuer merging with an Affiliate of
Issuer solely for the purpose and with the sole effect of
reorganizing Issuer in another jurisdiction, provided the
surviving entity will assume all the obligations of Issuer under
the notes, the indenture, and the registration rights agreement.
In addition, neither Issuer will, nor will Superior Energy
permit Issuer to, directly or indirectly, lease all or
substantially all of the properties and assets of it and its
Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, in one or more related
transactions, to any other Person.
The Successor Company will be the successor to Issuer and shall
succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right
and power of, Issuer under the indenture, but such Issuer in the
case of a conveyance or transfer shall not be released from the
obligation to pay the principal, interest and Additional
Interest, if any, on the notes.
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Superior Energy will not consolidate with or merge with or into,
or convey or transfer, in one transaction or a series of
transactions, directly or indirectly, all or substantially all
its assets to, any Person, unless: |
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Superior Energy shall be the surviving Person, or the resulting,
surviving or transferee Person (the Successor
Company) shall be a Person organized and existing
under the laws of the United States of America, any State
thereof or the District of Columbia and the Successor Company
(if not Superior Energy) shall expressly assume, by an indenture
supplemental thereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in
form satisfactory to the Trustee, all the obligations of
Superior Energy under its Guarantee, the indenture and the
registration rights agreement; |
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immediately after giving pro forma effect to such
transaction (and treating any Indebtedness which becomes an
obligation of the Successor Company or any Subsidiary as a
result of such transaction as having been Incurred by such
Successor Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such
transaction), no Default shall have occurred and be continuing; |
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immediately after giving pro forma effect to such
transaction, either (a) the Successor Company would be able
to Incur an additional $1.00 of Indebtedness pursuant to
paragraph (1) of the covenant described under
Limitation on Indebtedness or
(b) the Consolidated Coverage Ratio of the Successor
Company will be greater than the Consolidated Coverage Ratio of
Superior Energy and its Subsidiaries immediately prior to such
transaction; provided, however, that this clause (c)
shall be suspended during any period in which Issuer, Superior
Energy and its Restricted Subsidiaries are not subject to the
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Superior Energy shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers Certificate of Superior Energy and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger or
transfer and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with
the indenture; |
provided, however, that clause (c) will not be
applicable to (A) a Restricted Subsidiary consolidating
with, merging into or transferring all or part of its properties
and assets to Superior Energy or (B) if determined in good
faith by the Board of Directors of Superior Energy (as evidenced
by a resolution of such board), Superior Energy merging with an
Affiliate of Superior Energy solely for the purpose and with the
sole effect of reorganizing Superior Energy in another
jurisdiction, provided the surviving entity will assume
all the obligations of Superior Energy under its Guarantee, the
indenture, and the registration rights agreement.
In addition, Superior Energy will not directly or indirectly,
lease all or substantially all of the properties and assets of
it and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, in one or
more related transactions, to any other Person.
In the event that, after the Issue Date, (1) any Restricted
Subsidiary (excluding an Exempt Foreign Subsidiary except under
the circumstances described under the caption
Limitation on Issuances of Guarantees by
Exempt Foreign Subsidiaries) Incurs, directly or
indirectly, any Indebtedness or guarantees or otherwise provides
direct credit support for any Indebtedness of Superior Energy,
Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, or (2) as of the end
of any fiscal quarter, any Restricted Subsidiary (excluding an
Exempt Foreign Subsidiary) has total assets or total revenues
that are at least equal to 5% of the total assets or total
revenues, as applicable, of Issuer and its Restricted
Subsidiaries, then each of Superior Energy and Issuer will cause
such Restricted Subsidiary, contemporaneously with the first to
occur of such events described in the preceding clauses (1)
and (2) (as applicable), to Guarantee the notes pursuant to a
Subsidiary Guarantee on the terms and conditions set forth in
the indenture and will cause all Indebtedness of such Restricted
Subsidiary owing to Superior Energy, Issuer or any other
Subsidiary of
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Issuer and not previously discharged to be converted into
Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary (other than
Disqualified Stock).
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Limitation on Issuances of Guarantees by Exempt Foreign
Subsidiaries |
Neither Superior Energy nor Issuer will permit any Exempt
Foreign Subsidiary to Guarantee any Indebtedness of Superior
Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary unless such Exempt
Foreign Subsidiary simultaneously Guarantees the notes pursuant
to a Subsidiary Guarantee on the terms and conditions set forth
in the indenture on a basis pari passu with (or if that
Indebtedness is a Subordinated Obligation, prior to) that
Indebtedness.
Issuer will not and Superior Energy will not, and will not
permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or
indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration to or for
the benefit of any holder of notes for or as an inducement to
any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or
provisions of the indenture or the notes unless such
consideration is offered to be paid and is paid to all holders
of the notes that consent, waive or agree to amend in the time
frame set forth in the solicitation documents relating to such
consent, waiver or agreement.
Whether or not required by the rules and regulations of the SEC,
so long as any notes are outstanding, Superior Energy will
furnish to the holders of notes or cause the trustee to furnish
to the holders of notes, within the time periods specified in
the SECs rules and regulations:
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all quarterly and annual reports that would be required to be
filed with the SEC on
Forms 10-Q
and 10-K if
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all current reports that would be required to be filed with the
SEC on Form 8-K if
Superior Energy were required to file such reports. |
All such reports will be prepared in all material respects in
accordance with all of the rules and regulations applicable to
such reports. Each annual report on
Form 10-K will
include a report on Superior Energys consolidated
financial statements by Superior Energys certified
independent accountants. In addition, Superior Energy will file
a copy of each of the reports referred to in clauses (1)
and (2) above with the SEC for public availability within
the time periods specified in the rules and regulations
applicable to such reports (unless the SEC will not accept such
a filing) and will post the reports on its website within those
time periods.
If, at any time, Superior Energy is no longer subject to the
periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act for any
reason, Superior Energy will nevertheless continue filing the
reports specified in the preceding paragraphs of this covenant
with the SEC within the time periods specified above unless the
SEC will not accept such a filing. Superior Energy will not take
any action for the purpose of causing the SEC not to accept any
such filings. If, notwithstanding the foregoing, the SEC will
not accept Superior Energys filings for any reason,
Superior Energy will post the reports referred to in the
preceding paragraphs on its website within the time periods that
would apply if Superior Energy were required to file those
reports with the SEC.
In addition, Issuer and the Guarantors agree that, for so long
as any notes remain outstanding, if at any time it they are not
required to file with the SEC the reports required by the
preceding paragraphs, they will furnish to the holders of notes
and to securities analysts and prospective investors, upon their
request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to
Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.
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Defaults
Each of the following is an Event of Default:
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a default in the payment of interest on the notes when due,
continued for 30 days; |
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a default in the payment of principal of any note when due at
its Stated Maturity, upon redemption, upon required purchase,
upon declaration or otherwise; |
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the failure by Issuer or Superior Energy to comply with its
obligation under Certain Covenants
Merger and Consolidation above; |
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the failure by Issuer or Superior Energy to comply for
30 days after notice with any of its obligations in the
covenants described above under Repurchase at
the Option of Holders Change of Control (other
than a failure to purchase the notes) and
Repurchase at the Option of
Holders Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary
Stock (other than a failure to purchase the notes) or
under Certain Covenants under
Limitation on Indebtedness,
Limitation on Restricted Payments,
Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions
from Restricted Subsidiaries, Limitation
on Affiliate Transactions, Limitation on
Liens, Limitation on Sale/ Leaseback
Transactions, Future Guarantors,
Limitation on Issuances of Guarantees by
Exempt Foreign Subsidiaries, or SEC
Reports; |
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the failure by Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary to comply for 60 days after notice with its
other agreements contained in the indenture; |
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default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which
there may be issued or by which there may be secured or
evidenced any Indebtedness for money borrowed by Superior
Energy, Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or the
payment of which is guaranteed by Superior Energy, Issuer or any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries), whether such Indebtedness or
Guarantee now exists, or is created after the date of the
indenture, if that default: |
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is caused by a failure to pay principal of, or interest or
premium, if any, on, such Indebtedness prior to the expiration
of the grace period provided in such Indebtedness on the date of
such default (a Payment Default); or |
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results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its
express maturity, and, in each case, the principal amount of any
such Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any
other such Indebtedness under which there has been a Payment
Default or the maturity of which has been so accelerated,
aggregates $20.0 million or more (the Cross
Acceleration Provision); |
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certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency described in the
indenture with respect to Superior Energy, Issuer or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or any
group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would
constitute a Significant Subsidiary (the Bankruptcy
Provisions); |
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any judgment or decree for the payment of money in excess of
$20.0 million is entered against Issuer, Superior Energy or
a Significant Subsidiary, remains outstanding for a period for
60 consecutive days following such judgment and is not
discharged, waived or stayed within 10 days after notice
(the Judgment Default Provision); or |
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the Superior Energy Guarantee or a Subsidiary Guarantee ceases
to be in full force and effect (other than in accordance with
the terms of the Superior Energy Guarantee or such Subsidiary
Guarantee, as the case may be), or Superior Energy or a
Subsidiary Guarantor denies or disaffirms its obligations under
the Superior Guarantee or its Subsidiary Guarantee, as the case
may be. |
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However, a default under clauses (4), (5), (8) and
(9) will not constitute an Event of Default until the
Trustee or the holders of 25% in principal amount of the
outstanding notes notify Issuer of the default and Issuer does
not cure such default within the time specified after receipt of
such notice.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or
the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the notes
then outstanding may declare the principal of and accrued but
unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, on all the
notes to be due and payable. Upon such a declaration, such
principal, interest and Additional Interest, if any, shall be
due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default relating to
certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of
Issuer occurs and is continuing, the principal of, interest and
Additional Interest, if any, on all the notes will ipso facto
become and be immediately due and payable without any
declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any
holders of the notes. Under certain circumstances, the holders
of a majority in principal amount of the notes then outstanding
may rescind any such acceleration with respect to the notes and
its consequences.
Subject to the provisions of the indenture relating to the
duties of the Trustee, in case an Event of Default occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee is under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers under the indenture at the request or
direction of any of the holders of the notes unless such holders
have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory
to it against any loss, liability or expense. Except to enforce
the right to receive payment of principal, premium, if any,
interest and Additional Interest, if any, when due, no holder of
a note may pursue any remedy with respect to the indenture or
the notes unless:
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such holder has previously given the Trustee notice that an
Event of Default is continuing; |
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holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the notes then
outstanding have requested the Trustee to pursue the remedy; |
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such holders have offered the Trustee security or indemnity
satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense; |
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the Trustee has not complied with such request within
60 days after the receipt thereof and the offer of security
or indemnity; and |
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holders of a majority in principal amount of the notes then
outstanding have not given the Trustee a direction inconsistent
with such request within such
60-day period. |
Subject to certain restrictions, the holders of a majority in
principal amount of the notes then outstanding are given the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee. The
Trustee, however, may refuse to follow any direction that
conflicts with law or the indenture or that the Trustee
determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other
holders of a note or that would involve the Trustee in personal
liability.
If a Default occurs, is continuing and is known to the Trustee,
the Trustee must mail to each holder of the notes notice of the
Default within 90 days after it occurs. Except in the case
of a Default in the payment of principal of, interest or
Additional Interest, if any, on any note, the Trustee may
withhold notice if and so long as a committee of its trust
officers determines that withholding notice is not opposed to
the interest of the holders of the notes.
No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and
Stockholders
No director, officer, manager, employee, incorporator,
organizer, stockholder or member of Issuer or any Guarantor, as
such, will have any liability for any obligations of Issuer or
the Guarantors under the notes, the indenture, the Guarantees or
for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such
obligations or their creation. Each holder of notes by accepting
a note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and
release are part of the consideration for issuance of the notes.
The waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities under the
federal securities laws.
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Amendments and Waivers
Except as provided in the next two succeeding paragraphs, the
indenture or the notes or the Guarantees may be amended or
supplemented with the consent of the holders of at least a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the notes then
outstanding (including, without limitation, consents obtained in
connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer
for, notes), and any existing Default or Event of Default or
compliance with any provision of the indenture or the notes or
the Guarantees may be waived with the consent of the holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding
notes (including, without limitation, consents obtained in
connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer
for, notes).
Without the consent of each holder of notes affected, an
amendment, supplement or waiver may not (with respect to any
notes held by a non-consenting holder):
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reduce the principal amount of notes whose holders must consent
to an amendment, supplement or waiver; |
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reduce the principal of or change the fixed maturity of any note
or alter the provisions with respect to the redemption of the
notes (other than provisions relating to the covenants described
above under the caption Repurchase at the
Option of Holders); |
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reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest,
including default interest, on any note; |
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waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of principal
of, or interest or premium, or Additional Interest, if any, on,
the notes (except a rescission of acceleration of the notes by
the holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the then outstanding notes and a waiver of the payment
default that resulted from such acceleration); |
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make any note payable in money other than that stated in the
notes; |
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make any change in the provisions of the indenture relating to
waivers of past Defaults or the rights of holders of notes to
receive payments of principal of, or interest or premium or
Additional Interest, if any, on, the notes; |
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waive a redemption payment with respect to any note (other than
a payment required by one of the covenants described above under
the caption Repurchase at the Option of
Holders); |
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(8) |
release any Guarantor from any of its obligations under its
Guarantee or the indenture, except in accordance with the terms
of the indenture; or |
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make any change in the preceding amendment and waiver provisions. |
Notwithstanding the preceding, without the consent of any holder
of notes, Issuer, the Guarantors and the trustee may amend or
supplement the indenture, the notes or the Guarantees:
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to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency; |
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to provide for uncertificated notes in addition to or in place
of Certificated Notes; |
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to provide for the assumption of Issuers or a
Guarantors obligations to holders of notes and Guarantees
in the case of a merger or consolidation or sale of all or
substantially all of Issuers or such Guarantors
assets, as applicable; |
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to make any change that would provide any additional rights or
benefits to the holders of notes or that does not adversely
affect the legal rights under the indenture of any such holder; |
(5) to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to
effect or maintain the qualification of the indenture under the
Trust Indenture Act;
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to conform the text of the indenture, the Guarantees or the
notes to any provision of this Description of Notes to the
extent that such provision in this Description of Notes was
intended to be a verbatim recitation of a provision of the
indenture, the Guarantees or the notes; |
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to provide for the issuance of additional notes in accordance
with the limitations set forth in the indenture as of the date
of the indenture; or |
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to allow any Guarantor to execute a supplemental indenture
and/or a Guarantee with respect to the notes. |
Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
Issuer may at any time, at the option of its Board of Directors
evidenced by a resolution set forth in an officers
certificate, elect to have all of its obligations discharged
with respect to the outstanding notes and all obligations of the
Guarantors discharged with respect to their Guarantees
(Legal Defeasance) except for:
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the rights of holders of outstanding notes to receive payments
in respect of the principal of, or interest or premium and
Additional Interest, if any, on, such notes when such payments
are due from the trust referred to below; |
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Issuers obligations with respect to the notes concerning
issuing temporary notes, registration of notes, mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen notes and the maintenance of an office
or agency for payment and money for security payments held in
trust; |
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the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the
trustee, and Issuers and the Guarantors obligations
in connection therewith; and |
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the Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance provisions of the
indenture. |
In addition, Issuer may, at its option and at any time, elect to
have the obligations of Issuer and the Guarantors released with
respect to certain covenants (including its obligation to make
Change of Control Offers and Asset Sale Offers) that are
described in the indenture (Covenant Defeasance)
and thereafter any omission to comply with those covenants
will not constitute a Default or Event of Default with respect
to the notes. In the event Covenant Defeasance occurs, certain
events (not including non-payment, bankruptcy, receivership,
rehabilitation and insolvency events) described under
Events of Default and Remedies will no
longer constitute an Event of Default with respect to the notes.
In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance:
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Issuer must irrevocably deposit with the trustee, in trust, for
the benefit of the holders of the notes, cash in
U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a
combination of cash in U.S. dollars and non-callable
Government Securities, in amounts as will be sufficient, in the
opinion of a nationally recognized investment bank, appraisal
firm or firm of independent public accountants, to pay the
principal of, or interest and premium and Additional Interest,
if any, on, the outstanding notes on the stated date for payment
thereof or on the applicable redemption date, as the case may
be, and Issuer must specify whether the notes are being defeased
to such stated date for payment or to a particular redemption
date; |
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in the case of Legal Defeasance, Issuer must deliver to the
trustee an opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the
trustee confirming that (a) Issuer has received from, or
there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a
ruling or (b) since the date of the indenture, there has
been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in
either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion
of counsel will confirm that, the holders of the outstanding
notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income
tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be
subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same
manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such
Legal Defeasance had not occurred; |
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in the case of Covenant Defeasance, Issuer must deliver to the
trustee an opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the
trustee confirming that the holders of the outstanding notes
will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax
purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be
subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same
manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such
Covenant Defeasance had not occurred; |
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no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on
the date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of
Default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to
such deposit) and the deposit will not result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute a default under, any other
instrument to which Issuer or any Guarantor is a party or by
which Issuer or any Guarantor is bound; |
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such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance will not result in
a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any
material agreement or instrument (other than the indenture) to
which Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which
Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries is bound; |
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Issuer must deliver to the trustee an officers certificate
stating that the deposit was not made by Issuer with the intent
of preferring the holders of notes over the other creditors of
Issuer with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or
defrauding any creditors of Issuer or others; and |
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Issuer must deliver to the trustee an officers certificate
and an opinion of counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant
Defeasance have been complied with. |
Satisfaction and Discharge
The indenture will be discharged and will cease to be of further
effect as to all notes issued thereunder, when:
(1) either:
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all notes that have been authenticated, except lost, stolen or
destroyed notes that have been replaced or paid and notes for
whose payment money has been deposited in trust and thereafter
repaid to Issuer, have been delivered to the trustee for
cancellation; or |
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all notes that have not been delivered to the trustee for
cancellation have become due and payable by reason of the
mailing of a notice of redemption or otherwise or will become
due and payable within one year and Issuer or any Guarantor has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the trustee
as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit of the holders,
cash in U.S. dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or
a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and
U.S. Government Obligations in amounts as will be
sufficient, without consideration of any reinvestment of
interest, to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on the
notes not delivered to the trustee for cancellation for
principal, premium and Additional Interest, if any, and accrued
interest to the date of maturity or redemption; |
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no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on
the date of the deposit (other than a Default or Event of
Default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to
such deposit) and the deposit will not result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute a default under, any other
instrument to which Issuer or any Guarantor is a party or by
which Issuer or any Guarantor is bound; |
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Issuer or any Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all sums
payable by it under the indenture; and |
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Issuer has delivered irrevocable instructions to the trustee
under the indenture to apply the deposited money toward the
payment of the notes at maturity or on the redemption date, as
the case may be. |
In addition, Issuer must deliver an officers certificate
and an opinion of counsel to the trustee stating that all
conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge have been
satisfied.
Concerning the Trustee
If the trustee becomes a creditor of Issuer or any Guarantor,
the indenture limits the right of the trustee to obtain payment
of claims in certain cases, or to realize on certain property
received in respect of any such claim as security or otherwise.
The trustee will be permitted to engage in other transactions;
however, if it acquires any conflicting interest it must
eliminate such conflict within 90 days, apply to the SEC
for permission to continue as trustee (if the indenture has been
qualified under the Trust Indenture Act) or resign.
The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
then outstanding notes will have the right to direct the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any
remedy available to the trustee, subject to certain exceptions.
The indenture provides that in case an Event of Default occurs
and is continuing, the trustee will be required, in the exercise
of its power, to use the degree of care of a prudent man in the
conduct of his own affairs. Subject to such provisions, the
trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of its
rights or powers under the indenture at the request of any
holder of notes, unless such holder has offered to the trustee
security and indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss,
liability or expense.
Additional Information
Anyone who receives this prospectus may obtain a copy of the
indenture and registration rights agreement without charge by
writing to Superior Energy Services, Inc., 1105 Peters Road,
Harvey, LA, 70058, Attention: Corporate Secretary.
Governing Law
The indenture and the notes are governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without
giving effect to applicable principles of conflicts of law to
the extent that the application of the law of another
jurisdiction would be required thereby.
Book-Entry, Delivery and Form
The notes are being offered and sold to qualified institutional
buyers in reliance on Rule 144A (Rule 144A
Notes). The notes also may be offered and sold in
offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S
(Regulation S Notes). Except as set
forth below, the notes will be issued in registered, global form
in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000 in excess of $2,000. Notes will be issued at the closing
of this offering only against payment in immediately available
funds.
Rule 144A Notes initially will be represented by one or
more notes in registered, global form without interest coupons
(collectively, the Rule 144A Global
Notes). Regulation S Notes initially will be
represented by one or more notes in registered, global form
without interest coupons (collectively, the
Regulation S Global Notes and, together
with the Rule 144A Global Notes, the Global
Notes). The Global Notes will be deposited upon
issuance with the trustee as custodian for The Depository Trust
Company (DTC), in New York, New York, and
registered in the name of DTC or its nominee, in each case, for
credit to an account of a direct or indirect participant in DTC
as described below. Through and including the 40th day
after the later of the commencement of this offering and the
closing of this offering (such period through and including such
40th day, the Restricted Period),
beneficial interests in the Regulation S Global Notes may
be held only through the Euroclear System
(Euroclear) and Clearstream Banking, S.A.
(Clearstream) (as indirect participants in
DTC), unless transferred to a
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person that takes delivery through a Rule 144A Global Note
in accordance with the certification requirements described
below. Beneficial interests in the Rule 144A Global Notes
may not be exchanged for beneficial interests in the
Regulation S Global Notes at any time except in the limited
circumstances described below. See Exchanges
between Regulation S Notes and Rule 144A Notes.
Except as set forth below, the Global Notes may be transferred,
in whole and not in part, only to another nominee of DTC or to a
successor of DTC or its nominee. Beneficial interests in the
Global Notes may not be exchanged for definitive notes in
registered certificated form (Certificated Notes)
except in the limited circumstances described below. See
Exchange of Global Notes for Certificated
Notes. Except in the limited circumstances described
below, owners of beneficial interests in the Global Notes will
not be entitled to receive physical delivery of notes in
certificated form.
Rule 144A Notes (including beneficial interests in the
Rule 144A Global Notes) will be subject to certain
restrictions on transfer and will bear a restrictive legend as
described under Notice to Investors.
Regulation S Notes will also bear the legend as described
under Notice to Investors. In addition, transfers of
beneficial interests in the Global Notes will be subject to the
applicable rules and procedures of DTC and its direct or
indirect participants (including, if applicable, those of
Euroclear and Clearstream), which may change from time to time.
Depository Procedures
The following description of the operations and procedures of
DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream are provided solely as a matter
of convenience. These operations and procedures are solely
within the control of the respective settlement systems and are
subject to changes by them. Issuer takes no responsibility for
these operations and procedures and urges investors to contact
the system or their participants directly to discuss these
matters.
DTC has advised Issuer that DTC is a limited-purpose trust
company created to hold securities for its participating
organizations (collectively, the
Participants) and to facilitate the clearance
and settlement of transactions in those securities between the
Participants through electronic book-entry changes in accounts
of its Participants. The Participants include securities brokers
and dealers (including the initial purchasers), banks, trust
companies, clearing corporations and certain other
organizations. Access to DTCs system is also available to
other entities such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust
companies that clear through or maintain a custodial
relationship with a Participant, either directly or indirectly
(collectively, the Indirect Participants).
Persons who are not Participants may beneficially own securities
held by or on behalf of DTC only through the Participants or the
Indirect Participants. The ownership interests in, and transfers
of ownership interests in, each security held by or on behalf of
DTC are recorded on the records of the Participants and Indirect
Participants.
DTC has also advised Issuer that, pursuant to procedures
established by it:
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upon deposit of the Global Notes, DTC will credit the accounts
of the Participants designated by the initial purchasers with
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ownership of these interests in the Global Notes will be shown
on, and the transfer of ownership of these interests will be
effected only through, records maintained by DTC (with respect
to the Participants) or by the Participants and the Indirect
Participants (with respect to other owners of beneficial
interest in the Global Notes). |
Investors in the Rule 144A Global Notes who are
Participants may hold their interests therein directly through
DTC. Investors in the Rule 144A Global Notes who are not
Participants may hold their interests therein indirectly through
organizations (including Euroclear and Clearstream) which are
Participants. Investors in the Regulation S Global Notes
must initially hold their interests therein through Euroclear or
Clearstream, if they are participants in such systems, or
indirectly through organizations that are participants. After
the expiration of the Restricted Period (but not earlier),
investors may also hold interests in the Regulation S
Global Notes through Participants in the DTC system other than
Euroclear and Clearstream. Euroclear and Clearstream will hold
interests in the Regulation S Global Notes on
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behalf of their participants through customers securities
accounts in their respective names on the books of their
respective depositories, which are Euroclear Bank S.A./ N.V., as
operator of Euroclear, and Citibank, N.A., as operator of
Clearstream. All interests in a Global Note, including those
held through Euroclear or Clearstream, may be subject to the
procedures and requirements of DTC. Those interests held through
Euroclear or Clearstream may also be subject to the procedures
and requirements of such systems. The laws of some states
require that certain Persons take physical delivery in
definitive form of securities that they own. Consequently, the
ability to transfer beneficial interests in a Global Note to
such Persons will be limited to that extent. Because DTC can act
only on behalf of the Participants, which in turn act on behalf
of the Indirect Participants, the ability of a Person having
beneficial interests in a Global Note to pledge such interests
to Persons that do not participate in the DTC system, or
otherwise take actions in respect of such interests, may be
affected by the lack of a physical certificate evidencing such
interests.
Except as described below, owners of interests in the Global
Notes will not have notes registered in their names, will not
receive physical delivery of notes in certificated form and will
not be considered the registered owners or holders
thereof under the indenture for any purpose.
