Friday, 3 February 2017

Ezra flags going concern issue amid efforts to restructure

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SINGAPORE: Ezra Holdings Ltd., an obliged Singapore-based supplier of seaward oil administrations, said it's working with guides on rebuilding and that it could be confronted with a "going concern issue" if its redo isn't positively finished. 

"In light of the serious and extended downturn in the worldwide oil and gas industry, the gathering will keep on working with its counsels to audit all alternatives to rebuild its organizations, operations and monetary record," Ezra said in an announcement to the Singapore stock trade Friday. The organization likewise said it was evaluating its interest in Emas Chiyoda Subsea Ltd. furthermore, may need to record $170 million in connection to the wander. 

The documenting by Ezra demonstrates the most recent worry for the seaward oil and gas administrations part in Singapore, where organizations including Swiber Holdings Ltd. furthermore, Swissco Holdings Ltd. have looked for obligation rebuilding while others have needed to lay off laborers in the midst of diving benefits. Choices by worldwide oil adventurers to defer speculations have undulated through Singapore, home to the world's two biggest developers of oil apparatuses and littler administrations suppliers, and furthermore harming banks that have given subsidizing to these organizations. 

There can be no conviction any rebuilding choice will be effectively finished up, Ezra said. "In the occasion the rebuilding is not positively finished in an opportune way, the organization and the gathering will be confronted with a going concern issue," Ezra said. 

Net liabilities 

The gathering recorded a net current obligation position of $887.2 million for the money related year finished Aug. 31, it said in the announcement. 

DBS Group Holdings Ltd., DNB Bank Asia, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. what's more, United Overseas Bank Ltd. were Ezra's main investors, as indicated by the administrations supplier's 2015 yearly report. 

Ezra's S$150 million 4.875 percent notes due April 2018 were demonstrated at around 29 pennies on the neighborhood dollar as of Feb 2., as per information gathered by Bloomberg. The unrated notes fell for a seventh straight month in January in the midst of the organization's endeavors to address its obligation circumstance. 

Ezra ended exchanging its shares in Singapore on Feb. 1 pending a declaration. The organization, whose stock dove more than 50 percent in each of the previous three years, had a market estimation of S$141 million as of the exchanging suspension. 

Unrefined petroleum's drop through a significant part of the most recent two years incited pilgrims, for example, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Statoil ASA to cut spending, harming organizations over the oil-administrations industry including Singapore-based Ezra, Swiber and Ezion Holdings Ltd. 

A year ago, Swiber petitioned for liquidation in the wake of confronting installment requests from its leasers. The firm along these lines dropped the liquidation for an arrangement to work under legal administration, which would permit it to proceed with business under court supervision while it endeavors to turn itself around. 

Ezra, established in 1992, offers seabed-to-surface designing, development, marine and generation administrations to oil and gas organizations. The organization revealed a net loss of $339.6 million in the quarter finished Aug. 31, broadening from lost $7.8 million a year prior, as per a Nov. 29 recording.

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