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Civeo Corporation (CVEO)

Q1 2015 Earnings Call· Sun, May 3, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Welcome to the Civeo Corporation First Quarter 2015 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Eric, and I'll your operator for today's call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I'll now turn the call over to Collin Gerry, Director of Corporate Development. Mr. Gerry. You may begin.

Collin Gerry

Management

Thank you, Eric. Welcome to Civeo's first quarter 2015 earnings conference call. Our call today will be led by Bradley Dodson, Civeo's President and Chief Executive Officer and Frank Steininger, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, we would like to caution certain listeners regarding forward-looking statements. To the extent that our remarks today contain information other than historical information, please note that we're relying on the safe harbor provision reported by Federal Law. Any such remarks should be read in the context of the many factors that affect our business including those risks disclosed in our Form 10-K and other SEC filings. I'll now turn the call over to Bradley.

Bradley Dodson

President

Thank you, Collin. Good morning to all of you and thank you for joining us today on Civeo's first quarter 2015 earnings conference call. On the call today, I'll provide an overview of the first quarter results, Frank will walk through the specific results of the quarter as well as the status of the migration and then I’ll discuss each segment and the near-term outlook. Our first quarter results were in the upper range of our previously announced guidance. We reported first quarter results for our Canadian segment, which reflected sequentially weaker Canadian dollar and lower lodge revenues as we closed the Athabasca lodge in October of 2014. Our Australian segment reported sequentially lower revenues and EBITDA, due to a weakening Australian dollar as well as lower occupancy. And our U.S. segment reported sequentially lower revenues and EBITDA primarily due to decreased drilling and completion activity with the lower oil prices. On a consolidated basis, we reported revenues of $171 million and $53 million of adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS of $0.03 per diluted share. The adjusted number excludes an impairment charge related to the closure of our U.S. manufacturing facility and migration costs. At this time, I would like to turn it over to Frank to take you through the details of the consolidated results and financial position. Frank?

Frank Steininger

Management

Thank you, Bradley. During the first quarter of 2015, we reported operating income of $4.9 million on revenues of $171 million. Our net loss for the first quarter of 2015 totaled $16,000 or $0.00 per diluted share. This included an after-tax loss of $0.02 per diluted share due to our decision to close our U.S. manufacturing facility and $0.01 per diluted share for cost incurred in connection with our planned migration to Canada. These results compared to operating income of $52.9 million on revenues of $253 million in the first quarter of 2014. Our net income for the first quarter of 2014 totaled $38.2 million or $0.34 per diluted share. We recognized income tax expense of $1.2 million for the quarter, which resulted in an effective tax rate of 83% in the first quarter of 2015, compared to income tax expense of $12.3 million and an effective tax rate of 25.3% in the first quarter of 2014. The increase in the effective tax rate for the prior year was largely the result of a change in the earnings mix between different tax jurisdictions as well as discreet items in the quarter. The company expects its consolidated effective tax rate to approximate 50% for the remainder of the year. Our gross and net debt levels totaled $775 million and $495 million respectively at March 31, 2015, representing a debt to capitalization ratio of approximately 51%. Our leverage ratio was 2.56 times at March 31. During the first quarter of 2015 we reported cash flow from operations of $49 million, and we invested $11 million in capital expenditures. As of the end of the first quarter, we had total liquidity of approximately $561 million, compared to $281 million comprised -- sorry, comprised of $281 million available under our credit facilities and $280…