Payments in respect of the principal of, and interest and
premium, if any, and Additional Interest, if any, on, a Global
Note registered in the name of DTC or its nominee will be
payable to DTC in its capacity as the registered holder under
the indenture. Under the terms of the indenture, Issuer and the
trustee will treat the Persons in whose names the notes,
including the Global Notes, are registered as the owners of the
notes for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other
purposes. Consequently, neither Issuer, the trustee nor any
agent of Issuer or the trustee has or will have any
responsibility or liability for:
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any aspect of DTCs records or any Participants or
Indirect Participants records relating to or payments made
on account of beneficial ownership interest in the Global Notes
or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any of DTCs
records or any Participants or Indirect Participants
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any other matter relating to the actions and practices of DTC or
any of its Participants or Indirect Participants. |
DTC has advised Issuer that its current practice, upon receipt
of any payment in respect of securities such as the notes
(including principal and interest), is to credit the accounts of
the relevant Participants with the payment on the payment date
unless DTC has reason to believe that it will not receive
payment on such payment date. Each relevant Participant is
credited with an amount proportionate to its beneficial
ownership of an interest in the principal amount of the relevant
security as shown on the records of DTC. Payments by the
Participants and the Indirect Participants to the beneficial
owners of notes will be governed by standing instructions and
customary practices and will be the responsibility of the
Participants or the Indirect Participants and will not be the
responsibility of DTC, the trustee or Issuer. Neither Issuer nor
the trustee will be liable for any delay by DTC or any of the
Participants or the Indirect Participants in identifying the
beneficial owners of the notes, and Issuer and the trustee may
conclusively rely on and will be protected in relying on
instructions from DTC or its nominee for all purposes.
Subject to the transfer restrictions set forth under
Notice to Investors, transfers between the
Participants will be effected in accordance with DTCs
procedures, and will be settled in same-day funds, and transfers
between participants in Euroclear and Clearstream will be
effected in accordance with their respective rules and operating
procedures.
Subject to compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable
to the notes described herein, cross-market transfers between
the Participants, on the one hand, and Euroclear or Clearstream
participants, on the other hand, will be effected through DTC in
accordance with DTCs rules on behalf of Euroclear or
Clearstream, as the case may be, by their respective
depositaries; however, such cross-market transactions will
require delivery of instructions to Euroclear or Clearstream, as
the case may be, by the counterparty in such system in
accordance with the rules and procedures and within the
established deadlines (Brussels time) of such system. Euroclear
or Clearstream, as the case may be, will, if the transaction
meets its
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settlement requirements, deliver instructions to its respective
depositary to take action to effect final settlement on its
behalf by delivering or receiving interests in the relevant
Global Note in DTC, and making or receiving payment in
accordance with normal procedures for same-day funds settlement
applicable to DTC. Euroclear participants and Clearstream
participants may not deliver instructions directly to the
depositories for Euroclear or Clearstream.
DTC has advised Issuer that it will take any action permitted to
be taken by a holder of notes only at the direction of one or
more Participants to whose account DTC has credited the
interests in the Global Notes and only in respect of such
portion of the aggregate principal amount of the notes as to
which such Participant or Participants has or have given such
direction. However, if there is an Event of Default under the
notes, DTC reserves the right to exchange the Global Notes for
legended notes in certificated form, and to distribute such
notes to its Participants.
Although DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream have agreed to the
foregoing procedures to facilitate transfers of interests in the
Rule 144A Global Notes and the Regulation S Global
Notes among participants in DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, they
are under no obligation to perform or to continue to perform
such procedures, and may discontinue such procedures at any
time. None of Issuer, the trustee and any of their respective
agents will have any responsibility for the performance by DTC,
Euroclear or Clearstream or their respective participants or
indirect participants of their respective obligations under the
rules and procedures governing their operations.
Exchange of Global Notes for Certificated Notes
A Global Note is exchangeable for Certificated Notes if:
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DTC (a) notifies Issuer that it is unwilling or unable to
continue as depositary for the Global Notes or (b) has
ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act
and, in either case, Issuer fails to appoint a successor
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Issuer, at its option, notifies the trustee in writing that it
elects to cause the issuance of the Certificated Notes; or |
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there has occurred and is continuing a Default or Event of
Default with respect to the notes. |
In addition, beneficial interests in a Global Note may be
exchanged for Certificated Notes upon prior written notice given
to the trustee by or on behalf of DTC in accordance with the
indenture. In all cases, Certificated Notes delivered in
exchange for any Global Note or beneficial interests in Global
Notes will be registered in the names, and issued in any
approved denominations, requested by or on behalf of the
depositary (in accordance with its customary procedures) and
will bear the applicable restrictive legend referred to in
Notice to Investors, unless that legend is not
required by applicable law.
Exchange of Certificated Notes for Global Notes
Certificated Notes may not be exchanged for beneficial interests
in any Global Note unless the transferor first delivers to the
trustee a written certificate (in the form provided in the
indenture) to the effect that such transfer will comply with the
appropriate transfer restrictions applicable to such notes. See
Notice to Investors.
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Exchanges Between Regulation S Notes and Rule 144A
Notes
Prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, beneficial
interests in the Regulation S Global Note may be exchanged
for beneficial interests in the Rule 144A Global Note only
if:
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such exchange occurs in connection with a transfer of the notes
pursuant to Rule 144A; and |
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the transferor first delivers to the trustee a written
certificate (in the form provided in the indenture) to the
effect that the notes are being transferred to a Person: |
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who the transferor reasonably believes to be a qualified
institutional buyer within the meaning of Rule 144A; |
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purchasing for its own account or the account of a qualified
institutional buyer in a transaction meeting the requirements of
Rule 144A; and |
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in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the states
of the United States and other jurisdictions. |
Beneficial interests in a Rule 144A Global Note may be
transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an
interest in the Regulation S Global Note, whether before or
after the expiration of the Restricted Period, only if the
transferor first delivers to the trustee a written certificate
(in the form provided in the indenture) to the effect that such
transfer is being made in accordance with Rule 903 or 904
of Regulation S or Rule 144 (if available) and that,
if such transfer occurs prior to the expiration of the
Restricted Period, the interest transferred will be held
immediately thereafter through Euroclear or Clearstream.
Transfers involving exchanges of beneficial interests between
the Regulation S Global Notes and the Rule 144A Global
Notes will be effected by DTC by means of an instruction
originated by the trustee through the DTC Deposit/ Withdraw at
Custodian system. Accordingly, in connection with any such
transfer, appropriate adjustments will be made to reflect a
decrease in the principal amount of the Regulation S Global
Note and a corresponding increase in the principal amount of the
Rule 144A Global Note or vice versa, as applicable. Any
beneficial interest in one of the Global Notes that is
transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an
interest in the other Global Note will, upon transfer, cease to
be an interest in such Global Note and will become an interest
in the other Global Note and, accordingly, will thereafter be
subject to all transfer restrictions and other procedures
applicable to beneficial interests in such other Global Note for
so long as it remains such an interest. The policies and
practices of DTC may prohibit transfers of beneficial interests
in the Regulation S Global Note prior to the expiration of
the Restricted Period.
Same Day Settlement and Payment
Issuer will make payments in respect of the notes represented by
the Global Notes (including principal, premium, if any, interest
and Additional Interest, if any) by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to the accounts specified by DTC or its nominee.
Issuer will make all payments of principal, interest and
premium, if any, and Additional Interest, if any, with respect
to Certificated Notes by wire transfer of immediately available
funds to the accounts specified by the holders of the
Certificated Notes or, if no such account is specified, by
mailing a check to each such holders registered address.
The notes represented by the Global Notes are expected to be
eligible to trade in The
PORTALsm
Market and to trade in DTCs Same-Day Funds Settlement
System, and any permitted secondary market trading activity in
such notes will, therefore, be required by DTC to be settled in
immediately available funds. Issuer expects that secondary
trading in any Certificated Notes will also be settled in
immediately available funds.
Because of time zone differences, the securities account of a
Euroclear or Clearstream participant purchasing an interest in a
Global Note from a Participant will be credited, and any such
crediting will be reported to the relevant Euroclear or
Clearstream participant, during the securities settlement
processing day (which must be a business day for Euroclear and
Clearstream) immediately following the settlement
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date of DTC. DTC has advised Issuer that cash received in
Euroclear or Clearstream as a result of sales of interests in a
Global Note by or through a Euroclear or Clearstream participant
to a Participant will be received with value on the settlement
date of DTC but will be available in the relevant Euroclear or
Clearstream cash account only as of the business day for
Euroclear or Clearstream following DTCs settlement date.
Registration Rights; Additional Interest
The following description is a summary of the material
provisions of the registration rights agreement. It does not
restate that agreement in its entirety. We urge you to read the
registration rights agreement in its entirety because it, and
not this description, defines your registration rights as
holders of these notes. See Where You Can Find
More Information.
Superior Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors and the
initial purchasers entered into the registration rights
agreement on May 22, 2006. Pursuant to the registration
rights agreement, Superior Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary
Guarantors agreed to file with the SEC the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement (as defined in the registration rights
agreement) on the appropriate form under the Securities Act with
respect to the exchange notes. Upon the effectiveness of the
Exchange Offer Registration Statement, Superior Energy, Issuer
and the Subsidiary Guarantors will offer to the holders of
Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to the Exchange Offer
(as defined in the registration rights agreement) who are able
to make certain representations the opportunity to exchange
their Transfer Restricted Securities for exchange notes.
If:
(1) Superior Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors
are not
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Statement; or |
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permitted to consummate the Exchange Offer because the Exchange
Offer is not permitted by applicable law or SEC policy; or |
(2) any holder of Transfer Restricted Securities notifies
Issuer prior to the 20th business day following
consummation of the Exchange Offer that:
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it is prohibited by law or SEC policy from participating in the
Exchange Offer; |
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it may not resell the exchange notes acquired by it in the
Exchange Offer to the public without delivering a prospectus and
the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement is not appropriate or available for such
resales; or |
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it is a broker-dealer and owns notes acquired directly from
Issuer or an affiliate of Issuer, |
Superior Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors will file
with the SEC a Shelf Registration Statement (as defined in the
registration rights agreement) to cover resales of the notes by
the holders of the notes who satisfy certain conditions relating
to the provision of information in connection with the Shelf
Registration Statement.
For purposes of the preceding, Transfer Restricted
Securities means each note until the earliest to occur
of:
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the date on which such note has been exchanged by a Person other
than a broker-dealer for an exchange note in the Exchange Offer; |
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following the exchange by a broker-dealer in the Exchange Offer
of a note for an exchange note, the date on which such exchange
note is sold to a purchaser who receives from such broker-dealer
on or prior to the date of such sale a copy of the prospectus
contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement; |
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the date on which such note has been effectively registered
under the Securities Act and disposed of in accordance with the
Shelf Registration Statement; or |
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the date on which such note is distributed to the public
pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act. |
The registration rights agreement provides that:
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Superior Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors will file
an Exchange Offer Registration Statement with the SEC on or
prior to 90 days after the closing of this offering; |
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Superior Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors will use
all commercially reasonable efforts to have the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC on or prior
to 180 days after the closing of this offering; |
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unless the Exchange Offer would not be permitted by applicable
law or SEC policy, Superior Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary
Guarantors will: |
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commence the Exchange Offer; and |
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use all commercially reasonable efforts to issue on or prior to
30 business days, or longer, if required by the federal
securities laws, after the date on which the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement was declared effective by the SEC,
exchange notes in exchange for all notes tendered prior thereto
in the Exchange Offer; and |
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if obligated to file the Shelf Registration Statement, Superior
Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors will use all
commercially reasonable efforts to file the Shelf Registration
Statement with the SEC on or prior to 90 days after such
filing obligation arises, and to cause the Shelf Registration to
be declared effective by the SEC on or prior to 180 days
after such obligation arises. |
If:
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Superior Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors fail to
file any of the registration statements required by the
registration rights agreement on or before the date specified
for such filing; |
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any of such registration statements is not declared effective by
the SEC on or prior to the date specified for such effectiveness
(the Effectiveness Target Date); |
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Superior Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors fail to
consummate the Exchange Offer within 40 business days after the
Effectiveness Target Date with respect to the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement; or |
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the Shelf Registration Statement or the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement is declared effective but thereafter
ceases to be effective or usable in connection with resales of
Transfer Restricted Securities during the periods specified in
the registration rights agreement (each such event referred to
in clauses (1) through (4) above, a
Registration Default), then Superior Energy,
Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors will pay Additional
Interest to each holder of Transfer Restricted Securities. |
With respect to the first
90-day period
immediately following the occurrence of the first Registration
Default, additional interest will be paid in an amount equal to
$.05 per week per $1,000 principal amount of Transfer
Restricted Securities. The amount of the additional interest
will increase by an additional $.05 per week per $1,000
principal amount of Transfer Restricted Securities with respect
to each subsequent
90-day period until all
Registration Defaults have been cured, up to a maximum amount of
additional interest for all Registration Defaults of
$.50 per week per $1,000 principal amount of Transfer
Restricted Securities.
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All accrued additional interest will be paid by Superior Energy,
Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors on the next scheduled
interest payment date to DTC or its nominee by wire transfer of
immediately available funds or by federal funds check and to
holders of Certificated Notes by wire transfer to the accounts
specified by them or by mailing checks to their registered
addresses if no such accounts have been specified.
Following the cure of all Registration Defaults, the accrual of
additional interest will cease.
Holders of notes will be required to make certain
representations to Superior Energy (as described in the
registration rights agreement) in order to participate in the
Exchange Offer and will be required to deliver certain
information to be used in connection with the Shelf Registration
Statement and to provide comments on the Shelf Registration
Statement within the time periods set forth in the registration
rights agreement in order to have their notes included in the
Shelf Registration Statement and benefit from the provisions
regarding additional interest set forth above. By acquiring
Transfer Restricted Securities, a holder will be deemed to have
agreed to indemnify Superior Energy, Issuer and the Subsidiary
Guarantors against certain losses arising out of information
furnished by such holder in writing for inclusion in any Shelf
Registration Statement. Holders of notes will also be required
to suspend their use of the prospectus included in the Shelf
Registration Statement under certain circumstances upon receipt
of written notice to that effect from Superior Energy.
Certain Definitions
Additional Assets means any (1) property
or assets (other than Indebtedness and Capital Stock) used or
useful in a Related Business, (2) the Capital Stock of a
Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the
acquisition of such Capital Stock by Superior Energy, Issuer or
another Restricted Subsidiary or (3) Capital Stock
constituting a minority interest in any Person that at such time
is a Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that any
such Restricted Subsidiary described in clauses (2) and
(3) above is primarily engaged in a Related Business.
Additional Interest any and all additional
interest payable in accordance with the registration rights
agreement with respect to the notes.
Affiliate of any specified Person means
(1) any other Person, directly or indirectly, controlling
or controlled by, or (2) under direct or indirect common
control with, such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, control when used with respect to any
Person means the power to direct the management and policies of
such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and
the terms controlling and controlled
have meanings correlative to the foregoing. For purposes of the
covenants described under Certain
Covenants Limitation on Restricted Payments,
Certain Covenants Limitation on
Affiliate Transactions and Repurchase at
Option of Holders Limitation on Sales of Assets and
Subsidiary Stock only, Affiliate shall also
mean any beneficial owner of Capital Stock representing 10% or
more of the total voting power of the Voting Stock (on a fully
diluted basis) of Superior Energy or of rights or warrants to
purchase such Capital Stock (whether or not currently
exercisable) and any Person who would be an Affiliate of any
such beneficial owner pursuant to the first sentence hereof.
Affiliate Transaction has the meaning set
forth above under the caption Certain
Covenants Limitation on Affiliate Transactions.
Applicable Premium means, with respect to any
note on any redemption date, the greater of:
(1) 1.0% of the principal amount of the note; or
(2) the excess of:
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the present value at such redemption date of (i) the
redemption price of the note at June 1, 2010, (such
redemption price being set forth in the table appearing above
under the caption Optional Redemption)
plus (ii) all required interest payments due on the note
through June 1, 2010, (excluding accrued but unpaid
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redemption date plus 50 basis points; over |
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the principal amount of the note, if greater. |
Asset Disposition means any sale, transfer or
other disposition (or series of related sales, leases, transfers
or dispositions) by Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary, including any disposition by means of a sale and
leaseback or a merger, consolidation or similar transaction
(each referred to for the purposes of this definition as a
disposition), of (1) any shares of Capital
Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary (other than directors
qualifying shares or shares required by applicable law to be
held by a Person other than Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary),
(2) all or substantially all the assets or rights of any
division or line of business of Superior Energy, Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary or (3) any other assets or rights of
Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary outside of
the ordinary course of business of Superior Energy, Issuer or
such Restricted Subsidiary (other than, in the case of
clauses (1), (2) and (3) above, (A) a disposition by a
Restricted Subsidiary to Superior Energy or Issuer or by
Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary to a Wholly
Owned Subsidiary, (B) for purposes of the covenant
described under Repurchase at Option of
Holders Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary
Stock only, a disposition that constitutes a Restricted
Payment permitted by the covenant described under
Certain Covenants Limitation on
Restricted Payments or a Permitted Investment,
(C) the trade or exchange by Superior Energy, Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary of any assets for any similar assets of
another Person, including any cash or cash equivalents necessary
in order to achieve an exchange of equivalent value; provided,
however, that the value of the property received by Superior
Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary in such trade or
exchange (including any cash or cash equivalents) is at least
equal to the fair market value (as determined in good faith by
the Board of Directors of Superior Energy, an officer of
Superior Energy or an officer of such Restricted Subsidiary with
responsibility for such transaction, which determination shall
be conclusive evidence of compliance with this provision) of the
property (including any cash or cash equivalents) so traded or
exchanged, (D) the creation of a Lien, (E) surrender
or waiver of contract rights or the settlement, release or
surrender of contract, tort or other claims of any kind and
(F) a disposition of assets in any single transaction or a
series of related transaction that involve assets with a fair
market value of less than $5.0 million; provided
further, however, that the sale, transfer or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets or rights
of Superior Energy, Issuer and the Restricted Subsidiaries taken
as a whole will be governed by the provisions of the indenture
described above under the caption Repurchase
at the Option of Holders Change of Control and
Certain Covenants Merger and
Consolidation and not by the provisions of the indenture
described above under the caption Repurchase
at Option of Holders Limitation on Sales of Assets
and Subsidiary Stock.
Attributable Debt in respect of a Sale/
Leaseback Transaction means, as at the time of determination,
the present value (discounted at the interest rate borne by the
notes, compounded annually) of the total obligations of the
lessee for rental payments during the remaining term of the
lease included in such Sale/ Leaseback Transaction (including
any period for which such lease has been extended).
Average Life means, as of the date of
determination, with respect to any Indebtedness or Preferred
Stock, the quotient obtained by dividing (1) the sum of the
products of numbers of years from the date of determination to
the dates of each successive scheduled principal payment of such
Indebtedness or redemption or similar payment with respect to
such Preferred Stock multiplied by the amount of such payment by
(2) the sum of all such payments.
Bankruptcy Provisions has the meaning set
forth above under the caption Defaults.
Board of Directors means:
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with respect to a corporation, the board of directors of the
corporation or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on
behalf of such board; |
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with respect to a partnership, the Board of Directors of the
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with respect to a limited liability company, the managing member
or members or any controlling committee of managing members
thereof; and |
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with respect to any other Person, the board or committee of such
Person serving a similar function. |
Business Day means each day other than a
Saturday, Sunday or a day on which commercial banking
institutions are authorized or required by law to close in New
York City.
Capital Lease Obligation means an obligation
that is required to be classified and accounted for as a capital
lease for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP,
and the amount of Indebtedness represented by such obligation
shall be the capitalized amount of such obligation determined in
accordance with GAAP; and the Stated Maturity thereof shall be
the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due
under such lease prior to the first date upon which such lease
may be terminated by the lessee without payment of a penalty.
Capital Stock of any Person means any and all
shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options,
participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however
designated) equity of such Person, including any Preferred
Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such
equity.
Certificated Notes has the meaning set forth
above under the caption Book-Entry, Delivery
and Form.
Change of Control has the meaning set forth
above under the caption Repurchase at the
Option of Holders Change of Control.
Change of Control Offer has the meaning set
forth above under the caption Repurchase at
the Option of Holders Change of Control.
Clearstream has the meaning set forth above
under the caption Book-Entry, Delivery and
Form.
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended.
Consolidated Coverage Ratio as of any date of
determination means the ratio of (a) the aggregate amount
of EBITDA for the period of the most recent four consecutive
fiscal quarters ending at least 45 days (or, if less, the
number of days after the end of such fiscal quarter as the
consolidated financial statements of Superior Energy and its
Subsidiaries, consisting of, at least, Issuer and the Restricted
Subsidiaries, shall be provided to the Holders pursuant to the
indenture) prior to the date of such determination to
(b) Consolidated Interest Expense for such four fiscal
quarters; provided, however, that:
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if Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary has
Incurred any Indebtedness since the beginning of such period
that remains outstanding or if the transaction giving rise to
the need to calculate the Consolidated Coverage Ratio is an
Incurrence of Indebtedness, or both, EBITDA and Consolidated
Interest Expense for such period shall be calculated after
giving effect on a pro forma basis to such Indebtedness
as if such Indebtedness had been Incurred on the first day of
such period and the discharge of any other Indebtedness repaid,
repurchased, defeased or otherwise discharged with the proceeds
of such new Indebtedness as if such discharge had occurred on
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if Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary has
repaid, repurchased, defeased or otherwise discharged any
Indebtedness since the beginning of such period or if any
Indebtedness is to be repaid, repurchased, defeased or otherwise
discharged (in each case other than Indebtedness Incurred under
any revolving credit facility existing under a Credit Facility
unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and has not
been replaced) on the date of the transaction giving rise to the
need to calculate the Consolidated Coverage Ratio, EBITDA and
Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be
calculated on a pro forma basis as if such discharge had
occurred on the first day of such period and if Issuer or such
Restricted Subsidiary has not earned the interest income
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if since the beginning of such period Superior Energy, Issuer or
any Restricted Subsidiary shall have made any Asset Disposition,
the EBITDA for such period shall be reduced by an amount equal
to the EBITDA (if positive) directly attributable to the assets
which are the subject of such Asset Disposition for such period,
or increased by an amount equal to the EBITDA (if negative),
directly attributable thereto for such period and Consolidated
Interest Expense for such period shall be reduced by an amount
equal to the Consolidated Interest Expense directly attributable
to any Indebtedness of Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary repaid, repurchased, defeased or otherwise discharged
with respect to Superior Energy, Issuer and its continuing
Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such Asset
Disposition for such period (or, if the Capital Stock of any
Restricted Subsidiary is sold, the Consolidated Interest Expense
for such period directly attributable to the Indebtedness of
such Restricted Subsidiary to the extent Issuer and its
continuing Restricted Subsidiaries are no longer liable for such
Indebtedness after such sale); |
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if since the beginning of such period Superior Energy, Issuer or
any Restricted Subsidiary (by merger or otherwise) shall have
made an Investment in any Restricted Subsidiary (or any Person
which becomes a Restricted Subsidiary) or an acquisition of
assets, including any acquisition of assets occurring in
connection with a transaction requiring a calculation to be made
hereunder, which constitutes all or substantially all of an
operating unit of a business, EBITDA and Consolidated Interest
Expense for such period shall be calculated after giving pro
forma effect thereto (including the Incurrence of any
Indebtedness) as if such Investment or acquisition occurred on
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if since the beginning of such period any Person (that
subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged with
or into Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary since the beginning
of such period) shall have made any Asset Disposition, any
Investment or acquisition of assets that would have required an
adjustment pursuant to clause (3) or (4) above if made
by Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary during such period, EBITDA
and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be
calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if
such Asset Disposition, Investment or acquisition occurred on
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any other transaction that may be given pro forma effect
in accordance with Article 11 of
Regulation S-X
promulgated by the SEC, as such Regulation is in effect on the
Issue Date, and thereafter, as in effect from time to time. |
For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma
effect is to be given to an acquisition of assets, the
amount of income or earnings relating thereto and the amount of
Consolidated Interest Expense associated with any Indebtedness
Incurred in connection therewith, the pro forma
calculations shall be determined in good faith by a
responsible financial or accounting officer of Superior Energy.
If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is
being given pro forma effect, the interest of such
Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the
date of determination had been the applicable rate for the
entire period (taking into account any Interest Rate Agreement
applicable to such Indebtedness if such Interest Rate Agreement
has a remaining term in excess of 12 months).
Consolidated Current Liabilities as of the
date of determination means the aggregate amount of liabilities
of Superior Energy and its consolidated Subsidiaries consisting
of Issuer and the Restricted Subsidiaries which may properly be
classified as current liabilities (including taxes accrued as
estimated), on a consolidated basis, after eliminating
(1) all intercompany items between Issuer and such
Restricted Subsidiaries and (2) all current maturities of
long-term Indebtedness, all as determined in accordance with
GAAP consistently applied.
Consolidated Interest Expense means, for any
period, the total interest expense of Superior Energy and its
consolidated Subsidiaries consisting of Issuer and the
Restricted Subsidiaries, plus, to the extent
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not included in such total interest expense, and to the extent
incurred by Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary, without duplication:
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the interest expense attributable to leases constituting part of
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capitalized interest; |
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non-cash interest expenses; |
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commission, discounts and other fees and charges owed with
respect to letters of credit and bankers acceptance
financing; |
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net payments pursuant to, and other net costs associated with,
Hedging Obligations (including amortization of fees); |
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Preferred Stock dividends in respect of all Preferred Stock held
by Persons other than Issuer or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary (other
than dividends payable solely in Capital Stock (other than
Disqualified Stock) of Issuer of such Preferred Stock); |
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interest incurred in connection with Investments in discontinued
operations; |
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interest accruing on any Indebtedness of any other Person to the
extent such Indebtedness is Guaranteed by (or secured by the
assets of) Superior Energy, Issuer or any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries; and |
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the cash contributions to any employee stock ownership plan or
similar trust to the extent such contributions are used by such
plan or trust to pay interest or fees to any Person (other than
Superior Energy or Issuer) in connection with Indebtedness
Incurred by such plan or trust. |
Consolidated Net Income means, for any
period, the net income of Superior Energy and its consolidated
Subsidiaries consisting of Issuer and the Restricted
Subsidiaries; provided, however, that there shall not be
included in such Consolidated Net Income to the extent included
in computing such net income (without duplication):
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any net income of any Person (other than Issuer) if such Person
is not a Restricted Subsidiary, except that (A) subject to
the exclusion contained in clause (4) below, Issuers
equity in the net income of any such Person for such period
shall be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the
aggregate amount of cash actually distributed by such Person
during such period to Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution (subject, in the
case of a dividend or other distribution paid to a Restricted
Subsidiary, to the limitations contained in clause (3)
below) and (B) Superior Energys or Issuers equity in
a net loss of any such Person for such period shall be included
in determining such Consolidated Net Income; |
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any net income of any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent that,
directly or indirectly, the declaration or payment of dividends
or the making of similar distributions by such Restricted
Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to Issuer, of that net
income (or loss) is not at the date of determination permitted
without prior government approval (that has not been obtained)
or, directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its
organizational documents and all agreements (other than those
agreements permitted by clauses (1), (2), (3), (5) and
(6) of the Certain Covenants
Limitation on Restriction on Distributions from Restricted
Subsidiaries covenant) except that Superior Energys
or Issuers equity in a net loss of any such Restricted
Subsidiary for such period shall be included in determining such
Consolidated Net Income; |
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any gain (or loss) realized upon the sale or other disposition
of any assets of Superior Energy or its consolidated
Subsidiaries consisting of Issuer and the Restricted
Subsidiaries (including pursuant to any sale-and-leaseback
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the ordinary course of business and any gain (or loss) realized
upon the sale or other disposition of any Capital Stock of any
Person; |
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extraordinary gains or losses; |
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any non-cash compensation charges in connection with stock
options, restricted stock grants and similar employee benefit
plans; and |
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the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles. |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the purposes of the covenant
described under Certain Covenants
Limitation on Restricted Payments only, there shall be
excluded from Consolidated Net Income any repurchases,
repayments or redemptions of Investments, proceeds realized on
the sale of the Investments or return of capital to Superior
Energy, Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary to the extent such
repurchases, repayments, redemptions, proceeds or returns
increase the amount of Restricted Payments permitted under such
covenant pursuant to clause (a)(3)(D) thereof.
