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12/09/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 8556D  Gulf Marine Services PLC  12 September 2024

 

12(th) September 2024

 

 

Gulf Marine Services PLC

('Gulf Marine Services', 'GMS', 'the Company' or 'the Group')

 

New Contract Award and Revised Guidance

Gulf Marine Services (GMS), a leading provider of self-propelled and
self-elevating support vessels for the offshore energy sector, is pleased to
announce the award of a new long-term contract for one of its vessels in the
GCC. The contract spans a total of five years, inclusive of optional
extensions, and contributes to further improvement in fleetwide average day
rates. This contract takes our backlog to USD 464 million.

The Company is glad to revise its adjusted EBITDA guidance for 2024 to be in
the range of USD 95 million to USD 100 million, versus the adjusted EBITDA
guidance communicated earlier of USD 92 million to USD 100 million.

Mansour Al Alami, GMS Executive Chairman, commented:

"We are pleased to secure this new long-term contract with one of our key
regional clients. This award reinforces the continued high demand for our
vessels and reflects the strong utilization of our fleet in the region. We
remain committed to supporting our client's projects and delivering
high-quality services across the GCC. The revised EBITDA guidance for 2024
reflects the favourable market conditions"

Alex Aclimandos, GMS Chief Financial Officer, commented:

"We are delighted to have reached this agreement confirming the favourable
fundamentals for our business going forward and allowing us to continue to
successfully deleverage. Our net debt today stands at USD 224 million.
Supported by the projected lower cost of financing and the continuing demand
for our vessels, the business will generate free cashflow that will help us
achieve our various objectives to increase our shareholders investment
value.  As for our guidance for 2025, we are in the process of revisiting it
and shall share it with you in the next couple of months".

-ENDS-

 

 

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Gulf Marine Services PLC

 Mansour Al Alami

 Executive Chairman
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 Mark Antelme

 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 offshore 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. The vessels
support GMS's clients in a broad range of offshore platform refurbishment and
maintenance activities, well intervention work, and offshore wind turbine
maintenance work (which are opex-led activities), as well as offshore 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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Accordingly, the actual results, operations, performance or achievements of
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