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Gulf Marine Services PLC
06 November 2023
November 6(th) 2023
Gulf Marine Services PLC
('Gulf Marine Services', 'GMS', 'the Company' or 'the
Group')
Revising guidance upward on the back of stronger outlook
Gulf Marine Services (GMS), a leading provider of self-propelled
and self-elevating support vessels for the offshore oil, gas, and
renewables sectors, is pleased to announce it now anticipates
EBITDA in the range of US$83m to US$86m (previously: US$77m-US$85m)
for the 12 months ending December 2023 and US$87m to US$95m for the
12 months ending December 2024.
Mansour Al Alami, GMS Executive Chairman, expressed his
enthusiasm for this guidance, stating:
"Given significant improvement in backlog visibility and market
outlook evidenced in the recently announced contract awards,
alongside future opportunities we're bidding for, we are confident
to increase our market guidance for 2023 and to provide an even
higher initial guidance for 2024. We continue to see strong
interest for our vessels to support maintenance projects as well as
new initiatives to meet growing energy requirements, for Oil and
Gas as well as for renewables, and across different geographies.
The recent contracts announcement allows us to benefit from a more
balanced geographical distribution of our fleet."
GMS Chief Financial Officer, Alex Aclimandos, added:
"EBITDA growth will make a positive contribution to our
deleveraging journey, accelerating the transfer of value towards
shareholders. We recently made an additional US$7.0m prepayment
towards the debt, on top of what we contractually had to pay the
banks, bringing the amount we have prepaid the banks in 2023 to a
record US$30.2 m. We now expect to end 2023 with a Net Leverage
Ratio(*) in the range of 3.2 to 3.3:1. For 2024, we expect to reach
by year end a Net Leverage Ratio(*) in the range of 2.3 to 2.7:1.
For perspective, this compares to a Net Leverage Ratio(*) of 8.1:1
at the end of 2020, 5.8:1 at the end of 2021 and 4.4:1 at the end
of 2022."
(*) Net Leverage Ratio represents the ratio of net bank debt to
Adjusted EBITDA (with Adjusted EBITDA being operating profit after
adding back depreciation, amortisation, non-operational items and
impairment charges.)
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Enquiries: Tel: +44 (0)20 7603
1515
Gulf Marine Services
PLC
Mansour Al Alami
Executive Chairman
Celicourt Communications Tel: +44 (0)20 7770
Mark Antelme 6424
Philip Dennis
Notes to Editors:
Gulf Marine Services PLC, a company listed on the London Stock
Exchange, was founded in Abu Dhabi in 1977 and has become a world
leading provider of advanced self-propelled self-elevating support
vessels (SESVs). The fleet serves the oil, gas and renewable energy
industries from its offices in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi
Arabia and Qatar. The Group's assets are capable of serving
clients' requirements across the globe, including those in the
Middle East, South East Asia, West Africa, North America, the Gulf
of Mexico and Europe.
The GMS fleet of 13 SESVs is amongst the youngest in the
industry, with an average age of eight years. The vessels support
GMS's clients in a broad range of offshore oil and gas platform
refurbishment and maintenance activities, well intervention work
and offshore wind turbine maintenance work (which are opex-led
activities), as well as offshore oil and gas platform installation
and decommissioning and offshore wind turbine installation (which
are capex-led activities).
The SESVs are categorised by size - K-Class (Small), S-Class
(Mid) and E-Class (Large) - with these capable of operating in
water depths of 45m to 80m depending on leg length. The vessels are
four-legged and are self-propelled, which means they do not require
tugs or similar support vessels for moves between locations in the
field; this makes them significantly more cost-effective and
time-efficient than conventional offshore support vessels without
self-propulsion. They have a large deck space, crane capacity and
accommodation facilities (for up to 300 people) that can be adapted
to the requirements of the Group's clients.
Gulf Marine Services PLC's Legal Entity Identifier is
213800IGS2QE89SAJF77
www.gmsplc.com
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