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of any
date of determination, means the total amount of assets (less
accumulated depreciation and amortization, allowances for
doubtful receivables, other applicable reserves and other
properly deductible items) which would appear on a consolidated
balance sheet of Superior Energy and its consolidated
Subsidiaries consisting of Issuer and the Restricted
Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance
with GAAP, and after giving effect to purchase accounting and
after deducting therefrom Consolidated Current Liabilities and,
to the extent otherwise included, the amounts of:
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minority interests in such consolidated Subsidiaries held by
Persons other than Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary; |
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excess of cost over fair value of assets of businesses acquired,
as determined in good faith; |
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(3) |
any revaluation or other
write-up in book value
of assets subsequent to the Issue Date as a result of a change
in the method of valuation in accordance with GAAP consistently
applied; |
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unamortized debt discount and expenses and other unamortized
deferred charges, goodwill, patents, trademarks, service marks,
trade names, copyrights, licenses, organization or developmental
expenses and other intangible items; |
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treasury stock; |
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(6) |
cash set apart and held in a sinking or other analogous fund
established for the purpose of redemption or other retirement of
Capital Stock to the extent such obligation is not reflected in
Consolidated Current Liabilities; and |
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Investments in and assets of Unrestricted Subsidiaries. |
Covenant Defeasance has the meaning set forth
above under the caption Defeasance.
Credit Agreement means that certain Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated October 31, 2005 and
amended as of May 3, 2006, by and among, Issuer, Superior
Energy, the lenders referred to therein, Chase Bank, N.A., as
Agent, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Whitney
National Bank, as Documentation Agent, providing for up to
$250.0 million of revolving credit borrowings, including
any related notes, Guarantees, collateral documents, instruments
and agreements executed in connection therewith, and, in each
case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded,
replaced (whether upon or after termination or otherwise) or
refinanced (including by means of sales of debt securities to
institutional investors) in whole or in part from time to time.
Credit Facilities means, one or more debt
facilities (including, without limitation, the Credit Agreement)
or commercial paper facilities, in each case, with banks or
other institutional lenders providing for revolving credit
loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through the
sale of receivables to such lenders or to special purpose
entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such
receivables) or
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letters of credit, in each case, as amended, restated, modified,
renewed, refunded, replaced (whether upon or after termination
or otherwise) or refinanced (including by means of sales of debt
securities to institutional investors) in whole or in part from
time to time.
Cross Acceleration Provision has the meaning
set forth above under the caption
Defaults.
Currency Agreement means in respect of a
Person any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement or
other similar agreement designed to protect such Person against
fluctuations in currency values.
Default means any event which is, or after
notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
Disqualified Stock means, with respect to any
Person, any Capital Stock which by its terms (or by the terms of
any security into which it is convertible or for which it is
exchangeable at the option of the holder) or upon the happening
of any event (1) matures or is mandatorily redeemable
pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, (2) is
convertible or exchangeable for Indebtedness or Disqualified
Stock or (3) is mandatorily redeemable or must be purchased
upon the occurrence of certain events or otherwise, in whole or
in part, in each case on or prior to the first anniversary of
the Stated Maturity of the notes; provided, however, that
any Capital Stock that would not constitute Disqualified Stock
but for provisions thereof giving holders thereof the right to
require such Person to repurchase or redeem such Capital Stock
upon the occurrence of an asset sale or change
of control occurring prior to the first anniversary of the
Stated Maturity of the notes shall not constitute Disqualified
Stock if (i) the asset sale or change of
control provisions applicable to such Capital Stock are
not more favorable to the holders of such Capital Stock than the
provisions described under Repurchase at the
Option of Holders Limitation on Sales of Assets and
Subsidiary Stock and Repurchase at the
Option of Holders Change of Control and
(ii) any such requirement only becomes operative after
compliance with such terms applicable to the notes, including
the purchase of any notes tendered pursuant thereto.
DTC has the meaning set forth above under the
caption Book-Entry, Delivery and Form.
EBITDA for any period means the sum of
Consolidated Net Income, plus the following to the extent
deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income:
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all income tax expense of Superior Energy, Issuer and their
consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries; plus |
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Consolidated Interest Expense; plus |
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depreciation, depletion, accretion and amortization expense of
Superior Energy, Issuer and their consolidated Restricted
Subsidiaries (excluding amortization expense attributable to a
prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period); plus |
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all other non-cash charges of Superior Energy, Issuers and their
consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding any such
non-cash charge to the extent that it represents an accrual of
or reserve for cash expenditures in any future period);
minus |
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non-cash items increasing such Consolidated Net Income for such
period, other than the accrual of revenue in the ordinary course
of business, |
in each case for such period.
Effectiveness Target Date has the meaning set
forth above under the caption Registration
Rights; Additional Interest.
Euroclear has the meaning set forth above
under the caption Book-Entry, Delivery and
Form.
Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
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exchange notes means the debt securities of
Issuer issued pursuant to the indenture in exchange for, and in
an aggregate principal amount at maturity equal to, the
outstanding notes, in compliance with the terms of the
registration rights agreement.
Exempt Foreign Subsidiary means a Foreign
Subsidiary that is classified as a controlled foreign
corporation under the Code and, on or subsequent to the
Issue Date, is not required to guarantee the notes pursuant to
the circumstances described under the caption
Certain Covenants Future
Guarantors or the caption Limitation on
Issuances of Guarantees by Exempt Foreign Subsidiaries.
Foreign Subsidiary means any Restricted
Subsidiary not created or organized in the United States of
America or any State thereof or the District of Columbia and
that conducts all of its operations outside of the United States
of America.
GAAP means generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States of America, which are in effect
from time to time, including those set forth in (1) the
opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board
of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants,
(2) statements and pronouncements of the Financial
Accounting Standards Board, (3) such other statements by
such other entity as approved by a significant segment of the
accounting profession and (4) the rules and regulations of
the SEC governing the inclusion of financial statements
(including pro forma financial statements) in periodic
reports required to be filed pursuant to Section 13 of the
Exchange Act, including opinions and pronouncements in staff
accounting bulletins and similar written statements from the
accounting staff of the SEC.
Global Notes has the meaning set forth above
under the caption Book-Entry, Delivery and
Form.
Guarantee means any obligation, contingent or
otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any
Indebtedness of any Person and any obligation, direct or
indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (1) to
purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or
payment of) such Indebtedness of such Person (whether arising by
virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreements to
keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to
take-or-pay or to maintain financial statement conditions or
otherwise) or (2) entered into for the purpose of assuring
in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness of the
payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in
respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided, however,
that the term Guarantee shall not include
endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of
business. The term Guarantee used as a verb has a
corresponding meaning. The term Guarantor shall mean
any Person Guaranteeing any obligation.
Guarantor means Superior Energy and the
Subsidiary Guarantors.
Hedging Agreement means any oil and natural
gas hedging agreement and any other agreement or arrangement
designed to protect Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary against fluctuations in oil and natural gas prices.
Hedging Obligations of any Person means the
obligations of such Person pursuant to any Interest Rate
Agreement, Currency Agreement or Hedging Agreement.
Holder means the Person in whose name a note
is registered on the Registrars books.
Incur means issue, assume, Guarantee, incur
or otherwise become liable for; provided, however, that
any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the
time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (whether by merger,
consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be
Incurred by such Person at the time it becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary. The term Incurrence when used as a noun
shall have a correlative meaning.
Indebtedness means, with respect to any
Person on any date of determination (without duplication):
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the principal in respect of (A) indebtedness of such Person
for money borrowed and (B) indebtedness evidenced by notes,
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payment of which such Person is responsible or liable,
including, in each case, any premium on such indebtedness to the
extent such premium has become due and payable; |
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all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person and all
Attributable Debt in respect of Sale/ Leaseback Transactions
entered into by such Person; |
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all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred
purchase price of property, all conditional sale obligations of
such Person and all obligations of such Person under any title
retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable
arising in the ordinary course of business); |
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all obligations of such Person for the reimbursement of any
obligor on any letter of credit, bankers acceptance or
similar credit transaction (other than obligations with respect
to letters of credit securing obligations (other than
obligations described in clauses (1) through (3) above)
entered into in the ordinary course of business of such Person
to the extent such letters of credit are not drawn upon or, if
and to the extent drawn upon, such drawing is reimbursed no
later than the tenth Business Day following payment on the
letter of credit); |
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the amount of all obligations of such Person with respect to the
redemption, repayment or other repurchase of any Disqualified
Stock of such Person or, with respect to any Subsidiary of such
Person, the liquidation preference with respect to, any
Preferred Stock (but excluding, in each case, any accrued
dividends); |
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all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (1)
through (5) of other Persons and all dividends of other Persons
for the payment of which, in either case, such Person is
responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, as obligor,
guarantor or otherwise, including by means of any Guarantee; |
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all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (1)
through (6) of other Persons secured by any Lien on any property
or asset of such Person (whether or not such obligation is
assumed by such Person), the amount of such obligation being
deemed to be the lesser of the value of such property or assets
and the amount of the obligation so secured; and |
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any Hedging Obligations of such Person; |
if and to the extent any of the preceding items (other than the
items described in the preceding clauses (4), (5), (6), (7)
and (8)) would appear on the liability side of a balance sheet
of the specified Person prepared in accordance with GAAP. The
amount of Indebtedness of any Person at any date shall be the
outstanding balance at such date of all unconditional
obligations as described above and the maximum liability, upon
the occurrence of the contingency giving rise to the obligation,
of any contingent obligations at such date. Indebtedness shall
not include obligations of any Person resulting from its
endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the
ordinary course of business.
indenture has the meaning set forth above in
the initial paragraph under the heading Description of the
Notes.
Indirect Participants has the meaning set
forth above under the caption Depositary
Procedures
Initial Lien has the meaning set forth above
under the caption Certain
Covenants Limitation on Liens.
Interest Rate Agreement means in respect of a
Person any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap
agreement or other financial agreement or arrangement designed
to protect such Person against fluctuations in interest rates.
Investment in any Person means any direct or
indirect advance, loan (other than advances to customers in the
ordinary course of business that are recorded as accounts
receivable on the balance sheet of the lender) or other
extensions of credit (including by way of Guarantee or similar
arrangement) or capital contribution to (by means of any
transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for
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property or services for the account or use of others), or any
purchase or acquisition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other
similar instruments issued by such Person. For purposes of the
definition of Unrestricted Subsidiary, the
definition of Restricted Payment and the covenant
described under Certain Covenants
Limitation on Restricted Payments:
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Investment shall include the portion (proportionate
to Superior Energys or Issuers equity interest in
such Subsidiary) of the fair market value of the net assets of
any Subsidiary of Superior Energy or Issuer at the time that
such Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary;
provided, however, that upon a redesignation of such
Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, Superior Energy or Issuer
shall be deemed to continue to have a permanent
Investment in an Unrestricted Subsidiary equal to an
amount (if positive) equal to (A) Superior Energys or
Issuers Investment in such Subsidiary at the
time of such redesignation less (B) the portion
(proportionate to Superior Energys or Issuers equity
interest in such Subsidiary) of the fair market value of the net
assets of such Subsidiary at the time of such
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any property transferred to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary
shall be valued at its fair market value at the time of such
transfer, in each case as determined in good faith by the Board
of Directors of Superior Energy. |
Issue Date means May 22, 2006.
Judgment Default Provision has the meaning
set forth above under the caption
Defaults.
Legal Defeasance has the meaning set forth
above under the caption Defeasance.
Lien means any mortgage, pledge, security
interest, encumbrance, lien or charge of any kind (including any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in
the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to sell or
give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement to
give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code
(or equivalent statute) of any jurisdiction).
MARAD Financier means each of (1) the
Persons whose loans, whether evidenced by notes or bonds, to a
Special Purpose Vessel Entity are guaranteed, in whole or part,
by the Maritime Administration under Title XI of the
Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended, and (2) the
Maritime Administration as such guarantor of such loans.
Moodys means Moodys Investors
Service, Inc. or any successor to the rating agency business
thereof.
Net Available Cash from an Asset Disposition
means cash payments received therefrom (including any cash
payments received by way of deferred payment of principal
pursuant to a note or installment receivable or otherwise and
proceeds from the sale or other disposition of any securities
received as consideration, but only as and when received, but
excluding any other consideration received in the form of
assumption by the acquiring Person of Indebtedness or other
obligations relating to such properties or assets or received in
any other noncash form), in each case net of:
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all accounting, engineering, investment banking, brokerage,
legal, title and recording tax expenses, commission and other
fees and expenses incurred, and all Federal, state, provincial,
foreign and local taxes required to be accrued as a liability
under GAAP, as a consequence of such Asset Disposition; |
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taxes paid or payable after taking into account any reduction in
consolidated tax liability due to available tax credits or
deductions and any tax sharing arrangement; |
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all payments made on any Indebtedness which is secured by any
assets subject to such Asset Disposition, in accordance with the
terms of any Lien upon or other security agreement of any kind
with respect to such assets, or which must by its terms, or in
order to obtain a necessary consent to such Asset Disposition,
or by applicable law, be repaid out of the proceeds from such
Asset Disposition; |
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all distributions and other payments required to be made to
minority interest holders in Subsidiaries or joint ventures as a
result of such Asset Disposition; and |
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the deduction of appropriate amounts provided by the seller as a
reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities
associated with the property or other assets disposed in such
Asset Disposition and retained by Superior Energy, Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary after such Asset Disposition. |
Net Cash Proceeds means, with respect to any
issuance or sale of Capital Stock, the cash proceeds of such
issuance or sale net of attorneys fees, accountants
fees, underwriters or placement agents fees,
discounts or commissions and brokerage, consultant and other
fees actually incurred in connection with such issuance or sale
and net taxes paid or payable as a result thereof.
Non-Recourse Debt means Indebtedness:
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as to which neither Issuer nor Superior Energy, nor any
Restricted Subsidiary (A) provides credit support of any
kind (including any undertaking, agreement or instrument that
would constitute Indebtedness) beyond pledging its interest in
the Unrestricted Subsidiary or (B) is directly or
indirectly liable (subject to customary exceptions such as
indemnifications for collection costs in pledge or security
agreements, environmental and title matters and fraud) for
payment on or in respect of such Indebtedness beyond its
interest in the Unrestricted Subsidiary, in each case, other
than under one or more unsecured Guarantees from time to time
entered into by Superior Energy to Guarantee the payment of
outstanding borrowed money Indebtedness and related interest,
fees, expenses, indemnification and other costs of a Special
Purpose Vessel Entity owed to MARAD Financiers that finance such
Special Purpose Vessel Entitys acquisition (whether
through outright purchase or the payment of periodic contractual
construction costs) of liftboats and other marine equipment
owned solely by such Special Purpose Vessel Entity, provided
that all such Guarantees are incurred in compliance with the
provisions under the captions Certain
Covenants Limitation on Indebtedness and
Certain Covenants Limitation on
Restricted Payments and such Guarantees solely Guarantee such
obligations owed by a Special Purpose Vessel Entity to MARAD
Financiers (each such Guarantee, a Vessel Guarantee); |
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no default with respect to (other than with respect to a Vessel
Guarantee, and in such regard, solely with respect to Superior
Energy) which (including any rights that the holders thereof may
have to take enforcement action against an Unrestricted
Subsidiary) would permit (upon notice, lapse of time or both)
any holder of any other Indebtedness of Issuer, Superior Energy
or any Restricted Subsidiary to declare a default on such other
Indebtedness or cause the payment thereof to be accelerated or
payable prior to its stated maturity; and |
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as to which the lenders have been notified in writing that they
will not have any recourse to the stock or assets of Issuer,
Superior Energy or any Restricted Subsidiary. |
notes means collectively the outstanding
notes and the exchange notes.
outstanding notes means the outstanding
67/8% Senior
Notes due June 1, 2014 issued on May 22, 2006 by
Issuer.
Obligations means, with respect to any
Indebtedness, all obligations for principal, premium, interest,
penalties, fees, indemnification, reimbursement and other
amounts payable pursuant to the documentation governing such
Indebtedness.
Participants has the meaning set forth above
under the caption Depositary Procedures.
Permitted Business Investments means
Investments and expenditures made in the ordinary course of, and
of a nature that is customary in, the oil and gas business as
means of actively exploiting, acquiring, developing, processing,
gathering, marketing or transporting oil, natural gas, other
hydrocarbons and minerals through agreements, transactions,
interests or arrangements that permit one to share risks or
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costs, comply with regulatory requirements regarding local
ownership or satisfy other objectives customarily achieved
through the conduct of the oil and gas business jointly with
third parties, including: ownership interests in oil, natural
gas, other hydrocarbon and mineral properties or gathering,
transportation, processing, storage or related systems; and
entry into, and Investments and expenditures in the form of or
pursuant to, operating agreements, working interests, royalty
interests, mineral leases, processing agreements, farm-in
agreements, farm-out agreements, contracts for the sale,
transportation or exchange of oil, natural gas, other
hydrocarbons and minerals, production sharing agreements,
development agreements, area of mutual interest agreements,
unitization agreements, pooling arrangements, joint bidding
agreements, service contracts, joint venture agreements,
partnership agreements (whether general or limited), limited
liability company agreements, subscription agreements, stock
purchase agreements, stockholder agreements and other similar
agreements with third parties (including Unrestricted
Subsidiaries).
Permitted Investment means an Investment by
Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary in:
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Issuer, a Restricted Subsidiary or a Person that will, upon the
making of such Investment, become a Restricted Subsidiary;
provided, however, that the primary business of such
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another Person if as a result of such Investment such other
Person is merged or consolidated with or into, or transfers or
conveys all or substantially all its assets to, Issuer or a
Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that such
persons primary business is a Related Business; |
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cash and Temporary Cash Investments; |
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receivables owing to Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary if
created or acquired in the ordinary course of business and
payable or dischargeable in accordance with customary trade
terms; provided, however, that such trade terms may
include such concessionaire trade terms as Issuer or any such
Restricted Subsidiary deems reasonable under the circumstances; |
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payroll, travel and similar advances to cover matters that are
expected at the time of such advances ultimately to be treated
as expenses for accounting purposes and that are made in the
ordinary course of business; |
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loans or advances to employees made in the ordinary course of
business consistent with past practices of Issuer or such
Restricted Subsidiary; |
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stock, obligations or securities received in settlement of debts
created in the ordinary course of business and owing to Issuer
or any Restricted Subsidiary or in satisfaction of judgments; |
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Hedging Obligations; |
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Permitted Business Investments in an aggregate amount not to
exceed the greater of (A) $25.0 million and
(B) an amount equal to 2.5% of Consolidated Net Tangible
Assets as of the end of the most recent fiscal quarter ending at
least 45 days (or, if less, the number of days after the
end of such fiscal quarter as the consolidated financial
statements of Superior Energy shall be provided to the Holders
pursuant to the indenture) prior to the date of the Permitted
Business Investment; |
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Guarantees of performance or other obligations (other than
Indebtedness) arising in the ordinary course of business,
including obligations under master service and charter
agreements, oil and natural gas exploration, development, joint
operating, and related agreements; |
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any Person to the extent such investment represents the non-cash
portion of the consideration received for an Asset Disposition
as permitted pursuant to the covenant described under
Repurchase at Option of Holders
Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary
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other Investments to the extent paid for with common stock of
Superior Energy. |
Permitted Liens means, with respect to any
Person:
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pledges or deposits by such Person under workers
compensation laws, unemployment insurance laws or similar
legislation, or good faith deposits in connection with bids,
tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of Indebtedness)
or leases to which such Person is a party, or deposits to secure
public or statutory obligations of such Person or deposits of
cash or United States government bonds to secure surety or
appeal bonds to which such Person is a party, or deposits as
security for contested taxes or import duties or for the payment
of rent, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of
business; |
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Liens imposed by law, such as carriers,
warehousemens and mechanics Liens, in each case for
sums not yet due or being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings or other Liens arising out of judgments or awards
against such Person with respect to which such Person shall then
be proceeding with an appeal or other proceedings for review and
Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law
provision relating to bankers Liens, rights of set-off or
similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other
funds maintained with a creditor depository institution;
provided, however, that (A) such deposit account is
not a dedicated cash collateral account and is not subject to
restrictions against access by Superior Energy, Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary in excess of those set forth by
regulations promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board and
(B) such deposit account is not intended by Superior
Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary to provide
collateral to the depository institution; |
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Liens for property taxes not yet subject to penalties for
non-payment or which are being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings; |
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Liens in favor of issuers of surety bonds, letters of credit and
similar instruments issued pursuant to the request of and for
the account of such Person in the ordinary course of its
business; provided, however, that such surety bonds,
letters of credit and similar instruments do not constitute
Indebtedness, other than Indebtedness permitted by
clause (8) of paragraph (b) under
Certain Covenants Limitation on
Indebtedness; |
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survey exceptions, encumbrances, easements or reservations of,
or rights of others for, licenses,
rights-of-way, sewers,
electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar
purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real
property or Liens incidental to the conduct of the business of
such Person or to the ownership of its properties which were not
Incurred in connection with Indebtedness and which do not in the
aggregate materially adversely affect the value of said
properties or materially impair their use in the operation of
the business of such Person; |
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Liens securing Indebtedness Incurred to finance the
construction, purchase or lease of, or repairs, improvements or
additions to, property, plant or equipment of such Person;
provided, however, that the Lien may not extend to any
other property owned by such Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries at the time the Lien is Incurred (other than assets
and property affixed or appurtenant thereto or the proceeds or
products of such property, plant or equipment), and the
Indebtedness (other than any interest thereon) secured by the
Lien may not be Incurred more than 180 days after the later
of the acquisition, completion or construction, repair,
improvement, addition or commencement of full operation of the
property subject to the Lien; |
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Liens to secure Indebtedness permitted under the provisions
described in clauses (1), (9) and 13 of
paragraph (b) under Certain
Covenants Limitation on Indebtedness and
Guarantees of such Indebtedness to the extent permitted by
clause (12) of paragraph (b) under
Certain Covenants Limitation on
Indebtedness; |
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Liens existing on the Issue Date; |
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Liens on property or shares of Capital Stock of another Person
at the time such other Person becomes a Subsidiary of such
Person; provided, however, that the Liens may not extend
to any other property owned by such Person or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries (other than assets and property affixed
or appurtenant thereto); |
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Liens on property at the time such Person or any of its
Subsidiaries acquires the property, including any acquisition by
means of a merger or consolidation with or into such Person or a
Subsidiary of such Person; provided, however, that the
Liens may not extend to any other property owned by such Person
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than assets and
property affixed or appurtenant thereto); |
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Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations of a Subsidiary
of such Person owing to such Person or a wholly owned Subsidiary
of such Person; |
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Liens securing Hedging Obligations so long as such Hedging
Obligations relate to Indebtedness that is, and is permitted to
be under the indenture, secured by a Lien on the same property
securing such Hedging Obligations; |
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Liens on Superior Energys, Issuers or a Restricted
Subsidiarys Investment in another Person securing
Indebtedness of that Person as long as any such Indebtedness is
not assumed or otherwise guaranteed by Superior Energy, Issuer
or any Restricted Subsidiary; and |
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Liens to secure any Refinancing (or successive Refinancings) as
a whole, or in part, of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien
referred to in the foregoing clauses (6), (8), (9),
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such new Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same
property and assets that secured or, under the written
agreements pursuant to which the original Lien arose, could
secure the original Lien (plus improvements and accessions to,
such property or proceeds or distributions thereof); and |
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the Indebtedness secured by such Lien at such time is not
increased to any amount greater than the sum of (x) the
outstanding principal amount or, if greater, committed amount of
the Indebtedness described under clauses (6), (8), (9),
(10) or (12) at the time the original Lien became a
permitted Lien and (y) an amount necessary to pay any fees
and expenses, including premiums, related to such refinancing,
refunding, extension, renewal or replacement. |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Permitted Liens will
not include any Lien described in clauses (6), (9) or
(10) above to the extent such Lien applies to any
Additional Assets acquired directly or indirectly from Net
Available Cash pursuant to the covenant described under
Repurchase at Option of Holders
Limitation on Sale of Assets and Subsidiary Stock and
secures any portion of Indebtedness Incurred in connection with
the acquisition or refinancing of such Additional Asset which
exceeds the amount, and corresponding interest thereon, by which
the purchase price of such asset exceeded such Net Available
Cash utilized to acquire such asset. For purposes of this
definition, the term Indebtedness shall be deemed to
include interest on such Indebtedness.
Person means any individual, corporation,
partnership, limited liability company, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization, government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof or any other entity.
Preferred Stock, as applied to the Capital
Stock of any Person, means Capital Stock of any class or classes
(however designated) which is preferred as to the payment of
dividends or distributions, or as to the distribution of assets
upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of
such Person, over shares of Capital Stock of any other class of
such Person.
principal of a note means the principal of
the note plus the premium, if any, payable on the note which is
due or overdue or is to become due at the relevant time.
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Public Equity Offering means an underwritten
primary public offering of Capital Stock of Superior Energy
(other than Disqualified Stock) pursuant to an effective
registration statement under the Securities Act (other than a
registration statement on
Form S-4 or
Form S-8 or
otherwise relating to equity securities issuable under any
employee benefit plan of Superior Energy), to the extent the Net
Cash Proceeds are contributed to Issuer.
Refinance means, in respect of any
Indebtedness, to refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay,
prepay, redeem, defease or retire, or to issue other
Indebtedness in exchange or replacement for, such indebtedness.
Refinanced and Refinancing shall have
correlative meanings.
