From company -18 Jan 2017 20:43
'As noted in the Company’s admission document (released on 16 January 2017), the Company determined to change its fundamental business away from traditional oil and gas exploration and production to a company that provides services to the offshore oil and gas sector. The subsea services sector of the oil and gas industry uniquely allows a company to utilise their asset base in “high times” and “low times” of oil prices. During periods of sustained and/or recovered oil prices, the subsea service industry can service an active offshore oil and gas market (drilling, workovers, platform, pipeline and production facility expansion and maintenance). Even in prolonged period of low oil prices, the offshore oil and gas industry still requires subsea services to inspect, repair, maintain or decommission offshore wells, platforms and pipelines. As mentioned in our admission document, there are over 3,800 production platforms and 33,000 miles of offshore pipelines in addition to substantial amounts of non-producing oil and gas reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico alone.
For these initial transactions, we chose to conserve our existing cash in addition to raising new cash of $10.5 million ($10 million of which is from a non-related investment firm) to purchase these initial vessels in exchange for the issuance of deeply-discounted convertible notes. We want to have a strong cash balance for future “fire power” for these next strategic acquisitions and/or mergers.
We consider the transactions included in the admission document to serve only as our entry point into the global subsea service market. We believe the Gulf of Mexico provided the easiest point of entry into this market, and these transactions will provide the platform for near-term growth and further acquisition. We plan to be active in acquiring strategic businesses (not just within the Gulf of Mexico), subsea technology as well as further assets in order to build a competitive advantage when the offshore oil and gas industry fully recovers.'