Refinancing Indebtedness means Indebtedness
that Refinances any Indebtedness of Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary existing on the Issue Date or Incurred in compliance
with the indenture, including Indebtedness that Refinances
Refinancing Indebtedness; provided, however, that
(1) such Refinancing Indebtedness has a Stated Maturity no
earlier than the Stated Maturity of the Indebtedness being
Refinanced, (2) such Refinancing Indebtedness has an
Average Life at the time such Refinancing Indebtedness is
Incurred that is equal to or greater than the Average Life of
the Indebtedness being Refinanced and (3) such Refinancing
Indebtedness has an aggregate principal amount (or if Incurred
with original issue discount, an aggregate issue price) that is
equal to or less than the aggregate principal amount (or if
Incurred with original issue discount, the aggregate accreted
value) then outstanding or committed (plus fees and expenses,
including any premium and defeasance costs) under the
Indebtedness being Refinanced; provided further, however,
that Refinancing Indebtedness shall not include
(A) Indebtedness of a Subsidiary that Refinances
Indebtedness of Issuer or (B) Indebtedness of Issuer or a
Restricted Subsidiary that Refinances Indebtedness of an
Unrestricted Subsidiary.
Registration Default has the meaning set
forth above under the caption Registration
Rights; Additional Interest.
Related Business means any business in which
Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary was engaged
on the Issue Date and any business related, ancillary or
complementary to any business of Superior Energy, Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary in which any of them was engaged on the
Issue Date.
Restricted Payment with respect to any Person
means:
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the declaration or payment of any dividends or any other
distributions of any sort in respect of its Capital Stock
(including any payment in connection with any merger or
consolidation involving such Person) or similar payment to the
direct or indirect holders of its Capital Stock (other than
dividends or distributions payable solely in its Capital Stock
(other than Disqualified Stock) and dividends or distributions
payable solely to Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary, and other than pro rata dividends or other
distributions made by a Subsidiary that is not a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary to minority stockholders (or owners of an equivalent
interest in the case of a Subsidiary that is an entity other
than a corporation)); |
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the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for
value of any Capital Stock of Superior Energy or Issuer held by
an Person or of any Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary
held by any Affiliate of Superior Energy or Issuer (other than a
Restricted Subsidiary), including the exercise of any option to
exchange any Capital Stock (other than into Capital Stock of
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the purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other
acquisition or retirement for value, prior to scheduled
maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment
of any Subordinated Obligations of such Person (other than the
purchase, repurchase or other acquisition of Subordinated
Obligations purchased in anticipation of satisfying a sinking
fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in
each case due within one year of the date of such purchase,
repurchase or other acquisition); or |
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the making of any Investment (other than a Permitted Investment)
in any Person. |
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Restricted Period has the meaning set forth
above under the caption Book-Entry, Delivery
and Form.
Restricted Subsidiary means, without
duplication, any Subsidiary of Superior Energy or Issuer which,
at the relevant time of determination, is not an Unrestricted
Subsidiary.
Regulation S Notes has the meaning set
forth above under the caption Book-Entry,
Delivery and Form.
Regulation S Global Notes has the
meaning set forth above under the caption
Book-Entry, Delivery and Form.
Rule 144A Notes has the meaning set
forth above under the caption Book-Entry,
Delivery and Form.
Rule 144A Global Notes has the meaning
set forth above under the caption Book-Entry,
Delivery and Form.
S&P means Standard & Poors
Ratings Group, Inc., or any successor to the rating agency
business thereof.
Sale/ Leaseback Transaction means an
arrangement relating to property owned by Superior Energy,
Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary on the Issue Date or
thereafter acquired by Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary whereby Superior Energy, Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary transfers such property to a Person and Superior
Energy, Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary leases it from such
Person.
SEC means the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Significant Subsidiary means any Restricted
Subsidiary that would be a Significant Subsidiary of
Issuer within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under
Regulation S-X
promulgated by the SEC, as such Regulation is in effect on the
date of the indenture.
Special Purpose Vessel Entity means a Wholly
Owned Subsidiary (1) whose sole nature of business and
purposes are (A) to purchase, construct or acquire
liftboats, and related marine equipment, supplies and other
provisions and to hold, charter and otherwise transfer to
Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary such
liftboats, equipment, supplies and other provisions, (B) to
provide (or arrange for the provision of) necessary services for
holding or making available for charter or other transfer to
Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary such
liftboats, equipment, supplies and other provisions, (C) to
enter into agreements necessary to construct, acquire or finance
the acquisition and maintenance of its liftboats and related
marine equipment, supplies and other provisions and to hold,
charter or otherwise transfer such liftboats, equipment,
supplies and other provisions to Superior Energy, Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary, (D) to dividend, loan or otherwise
divest proceeds from its ownership of liftboats and related
marine equipment, supplies and other provisions and any other
income as determined by its governing body, and in each case in
compliance with the terms and agreements of its financing
agreements entered into in the ordinary course of financing such
liftboats, equipment, supplies and other provisions, including
those required by any of its MARAD Financiers and (E) to
engage in any lawful act or activity and to exercise any power
under the statutory basis of its formation which are incidental
to and necessary, suitable or convenient for the accomplishment
of the purposes specified in the preceding
clauses (A) through (D), and (2) that in fact,
and during the time that it does in fact, charter its liftboats
solely to Superior Energy, Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary,
in each case as soon as reasonably and commercially possible
following the time that such liftboats are, mechanically, ready
and available for charter and on terms and provisions acceptable
to such hirers based on a bareboat charter, which
terms shall include charter payment terms that are fundamentally
based on costs and expenses incurred by such Wholly Owned
Subsidiary in connection with the performance of its business
and purposes described in the preceding clause (1) and a
base charter term period that ends no earlier than one year
following the stated maturity date of the notes.
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Stated Maturity means, with respect to any
security, the date specified in such security as the fixed date
on which the final payment of principal of such security is due
and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption
provision (but excluding any provision providing for the
repurchase of such security at the option of the holder thereof
upon the happening of any contingency unless such contingency
has occurred).
Subordinated Obligation means with respect to
a Person, any Indebtedness of such Person (whether outstanding
on the Issue Date or thereafter Incurred) which is subordinate
or junior in right of payment to the notes or a Subsidiary
Guarantee of such Person, as the case may be, pursuant to a
written agreement to that effect.
Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person,
(1) any corporation, limited liability company, association
or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total
voting power of shares of Voting Stock entitled (without regard
to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of
directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by (A) such Person,
(B) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person
or (C) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, and
(2) any partnership (A) the sole general partner or
the managing general partner of which is such Person or a
Subsidiary of such Person or (B) the only general partners
of which are such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such
Person (or any combination thereof).
Subsidiary Guarantor means 1105 Peters Road,
L.L.C., Concentric Pipe and Tool Rentals, L.L.C., Connection
Technology, L.L.C., CSI Technologies, LLC, Drilling Logistics,
L.L.C., F.&F. Wireline Service, L.L.C., Fastorq, L.L.C.,
H.B. Rentals, L.C., International Snubbing Services, L.L.C.,
J.R.B. Consultants, Inc., Non-Magnetic Rental Tools, L.L.C.,
Production Management Industries, L.L.C., ProActive Compliance,
L.L.C., Stabil Drill Specialties, L.L.C.,
Sub-Surface Tools,
L.L.C., Superior Canada Holding, Inc., Superior Energy Services,
L.L.C., Superior Inspection Services, Inc., SELIM LLC, SEGEN
LLC, SE Finance LP, SEMO, L.L.C., SEMSE, L.L.C., SPN Resources,
LLC, Blowout Tools, Inc., Universal Fishing and Rental Tools,
Inc., Wild Well Control, Inc. and Workstrings, L.L.C., and any
other Subsidiary of Superior Energy or Issuer that Guarantees
Issuers obligations with respect to the notes, and in each
case, any successor Person; provided that any Person
constituting a Subsidiary Guarantor as described above shall
cease to constitute a Subsidiary Guarantor when its respective
Subsidiary Guarantee is released in accordance with the terms of
the indenture.
Subsidiary Guarantee means a Guarantee by a
Subsidiary Guarantor of Issuers obligations with respect
to the notes.
Successor Company has the meaning set forth
above under the caption Certain
Covenants Merger and Consolidation.
Superior Energy means Superior Energy
Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and any successor
corporation.
Superior Energy Guarantee means the Guarantee
by Superior Energy of Issuers obligations with respect to
the notes contained in the indenture.
Suspended Covenants has the meaning set forth
under the caption Certain Covenants Changes in
Covenants when notes Rated Investment Grade.
Temporary Cash Investments means any of the
following:
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any investment in direct obligations of the United States of
America or any agency thereof or obligations guaranteed by the
United States of America or any agency thereof; |
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investments in time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit
and money market deposits maturing within 180 days of the
date of acquisition thereof issued by a bank or trust company
which is organized under the laws of the United States of
America, any state thereof or any foreign country recognized by
the United States, and which bank or trust company has capital,
surplus and undivided profits aggregating in excess of
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thereof) and has outstanding debt which is rated A
(or such similar equivalent rating) or higher by at lease on
nationally recognized statistical rating organization (as
defined in Rule 436 under the Securities Act) or any
money-market fund sponsored by a registered broker dealer or
mutual fund distributor; |
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repurchase obligations with a term of not more than 30 days
for underlying securities of the types described in
clause (1) above entered into with a bank meeting the
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investments in commercial paper, maturing not more than
90 days after the date of acquisition, issued by a
corporation (other than an Affiliate of the Company) organized
and in existence under the laws of the United States of America
or any foreign country recognized by the United States of
America with a rating at the time as of which any investment
therein is made of P-1 (or higher) according to
Moodys Investors Service, Inc. or A-1 (or
higher) according to Standard & Poors Ratings
Group; and |
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investments in securities with maturities of six months or less
from the date of acquisition issued or fully guaranteed by any
state, commonwealth or territory of the United States of
America, or by any political subdivision or taxing authority
thereof, and rated at least A by Standard &
Poors Ratings Group or A by Moodys
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Treasury Rate means, as of any redemption
date, the yield to maturity as of such redemption date of United
States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled
and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical
Release H.15 (519) that has become publicly available at
least two business days prior to the redemption date (or, if
such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly
available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to
the period from the redemption date to June 1, 2010;
provided, however, that if the period from the redemption
date to June 1, 2010, is less than one year, the weekly
average yield on actually traded United States Treasury
securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year will be
used.
Trust Indenture Act has the meaning set forth
above in the initial paragraph under the heading
Description of the Notes.
Transfer Restricted Securities has the
meaning set forth above under the caption
Registration Rights; Additional Interest.
Trustee has the meaning set forth above in
the initial paragraph under the heading Description of the
Notes.
Unrestricted Subsidiary means (i) at any
time that it is a Special Purpose Vessel Entity, Superior Energy
Liftboats, L.L.C., and (ii) any other Subsidiary of Issuer
that is designated by the Board of Directors of Superior Energy
as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to a board resolution,
but only to the extent that each such Subsidiary described in
the preceding clauses (i) and (ii):
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has no Indebtedness to any Person other than
(A) Non-Recourse Debt or (B) Indebtedness owed to
Issuer, Superior Energy or any Restricted Subsidiary; |
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is not party to any agreement, contract, arrangement or
understanding with Issuer, Superior Energy or any Restricted
Subsidiary unless the terms of any such agreement, contract,
arrangement or understanding are no less favorable to Issuer,
Superior Energy or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that
might be obtained at the time from Persons who are not
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is a Person with respect to which neither Issuer nor Superior
Energy, nor any Restricted Subsidiary has any direct or indirect
obligation (A) to subscribe for additional Capital Stock or
(B) to maintain or preserve such Persons financial
condition or to cause such Person to achieve any specified
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has not Guaranteed or otherwise directly or indirectly provided
credit support for any Indebtedness of Issuer, Superior Energy
or any Restricted Subsidiary. |
Any such designation by the Board of Directors of Superior
Energy shall be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the
Trustee a certified copy of the board resolution giving effect
to such designation and an Officers Certificate of
Superior Energy certifying that such designation complied with
the foregoing conditions and was permitted by the covenant
described above under the caption Certain
Covenants Restricted Payments. If, at any
time, any Unrestricted Subsidiary would fail to meet the
foregoing requirements as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or, in
addition to such referenced requirements, with respect to
Superior Energy Liftboats, L.L.C. or any other Person that
constitutes a Special Purpose Vessel Entity, Superior Energy
Liftboats, L.L.C. or such other Person would at any time fail to
constitute the Special Purpose Vessel Entity, it shall
thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for purposes
of the indenture, and any Indebtedness of that Subsidiary shall
be deemed to be incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary of Issuer as
of such date (and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be
incurred as of such date under paragraph (a) of the
covenant described above under the caption
Certain Covenants Limitation on
Indebtedness, Issuer shall be in default of such covenant).
The Board of Directors of Superior Energy may at any time
designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted
Subsidiary; provided that the designation shall be deemed
to be an incurrence of Indebtedness by a Restricted Subsidiary
of any outstanding Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary
and the designation shall only be permitted if:
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such Indebtedness is permitted under the covenant described
above under the caption Certain
Covenants Limitation on Indebtedness,
calculated on a pro forma basis as if such designation
had occurred at the beginning of the four-quarter reference
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no Default would occur or be in existence following such
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U.S. Government Obligations means direct
obligations (or certificates representing an ownership interest
in such obligations) of the United States of America (including
any agency or instrumentality thereof) for the payment of which
the full faith and credit of the United States of America is
pledged and which are not callable at Issuers option.
Vessel Guarantee has the meaning set forth in
clause (1) of the defined term Non-Recourse
Debt.
Voting Stock of a Person means all classes of
Capital Stock or other interest (including partnership
interests) of such person then outstanding and normally entitled
(without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in
the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof.
Wholly Owned Subsidiary means a Restricted
Subsidiary all the Capital Stock of which (other than
directors qualifying shares or shares required by
applicable law to be held by a Person other than Issuer or a
Wholly Owned Subsidiary) is owned by Issuer or one or more
Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.
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CERTAIN UNITED STATES FEDERAL TAX CONSIDERATIONS
The following general discussion of certain U.S. federal
income tax considerations relating to the exchange notes applies
to you if you acquired the outstanding notes at the original
issue price within the meaning of Section 1273 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, and hold
the outstanding notes and exchange notes as a capital
asset within the meaning of Section 1221 of the Code.
This discussion is based on the Code, Treasury Regulations
promulgated thereunder, administrative positions of the Internal
Revenue Service and judicial decisions now in effect, all of
which are subject to change (possibly with retroactive effect)
or to different interpretations.
We have not sought a ruling from the IRS with respect to the
U.S. federal income tax consequences of the exchange offer
or the acquiring, holding or disposing of an exchange note.
There can be no assurance that the IRS will not challenge one or
more of the conclusions described herein.
This discussion does not purport to deal with all aspects of
U.S. federal income taxation that may be relevant to a
particular holder in light of the holders circumstances
(for example, a person subject to the alternative minimum tax
provisions of the Code). In addition, it is not intended to be
wholly applicable to all categories of investors, some of which
(like dealers in securities, banks, insurance companies,
tax-exempt organizations, persons holding a note as part of a
straddle, hedge, conversion transaction
or other risk reduction transaction and persons who have a
functional currency other than the U.S. dollar)
may be subject to special rules.
This discussion does not address any aspect of state, local or
foreign law, or U.S. federal estate and gift tax law other
than U.S. federal estate tax law as applicable to a
Non-U.S. Holder
nor does it address exchange notes held through a partnership or
other pass-through entity.
The description below (i) is not intended or written by
the practitioner to be used, and that it cannot be used by any
taxpayer, for the purpose of avoiding penalties that may be
imposed on the taxpayer; and (ii) was written to support
the promotion or marketing of the transactions addressed herein.
We advise you to consult with your tax advisers regarding the
federal, state, local and foreign tax consequences of holding
and disposing of the exchange notes.
Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders
The following general discussion is limited to certain United
States federal income tax consequences to a holder of an
exchange note that is a U.S. Holder. For
purposes of this discussion, a U.S. Holder is a
beneficial owner of an exchange note that for U.S. federal
income tax purposes is (i) a citizen or resident (as
defined in Section 7701(b) of the Code) of the United
States, (ii) a corporation (or an entity treated as a
corporation) created or organized in the United States or under
the law of the United States, any state or the District of
Columbia, (iii) an estate the income of which is subject to
U.S. federal income taxation regardless of source or
(iv) a trust if a U.S. court is able to exercise
primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one
or more U.S. persons have the authority to control all
substantial decisions of the trust.
Taxation of Stated Interest on the Notes. Generally,
payments of stated interest on an exchange note will be
includible in a U.S. Holders gross income and taxable
as ordinary income for U.S. federal income tax purposes at
the time such interest is paid or accrued in accordance with the
U.S. Holders regular method of tax accounting.
Sale, Exchange or Retirement of an Exchange Note. Each
U.S. Holder generally will recognize capital gain or loss
upon a sale, exchange or retirement of an exchange note measured
by the difference, if any, between (i) the amount of cash
and the fair market value of any property received (except to
the extent that the cash or other property received in respect
of an exchange note is attributable to the payment of accrued
interest on the exchange note not previously included in income,
which amount will be taxable as ordinary income) and
(ii) the holders adjusted tax basis in the exchange
note. The gain or loss will be long-term capital gain or loss if
the exchange note has been held for more than one year at the
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time of the sale, exchange or retirement. A
U.S. Holders initial basis in an exchange note
generally will be the amount paid for the exchange note.
Prospective investors should be aware that the resale of an
exchange note may be affected by the market discount
rules of the Code, under which a portion of any gain realized on
the retirement or other disposition of an exchange note by a
subsequent holder that acquires the exchange note at a market
discount generally would be treated as ordinary income to the
extent of the market discount that accrues while that holder
holds the exchange note.
Exchange Offer. The exchange of the exchange notes for
the outstanding notes pursuant to the exchange offer will not
constitute a material modification of the terms of the notes and
therefore will not constitute a taxable event for
U.S. federal income tax purposes. As such, the exchange
will have no U.S. federal income tax consequences to a
U.S. Holder, so that the U.S. Holders holding
period and adjusted tax basis for a note would not be affected,
and the U.S. Holder would continue to take into account
income in respect of an exchange note in the same manner as
before the exchange.
Information Reporting and Backup Withholding. A
U.S. Holder of an exchange note may be subject, under
certain circumstances, to information reporting and backup
withholding at a rate of 28% with respect to certain
reportable payments, including interest on or
principal (and premium, if any) of a note and the gross proceeds
from a disposition of an exchange note. The backup withholding
rules apply if the holder, among other things, (i) fails to
furnish a social security number or other taxpayer
identification number (TIN) certified under
penalties of perjury within a reasonable time after the request
therefor, (ii) furnishes an incorrect TIN, (iii) fails
to properly report the receipt of interest or dividends or
(iv) under certain circumstances, fails to provide a
certified statement, signed under penalties of perjury, that the
TIN furnished is the correct number and that the holder is not
subject to backup withholding. A U.S. Holder who does not
provide us with its correct TIN also may be subject to penalties
imposed by the IRS. Backup withholding will not apply with
respect to payments made to certain holders, including
corporations and tax-exempt organizations, provided their
exemptions from backup withholding are properly established. We
will report annually to the IRS and to each U.S. Holder of
an exchange note the amount of any reportable
payments and the amount of tax withheld, if any, with
respect to those payments.
Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules from a
payment to a U.S. Holder will be allowed as a refund or as
a credit against that U.S. Holders U.S. federal
income tax liability, provided the requisite procedures are
followed.
Tax Consequences to
Non-U.S. Holders
The following general discussion is limited to certain United
States federal income tax consequences to a holder of a note
that is a
Non-U.S. Holder.
As used herein, a
Non-U.S. Holder
is a beneficial owner of an exchange note, that, for
U.S. federal income tax purposes, is (i) a nonresident
alien individual, (ii) a corporation (or an entity treated
as a corporation) created or organized in or under the law of a
country (or a political subdivision thereof) other than the
United States or (iii) a foreign estate or trust, which
generally is an estate or trust that is not a U.S. Holder.
For purposes of the withholding tax discussed below (other than
backup withholding), a
Non-U.S. Holder
includes a nonresident fiduciary of an estate or trust. For
purposes of the discussion below, interest and gain on the sale,
exchange or other disposition of the exchange notes will be
considered to be U.S. trade or business income
if such income or gain is:
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in the case of a treaty resident, attributable to a
U.S. permanent establishment (or, in the case of an
individual, a fixed base) in the United States. |
Interest. Generally, interest paid to a
Non-U.S. Holder of
an exchange note will not be subject to United States federal
income or withholding tax if such interest is not
U.S. trade or business income and
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is portfolio interest. Generally, interest on the
exchange notes will qualify as portfolio interest if the
Non-U.S. Holder:
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does not actually or constructively own 10% or more of the total
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is not a controlled foreign corporation with respect to which we
are a related person within the meaning of the
Code; and |
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certifies, under penalties of perjury on a Form W-8BEN,
that such holder is not a United States person and provides such
holders name and address. |
The gross amount of payments of interest that do not qualify for
the portfolio interest exception and that are not
U.S. trade or business income will be subject to
U.S. withholding tax at a rate of 30% unless a treaty
applies to reduce or eliminate withholding. U.S. trade or
business income will be taxed at regular graduated
U.S. rates rather than the 30% gross rate. In the case of a
Non-U.S. Holder
that is a corporation, such U.S. trade or business income
also may be subject to the branch profits tax. To claim an
exemption from withholding, or to claim the benefits of a
treaty, a
Non-U.S. Holder
must provide a properly executed
Form W-8BEN
(claiming treaty benefits) or W-8ECI (claiming exemption from
withholding because income is U.S. trade or business
income) (or such successor forms as the IRS designates), as
applicable prior to the payment of interest. These forms must be
periodically updated. A
Non-U.S. Holder
who is claiming the benefits of a treaty may be required, in
certain instances, to obtain a U.S. taxpayer identification
number and to provide certain documentary evidence issued by
foreign governmental authorities to prove residence in the
foreign country. Also, under these regulations special
procedures are provided for payments through qualified
intermediaries.
Disposition of the Exchange Notes. A
Non-U.S. Holder
generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax in
respect of gain recognized on a disposition of the exchange
notes unless:
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the gain is U.S. trade or business income in which case the
branch profits tax may also apply to a corporate
Non-U.S. Holder; |
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the
Non-U.S. Holder is
an individual who is present in the United States for 183 or
more days in the taxable year of the disposition and meets other
requirements; or |
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the
Non-U.S. Holder is
subject to U.S. tax under provisions applicable to certain
U.S. expatriates (including certain former citizens or
residents of the United States). |
United States Federal Estate Tax. Exchange notes held (or
treated as held) by an individual who is a
Non-U.S. Holder at
the time of his or her death will not be subject to United
States federal estate tax, provided that the interest on such
exchange notes would be exempt as portfolio interest when
received by the
Non-U.S. Holder at
the time of his or her death.
Information Reporting Requirements and Backup Withholding
Tax
We must report annually to the IRS and to each
Non-U.S. Holder
any interest that is paid to the
Non-U.S. Holder.
Copies of these information returns also may be made available
under the provisions of a specific treaty or other agreement to
the tax authorities of the country in which the
Non-U.S. Holder
resides.
The 28% backup withholding tax and certain information reporting
will not apply to such payments of interest with respect to
which either the requisite certification, as described above,
has been received or an exemption otherwise has been
established, provided that neither we nor our paying agent have
actual knowledge that the holder is a United States person or
that the conditions of any other exemption are not, in fact,
satisfied.
The payment of the proceeds from the disposition of the exchange
notes to or through the United States office of any broker,
U.S. or foreign, will be subject to information reporting
and possible backup withholding unless the owner certifies as to
its
non-U.S. status
under penalties of perjury or otherwise
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establishes an exemption, provided that the broker does not have
actual knowledge that the holder is a United States person or
that the conditions of any other exemption are not, in fact,
satisfied. The payment of the proceeds from the disposition of
the exchange notes to or through a
non-U.S. office of
a non-U.S. broker
will not be subject to information reporting or backup
withholding unless the
non-U.S. broker
has certain types of relationships with the United States (a
U.S. related person). In the case of the
payment of the proceeds from the disposition of the exchange
notes to or through a
non-U.S. office of
a broker that is either a U.S. person or a
U.S. related person, the Treasury Regulations require
information reporting (but not
back-up withholding) on
the payment unless the broker has documentary evidence in its
files that the owner is a
Non-U.S. Holder
and the broker has no knowledge to the contrary.
Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts
withheld under the backup withholding rules from a payment to a
Non-U.S. Holder
will be refunded or credited against the holders
U.S. federal income tax liability, if any, if the holder
provides the required information to the IRS.
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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
Each participating broker-dealer that receives exchange notes
for its own account pursuant to the exchange offer must
acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with
any resale of such exchange notes. This prospectus, as it may be
amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a
participating broker-dealer in connection with resales of
exchange notes received in exchange for outstanding notes where
such outstanding notes were acquired as a result of
market-making activities or other trading activities. We have
agreed that for a period of 180 days after the date of this
prospectus, we will make this prospectus, as amended or
supplemented, available to any participating broker-dealer for
use in connection with any such resale.
We will not receive any proceeds from any sales of the exchange
notes by participating broker-dealers. Exchange notes received
by participating broker-dealers for their own account pursuant
to the exchange offer may be sold from time to time in one or
more transactions in the
over-the-counter
market, in negotiated transactions, through the writing of
options on the exchange notes or a combination of such methods
of resale, at market prices prevailing at the time of resale, at
prices related to such prevailing market prices or negotiated
prices. Any such resale may be made directly to purchasers or to
or through brokers or dealers who may receive compensation in
the form of commissions or concessions from any such
participating broker-dealer and/or the purchasers of any such
exchange notes. Any participating broker-dealer that resells the
exchange notes that were received by it for its own account
pursuant to the exchange offer and any broker or dealer that
participates in a distribution of such exchange notes may be
deemed to be an underwriter within the meaning of
the Securities Act and any profit on any such resale of exchange
notes and any commissions or concessions received by any such
persons may be deemed to be underwriting compensation under the
Securities Act. The letter of transmittal states that by
acknowledging that it will deliver and by delivering a
prospectus, a participating broker-dealer will not be deemed to
admit that it is an underwriter within the meaning
of the Securities Act.
For a period of 180 days after the date of this prospectus
we will promptly send additional copies of this prospectus and
any amendment or supplement to this prospectus to any
participating broker-dealer that requests such documents in the
letter of transmittal.
LEGAL MATTERS
Certain legal matters with respect to the exchange notes we are
offering and the guarantees will be passed upon for us by Jones,
Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère &
Denègre, L.L.P., New Orleans, Louisiana.
EXPERTS
The consolidated financial statements and schedule of Superior
Energy Services, Inc. as of December 31, 2005 and 2004, and
for each of the years in the three-year period ended
December 31, 2005, and managements assessment of the
effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of
December 31, 2005 have been included herein and in the
registration statement in reliance upon the reports of KPMG LLP,
independent registered public accounting firm, appearing
elsewhere herein, and upon the authority of said firm as experts
in accounting and auditing.
Certain information incorporated by reference in this prospectus
regarding estimated quantities of oil and natural gas reserves
owned by us, the future net revenues from those reserves and
their present value is based on estimates of the reserves and
present values prepared by or derived from estimates prepared by
DeGolyer and MacNaughton, independent petroleum engineers. This
information has been incorporated by reference in this
prospectus in reliance upon the authority of DeGolyer and
MacNaughton as experts in reserve determination. Future
estimates of oil and natural gas reserves and related
information hereafter incorporated by reference in this
prospectus and the registration statement will be incorporated
in reliance upon the reports of the firm examining such oil and
gas reserves and related information and upon the
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authority of that firm as experts regarding the matters
contained in their reports, to the extent the firm has consented
to the use of their reports.
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
Superior Energy files annual, quarterly and special reports,
proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You may
read and copy materials with the SEC at the SECs public
reference room, located at 100 F Street, N.E.,
Washington, D.C. 20549.
Please call the SEC at
1-800-SEC-0330 for
further information on the operation of its public reference
room. Superior Energys SEC filings are also available to
the public on the SECs Internet site at http://www.sec.gov.
In addition, you may obtain a copy of Superior Energys SEC
filings at no cost by writing or telephoning us at:
Superior Energy Services, Inc.
1105 Peters Road
Harvey, Louisiana 70058
Attn: Investor Relations
(504) 362-4321
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
Superior Energy Services, Inc.:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of
Superior Energy Services, Inc. and subsidiaries as of
December 31, 2005 and 2004, and the related consolidated
statements of operations, changes in stockholders equity
and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period
ended December 31, 2005. In connection with our audit of
the consolidated financial statements, we also have audited the
accompanying financial statement schedule, Valuation and
Qualifying Accounts, for the years ended December 31,
2005, 2004 and 2003. These consolidated financial statements and
financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the
Companys management. Our responsibility is to express an
opinion on these consolidated financial statements and financial
statement schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those
standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are
free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a
test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in
the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial
statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a
reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred
to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of Superior Energy Services, Inc. and subsidiaries as
of December 31, 2005 and 2004, and the results of their
operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the
three-year period ended December 31, 2005, in conformity
with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also in
our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when
considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial
statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material
respects, the information set forth therein.
New Orleans, Louisiana
March 8, 2006, except as to
Note 14 which is as of
May 11, 2006
and Note 18 which is as of
August 14, 2006
F-1
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Balance Sheets
December 31, 2005 and 2004
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ASSETS |
Current assets:
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Cash and cash equivalents
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$ |
54,457 |
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$ |
15,281 |
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Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of
$11,569 and $8,364 at December 31, 2005 and 2004,
respectively
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196,365 |
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156,235 |
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Income taxes receivable
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2,694 |
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Current portion of notes receivable
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2,364 |
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9,611 |
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Prepaid insurance and other
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51,116 |
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28,203 |
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Total current assets
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304,302 |
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212,024 |
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Property, plant and equipment, net
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440,328 |
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431,334 |
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Oil and gas assets, net, under the successful efforts method of
accounting
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94,634 |
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83,817 |
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Goodwill, net
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220,064 |
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226,593 |
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Notes receivable
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29,483 |
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29,131 |
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Investments in affiliates
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13,552 |
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Other assets, net
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8,439 |
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7,462 |
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Total assets
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$ |
1,097,250 |
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$ |
1,003,913 |
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY |
Current liabilities:
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Accounts payable
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$ |
42,035 |
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$ |
36,496 |
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Accrued expenses
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69,926 |
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56,796 |
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Income taxes payable
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11,353 |
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Fair value of commodity derivative instruments
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10,792 |
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2,018 |
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Current portion of decommissioning liabilities
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14,268 |
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23,588 |
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Current maturities of long-term debt
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810 |
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11,810 |
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Total current liabilities
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149,184 |
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130,708 |
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Deferred income taxes
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97,987 |
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103,372 |
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Decommissioning liabilities
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107,641 |
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90,430 |
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Long-term debt
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216,596 |
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244,906 |
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Other long-term liabilities
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1,468 |
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618 |
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Stockholders equity:
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Preferred stock of $0.01 par value. Authorized,
5,000,000 shares; none issued
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Common stock of $0.001 par value. Authorized,
125,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding 79,499,927 and
76,766,303 shares at December 31, 2005 and 2004,
respectively
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79 |
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77 |
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Additional paid in capital
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428,507 |
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398,073 |
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Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
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(4,916 |
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2,884 |
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Retained earnings
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100,704 |
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32,845 |
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Total stockholders equity
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524,374 |
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433,879 |
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Total liabilities and stockholders equity
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$ |
1,097,250 |
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$ |
1,003,913 |
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See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-2
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Operations
Years Ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
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Oilfield service and rental revenues
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$ |
656,423 |
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$ |
527,331 |
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$ |
499,884 |
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Oil and gas revenues
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78,911 |
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37,008 |
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741 |
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Total revenues
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735,334 |
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564,339 |
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500,625 |
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Cost of oilfield services and rentals
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330,200 |
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288,561 |
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289,276 |
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Cost of oil and gas sales
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45,804 |
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21,547 |
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331 |
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Total cost of services, rentals and sales
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376,004 |
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310,108 |
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289,607 |
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Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
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89,288 |
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67,337 |
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48,853 |
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General and administrative expenses
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140,989 |
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110,605 |
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94,822 |
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Reduction in value of assets
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6,994 |
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Gain on sale of liftboats
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3,544 |
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Income from operations
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125,603 |
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76,289 |
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67,343 |
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Other income (expense):
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Interest expense, net of amounts capitalized
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(21,862 |
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(22,476 |
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(22,477 |
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Interest income
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2,201 |
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1,766 |
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209 |
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Other income
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2,762 |
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Equity in earnings of affiliates
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1,339 |
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1,329 |
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985 |
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Reduction in value of investment in affiliate
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(1,250 |
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Income before income taxes
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106,031 |
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56,908 |
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48,822 |
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Income taxes
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38,172 |
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21,056 |
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18,308 |
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Net income
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$ |
67,859 |
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$ |
35,852 |
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$ |
30,514 |
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Basic earnings per share
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$ |
0.87 |
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$ |
0.48 |
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$ |
0.41 |
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Diluted earnings per share
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$ |
0.85 |
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$ |
0.47 |
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$ |
0.41 |
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Weighted average common shares used in computing earnings per
share:
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Basic
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78,321 |
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74,896 |
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73,970 |
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Incremental common shares from stock options
|
|
|
1,414 |
|
|
|
1,004 |
|
|
|
678 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted
|
|
|
79,735 |
|
|
|
75,900 |
|
|
|
74,648 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-3
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders
Equity
Years Ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accumulated | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other | |
|
Retained | |
|
|
|
|
Preferred | |
|
|
|
Common | |
|
|
|
Additional | |
|
Comprehensive | |
|
Earnings | |
|
|
|
|
Stock | |
|
Preferred |
|
Stock | |
|
Common | |
|
Paid-In | |
|
Income | |
|
(Accumulated | |
|
|
|
|
Shares | |
|
Stock |
|
Shares | |
|
Stock | |
|
Capital | |
|
(Loss) | |
|
Deficit) | |
|
Total | |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
(In thousands, except share data) | |
Balances, December 31, 2002
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
73,819,341 |
|
|
$ |
74 |
|
|
$ |
368,746 |
|
|
$ |
43 |
|
|
$ |
(33,521 |
) |
|
$ |
335,342 |
|
Comprehensive income:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30,514 |
|
|
|
30,514 |
|
|
Other comprehensive income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Foreign currency translation adjustment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
221 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
221 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total comprehensive income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
221 |
|
|
|
30,514 |
|
|
|
30,735 |
|
Exercise of stock options and directors stock compensation
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
279,740 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,710 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,710 |
|
Tax benefit from stock options
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
342 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
342 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balances, December 31, 2003
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
74,099,081 |
|
|
|
74 |
|
|
|
370,798 |
|
|
|
264 |
|
|
|
(3,007 |
) |
|
|
368,129 |
|
Comprehensive income:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
35,852 |
|
|
|
35,852 |
|
|
Other comprehensive income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Changes in fair value of outstanding hedging positions, net of
tax
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,661 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,661 |
) |
|
|
|
Foreign currency translation adjustment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,281 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,281 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total comprehensive income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,620 |
|
|
|
35,852 |
|
|
|
38,472 |
|
Stock issued for cash
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11,151,121 |
|
|
|
12 |
|
|
|
130,253 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
130,265 |
|
Purchase and retirement of stock
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,696,627 |
) |
|
|
(10 |
) |
|
|
(113,428 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(113,438 |
) |
Grant of restricted stock units
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
180 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
180 |
|
Conversion of restricted stock units
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,783 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercise of stock options and directors stock compensation
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,202,945 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
8,295 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,296 |
|
Tax benefit from stock options
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,975 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,975 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balances, December 31, 2004
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
76,766,303 |
|
|
|
77 |
|
|
|
398,073 |
|
|
|
2,884 |
|
|
|
32,845 |
|
|
|
433,879 |
|
Comprehensive income:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
67,859 |
|
|
|
67,859 |
|
|
Other comprehensive income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Changes in fair value of outstanding hedging positions, net of
tax
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2,662 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2,662 |
) |
|
|
|
Foreign currency translation adjustment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(5,138 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(5,138 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total comprehensive income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(7,800 |
) |
|
|
67,859 |
|
|
|
60,059 |
|
Grant of restricted stock
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
units
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
158 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
158 |
|
Grant of restricted stock
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
178 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
178 |
|
Exercise of stock options
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,709,624 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
18,157 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18,159 |
|
Tax benefit from stock options
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11,941 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11,941 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balances, December 31, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
79,499,927 |
|
|
$ |
79 |
|
|
$ |
428,507 |
|
|
$ |
(4,916 |
) |
|
$ |
100,704 |
|
|
$ |
524,374 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-4
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Years Ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2003 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
(In thousands) | |
Cash flows from operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
|
|
$ |
67,859 |
|
|
$ |
35,852 |
|
|
$ |
30,514 |
|
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by
operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
89,288 |
|
|
|
67,337 |
|
|
|
48,853 |
|
|
|
|
Deferred income taxes
|
|
|
442 |
|
|
|
15,234 |
|
|
|
15,183 |
|
|
|
|
Reduction in value of assets
|
|
|
6,994 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Equity in income of affiliates
|
|
|
(1,339 |
) |
|
|
(1,329 |
) |
|
|
(985 |
) |
|
|
|
Reduction in value of investment in affiliate
|
|
|
1,250 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gain on sale of liftboats
|
|
|
(3,544 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2,762 |
) |
|
|
|
Amortization of debt acquisition costs
|
|
|
1,127 |
|
|
|
887 |
|
|
|
1,026 |
|
|
|
|
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Receivables
|
|
|
(32,095 |
) |
|
|
(35,279 |
) |
|
|
104 |
|
|
|
|
|
Other, net
|
|
|
(11,263 |
) |
|
|
(9,346 |
) |
|
|
1,773 |
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable
|
|
|
5,696 |
|
|
|
16,142 |
|
|
|
(1,932 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Accrued expenses
|
|
|
16,599 |
|
|
|
13,866 |
|
|
|
2,561 |
|
|
|
|
|
Decommissioning liabilities
|
|
|
(8,772 |
) |
|
|
(9,157 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income taxes
|
|
|
26,137 |
|
|
|
(2,876 |
) |
|
|
5,905 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by operating activities
|
|
|
158,379 |
|
|
|
91,331 |
|
|
|
100,240 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from investing activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Payments for capital expenditures
|
|
|
(125,166 |
) |
|
|
(74,125 |
) |
|
|
(50,175 |
) |
|
|
Acquisitions of businesses, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
(6,435 |
) |
|
|
(24,361 |
) |
|
|
(14,298 |
) |
|
|
Acquisitions of oil and gas properties, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
3,686 |
|
|
|
(10,676 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash proceeds from sale of liftboats
|
|
|
19,588 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash proceeds from sale of affiliate
|
|
|
12,489 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash proceeds from insurance settlement
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,000 |
|
|
|
Other
|
|
|
(1,097 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
313 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash used in investing activities
|
|
|
(96,935 |
) |
|
|
(109,162 |
) |
|
|
(56,160 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from financing activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net payments on revolving credit facility
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,250 |
) |
|
Principal payments on long-term debt
|
|
|
(39,310 |
) |
|
|
(13,713 |
) |
|
|
(43,089 |
) |
|
Proceeds from long-term debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23,000 |
|
|
Payment of debt acquisition costs
|
|
|
(439 |
) |
|
|
(60 |
) |
|
|
(479 |
) |
|
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
|
|
|
18,161 |
|
|
|
10,271 |
|
|
|
2,052 |
|
|
Proceeds from issuance of stock
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
130,265 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Purchase and retirement of stock
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(113,438 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
|
|
|
(21,588 |
) |
|
|
13,325 |
|
|
|
(27,766 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Effect of exchange rate changes in cash
|
|
|
(680 |
) |
|
|
(7 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
|
|
|
39,176 |
|
|
|
(4,513 |
) |
|
|
16,314 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
|
|
|
15,281 |
|
|
|
19,794 |
|
|
|
3,480 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year
|
|
$ |
54,457 |
|
|
$ |
15,281 |
|
|
$ |
19,794 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-5
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
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(1) |
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies |
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(a) |
Basis of Presentation |
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The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of
Superior Energy Services, Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company).
All significant intercompany accounts and transactions are
eliminated in consolidation. Certain previously reported amounts
have been reclassified to conform to the 2005 presentation. |
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The Company is a leading provider of specialized oilfield
services and equipment focusing on serving the
production-related needs of oil and gas companies in the Gulf of
Mexico and the drilling-related needs of oil and gas companies
throughout the world. The Company provides most of the services,
tools and liftboats necessary to maintain, enhance and extend
offshore producing wells, as well as plug and abandonment
services at the end of their life cycle. |
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In December 2003, the Company began acquiring oil and gas
properties in order to provide additional opportunities for its
well intervention and platform management operations in the Gulf
of Mexico. The Company intends to continue to acquire mature
properties from its customers with modest amounts of estimated
remaining productive life, to provide all of its services to the
properties to produce any remaining proven oil and gas reserves
and to decommission and abandon the properties. |
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The preparation of financial statements in conformity with
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of
America requires management to make estimates and assumptions
that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and
disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of
the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues
and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could
differ from those estimates. |
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(d) |
Major Customers and Concentration of Credit Risk |
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A majority of the Companys business is conducted with
major and independent oil and gas exploration companies. The
Company continually evaluates the financial strength of its
customers and provides allowances for probable credit losses
when deemed necessary but does not require collateral to support
the customer receivables. |
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The market for the Companys services and products is
primarily the offshore oil and gas industry in the Gulf of
Mexico. Oil and gas companies make capital expenditures on
exploration, drilling and production operations offshore. The
level of these expenditures has been characterized by
significant volatility. |
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The Company derives a significant amount of revenue from a small
number of major and independent oil and gas companies. In 2005,
Shell accounted for approximately 10% of total revenue,
primarily related to our oil and gas and rental tools segments.
No customer accounted for more than 10% of the Companys
total revenue in 2004. In 2003, one customer accounted for
approximately 11% of its total revenue, primarily in the well
intervention segment. The Companys inability to continue
to perform services for a number of large existing customers, if
not offset by sales to new or existing customers, could have a
material adverse effect on the Companys business and
financial condition. |
F-6
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
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The Company considers all short-term deposits with a maturity of
ninety days or less to be cash equivalents. |
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(f) |
Accounts Receivable and Allowances |
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Trade accounts receivables are recorded at the invoiced amount
and do not bear interest. The Company maintains allowances for
bad debts and various other adjustments. The allowance for
doubtful accounts is based on the Companys best estimate
of the amount of probable uncollectible amounts in existing
accounts receivable. The Company determines the allowances based
on historical write-off experience and specific identification. |
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(g) |
Prepaid Insurance and Other |
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Prepaid insurance and other includes approximately
$23.9 million and $11.1 million in insurance
receivables at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
The December 31, 2005 balance is primarily due to the
impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on our oil and gas
properties, as well as our buildings and equipment. The
December 31, 2004 balance is primarily related to the
impact of Hurricane Ivan on our oil and gas properties. The
insurance deductibles on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita of
approximately $1 million were expensed during 2005. All
amounts not expected to be reimbursed by insurance are expensed
as incurred. |
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(h) |
Property, Plant and Equipment |
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Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost. With the
exception of the Companys liftboats and oil and gas
assets, depreciation is computed using the straight-line method
over the estimated useful lives of the related assets as follows: |
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Buildings and improvements
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5 to 40 years |
Marine vessels and equipment
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5 to 25 years |
Machinery and equipment
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5 to 20 years |
Automobiles, trucks, tractors and trailers
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2 to 10 years |
Furniture and fixtures
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3 to 10 years |
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Marine vessels and oil and gas producing assets are depreciated
or depleted based on utilization or
units-of-production,
because depreciation and depletion occur primarily through use
rather than through the passage of time. Units of production
depreciation on marine vessels is subject to a minimum amount of
depreciation each year. |
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The Company capitalizes interest on borrowings used to finance
the cost of major capital projects during the active
construction period. Capitalized interest is added to the cost
of the underlying assets and is amortized over the useful lives
of the assets. For 2005 and 2003, the Company capitalized
approximately $456,000 and $87,000, respectively, of interest
for various capital projects. There was no interest capitalized
during 2004. |
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Long-lived assets and certain identifiable intangibles are
reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in
circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may
not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used
is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset
to future net cash flows expected to be generated by the assets.
If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to
be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying
amount of the assets exceeds the fair value. Assets are grouped
by subsidiary or division for the impairment testing, except for
liftboats which are grouped |
F-7
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
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together by similar leg-lengths. Assets to be disposed of are
reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less
costs to sell. |
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The Companys subsidiary, SPN Resources, LLC, acquires oil
and natural gas properties and assumes the related
decommissioning liabilities. The Company follows the successful
efforts method of accounting for its investment in oil and
natural gas properties. Under the successful efforts method, the
costs of successful exploratory wells and leases containing
productive reserves are capitalized. Costs incurred to drill and
equip developmental wells, including unsuccessful development
wells are capitalized. Other costs such as geological and
geophysical costs and the drilling costs of unsuccessful
exploratory wells are expensed. SPN Resources property
purchases are recorded at the value exchanged at closing,
combined with an estimate of its proportionate share of the
decommissioning liability assumed in the purchase. All
capitalized costs are accumulated and recorded separately for
each field and allocated to leasehold costs and well costs.
Leasehold costs are depleted on a
units-of-production
basis based on the estimated remaining equivalent proved oil and
gas reserves of each field. Well costs are depleted on a
units-of-production
basis based on the estimated remaining equivalent proved
developed oil and gas reserves of each field. |
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The Company adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Staff
Position FAS 19-1,
Accounting for Suspended Well Costs
(FSP 19-1)
effective July 1, 2005.
FSP 19-1 amended
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 19
Financial Accounting and Reporting by Oil and Gas
Producing Companies (Statement 19), to permit the
continued capitalization of exploratory well costs beyond one
year if (a) the well found a sufficient quantity of
reserves to justify its completion as a producing well and
(b) the entity is making sufficient progress assessing the
reserves and the economic and operating viability of the
project. The Company has not, and does not currently drill in
the areas that require major capital expenditures before
production can begin. The Company evaluated all existing
capitalized well costs under the provisions of
FSP-19-1 and determined
there was no impact to the Companys consolidated financial
statements. |
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Oil and gas properties are assessed for impairment in value on a
field-by-field basis whenever indicators become evident. The
Company uses its current estimate of future revenues and
operating expenses to test the capitalized costs for impairment.
In the event net undiscounted cash flows are less than the
carrying value, an impairment loss is recorded based on the
present value of expected future net cash flows over the
economic lives of the reserves. |
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The Company accounts for goodwill and other intangible assets in
accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
No. 142 (FAS No. 142), Goodwill and Other
Intangible Assets. FAS No. 142 requires that
goodwill as well as other intangible assets with indefinite
lives no longer be amortized, but instead tested annually for
impairment. To test for impairment, the Company identifies its
reporting units (which are consistent with the Companys
reportable segments) and determines the carrying value of each
reporting unit by assigning the assets and liabilities,
including goodwill and intangible assets, to the reporting
units. The Company then estimates the fair value of each
reporting unit and compares it to the reporting units
carrying value. Based on this test, the fair value of the
reporting units exceeded the carrying amount, and the second
step of the impairment test is not required. No impairment loss
was recognized in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004
or 2003 under this method. However, the Company reduced the
value of goodwill by approximately $3.8 million to
approximate the sales price of its subsidiary, Environmental
Treatment Team, L.L.C., (ETT), which was sold in the first
quarter of 2006 (see note 3). Goodwill also |
F-8
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
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decreased by approximately $2.7 million in 2005 as the
result of changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
Accumulated amortization of goodwill is $9.2 million at
December 31, 2005 and 2004. |
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Notes receivable consist primarily of commitments from the
sellers of oil and gas properties towards the abandonment of the
acquired properties. Pursuant to the agreement between the
Company and a seller, the Company will invoice the seller agreed
upon amounts during the course of decommissioning (abandonment
and structure removal). These receivables are recorded at
present value, and the related discounts are amortized to
interest income, based on the expected timing of the
decommissionings. |
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Other assets consist primarily of debt acquisition costs and
deferred compensation plan assets. Debt acquisition costs are
being amortized over the term of the related debt, which is from
three to twenty-five years. The amortization of debt acquisition
costs, which is classified as interest expense, was
approximately $1,127,000, $887,000 and $1,026,000 for the years
ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.
Accumulated amortization of other assets is approximately
$6,062,000 and $4,604,000 at December 31, 2005 and 2004,
respectively. |
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(l) |
Decommissioning Liability |
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The Company records estimated future decommissioning liabilities
related to its oil and gas producing properties pursuant to the
provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
No. 143 (FAS No. 143), Accounting for Asset
Retirement Obligations. FAS No. 143 requires
entities to record the fair value of a liability at estimated
present value for an asset retirement obligation
(decommissioning liabilities) in the period in which it is
incurred with a corresponding increase in the carrying amount of
the related long-lived asset. Subsequent to initial measurement,
the decommissioning liability is required to be accreted each
period to present value. The Companys decommissioning
liabilities consist of costs related to the plugging of wells,
the removal of facilities and equipment and site restoration on
oil and gas properties. |
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The Company estimates the cost that would be incurred if it
contracted an unaffiliated third party to plug and abandon
wells, abandon the pipelines, decommission and remove the
platforms and pipelines and clear the sites of its oil and gas
properties, and uses that estimate to record its proportionate
share of the decommissioning liability. In estimating the
decommissioning liability, the Company performs detailed
estimating procedures, analysis and engineering studies.
Whenever practical, the Company utilizes its own equipment and
labor services to perform well abandonment and decommissioning
work. When the Company performs these services, all recorded
intercompany revenues are eliminated in the consolidated
financial statements. The recorded decommissioning liability
associated with a specific property is fully extinguished when
the property is abandoned. The recorded liability is first
reduced by all cash expenses incurred to abandon and
decommission the property. If the recorded liability exceeds (or
is less than) the Companys
out-of-pocket costs,
then the difference is reported as income (or loss) within
revenue during the period in which the work is performed. The
Company reviews the adequacy of its decommissioning liability
whenever indicators suggest that the estimated cash flows needed
to satisfy the liability have changed materially. The timing and
amounts of these cash flows are estimates, and changes to these
estimates may result in additional (or decreased) liabilities
recorded, which in turn would increase (or decrease) the
carrying values of the related oil and gas properties. |
F-9
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
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SPN Resources purchased its first oil and gas properties and
assumed the related decommissioning liabilities in December
2003, thus comparable data for the year ended December 31,
2003 is not material. The following table summarizes the
activity for the Companys decommissioning liability for
the twelve months ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 (amounts
in thousands): |
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Year Ended December 31, | |
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2005 | |
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2004 | |
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Decommissioning liabilities, at beginning of period
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$ |
114,018 |
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$ |
38,853 |
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Liabilities acquired and incurred
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11,494 |
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83,021 |
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Liabilities settled
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(8,772 |
) |
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(9,157 |
) |
Accretion
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4,476 |
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2,836 |
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Revision in estimated liabilities
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693 |
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(1,535 |
) |
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Total
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121,909 |
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114,018 |
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Current portion of decommissioning liabilities
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14,268 |
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23,588 |
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Decommissioning liabilities, at end of period
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$ |
107,641 |
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$ |
90,430 |
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Revenue is recognized when services or equipment are provided.
The Company contracts for marine, well intervention and
environmental projects either on a day rate or turnkey basis,
with a majority of its projects conducted on a day rate basis.
The Companys rental tools are rented on a day rate basis,
and revenue from the sale of equipment is recognized when the
equipment is shipped. Reimbursements from customers for the cost
of rental tools that are damaged or lost down-hole are reflected
as revenue at the time of the incident. The Company recognizes
oil and gas revenue from its interests in producing wells as oil
and natural gas is produced and sold from those wells. |
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The Company provides for income taxes in accordance with
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109
(FAS No. 109), Accounting for Income
Taxes. FAS No. 109 requires an asset and
liability approach for financial accounting and reporting for
income taxes. Deferred income taxes reflect the impact of
temporary differences between amounts of assets and liabilities
for financial reporting purposes and such amounts as measured by
tax laws. |
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Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing income
available to common stockholders by the weighted average number
of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings
per share is computed in the same manner as basic earnings per
share except that the denominator is increased to include the
number of additional common shares that could have been
outstanding assuming the exercise of stock options and
restricted stock units and the potential shares that would have
a dilutive effect on earnings per share. |
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(p) |
Financial Instruments |
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The fair value of the Companys financial instruments of
cash, accounts receivable and current maturities of long-term
debt approximates their carrying amounts. The fair value of the
Companys long-term debt is approximately $227 million
at December 31, 2005. |
F-10
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
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(q) |
Foreign Currency Translation |
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Assets and liabilities of the Companys foreign
subsidiaries are translated at current exchange rates, while
income and expenses are translated at average rates for the
period. Translation gains and losses are reported as the foreign
currency translation component of accumulated other
comprehensive income in stockholders equity. |
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(r) |
Stock Based Compensation |
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The Company accounts for its stock based compensation under the
principles prescribed by the Accounting Principles Boards
Opinion No. 25 (Opinion No. 25), Accounting for
Stock Issued to Employees However, Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 123 (FAS No. 123),
Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation permits the
continued use of the intrinsic-value based method prescribed by
Opinion No. 25 but requires additional disclosures,
including pro forma calculations of earnings and net earnings
per share as if the fair value method of accounting prescribed
by FAS No. 123 had been applied. No stock based
compensation costs from stock options are reflected in net
income, as all options granted under those plans had an exercise
price equal to the market value of the underlying common stock
on the date of grant. Stock compensation costs from the grant of
restricted stock units and restricted stock are expensed as
incurred (see note 11). The pro forma data presented below
is not representative of the effects on reported amounts for
future years (amounts are in thousands, except per share
amounts). |
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2005 | |
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2004 | |
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2003 | |
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Net income, as reported
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$ |
67,859 |
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$ |
35,852 |
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$ |
30,514 |
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Stock-based employee compensation expense, net of tax
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(4,421 |
) |
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(6,999 |
) |
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(2,671 |
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Pro forma net income
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$ |
63,438 |
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$ |
28,853 |
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$ |
27,843 |
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Basic earnings per share:
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Earnings, as reported
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$ |
0.87 |
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$ |
0.48 |
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$ |
0.41 |
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Stock-based employee compensation expense, net of tax
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(0.06 |
) |
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(0.09 |
) |
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(0.04 |
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|
Pro forma earnings per share
|
|
$ |
0.81 |
|
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$ |
0.39 |
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$ |
0.37 |
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Diluted earnings per share:
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Earnings, as reported
|
|
$ |
0.85 |
|
|
$ |
0.47 |
|
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$ |
0.41 |
|
|
Stock-based employee compensation expense, net of tax
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|
(0.06 |
) |
|
|
(0.09 |
) |
|
|
(0.04 |
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|
Pro forma earnings per share
|
|
$ |
0.79 |
|
|
$ |
0.38 |
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$ |
0.37 |
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Black-Scholes option pricing model assumptions:
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Risk free interest rate
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3.85% |
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4.28% |
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2.65 |
% |
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Expected life (years)
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6 |
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5 |
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3 |
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Volatility
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38.91% |
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65.22% |
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58.61 |
% |
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Dividend yield
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In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board
revised its Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
No. 123 (FAS No. 123R), Accounting for
Stock Based Compensation. Under FAS No. 123R,
companies will be required to recognize as expense the estimated
fair value of all share-based payments to employees, including
the fair value of |
F-11
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
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employee stock options. This expense will be recognized over the
period during which the employee is required to provide service
in exchange for the award. Pro forma disclosure of the estimated
expense impact of such awards is no longer an alternative to
expense recognition in the financial statements.
FAS No. 123R is effective for public companies in the
first annual period beginning after June 15, 2005, and
accordingly, the Company will adopt the provisions of
FAS No. 123R effective January 1, 2006. The
Company anticipates using the modified prospective application
transition method, which does not include restatement of prior
periods. The Company expects to record approximately $89,000 of
compensation expense in 2006 due to the adoption of
FAS No. 123R for share-based awards granted prior to
January 1, 2006. The Company expects the effect of the
adoption on future awards to be consistent with the disclosure
of pro forma net income and earnings per share as displayed
above. |
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Long-Term Incentive Plan |
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In May 2005, the Companys stockholders approved the 2005
Stock Incentive Plan (2005 Incentive Plan) to
provide long-term incentives to its officers, key employees,
consultants and advisers (Eligible Participants).
Under the 2005 Incentive Plan, the Company may grant incentive
stock options, non-qualified stock options, restricted stock,
restricted stock units, stock appreciation rights, other
stock-based awards or any combination thereof to Eligible
Participants for up to 4,000,000 shares of common stock.
The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors establishes
the term and the exercise price of any stock options granted
under the 2005 Incentive Plan, provided the exercise price may
not be less than the fair market value of the common stock on
the date of grant. On June 24, 2005, the Compensation
Committee awarded approximately 864,000 non-qualified stock
options to Eligible Participants under the 2005 Incentive Plan.
This grant was fully-vested by December 31, 2005. |
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On June 24, 2005, the Compensation Committee also awarded
approximately 32,000 performance share units
(Units). The performance period for the Units runs
from January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2007. The
two performance measures applicable to all participants are the
Companys return on invested capital and total shareholder
return relative to those of the Companys pre-defined
peer group. Participants can earn from $0 to
$200 per Unit, as determined by the Companys
achievement of the performance measures. The Units provide for
settlement in cash or up to 50% in equivalent value in Company
common stock, if the participant has met specified continued
service requirements. The Companys compensation expense
related to the grant of the Units was approximately
$1.1 million, which is reflected in general and
administrative expenses, for the year ended December 31,
2005. |
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Subsequent event |
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On February 23, 2006, the Compensation Committee granted
long-term incentive awards to each of the Companys named
executive officers and other key employees of the Company under
its stockholder approved 2005 Stock Incentive Plan. These awards
consisted of approximately 213,000 non-qualified stock options,
104,000 shares of restricted stock and 34,000 performance
share units (Units). |
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The non-qualified options will be exercisable in equal
installments on the anniversary of the date of the grant for
three consecutive years, and will expire on the tenth
anniversary of the date grant. Holders of the shares of
restricted stock are entitled to all rights of a shareholder of
the Company with respect to the restricted stock, including the
right to vote the shares and receive all dividends and other
distributions declared thereon. The shares of restricted stock
will be exercisable in equal installments on the anniversary
date of the grant for three consecutive years. The performance
period for the Units runs from January 1, 2006 through |
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SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
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December 31, 2008. The two performance measures applicable
to all participants are the Companys return on invested
capital and total shareholder return relative to those of the
Companys pre-defined peer group. Participants
can earn from $0 to $200 per Unit, as determined by the
Companys achievement of the performance measures. The
Units provide for settlement in cash or up to 50% in equivalent
value in Company common stock, if the participant has met
specified continued service requirements. |
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The Company enters into hedging transactions with major
financial institutions to secure a commodity price for a portion
of future production and to reduce the Companys exposure
to fluctuations in the price of oil. The Company does not enter
into hedging transactions for trading purposes. Crude oil hedges
are settled based on the average of the reported settlement
prices for West Texas Intermediate crude on the New York
Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) for each month. The Company had
no natural gas hedges as of December 31, 2005 and 2004. The
Company uses financially-settled crude oil swaps and zero-cost
collars that provide floor and ceiling prices. The
Companys swaps and zero-cost collars are designated and
accounted for as cash flow hedges. |
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With a financially-settled swap, the counterparty is required to
make a payment to the Company if the settlement price for any
settlement period is below the hedged price for the transaction,
and the Company is required to make a payment to the
counterparty if the settlement price for any settlement period
is above the hedged price for the transaction. With a zero-cost
collar, the counterparty is required to make a payment to the
Company if the settlement price for any settlement period is
below the floor price of the collar, and the Company is required
to make a payment to the counterparty if the settlement price
for any settlement period is above the cap price for the collar.
The Company recognizes the fair value of all derivative
instruments as assets or liabilities on the balance sheet.
Changes in the fair value of cash flow hedges are recognized, to
the extent the hedge is effective, in other comprehensive income
until the hedged item is settled and recorded in oil and gas
revenue. For the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004,
hedging settlement payments reduced oil revenues by
approximately $10.2 million and $1.6 million,
respectively. The Company recorded no gains or losses due to
hedge ineffectiveness, but any gains or losses resulting from
hedge ineffectiveness would be recorded in revenue. |
|
|
The Company had the following hedging contracts as of
December 31, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Crude Oil Positions |
|
|
|
Instrument |
|
Strike |
|
Volume (Bbls) |
|
Total |
Remaining Contract Term | |
|
Type |
|
Price (Bbl) |
|
Daily |
|
(Bbls) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/06 - 8/06 |
|
|
Swap |
|
$39.45 |
|
1,000 - 1,013 |
|
274,388 |
|
01/06 - 8/06 |
|
|
Collar |
|
$35.00/$45.60 |
|
1,000 - 1,013 |
|
274,388 |
|
|
|
Based upon current market prices, the Company expects to
transfer approximately $6.9 million of net deferred losses
in accumulated other comprehensive loss as of December 31,
2005 to earnings during the next twelve months when the
forecasted transactions actually occur. |
F-13
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
|
|
|
|
(t) |
Other Comprehensive Income |
|
|
|
The following table reconciles the change in accumulated other
comprehensive income for the years ended December 31, 2005
and 2004 (amounts in thousands): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Year Ended | |
|
|
December 31, | |
|
|
| |
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Accumulated other comprehensive income, December 31, 2004
and 2003, respectively
|
|
$ |
2,884 |
|
|
$ |
264 |
|
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hedging activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reclassification adjustment for settled contracts, net of tax of
$3,656 in 2005 and $576 in 2004
|
|
|
6,499 |
|
|
|
981 |
|
|
|
Changes in fair value of outstanding hedging positions, net of
tax of ($6,545) in 2005 and ($1,552) in 2004
|
|
|
(11,637 |
) |
|
|
(2,642 |
) |
|
Foreign currency translation adjustment
|
|
|
(2,662 |
) |
|
|
4,281 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total other comprehensive income
|
|
|
(7,800 |
) |
|
|
2,620 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accumulated other comprehensive income, December 31, 2005
and 2004, respectively
|
|
$ |
(4,916 |
) |
|
$ |
2,884 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2) |
Supplemental Cash Flow Information |
The following table includes the Companys supplemental
cash flow information for the years ended December 31,
2005, 2004 and 2003 (amounts in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2003 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Cash paid for interest
|
|
$ |
21,152 |
|
|
$ |
23,320 |
|
|
$ |
23,633 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid (received) for income taxes
|
|
$ |
10,789 |
|
|
$ |
7,360 |
|
|
$ |
(4,125 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Details of business acquisitions:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fair value of assets
|
|
$ |
6,627 |
|
|
$ |
25,614 |
|
|
$ |
51,103 |
|
|
Fair value of liabilities
|
|
|
(31 |
) |
|
|
(1,158 |
) |
|
|
(35,270 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid
|
|
|
6,596 |
|
|
|
24,456 |
|
|
|
15,833 |
|
|
Less cash acquired
|
|
|
(163 |
) |
|
|
(95 |
) |
|
|
(1,535 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash paid for acquisitions
|
|
$ |
6,433 |
|
|
$ |
24,361 |
|
|
$ |
14,298 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Details of oil and gas property acquisitions:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fair value of assets
|
|
$ |
11,494 |
|
|
$ |
97,792 |
|
|
$ |
39,509 |
|
|
Fair value of liabilities
|
|
|
(11,494 |
) |
|
|
(82,107 |
) |
|
|
(39,509 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15,685 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Less cash acquired
|
|
|
(3,686 |
) |
|
|
(5,009 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash paid (received) for acquisitions
|
|
$ |
(3,686 |
) |
|
$ |
10,676 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non-cash investing activity:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Receivable from sale of affiliate
|
|
$ |
1,305 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Additional consideration payable on acquisitions
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
5,272 |
|
|
$ |
11,263 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Note receivable from asset disposition
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
938 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-14
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
|
|
(3) |
Reduction in Value of Assets |
During the year ended December 31, 2005, the Company
reduced the value of two of its mature oil and gas properties by
approximately $2.1 million due to well issues affecting
production rates and operating costs. The Company deemed it to
be uneconomical to perform additional production enhancement
work to maintain production at these properties.
Also during the year ended December 31, 2005, the
Companys oil spill containment boom manufacturing facility
suffered damage from Hurricane Katrina and experienced
difficulty in resuming normal business operations. As a result,
the Company elected not to reopen this manufacturing facility
and sell the remaining oil spill containment boom inventory. The
value of the assets of this business (which consist primarily of
inventory and property and equipment) were reduced by
approximately $1.1 million to their estimated net
realizable value.
In the first quarter of 2006, the Company sold its subsidiary
ETT for approximately $18.7 million in cash. The Company
reduced the net asset value of ETT by $3.8 million in 2005
to the approximate sales price of the subsidiary. For the years
ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, revenue from ETT
was approximately $27.7 million, $24.0 million and
$21.7 million, respectively, and operating losses were
approximately $5.1 million (inclusive of the
$3.8 million loss), $2.1 million and
$1.2 million, respectively.
|
|
(4) |
Gain on Sale of Liftboats |
Effective June 1, 2005, the Company sold 17 of its rental
liftboats with leg-lengths from 105 feet to 135 feet
for $19.6 million in cash (net of costs to sell). This
constituted all of the Companys rental fleet of liftboats
with leg-lengths of 135 feet or less. The Company recorded
a gain of $3.5 million as a result of this transaction.
As the result of a tropical storm, one of the Companys
200-foot class liftboats sank in the Gulf of Mexico on
June 30, 2003. The vessel was declared a total loss and the
Company received $8 million of insurance proceeds for the
vessel. As a result, the Company recorded a gain from the
insurance proceeds of $2.8 million, which is included in
other income in the year ended December 31, 2003.
|
|
(6) |
Acquisitions and Dispositions |
In July 2005, the Company acquired a business for an aggregate
purchase price of approximately $1.3 million in cash
consideration in order to geographically expand the snubbing
services offered by its well intervention segment. Additional
consideration, if any, will be based upon the average earnings
before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization
expense (EBITDA) over a three-year period, and will not
exceed $0.4 million. This acquisition has been accounted
for as a purchase and the acquired assets and liabilities have
been valued at their estimated fair value. The purchase price
preliminarily allocated to net assets was approximately
$1.3 million, and no goodwill was recorded. The results of
operations have been included from the acquisition date. The pro
forma effect of operations of the acquisition when included as
of the beginning of the periods presented was not material to
the Consolidated Statements of Operations of the Company.
Also in July 2005, the Companys subsidiary, SPN Resources,
LLC, acquired additional oil and gas properties at Galveston
241/255 and High Island A-309 through the acquisition of three
offshore Gulf of Mexico leases. Under the terms of the
transaction, the Company acquired the properties and assumed the
related decommissioning liabilities. The Company received
$3.7 million in cash and will invoice the sellers at agreed
upon prices as the decommissioning activities (abandonment and
structure removal) are completed. The Company preliminarily
recorded notes receivable of approximately $2.4 million,
F-15
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
decommissioning liabilities of $11.5 million and oil and
gas producing assets were recorded at their estimated fair value
of $5.4 million. The pro forma effect of operations of the
acquisition when included as of the beginning of the periods
presented was not material to the Consolidated Statements of
Operations of the Company.
In 2004, the Companys wholly-owned subsidiary, SPN
Resources, LLC, acquired additional oil and gas properties
through the acquisition of interests in 19 offshore Gulf of
Mexico leases. Under the terms of the transactions, the Company
acquired the properties and assumed the decommissioning
liabilities. In the aggregate, the Company paid
$10.7 million cash, net of amounts received. The Company
recorded decommissioning liabilities of approximately
$83.0 million and notes and other receivables of
approximately $12.5 million, and oil and gas producing
assets were recorded at their estimated fair value of
approximately $81.2 million.
In 2004, the Company acquired two businesses for an aggregate of
$2.8 million in cash consideration in order to enhance the
products and services offered by its rental tools segment and
well intervention segment. These acquisitions were accounted for
as purchases. The estimated fair value of the net assets
acquired was approximately $1.0 million in the aggregate,
and the excess purchase price over the fair value of net assets
of approximately $1.8 million was allocated to goodwill.
The results of operations have been included from the respective
acquisition dates.
Most of the Companys business acquisitions have involved
additional contingent consideration based upon a multiple of the
acquired companies respective average EBITDA over a
three-year period from the respective date of acquisition. As of
December 31, 2005, the maximum additional consideration
payable for the Companys prior acquisitions was
approximately $2.4 million, and will be determined and
payable through 2008. These amounts are not classified as
liabilities under generally accepted accounting principles and
are not reflected in the Companys financial statements
until the amounts are fixed and determinable. The Company does
not have any other financing arrangements that are not required
under generally accepted accounting principles to be reflected
in its financial statements. When the amounts are determined,
they are capitalized as part of the purchase price of the
related acquisition. In January 2005, the Company paid
additional consideration of $5.3 million as a result of a
prior acquisition, which had been capitalized and accrued in
2004.
F-16
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
|
|
(7) |
Property, Plant and Equipment |
A summary of property, plant and equipment at December 31,
2005 and 2004 (in thousands) is as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Buildings and improvements
|
|
$ |
58,567 |
|
|
$ |
57,624 |
|
Marine vessels and equipment
|
|
|
177,047 |
|
|
|
193,321 |
|
Machinery and equipment
|
|
|
394,582 |
|
|
|
342,700 |
|
Automobiles, trucks, tractors and trailers
|
|
|
9,428 |
|
|
|
10,248 |
|
Furniture and fixtures
|
|
|
13,440 |
|
|
|
11,944 |
|
Construction-in-progress
|
|
|
19,054 |
|
|
|
2,498 |
|
Land
|
|
|
6,581 |
|
|
|
6,037 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
678,699 |
|
|
|
624,372 |
|
Accumulated depreciation
|
|
|
(238,371 |
) |
|
|
(193,038 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property, plant and equipment, net
|
|
$ |
440,328 |
|
|
$ |
431,334 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oil and gas assets
|
|
|
119,986 |
|
|
|
91,104 |
|
Accumulated depletion
|
|
|
(25,352 |
) |
|
|
(7,287 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oil and gas assets, net, under the successful efforts method of
accounting
|
|
$ |
94,634 |
|
|
$ |
83,817 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amounts of property, plant and equipment leased to third parties
at December 31, 2005 and 2004 were not material.
Depreciation expense (excluding depletion, amortization and
accretion) was approximately $68.6 million,
$57.1 million and $48.5 million for the years ended
December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.
|
|
(8) |
Investments in Affiliates |
On November 2, 2005, the Companys investment in
affiliate sold substantially all of its assets. The Company
received $12.5 million as a result of the sale and has
recorded receivables of approximately $1.3 million for the
remaining proceeds to be distributed. The Company reduced the
value of this investment by approximately $1.3 million
during 2005 in anticipation of this sale.
F-17
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
The Companys long-term debt as of December 31, 2005
and 2004 consisted of the following (in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Senior Notes interest payable semiannually at
8.875%, due May 2011
|
|
$ |
200,000 |
|
|
$ |
200,000 |
|
Term Loans repaid in November 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
38,500 |
|
Revolver interest payable monthly at floating rate,
due in October 2008
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. Government guaranteed long-term financing
interest payable semianually at 6.45%, due in semiannual
installments through June 2027
|
|
|
17,406 |
|
|
|
18,216 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
217,406 |
|
|
|
256,716 |
|
Less current portion
|
|
|
810 |
|
|
|
11,810 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Long-term debt
|
|
$ |
216,596 |
|
|
$ |
244,906 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Effective October 31, 2005, the Company amended its bank
credit facility to convert the existing term loans and revolving
credit facility into a single $150 million revolving credit
facility, with an option to increase it to $250 million.
Any balance outstanding on the revolving credit facility is due
on October 31, 2008. At December 31, 2005, the Company
had no balance on this bank credit facility. The credit facility
bears interest at a LIBOR rate plus margins that depend on the
Companys leverage ratio. Indebtedness under the credit
facility is secured by substantially all of the Companys
assets, including the pledge of the stock of the Companys
principal subsidiaries. The credit facility contains customary
events of default and requires that the Company satisfy various
financial covenants. It also limits the Companys capital
expenditures, its ability to pay dividends or make other
distributions, make acquisitions, make changes to the
Companys capital structure, create liens, incur additional
indebtedness or assume additional decommissioning liabilities.
The Company also has letters of credit outstanding of
approximately $18.6 million at December 31, 2005,
which reduce the borrowing availability under its revolving
credit facility. At December 31, 2005, the Company was in
compliance with all such covenants. The Company wrote-off debt
acquisition costs of approximately $224,000 due to the repayment
of its term loans. This write-off is included in interest
expense in 2005.
The Company has $17.4 million outstanding in
U.S. Government guaranteed long-term financing under
Title XI of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, which is
administered by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for two
245-foot class liftboats. The debt bears an interest rate of
6.45% per annum and is payable in equal semi-annual
installments of $405,000, which began December 3, 2002, and
matures on June 3, 2027. The Companys obligations are
secured by mortgages on the two liftboats. In accordance with
the agreement, the Company is required to comply with certain
covenants and restrictions, including the maintenance of minimum
net worth and
debt-to-equity
requirements. This long-term financing ranks equally with the
bank credit facility as both are secured by unique assets.
The Company also has outstanding $200 million of
87/8%
unsecured senior notes due 2011. The indenture governing the
notes requires semi-annual interest payments, on every
November 15th and May 15th through the
maturity date of May 15, 2011. The Company may redeem the
notes during the
12-month period
commencing May 15, 2006 at 104.438% of the principal amount
redeemed. The indenture governing the senior notes contains
certain covenants that, among other things, prevent the Company
from incurring additional debt, paying dividends or making other
distributions, unless its ratio of cash flow to interest expense
is at least 2.25 to 1, except that the Company may incur
debt in addition to the senior notes in an amount equal to 30%
of its net tangible assets as defined, which was approximately
F-18
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
$208 million at December 31, 2005. The indenture also
contains covenants that restrict the Companys ability to
create certain liens, sell assets, or enter into certain mergers
or acquisitions.
Annual maturities of long-term debt for each of the five fiscal
years following December 31, 2005 are as follows (in
thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
$ |
810 |
|
2007
|
|
|
810 |
|
2008
|
|
|
810 |
|
2009
|
|
|
810 |
|
2010
|
|
|
810 |
|
Thereafter
|
|
|
213,356 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
$ |
217,406 |
|
|
|
|
|
The components of income tax expense (benefit) for the years
ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 are as follows (in
thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2003 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Current
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Federal
|
|
$ |
30,745 |
|
|
$ |
87 |
|
|
$ |
515 |
|
|
State
|
|
|
897 |
|
|
|
415 |
|
|
|
245 |
|
|
Foreign
|
|
|
6,087 |
|
|
|
5,320 |
|
|
|
2,365 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
37,729 |
|
|
|
5,822 |
|
|
|
3,125 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Federal
|
|
|
1,895 |
|
|
|
17,569 |
|
|
|
14,561 |
|
|
State
|
|
|
94 |
|
|
|
105 |
|
|
|
1,220 |
|
|
Foreign
|
|
|
(1,547 |
) |
|
|
(2,440 |
) |
|
|
(598 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
442 |
|
|
|
15,234 |
|
|
|
15,183 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
38,171 |
|
|
$ |
21,056 |
|
|
$ |
18,308 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income tax expense differs from the amounts computed by applying
the U.S. Federal income tax rate of 35% to income before
income taxes as follows (in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2003 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Computed expected tax expense
|
|
$ |
37,111 |
|
|
$ |
19,918 |
|
|
$ |
17,088 |
|
Increase resulting from:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
State and foreign income taxes
|
|
|
241 |
|
|
|
178 |
|
|
|
478 |
|
|
Other
|
|
|
819 |
|
|
|
960 |
|
|
|
742 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income tax expense
|
|
$ |
38,171 |
|
|
$ |
21,056 |
|
|
$ |
18,308 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-19
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
The significant components of deferred income taxes at
December 31, 2005 and 2004 are as follows (in thousands):
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Deferred tax assets:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Allowance for doubtful accounts
|
|
$ |
1,793 |
|
|
$ |
776 |
|
|
Alternative minimum tax credit and net operating loss
carryforward
|
|
|
8,198 |
|
|
|
12,358 |
|
|
Decommissioning liability
|
|
|
45,106 |
|
|
|
42,187 |
|
|
Other
|
|
|
9,476 |
|
|
|
5,133 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net deferred tax assets
|
|
|
64,573 |
|
|
|
60,454 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred tax liabilities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property, plant and equipment
|
|
|
137,185 |
|
|
|
133,710 |
|
|
Note receivable
|
|
|
11,668 |
|
|
|
14,103 |
|
|
Other
|
|
|
13,707 |
|
|
|
16,013 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred tax liabilities
|
|
|
162,560 |
|
|
|
163,826 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net deferred tax liability
|
|
$ |
97,987 |
|
|
$ |
103,372 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The net deferred tax assets reflect managements estimate
of the amount that will be realized from future profitability
and the reversal of taxable temporary differences that can be
predicted with reasonable certainty. A valuation allowance is
recognized if it is more likely than not that at least some
portion of any deferred tax asset will not be realized.
As of December 31, 2005, the Company has not established a
valuation allowance for its deferred tax assets. The Company
believes that it is more likely than not that the tax assets
will be realized because of the reversal of accelerated tax
depreciation and future taxable income.
As of December 31, 2005, the Company has an estimated
$5.3 million foreign tax credit carryforward with
expiration dates from 2011 through 2014. As of December 31,
2005, the Company also has various state net operating loss
carryforwards of an estimated $56 million with expiration
dates from 2013 through 2017.
The Company has not provided United States tax expense on
earnings of its foreign subsidiaries, since the Company has
reinvested or expects to reinvest the undistributed earnings
indefinitely. As of December 31, 2005, the undistributed
earnings of the Companys foreign subsidiaries were
approximately $22.9 million. If these earnings are
repatriated to the United States in the future, additional tax
provisions may be required. It is not practicable to estimate
the amount of taxes that might be payable on such undistributed
earnings.
The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 was passed on
October 22, 2004. This legislation allows, under certain
conditions, a one-time tax deduction of 85% of certain foreign
earnings that are repatriated prior to the end of the
Companys fiscal 2005 year. The deduction would result
in a 5.25% federal tax rate on the repatriated earnings. As of
December 31, 2004, the Company had not determined whether
earnings will be repatriated or an estimate of the possible
United States federal and state income tax expense related to
any potential repatriation. In 2005, the Company analyzed
foreign earnings that qualified for the temporary repatriation.
As a result of the analysis, the Company has determined that
there was no significant benefit to the Company from this
incentive because foreign tax credits would be available to
reduce the impact of repatriation of foreign earnings in future
years. Accordingly, the Company did not repatriate any foreign
earnings in 2005.
F-20
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
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|
(11) |
Stockholders Equity |
In December 2005, the Companys Compensation Committee of
the Board of Directors granted 24,000 shares of restricted
stock to its President. The restricted stock vests in three
equal installments on January 2, 2006, 2007 and 2008. The
Company expensed approximately $178,000 in 2005 based on the
share price of $22.24 on the date of grant and will expense
approximately $178,000 in 2006 and 2007, as the remaining shares
vest.
In October 2004, the Company sold 9,696,627 shares of
common stock that generated net proceeds (before any exercise of
the underwriters over-allotment option) of approximately
$113 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and
commissions and the estimated offering expenses. The Company
used the net proceeds to repurchase 9,696,627 shares
of its common stock from First Reserve Fund VII, Limited
Partnership and First Reserve Fund VIII, L.P. The shares
repurchased by the Company from the First Reserve funds were
retired immediately upon repurchase. In November 2004, an
additional 1,454,494 shares of the Companys common
stock were issued pursuant to the exercise of the
underwriters over-allotment option generating net proceeds
of approximately $17 million, after deducting underwriting
discounts and commissions.
In 2004, the Superior Energy Services, Inc. 2004 Directors
Restricted Stock Units Plan was approved by the Companys
stockholders. This plan provides each non-employee director is
granted a number of restricted stock units having an aggregate
value of $30,000, with the exact number of units determined by
dividing $30,000 by the fair market value of the Companys
common stock on the day of the annual stockholders
meeting. In addition, upon any persons initial election or
appointment as an eligible director, other than at an annual
stockholders meeting, such person will receive a pro forma
number of restricted stock units based on the number of full
calendar months between the date of grant and the first
anniversary of the previous annual stockholders meeting. A
restricted stock unit represents the right to receive from the
Company, within 30 days of the date the participant ceases
to serve on the Board, one share of the Companys common
stock. As a result of this plan, 19,998 restricted stock units
are outstanding at December 31, 2005.
The Company maintains various stock incentive plans, including
the 2002 Stock Incentive Plan (2002 Incentive Plan), the 1999
Stock Incentive Plan (1999 Incentive Plan) and the 1995 Stock
Incentive Plan (1995 Incentive Plan), as amended. These plans
provide long-term incentives to the Companys key
employees, including officers and directors, consultants and
advisers (Eligible Participants). Under the 2002 Incentive Plan,
the 1999 Incentive Plan and the 1995 Incentive Plan, the Company
may grant incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options,
restricted stock, stock awards or any combination thereof to
Eligible Participants for up to 1,400,000 shares,
5,929,327 shares and 1,900,000 shares, respectively,
of the Companys common stock. The Compensation Committee
of the Companys Board of Directors establishes the term
and the exercise price of any stock options granted under the
2002 Incentive Plan, provided the exercise price may not be less
than the fair value of the common share on the date of grant.
All of the options which have been granted under the 1995 Stock
Incentive Plan are vested.
F-21
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
A summary of stock options granted under the incentive plans for
the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 is as
follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2003 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Weighted | |
|
|
|
Weighted | |
|
|
|
Weighted | |
|
|
Number of | |
|
Average | |
|
Number of | |
|
Average | |
|
Number of | |
|
Average | |
|
|
Shares | |
|
Price | |
|
Shares | |
|
Price | |
|
Shares | |
|
Price | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Outstanding at beginning of year
|
|
|
5,797,295 |
|
|
$ |
8.43 |
|
|
|
5,628,000 |
|
|
$ |
7.53 |
|
|
|
5,518,516 |
|
|
$ |
7.33 |
|
Granted
|
|
|
863,500 |
|
|
$ |
17.46 |
|
|
|
1,490,000 |
|
|
$ |
10.66 |
|
|
|
538,000 |
|
|
$ |
8.94 |
|
Exercised
|
|
|
(2,709,624 |
) |
|
$ |
6.94 |
|
|
|
(1,196,060 |
) |
|
$ |
7.01 |
|
|
|
(271,913 |
) |
|
$ |
6.72 |
|
Forfeited
|
|
|
(57,538 |
) |
|
$ |
10.23 |
|
|
|
(124,645 |
) |
|
$ |
8.14 |
|
|
|
(156,603 |
) |
|
$ |
7.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outstanding at end of year
|
|
|
3,893,633 |
|
|
$ |
11.44 |
|
|
|
5,797,295 |
|
|
$ |
8.43 |
|
|
|
5,628,000 |
|
|
$ |
7.53 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercisable at end of year
|
|
|
3,759,721 |
|
|
$ |
11.53 |
|
|
|
5,328,741 |
|
|
$ |
8.37 |
|
|
|
4,248,244 |
|
|
$ |
7.08 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Available for future grants
|
|
|
3,229,784 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
35,746 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,401,101 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average fair value of grants during the year
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
7.47 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
6.22 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
3.59 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A summary of information regarding stock options outstanding at
December 31, 2005 is as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Options Outstanding | |
|
Options Exercisable | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Weighted Average | |
|
Weighted | |
|
|
|
Weighted | |
|
|
|
|
Remaining | |
|
Average | |
|
|
|
Average | |
Range of Exercise Prices |
|
Shares | |
|
Contractual Life | |
|
Price | |
|
Shares | |
|
Price | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
$ 4.75 - $ 5.75
|
|
|
33,000 |
|
|
|
2.7 years |
|
|
$ |
5.36 |
|
|
|
33,000 |
|
|
$ |
5.36 |
|
$ 7.06 - $ 9.00
|
|
|
744,610 |
|
|
|
6.1 years |
|
|
$ |
8.38 |
|
|
|
619,031 |
|
|
$ |
8.30 |
|
$ 9.10 - $12.45
|
|
|
2,252,523 |
|
|
|
7.6 years |
|
|
$ |
10.23 |
|
|
|
2,244,190 |
|
|
$ |
10.23 |
|
$12.50 - $17.46
|
|
|
863,500 |
|
|
|
9.5 years |
|
|
$ |
17.46 |
|
|
|
863,500 |
|
|
$ |
17.46 |
|
The Company maintains a defined contribution profit-sharing plan
for employees who have satisfied minimum service and age
requirements. Employees may contribute up to 75% of their
earnings to the plans. The Company provides a discretionary
match, not to exceed 5% of an employees salary. The
Company made contributions of approximately $1.9 million,
$1.7 million and $1.6 million, in 2005, 2004 and 2003,
respectively.
The Company has a nonqualified defined contribution deferred
compensation plan which allows certain highly-compensated
employees the option to defer up to 75% of their salary and up
to 100% of their bonus compensation to the plan. Payments are
made after the employee terminates, based on their distribution
election and plan balance. Participants earn a return on their
deferred compensation that is based on hypothetical investments
in certain mutual funds. Changes in market value of these
hypothetical participant investments are reflected as an
adjustment to the deferred compensation liability of the Company
with an offset to compensation expense. As of December 31,
2005, the liability of the Company to the participants was
approximately $1.5 million and is recorded in Other
Long-Term Liabilities, which reflects the accumulated
participant deferrals and earnings as of that date. The Company
makes contributions equal to the participant deferrals into life
insurance which is invested in mutual funds similar to the
participants elections. A change in market value of the
life insurance is reflected as an adjustment to the deferred
compensation plan asset with an offset to interest income or
expense. As of December 31,
F-22
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
2005, the deferred contribution plan asset was approximately
$1.4 million and is recorded in Other Long-Term Assets.
|
|
(13) |
Commitments and Contingencies |
The Company leases certain office, service and assembly
facilities under operating leases. The leases expire at various
dates over the next several years. Total rent expense was
approximately $4.3 million in 2005, $4.2 million in
2004 and $2.3 million in 2003. Future minimum lease
payments under non-cancelable leases for the five years ending
December 31, 2006 through 2010 and thereafter are as
follows: $6,360,000, $4,837,000, $2,723,000, $1,667,000,
$1,137,000 and $14,181,000, respectively. Future minimum lease
payments receivable under non-cancelable sub-leases for the
years ending December 31, 2006 through 2008 are as follows:
$535,000, $592,000, and $49,000, respectively.
From time to time, the Company is involved in litigation arising
out of operations in the normal course of business. In
managements opinion, the Company is not involved in any
litigation, the outcome of which would have a material effect on
its financial position, results of operations or liquidity.
(14) Segment
Information
The Company modified its segment disclosure by combining its
other oilfield services segment into the well intervention
segment. In February 2006, the Company sold its environmental
subsidiary, which comprised a large part of the other oilfield
services segment. The remaining businesses, which include
platform and field management services, environmental cleaning
services and the sale of drilling instrumentation equipment, are
impacted by similar factors that affect the well intervention
segment. The combination of the well intervention and other
oilfield services segments better reflects the way management
evaluates the Companys results. The prior year segment
presentation has been restated to conform to the current segment
classification.
The Companys reportable segments are now as follows: well
intervention, rental tools, marine, and oil and gas. The first
three segments offer products and services within the oilfield
services industry. The well intervention segment provides plug
and abandonment services, coiled tubing services, well pumping
and stimulation services, data acquisition services, gas lift
services, electric wireline services, hydraulic drilling and
workover services, well control services, drilling
instrumentation equipment, contract operations and maintenance
services, transportation and logistics services, offshore oil
and gas cleaning services, engineering support, technical
analysis and mechanical wireline services that perform a variety
of ongoing maintenance and repairs to producing wells, as well
as modifications to enhance the production capacity and life
span of the well. The rental tools segment rents and sells
stabilizers, drill pipe, tubulars and specialized equipment for
use with onshore and offshore oil and gas well drilling,
completion, production and workover activities. It also provides
onsite accommodations and bolting and machining services. The
marine segment operates liftboats for production service
activities, as well as oil and gas production facility
maintenance, construction operations and platform removals. The
oil and gas segment acquires mature oil and gas properties and
produces and sells any remaining economic oil and gas reserves
prior to the Companys other segments providing
decommissioning services. Oil and gas eliminations represent
products and services provided to the oil and gas segment by the
Companys three other segments.
The accounting policies of the reportable segments are the same
as those described in Note 1 of these Notes to the
Consolidated Financial Statements. The Company evaluates the
performance of its operating segments based on operating profits
or losses. Segment revenues reflect direct sales of products and
services for that segment, and each segment records direct
expenses related to its employees and its operations.
Identifiable assets are primarily those assets directly used in
the operations of each segment.
F-23
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
Summarized financial information concerning the Companys
segments as of December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 and for the
years then ended is shown in the following tables (in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oil & Gas | |
|
|
|
|
Well | |
|
Rental | |
|
|
|
|
|
Eliminations | |
|
Consolid. | |
2005 |
|
Interven. | |
|
Tools | |
|
Marine | |
|
Oil & Gas | |
|
& Unallocated | |
|
Total | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Revenues
|
|
$ |
339,609 |
|
|
$ |
243,536 |
|
|
$ |
87,267 |
|
|
$ |
78,911 |
|
|
$ |
(13,989 |
) |
|
$ |
735,334 |
|
Costs of services
|
|
|
213,638 |
|
|
|
82,562 |
|
|
|
47,989 |
|
|
|
45,804 |
|
|
|
(13,989 |
) |
|
|
376,004 |
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
18,135 |
|
|
|
42,445 |
|
|
|
8,214 |
|
|
|
20,494 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
89,288 |
|
General and administrative
|
|
|
71,027 |
|
|
|
54,533 |
|
|
|
9,889 |
|
|
|
5,540 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
140,989 |
|
Reduction in value of assets
|
|
|
4,850 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,144 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,994 |
|
Gain on sale of liftboats
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,544 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,544 |
|
Operating income
|
|
|
31,959 |
|
|
|
63,996 |
|
|
|
24,719 |
|
|
|
4,929 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
125,603 |
|
Interest expense
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(21,862 |
) |
|
|
(21,862 |
) |
Interest income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,160 |
|
|
|
1,041 |
|
|
|
2,201 |
|
Equity in earnings of affiliates
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,339 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,339 |
|
Reduction in value of investment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,250 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,250 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income (loss) before income taxes
|
|
$ |
31,959 |
|
|
$ |
64,085 |
|
|
$ |
24,719 |
|
|
$ |
6,089 |
|
|
$ |
(20,821 |
) |
|
$ |
106,031 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Identifiable assets
|
|
$ |
332,996 |
|
|
$ |
405,527 |
|
|
$ |
203,718 |
|
|
$ |
147,667 |
|
|
$ |
7,342 |
|
|
$ |
1,097,250 |
|
Capital expenditures
|
|
$ |
24,847 |
|
|
$ |
70,227 |
|
|
$ |
10,399 |
|
|
$ |
19,693 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
125,166 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oil & Gas | |
|
|
|
|
Well | |
|
Rental | |
|
|
|
|
|
Eliminations | |
|
Consolid. | |
2004 |
|
Interven. | |
|
Tools | |
|
Marine | |
|
Oil & Gas | |
|
& Unallocated | |
|
Total | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Revenues
|
|
$ |
295,690 |
|
|
$ |
170,064 |
|
|
$ |
69,808 |
|
|
$ |
37,008 |
|
|
$ |
(8,231 |
) |
|
$ |
564,339 |
|
Costs of services
|
|
|
189,858 |
|
|
|
57,353 |
|
|
|
49,581 |
|
|
|
21,547 |
|
|
|
(8,231 |
) |
|
|
310,108 |
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
17,435 |
|
|
|
32,527 |
|
|
|
7,362 |
|
|
|
10,013 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
67,337 |
|
General and administrative
|
|
|
58,703 |
|
|
|
42,165 |
|
|
|
7,085 |
|
|
|
2,652 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
110,605 |
|
Operating income
|
|
|
29,694 |
|
|
|
38,019 |
|
|
|
5,780 |
|
|
|
2,796 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
76,289 |
|
Interest expense
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(22,476 |
) |
|
|
(22,476 |
) |
Interest income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,648 |
|
|
|
118 |
|
|
|
1,766 |
|
Equity in earnings of affiliates
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,329 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,329 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income (loss) before income taxes
|
|
$ |
29,694 |
|
|
$ |
39,348 |
|
|
$ |
5,780 |
|
|
$ |
4,444 |
|
|
$ |
(22,358 |
) |
|
$ |
56,908 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Identifiable assets
|
|
$ |
313,431 |
|
|
$ |
357,762 |
|
|
$ |
184,928 |
|
|
$ |
141,179 |
|
|
$ |
6,613 |
|
|
$ |
1,003,913 |
|
Capital expenditures
|
|
$ |
12,735 |
|
|
$ |
50,687 |
|
|
$ |
5,523 |
|
|
$ |
5,180 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
74,125 |
|
F-24
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Well | |
|
Rental | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Consolid. | |
2003 |
|
Interven. | |
|
Tools | |
|
Marine | |
|
Oil & Gas | |
|
Unallocated | |
|
Total | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Revenues
|
|
$ |
288,152 |
|
|
$ |
141,362 |
|
|
$ |
70,370 |
|
|
$ |
741 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
500,625 |
|
Costs of services
|
|
|
192,843 |
|
|
|
46,119 |
|
|
|
50,314 |
|
|
|
331 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
289,607 |
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
16,361 |
|
|
|
25,696 |
|
|
|
6,665 |
|
|
|
131 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
48,853 |
|
General and administrative
|
|
|
54,215 |
|
|
|
33,457 |
|
|
|
7,122 |
|
|
|
28 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
94,822 |
|
Operating income
|
|
|
24,733 |
|
|
|
36,090 |
|
|
|
6,269 |
|
|
|
251 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
67,343 |
|
Interest expense
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(22,477 |
) |
|
|
(22,477 |
) |
Interest income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
51 |
|
|
|
158 |
|
|
|
209 |
|
Other income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,762 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,762 |
|
Equity in earnings of affiliates
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
985 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
985 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income (loss) before income taxes
|
|
$ |
24,733 |
|
|
$ |
37,075 |
|
|
$ |
9,031 |
|
|
$ |
302 |
|
|
$ |
(22,319 |
) |
|
$ |
48,822 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Identifiable assets
|
|
$ |
288,443 |
|
|
$ |
314,122 |
|
|
$ |
181,752 |
|
|
$ |
41,315 |
|
|
$ |
7,231 |
|
|
$ |
832,863 |
|
Capital expenditures
|
|
$ |
17,940 |
|
|
$ |
30,192 |
|
|
$ |
2,043 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
50,175 |
|
The Company attributes revenue to various countries based on the
location of where services are performed or the destination of
the sale of products. Long-lived assets consist primarily of
property, plant, and equipment and are attributed to various
countries based on the physical location of the asset at a given
fiscal year-end. The Companys information by geographic
area is as follows (amounts in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues | |
|
Long-Lived Assets | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
Years Ended December 31, | |
|
December 31, | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2003 | |
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
United States
|
|
$ |
636,062 |
|
|
$ |
476,771 |
|
|
$ |
443,936 |
|
|
$ |
492,602 |
|
|
$ |
479,812 |
|
Other Countries
|
|
|
99,272 |
|
|
|
87,568 |
|
|
|
56,689 |
|
|
|
42,360 |
|
|
|
35,339 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
$ |
735,334 |
|
|
$ |
564,339 |
|
|
$ |
500,625 |
|
|
$ |
534,962 |
|
|
$ |
515,151 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(15) |
Interim Financial Information (Unaudited) |
The following is a summary of consolidated interim financial
information for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004
(amounts in thousands, except per share data):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended | |
|
|
| |
2005 |
|
March 31 | |
|
June 30 | |
|
Sept. 30 | |
|
Dec. 31 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Revenues
|
|
$ |
173,247 |
|
|
$ |
190,000 |
|
|
$ |
184,101 |
|
|
$ |
187,986 |
|
Gross profit
|
|
|
86,829 |
|
|
|
99,348 |
|
|
|
82,704 |
|
|
|
90,449 |
|
Net income
|
|
|
17,209 |
|
|
|
25,054 |
|
|
|
9,358 |
|
|
|
16,238 |
|
Earnings per share:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic
|
|
$ |
0.22 |
|
|
$ |
0.32 |
|
|
$ |
0.12 |
|
|
$ |
0.20 |
|
|
Diluted
|
|
|
0.22 |
|
|
|
0.32 |
|
|
|
0.12 |
|
|
|
0.20 |
|
F-25
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended | |
|
|
| |
2004 |
|
March 31 | |
|
June 30 | |
|
Sept. 30 | |
|
Dec. 31 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Revenues
|
|
$ |
116,459 |
|
|
$ |
137,545 |
|
|
$ |
152,500 |
|
|
$ |
157,835 |
|
Gross profit
|
|
|
49,754 |
|
|
|
60,401 |
|
|
|
70,089 |
|
|
|
73,987 |
|
Net income
|
|
|
3,564 |
|
|
|
8,714 |
|
|
|
11,288 |
|
|
|
12,286 |
|
Earnings per share:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic
|
|
$ |
0.05 |
|
|
$ |
0.12 |
|
|
$ |
0.15 |
|
|
$ |
0.16 |
|
|
Diluted
|
|
|
0.05 |
|
|
|
0.12 |
|
|
|
0.15 |
|
|
|
0.16 |
|
|
|
(16) |
Supplementary Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures
(Unaudited) |
The Companys December 31, 2005 and 2004 estimates of
proved reserves are based on reserve reports prepared by
DeGolyer and MacNaughton, independent petroleum engineers. The
estimates of proved reserves at December 31, 2003 are based
on internal reports. Users of this information should be aware
that the process of estimating quantities of proved
and proved developed natural gas and crude oil
reserves is very complex, requiring significant subjective
decisions in the evaluation of all available geological,
engineering and economic data for each reservoir. This data may
also change substantially over time as a result of multiple
factors including, but not limited to, additional development
activity, evolving production history and continual reassessment
of the viability of production under varying economic
conditions. Consequently, material revisions to existing reserve
estimates occur from time to time. Although every reasonable
effort is made to ensure that reserve estimates reported
represent the most accurate assessments possible, the
significance of the subjective decisions required and variances
in available data for various reservoirs make these estimates
generally less precise than other estimates presented in
connection with financial statement disclosures. Proved reserves
are estimated quantities of natural gas, crude oil and
condensate that geological and engineering data demonstrate,
with reasonable certainty, to be recoverable in future years
from known reservoirs under existing economic and operating
conditions. Proved developed reserves are proved reserves that
can be expected to be recovered through existing wells with
existing equipment and operating methods.
F-26
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
The following table sets forth the Companys net proved
reserves, including the changes therein, and proved developed
reserves:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Crude Oil | |
|
Natural Gas | |
|
|
(Mbbls) | |
|
(Mmcf) | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Proved-developed and undeveloped reserves:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
December 31, 2002
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Purchase of reserves in place
|
|
|
193 |
|
|
|
3,304 |
|
|
Revisions
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1 |
) |
|
Production
|
|
|
(3 |
) |
|
|
(79 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
December 31, 2003
|
|
|
190 |
|
|
|
3,224 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Purchase of reserves in place
|
|
|
9,232 |
|
|
|
17,968 |
|
|
Revisions
|
|
|
88 |
|
|
|
11,407 |
|
|
Production
|
|
|
(390 |
) |
|
|
(3,219 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
December 31, 2004
|
|
|
9,120 |
|
|
|
29,380 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Purchase of reserves in place
|
|
|
168 |
|
|
|
2,925 |
|
|
Revisions(1)
|
|
|
1,036 |
|
|
|
(5,294 |
) |
|
Production
|
|
|
(1,221 |
) |
|
|
(3,323 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
December 31, 2005
|
|
|
9,103 |
|
|
|
23,688 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proved-developed reserves:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
December 31, 2003
|
|
|
64 |
|
|
|
3,190 |
|
|
December 31, 2004
|
|
|
7,731 |
|
|
|
25,542 |
|
|
December 31, 2005
|
|
|
7,554 |
|
|
|
21,703 |
|
|
|
(1) |
The downward revisions in 2005 were primarily attributable to
three factors: 1) the Company determined that it would not
undertake four previously planned behind pipe recompletions,
2) one well was plugged and abandoned after experiencing
continuing mechanical difficulties, and 3) production rates
from several wells after their acquisition by the Company did
not support the reserve level initially established. |
Since January 1, 2005 no crude oil or natural gas reserve
information has been filed with, or included in any report to
any federal authority or agency other than the SEC and the
Energy Information Administration (EIA). The Company
files Form 23, including reserve and other information with
the EIA.
Costs incurred for oil and natural gas property acquisition and
development activities for the years ended December 31,
2005, 2004 and 2003 are as follows (in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Years Ended December 31, | |
|
|
| |
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2003 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Acquisition of properties proved
|
|
$ |
9,015 |
|
|
$ |
81,356 |
|
|
$ |
5,041 |
|
Development costs
|
|
|
19,867 |
|
|
|
4,707 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total costs incurred
|
|
$ |
28,882 |
|
|
$ |
86,063 |
|
|
$ |
5,041 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-27
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows
Relating to Reserves
The following information has been developed utilizing
procedures prescribed by Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 69 (FAS No. 69), Disclosure
about Oil and Gas Producing Activities. It may be useful
for certain comparative purposes, but should not be solely
relied upon in evaluating the Company or its performance.
Further, information contained in the following table should not
be considered as representative of realistic assessments of
future cash flows, nor should the Standardized Measure of
Discounted Future Net Cash Flows be viewed as representative of
the current value of the Company.
The Company believes that the following factors should be taken
into account in reviewing the following information:
(1) future costs and selling prices will probably differ
from those required to be used in these calculations;
(2) due to future market conditions and governmental
regulations, actual rates of production achieved in future years
may vary significantly from the rate of production assumed in
the calculations; (3) selection of a 10% discount rate is
arbitrary and may not be reasonable as a measure of the relative
risk inherent in realizing future net oil and gas revenues; and
(4) future net revenues may be subject to different rates
of income taxation.
Under the Standardized Measure, future cash inflows were
estimated by applying period end oil and natural gas prices
adjusted for differentials provided by the Company. Future cash
inflows were reduced by estimated future development,
abandonment and production costs based on period-end costs in
order to arrive at net cash flow before tax. Future income tax
expense has been computed by the Company by applying period-end
statutory tax rates to aggregate future net cash flows, reduced
by the tax basis of the properties involved and tax
carryforwards. Use of a 10% discount rate is required by
FAS No. 69.
The Companys management does not rely solely upon the
following information in making investment and operating
decisions. Such decisions are based upon a wide range of
factors, including estimates of probable as well as proved
reserves and varying price and cost assumptions considered more
representative of a range of possible economic conditions that
may be anticipated.
The standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows
relating to proved oil and natural gas reserves is as follows
(in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2003 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Future cash inflows
|
|
$ |
792,246 |
|
|
$ |
587,277 |
|
|
$ |
26,002 |
|
|
Future production costs
|
|
|
(155,282 |
) |
|
|
(148,610 |
) |
|
|
(12,603 |
) |
|
Future development and abandonment costs
|
|
|
(195,415 |
) |
|
|
(153,230 |
) |
|
|
(6,641 |
) |
|
Future income tax expense
|
|
|
(171,058 |
) |
|
|
(119,567 |
) |
|
|
(2,748 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Future net cash flows after income taxes
|
|
|
270,491 |
|
|
|
165,870 |
|
|
|
4,010 |
|
10% annual discount for estimated timing of cash flows
|
|
|
65,386 |
|
|
|
29,363 |
|
|
|
20 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows
|
|
$ |
205,105 |
|
|
$ |
136,507 |
|
|
$ |
3,990 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-28
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
A summary of the changes in the standardized measure of
discounted future net cash flows applicable to proved oil and
natural gas reserves for the years ended December 31, 2005,
2004 and 2003 is as follows (in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 | |
|
2004 | |
|
2003 | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Beginning of the period
|
|
$ |
136,507 |
|
|
$ |
3,990 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
Sales and transfers of oil and natural gas produced, net of
production costs
|
|
|
(34,563 |
) |
|
|
(15,467 |
) |
|
|
(470 |
) |
Net changes in prices and production costs
|
|
|
156,992 |
|
|
|
949 |
|
|
|
(1 |
) |
Revisions of quantity estimates
|
|
|
4,314 |
|
|
|
46,040 |
|
|
|
(8 |
) |
Development costs incurred
|
|
|
19,867 |
|
|
|
4,707 |
|
|
|
|
|
Changes in estimated development costs
|
|
|
(46,113 |
) |
|
|
(99,253 |
) |
|
|
(5,496 |
) |
Purchase and sales of reserves in place
|
|
|
18,408 |
|
|
|
282,935 |
|
|
|
12,552 |
|
Changes in production rates (timing) and other
|
|
|
(25,536 |
) |
|
|
(3,238 |
) |
|
|
(13 |
) |
Accretion of discount
|
|
|
22,123 |
|
|
|
656 |
|
|
|
|
|
Net change in income taxes
|
|
|
(46,894 |
) |
|
|
(84,812 |
) |
|
|
(2,574 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase
|
|
|
68,598 |
|
|
|
132,517 |
|
|
|
3,990 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
End of period
|
|
$ |
205,105 |
|
|
$ |
136,507 |
|
|
$ |
3,990 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The December 31, 2005 amounts were estimated by DeGolyer
and MacNaughton using a period-end crude NYMEX price of
$61.04 per barrel (bbl), a NYMEX gas price of
$9.44 per million British Thermal units, and price
differentials provided by the Company. The December 31,
2004 amounts were estimated by DeGolyer and MacNaughton using a
period-end crude NYMEX price of $43.46 per bbl, a Henry Hub
gas price of $6.19 per million British Thermal units, and
price differentials provided by the Company. The
December 31, 2003 amounts were estimated by the Company
using a period end oil price of $32.55 per bbl and
$6.14 per thousand cubic feet (mcf) for natural gas.
The Company had no oil and gas holdings prior to 2003. Spot
prices as of February 28, 2006 were $6.71 per million
British Thermal units for natural gas and $61.41 per bbl
for crude oil.
|
|
(17) |
Accounting Pronouncements |
In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board
revised its Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
No. 123 (FAS No. 123R), Accounting for
Stock Based Compensation. Under FAS No. 123R,
companies will be required to recognize as expense the estimated
fair value of all share-based payments to employees, including
the fair value of employee stock options. This expense will be
recognized over the period during which the employee is required
to provide service in exchange for the award. Pro forma
disclosure of the estimated expense impact of such awards is no
longer an alternative to expense recognition in the financial
statements. FAS No. 123R is effective for public
companies in the first annual period beginning after
June 15, 2005, and accordingly, the Company will adopt the
provisions of FAS No. 123R effective January 1,
2006. The Company anticipates using the modified prospective
application transition method, which does not include
restatement of prior periods. The Company expects to record
approximately $89,000 of compensation expense in 2006 due to the
adoption of FAS No. 123R for share-based awards
granted prior to January 1, 2006. The Company expects the
effect of the adoption on future share-based awards to be
consistent with the disclosure of pro forma net income and
earnings per share as displayed in note 1 of its
consolidated financial statements.
In May 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 154
(FAS No. 154), Accounting Changes and Error
Corrections. This Statement
F-29
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements (Continued)
replaces APB Opinion No. 20, Accounting Changes
and FASB Statement No. 3, Reporting Accounting
Changes in Interim Financial Statements.
FAS No. 154 provides guidance on the accounting for
and reporting of accounting changes and error corrections. It
establishes, unless impracticable, retrospective application as
the required method for reporting all changes in accounting
principle in the absence of explicit transition requirements of
new pronouncements. FAS No. 154 is effective for
accounting changes and error corrections made in fiscal years
beginning after December 15, 2005.
|
|
(18) |
Financial Information Related to Guarantor
Subsidiaries |
In May 2006, SESI, L.L.C. (Issuer), a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Superior Energy Services, Inc.
(Parent), issued $300 million of
67/8% Senior
Notes at 98.489%. The Parent, along with substantially all of
its direct and indirect subsidiaries, fully and unconditionally
guaranteed the Senior Notes and such guarantees are joint and
several. All of the guarantor subsidiaries are wholly-owned,
direct or indirect subsidiaries of the Issuer. Income taxes are
paid by the Parent through a consolidated tax return and are
accounted for by the Parent. The following tables present the
condensed consolidating financial statements as of
December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003.
F-30
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidating Balance Sheets
December 31, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non- | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor | |
|
Guarantor | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Parent | |
|
Issuer | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Eliminations | |
|
Consolidated | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
(In thousands) | |
ASSETS |
Current assets:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
21,414 |
|
|
$ |
19,421 |
|
|
$ |
13,622 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
54,457 |
|
|
Accounts receivable net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,748 |
|
|
|
180,670 |
|
|
|
23,332 |
|
|
|
(11,385 |
) |
|
|
196,365 |
|
|
Current portion of notes receivable
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,364 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,364 |
|
|
Prepaid insurance and other
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,039 |
|
|
|
46,237 |
|
|
|
1,840 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
51,116 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total current assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28,201 |
|
|
|
248,692 |
|
|
|
38,794 |
|
|
|
(11,385 |
) |
|
|
304,302 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property, plant and equipment net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
481,265 |
|
|
|
53,697 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
534,962 |
|
Goodwill net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
196,696 |
|
|
|
23,368 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
220,064 |
|
Notes receivable
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29,483 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29,483 |
|
Investments in subsidiaries and affiliates
|
|
|
124,271 |
|
|
|
203,083 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
953 |
|
|
|
(327,354 |
) |
|
|
953 |
|
Other assets net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,390 |
|
|
|
553 |
|
|
|
543 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,486 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total assets
|
|
$ |
124,271 |
|
|
$ |
237,674 |
|
|
$ |
956,689 |
|
|
$ |
117,355 |
|
|
$ |
(338,739 |
) |
|
$ |
1,097,250 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY |
Current liabilities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
821 |
|
|
$ |
34,790 |
|
|
$ |
17,809 |
|
|
$ |
(11,385 |
) |
|
$ |
42,035 |
|
|
Accrued expenses
|
|
|
269 |
|
|
|
17,300 |
|
|
|
46,025 |
|
|
|
6,332 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
69,926 |
|
|
Income taxes payable
|
|
|
9,917 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,436 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11,353 |
|
|
Fair value of commodity derivative instruments
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10,792 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10,792 |
|
|
Current portion of decommissioning liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14,268 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14,268 |
|
|
Current maturities of long-term debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
810 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
810 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total current liabilities
|
|
|
10,186 |
|
|
|
18,121 |
|
|
|
105,875 |
|
|
|
26,387 |
|
|
|
(11,385 |
) |
|
|
149,184 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred income taxes
|
|
|
95,196 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,791 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
97,987 |
|
Decommissioning liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
107,641 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
107,641 |
|
Long-term debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
200,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16,596 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
216,596 |
|
Intercompany payables/(receivables)
|
|
|
(332,937 |
) |
|
|
31,751 |
|
|
|
467,362 |
|
|
|
29,554 |
|
|
|
(195,730 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Other long-term liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,458 |
|
|
|
10 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,468 |
|
Stockholders equity:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Preferred stock of $.01 par value
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common stock of $.001 par value
|
|
|
79 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
101 |
|
|
|
(101 |
) |
|
|
79 |
|
|
Additional paid in capital
|
|
|
428,507 |
|
|
|
127,173 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,350 |
|
|
|
(131,523 |
) |
|
|
428,507 |
|
|
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(6,799 |
) |
|
|
1,883 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(4,916 |
) |
Retained earnings (deficit)
|
|
|
(76,760 |
) |
|
|
(140,829 |
) |
|
|
282,600 |
|
|
|
35,693 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
100,704 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total stockholders equity
|
|
|
351,826 |
|
|
|
(13,656 |
) |
|
|
275,801 |
|
|
|
42,027 |
|
|
|
(131,624 |
) |
|
|
524,374 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total liabilities and stockholders equity
|
|
$ |
124,271 |
|
|
$ |
237,674 |
|
|
$ |
956,689 |
|
|
$ |
117,355 |
|
|
$ |
(338,739 |
) |
|
$ |
1,097,250 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-31
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidating Balance Sheets
December 31, 2004
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non- | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor | |
|
Guarantor | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Parent | |
|
Issuer | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Eliminations | |
|
Consolidated | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
(In thousands) | |
ASSETS |
Current assets:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
3,548 |
|
|
$ |
5,173 |
|
|
$ |
6,560 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
15,281 |
|
|
Accounts receivable net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,722 |
|
|
|
144,233 |
|
|
|
15,862 |
|
|
|
(5,582 |
) |
|
|
156,235 |
|
|
Income taxes receivable
|
|
|
4,028 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,334 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,694 |
|
|
Current portion of notes receivable
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,611 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,611 |
|
|
Prepaid insurance and other
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,148 |
|
|
|
23,677 |
|
|
|
2,378 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28,203 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total current assets
|
|
|
4,028 |
|
|
|
7,418 |
|
|
|
182,694 |
|
|
|
23,466 |
|
|
|
(5,582 |
) |
|
|
212,024 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property, plant and equipment net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
466,217 |
|
|
|
48,934 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
515,151 |
|
Goodwill net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
200,444 |
|
|
|
26,149 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
226,593 |
|
Notes receivable
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29,131 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29,131 |
|
Investments in subsidiaries and affiliates
|
|
|
124,271 |
|
|
|
182,935 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13,552 |
|
|
|
(307,206 |
) |
|
|
13,552 |
|
Other assets net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,667 |
|
|
|
852 |
|
|
|
943 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,462 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total assets
|
|
$ |
128,299 |
|
|
$ |
196,020 |
|
|
$ |
879,338 |
|
|
$ |
113,044 |
|
|
$ |
(312,788 |
) |
|
$ |
1,003,913 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY |
Current liabilities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
786 |
|
|
$ |
31,239 |
|
|
$ |
10,053 |
|
|
$ |
(5,582 |
) |
|
$ |
36,496 |
|
|
Accrued expenses
|
|
|
16 |
|
|
|
13,294 |
|
|
|
40,422 |
|
|
|
3,064 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
56,796 |
|
|
Fair value of commodity derivative instruments
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,018 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,018 |
|
|
Current portion of decommissioning liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23,588 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23,588 |
|
|
Current maturities of long-term debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
810 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11,810 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total current liabilities
|
|
|
16 |
|
|
|
25,080 |
|
|
|
97,267 |
|
|
|
13,927 |
|
|
|
(5,582 |
) |
|
|
130,708 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred income taxes
|
|
|
97,514 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,858 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
103,372 |
|
Decommissioning liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
90,430 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
90,430 |
|
Long-term debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
227,500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17,406 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
244,906 |
|
Intercompany payables/(receivables)
|
|
|
(324,710 |
) |
|
|
(91,968 |
) |
|
|
550,285 |
|
|
|
41,975 |
|
|
|
(175,582 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Other long-term liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
618 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
618 |
|
Stockholders equity:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Preferred stock of $.01 par value
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common stock of $.001 par value
|
|
|
77 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
101 |
|
|
|
(101 |
) |
|
|
77 |
|
|
Additional paid in capital
|
|
|
398,073 |
|
|
|
127,173 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,350 |
|
|
|
(131,523 |
) |
|
|
398,073 |
|
|
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,662 |
) |
|
|
4,546 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,884 |
|
|
Retained earnings (deficit)
|
|
|
(42,671 |
) |
|
|
(91,765 |
) |
|
|
142,400 |
|
|
|
24,881 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
32,845 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total stockholders equity
|
|
|
355,479 |
|
|
|
35,408 |
|
|
|
140,738 |
|
|
|
33,878 |
|
|
|
(131,624 |
) |
|
|
433,879 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total liabilities and stockholders equity
|
|
$ |
128,299 |
|
|
$ |
196,020 |
|
|
$ |
879,338 |
|
|
$ |
113,044 |
|
|
$ |
(312,788 |
) |
|
$ |
1,003,913 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-32
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidating Statements of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non- | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor | |
|
Guarantor | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Parent | |
|
Issuer | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Eliminations | |
|
Consolidated | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
(In thousands) | |
Oilfield service and rental revenues
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
606,415 |
|
|
$ |
76,102 |
|
|
$ |
(26,094 |
) |
|
$ |
656,423 |
|
Oil and gas revenues
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
78,911 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
78,911 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total revenues
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
685,326 |
|
|
|
76,102 |
|
|
|
(26,094 |
) |
|
|
735,334 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of oilfield services and rentals
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
313,386 |
|
|
|
42,908 |
|
|
|
(26,094 |
) |
|
|
330,200 |
|
Cost of oil and gas sales
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
45,804 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
45,804 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total cost of services, rentals and sales
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
359,190 |
|
|
|
42,908 |
|
|
|
(26,094 |
) |
|
|
376,004 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
81,817 |
|
|
|
7,471 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
89,288 |
|
General and administrative expenses
|
|
|
460 |
|
|
|
29,301 |
|
|
|
101,857 |
|
|
|
9,371 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
140,989 |
|
Reduction in value of assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,994 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,994 |
|
Gain on sale of liftboats
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,544 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,544 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income from operations
|
|
|
(460 |
) |
|
|
(29,301 |
) |
|
|
139,012 |
|
|
|
16,352 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
125,603 |
|
Other income (expense):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest expense, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(20,585 |
) |
|
|
(6 |
) |
|
|
(1,271 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(21,862 |
) |
|
Interest income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
822 |
|
|
|
1,194 |
|
|
|
185 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,201 |
|
|
Equity in income of affiliates, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,339 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,339 |
|
|
Reduction in value of investment in affiliate
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,250 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,250 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income before income taxes
|
|
|
(460 |
) |
|
|
(49,064 |
) |
|
|
140,200 |
|
|
|
15,355 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
106,031 |
|
Income taxes
|
|
|
33,629 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,543 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
38,172 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss)
|
|
$ |
(34,089 |
) |
|
$ |
(49,064 |
) |
|
$ |
140,200 |
|
|
$ |
10,812 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
67,859 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-33
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidating Statements of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2004
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non- | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor | |
|
Guarantor | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Parent | |
|
Issuer | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Eliminations | |
|
Consolidated | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
(In thousands) | |
Oilfield service and rental revenues
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
488,745 |
|
|
$ |
56,666 |
|
|
$ |
(18,080 |
) |
|
$ |
527,331 |
|
Oil and gas revenues
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
37,008 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
37,008 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total revenues
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
525,753 |
|
|
|
56,666 |
|
|
|
(18,080 |
) |
|
|
564,339 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of oilfield services and rentals
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
276,141 |
|
|
|
30,500 |
|
|
|
(18,080 |
) |
|
|
288,561 |
|
Cost of oil and gas sales
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21,547 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21,547 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total cost of services, rentals and sales
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
297,688 |
|
|
|
30,500 |
|
|
|
(18,080 |
) |
|
|
310,108 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
62,185 |
|
|
|
5,152 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
67,337 |
|
General and administrative expenses
|
|
|
429 |
|
|
|
13,966 |
|
|
|
87,420 |
|
|
|
8,790 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
110,605 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income from operations
|
|
|
(429 |
) |
|
|
(13,966 |
) |
|
|
78,460 |
|
|
|
12,224 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
76,289 |
|
Other income (expense):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest expense, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(21,108 |
) |
|
|
(102 |
) |
|
|
(1,266 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(22,476 |
) |
|
Interest income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
51 |
|
|
|
1,656 |
|
|
|
59 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,766 |
|
|
Equity in income of affiliates, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,329 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,329 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income before income taxes
|
|
|
(429 |
) |
|
|
(35,023 |
) |
|
|
80,014 |
|
|
|
12,346 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
56,908 |
|
Income taxes
|
|
|
17,708 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,348 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21,056 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss)
|
|
$ |
(18,137 |
) |
|
$ |
(35,023 |
) |
|
$ |
80,014 |
|
|
$ |
8,998 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
35,852 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-34
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidating Statements of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2003
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non- | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor | |
|
Guarantor | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Parent | |
|
Issuer | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Eliminations | |
|
Consolidated | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
(In thousands) | |
Oilfield service and rental revenues
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
474,871 |
|
|
$ |
36,418 |
|
|
$ |
(11,405 |
) |
|
$ |
499,884 |
|
Oil and gas revenues
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
741 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
741 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total revenues
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
475,612 |
|
|
|
36,418 |
|
|
|
(11,405 |
) |
|
|
500,625 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of oilfield services and rentals
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
279,059 |
|
|
|
21,622 |
|
|
|
(11,405 |
) |
|
|
289,276 |
|
Cost of oil and gas sales
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
331 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
331 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total cost of services, rentals and sales
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
279,390 |
|
|
|
21,622 |
|
|
|
(11,405 |
) |
|
|
289,607 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
148 |
|
|
|
46,107 |
|
|
|
2,598 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
48,853 |
|
General and administrative expenses
|
|
|
389 |
|
|
|
11,535 |
|
|
|
78,604 |
|
|
|
4,294 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
94,822 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income from operations
|
|
|
(389 |
) |
|
|
(11,683 |
) |
|
|
71,511 |
|
|
|
7,904 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
67,343 |
|
Other income (expense):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest expense, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(21,195 |
) |
|
|
(17 |
) |
|
|
(1,265 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(22,477 |
) |
|
Interest income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
125 |
|
|
|
60 |
|
|
|
24 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
209 |
|
|
Other income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,762 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,762 |
|
|
Equity in income of affiliates, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
985 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
985 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income before income taxes
|
|
|
(389 |
) |
|
|
(32,753 |
) |
|
|
74,316 |
|
|
|
7,648 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
48,822 |
|
Income taxes
|
|
|
16,464 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,844 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18,308 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss)
|
|
$ |
(16,853 |
) |
|
$ |
(32,753 |
) |
|
$ |
74,316 |
|
|
$ |
5,804 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
30,514 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-35
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidating Statements of Cash Flows
Year Ended December 31, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non- | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor | |
|
Guarantor | |
|
|
|
|
Parent | |
|
Issuer | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Consolidated | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
(In thousands) | |
Cash flows from operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
|
|
$ |
(34,089 |
) |
|
$ |
(49,064 |
) |
|
$ |
140,200 |
|
|
$ |
10,812 |
|
|
$ |
67,859 |
|
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by
(used in) operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
81,817 |
|
|
|
7,471 |
|
|
|
89,288 |
|
|
|
Deferred income taxes
|
|
|
509 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(67 |
) |
|
|
442 |
|
|
|
Reduction in value of assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,994 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,994 |
|
|
|
Equity in income of affiliates
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,339 |
) |
|
|
(1,339 |
) |
|
|
Reduction in value of investment in affiliate
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,250 |
|
|
|
1,250 |
|
|
|
Gain on sale of liftboats
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(3,544 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(3,544 |
) |
|
|
Amortization of debt acquisition costs
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,127 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,127 |
|
|
|
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Receivables
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2,026 |
) |
|
|
(21,849 |
) |
|
|
(8,220 |
) |
|
|
(32,095 |
) |
|
|
|
Other net
|
|
|
335 |
|
|
|
568 |
|
|
|
(13,733 |
) |
|
|
1,567 |
|
|
|
(11,263 |
) |
|
|
|
Accounts payable
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
35 |
|
|
|
(2,282 |
) |
|
|
7,943 |
|
|
|
5,696 |
|
|
|
|
Accrued expenses
|
|
|
253 |
|
|
|
4,006 |
|
|
|
8,844 |
|
|
|
3,496 |
|
|
|
16,599 |
|
|
|
|
Decommissioning liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(8,772 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(8,772 |
) |
|
|
|
Income taxes
|
|
|
25,886 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
251 |
|
|
|
26,137 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
|
|
|
(7,106 |
) |
|
|
(45,354 |
) |
|
|
187,675 |
|
|
|
23,164 |
|
|
|
158,379 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from investing activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Payments for capital expenditures
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(111,825 |
) |
|
|
(13,341 |
) |
|
|
(125,166 |
) |
|
Acquisitions of businesses, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(6,435 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(6,435 |
) |
|
Acquisitions of oil and gas properties, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,686 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,686 |
|
|
Cash proceeds from the sale of liftboats, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19,588 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19,588 |
|
|
Cash proceeds from sale of affiliate
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12,489 |
|
|
|
12,489 |
|
|
Other
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,410 |
) |
|
|
313 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,097 |
) |
|
Intercompany receivables/payables
|
|
|
(11,055 |
) |
|
|
110,004 |
|
|
|
(85,189 |
) |
|
|
(13,760 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
|
|
|
(11,055 |
) |
|
|
102,159 |
|
|
|
(173,427 |
) |
|
|
(14,612 |
) |
|
|
(96,935 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from financing activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Principal payments on long-term debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(38,500 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(810 |
) |
|
|
(39,310 |
) |
|
Payment of debt acquisition costs
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(439 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(439 |
) |
|
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
|
|
|
18,161 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18,161 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
|
|
|
18,161 |
|
|
|
(38,939 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(810 |
) |
|
|
(21,588 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(680 |
) |
|
|
(680 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase (decrease) in cash
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17,866 |
|
|
|
14,248 |
|
|
|
7,062 |
|
|
|
39,176 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,548 |
|
|
|
5,173 |
|
|
|
6,560 |
|
|
|
15,281 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
21,414 |
|
|
$ |
19,421 |
|
|
$ |
13,622 |
|
|
$ |
54,457 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-36
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidating Statements of Cash Flows
Year Ended December 31, 2004
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non- | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor | |
|
Guarantor | |
|
|
|
|
Parent | |
|
Issuer | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Consolidated | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
(In thousands) | |
Cash flows from operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
|
|
$ |
(18,137 |
) |
|
$ |
(35,023 |
) |
|
$ |
80,014 |
|
|
$ |
8,998 |
|
|
$ |
35,852 |
|
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by
(used in) operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
62,185 |
|
|
|
5,152 |
|
|
|
67,337 |
|
|
|
Deferred income taxes
|
|
|
14,400 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
834 |
|
|
|
15,234 |
|
|
|
Equity in income of affiliates
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,329 |
) |
|
|
(1,329 |
) |
|
|
Amortization of debt acquisition costs
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
887 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
887 |
|
|
|
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Receivables
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,416 |
) |
|
|
(28,517 |
) |
|
|
(5,346 |
) |
|
|
(35,279 |
) |
|
|
|
Other net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(774 |
) |
|
|
(7,278 |
) |
|
|
(1,294 |
) |
|
|
(9,346 |
) |
|
|
|
Accounts payable
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
64 |
|
|
|
11,012 |
|
|
|
5,066 |
|
|
|
16,142 |
|
|
|
|
Accrued expenses
|
|
|
(5 |
) |
|
|
(8,034 |
) |
|
|
21,241 |
|
|
|
664 |
|
|
|
13,866 |
|
|
|
|
Decommissioning liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,157 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,157 |
) |
|
|
|
Income taxes
|
|
|
(3,690 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
814 |
|
|
|
(2,876 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
|
|
|
(7,432 |
) |
|
|
(44,296 |
) |
|
|
129,500 |
|
|
|
13,559 |
|
|
|
91,331 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from investing activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Payments for capital expenditures
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(69,385 |
) |
|
|
(4,740 |
) |
|
|
(74,125 |
) |
|
Acquisitions of businesses, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(24,361 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(24,361 |
) |
|
Acquisitions of oil and gas properties, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(10,676 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(10,676 |
) |
|
Intercompany receivables/payables
|
|
|
(19,666 |
) |
|
|
76,090 |
|
|
|
(50,990 |
) |
|
|
(5,434 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
|
|
|
(19,666 |
) |
|
|
51,729 |
|
|
|
(131,051 |
) |
|
|
(10,174 |
) |
|
|
(109,162 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from financing activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Principal payments on long-term debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(12,903 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(810 |
) |
|
|
(13,713 |
) |
|
Payment of debt acquisition costs
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(60 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(60 |
) |
|
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
|
|
|
10,271 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10,271 |
|
|
Proceeds from issuance of stock
|
|
|
130,265 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
130,265 |
|
|
Purchase and retirement of stock
|
|
|
(113,438 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(113,438 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
|
|
|
27,098 |
|
|
|
(12,963 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(810 |
) |
|
|
13,325 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(7 |
) |
|
|
(7 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase (decrease) in cash
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(5,530 |
) |
|
|
(1,551 |
) |
|
|
2,568 |
|
|
|
(4,513 |
) |
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,078 |
|
|
|
6,724 |
|
|
|
3,992 |
|
|
|
19,794 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
3,548 |
|
|
$ |
5,173 |
|
|
$ |
6,560 |
|
|
$ |
15,281 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-37
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidating Statements of Cash Flows
Year Ended December 31, 2003
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non- | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor | |
|
Guarantor | |
|
|
|
|
Parent | |
|
Issuer | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Subsidiaries | |
|
Consolidated | |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
(In thousands) | |
Cash flows from operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
|
|
$ |
(16,853 |
) |
|
$ |
(32,753 |
) |
|
$ |
74,316 |
|
|
$ |
5,804 |
|
|
$ |
30,514 |
|
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by
(used in) operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
148 |
|
|
|
46,107 |
|
|
|
2,598 |
|
|
|
48,853 |
|
|
|
Deferred income taxes
|
|
|
15,780 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(597 |
) |
|
|
15,183 |
|
|
|
Equity in income of affiliates
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(985 |
) |
|
|
(985 |
) |
|
|
Other income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2,762 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2,762 |
) |
|
|
Amortization of debt acquisition costs
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,026 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,026 |
|
|
|
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Receivables
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
49 |
|
|
|
2,708 |
|
|
|
(2,653 |
) |
|
|
104 |
|
|
|
|
Other net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(895 |
) |
|
|
1,993 |
|
|
|
675 |
|
|
|
1,773 |
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(83 |
) |
|
|
(2,751 |
) |
|
|
902 |
|
|
|
(1,932 |
) |
|
|
|
Accrued expenses
|
|
|
(4 |
) |
|
|
13,890 |
|
|
|
(11,667 |
) |
|
|
342 |
|
|
|
2,561 |
|
|
|
|
Income taxes
|
|
|
5,649 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
256 |
|
|
|
5,905 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
|
|
|
4,572 |
|
|
|
(18,618 |
) |
|
|
107,944 |
|
|
|
6,342 |
|
|
|
100,240 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from investing activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Payments for capital expenditures
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(43,765 |
) |
|
|
(6,410 |
) |
|
|
(50,175 |
) |
|
Acquisitions of businesses, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(14,298 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(14,298 |
) |
|
Cash proceeds from insurance settlement
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,000 |
|
|
Other
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
313 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
313 |
|
|
Intercompany receivables/payables
|
|
|
(6,624 |
) |
|
|
71,000 |
|
|
|
(66,419 |
) |
|
|
2,043 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
|
|
|
(6,624 |
) |
|
|
56,702 |
|
|
|
(101,871 |
) |
|
|
(4,367 |
) |
|
|
(56,160 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from financing activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net payments on revolving credit facility
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,250 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,250 |
) |
|
Principal payments on long-term debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(42,279 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(810 |
) |
|
|
(43,089 |
) |
|
Proceeds from long-term debt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23,000 |
|
|
Payment of debt acquisition costs
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(479 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(479 |
) |
|
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
|
|
|
2,052 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,052 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
|
|
|
2,052 |
|
|
|
(29,008 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(810 |
) |
|
|
(27,766 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase (decrease) in cash
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,076 |
|
|
|
6,073 |
|
|
|
1,165 |
|
|
|
16,314 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
651 |
|
|
|
2,827 |
|
|
|
3,480 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
9,078 |
|
|
$ |
6,724 |
|
|
$ |
3,992 |
|
|
$ |
19,794 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
F-38
$300,000,000
SESI, L.L.C.
Offer to Exchange
$300,000,000 Registered
67/8% Senior
Notes due June 1, 2014
for
Outstanding
67/8% Senior
Notes due June 1, 2014
PROSPECTUS
October 25, 2006