Bradley Dodson

President

Thank you, Frank. I'll start with our Canadian segment. Our Canadian segment revenues were down sequentially by $34 million from the fourth quarter of 2014 to $151 million. Adjusted EBITDA decreased from $56 million in the fourth quarter of 2014 to $37.5 million in the first quarter of 2015. The revenue decrease is primarily due the weaker Canadian dollar, negatively impacting first quarter revenues by $10.8 million; and the closure of the Athabasca lodge, negatively impacting the quarter revenues by $4 million as well as lower occupancy at several other lodges. The EBITDA decrease was primarily driven by unfavorable Canadian dollar movements and an impact of $3.4 million, lower earnings out of Athabasca lodge and lower occupancy at our other Canadian oil sand lodges. RevPAR decreased on a sequential basis from $96 a day to $74 again due to the weaker Canadian dollar and the closure of Athabasca lodge and lower overall occupancy. The lower occupancy and RevPAR sequentially drove the decrease in lodge revenues for the quarter. Moving to operations, our new McClelland Lake lodge is fully ramped up. At the end of the first quarter we had our planning capacity of 1,997 rooms operational. Consistent with our investment strategy, we invested in the McClelland Lake lodge on the basis and supported by a three-year contract for the majority of that initial capacity. We’re looking forward to Mike Ridley joining us next week as our Senior Vice President of our North American Division. Mike's industry experience and successful track record in the modular building sector make him an outstanding addition to our Executive Management Team. I am confident with Mike and our existing Leadership in Canada, will continue to advance our presence in North America and further enhance the service delivery capabilities that our clients have come to rely…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] And our first question comes from Jeffrey Patel from Clarkson Capital. Jeffrey, please go ahead.

Jess Patel

Analyst · Clarkson Capital. Jeffrey, please go ahead

Good morning, Bradley, Frank, Collin.

Bradley Dodson

President

Good morning.

Jess Patel

Analyst · Clarkson Capital. Jeffrey, please go ahead

Maybe if can -- hey fellows, if we could start off and I’m sorry if I missed this Bradley, I’m juggling a few calls. But maybe if you could take us inside your dialogue with customers up in Canada. And a couple of questions I guess. Number one, are you getting the sense that you need to see a meaningful recovery in crude prices for them to start revisting project expansioning or could their decision making be simply impacted a little bit more by seeing some stabilization and not feeling like the bottom is going to fall out of crude prices?

Bradley Dodson

President

Good question I’ll divide it up into two categories. For some of the maintenance work and turnaround work and a sustaining capital work I think the big factor we’ve seen is more getting a handle on -- our customers internally getting a handle on what they are spending capabilities and our authorization are and so we started to see some of that work get dead and awarded in the first quarter going in the second quarter and we’re pleased to win the work to open up Athabasca. As it relates to new projects, that one I believe we do need to see, it really depends on what type of project I think for some of the in situ project stabilization is helpful and could help me with some of those projects forward for expansionary mining project in the oil sands region. I do think we need to see a further recovery in oil prices before those start to shake free and start to move forward and in terms of BC LNG market there I think we’re just waiting to see either of the two major projects whether it’s the Furnace’s project or Shells project and their partners as those start to move forward. So on that side of things, we’re well positioned in the BC LNG market to participate in either projects. We’re in active dialogue along those projects and are hopeful that they move forward with their decision to invest in the projects and then hopefully we’ll be successful in winning some work.

Jess Patel

Analyst · Clarkson Capital. Jeffrey, please go ahead

Appreciate that color and then maybe following on to that, in past downturn in the oil sands, we’ve seen the customers be fairly nimble or adjust their cost structure. I guess can you give us a sense of how quickly your understanding is as to how that process is unfolding for them and obliviously that would add some sort of impact down the road?

Bradley Dodson

President

It was very swift Jeff, we saw that almost on January 2 during the first quarter. It was a quick movement by the customer base to adjust their cost structure. The way we address it with them on contracted rooms was first and foremost to look at ways that we could adjust the scope of what we do for them that could save us cost and save them cost as well. The principal way we do that is around the cleaning schedule of the rooms moving to either every other day or once a week type cleaning schedule depending on what the customer wants to do can save us lot of money and save them a lot of money. As it relates to kind of pure pricing changes, typically we handle, actually exclusively we handled those by training some price decreases with additional volume. And we were very successful in working with our customers to do that. So it was -- January and February were very busy with the customer base in terms of working through those type issues I think those are largely behind us. So I think at this point we’ve worked through much of that.

Jess Patel

Analyst · Clarkson Capital. Jeffrey, please go ahead

Outstanding, thanks for your time Bradley.

Bradley Dodson

President

Good to talk to you, Jeff.

Operator

Operator

And our next question comes from Steven Gengaro from Sterne Agee. Steven please go ahead.

Steven Gengaro

Analyst · Sterne Agee. Steven please go ahead

Thanks. Good morning, guys.

Bradley Dodson

President

Good morning.

Steven Gengaro

Analyst · Sterne Agee. Steven please go ahead

I guess to follow-up on the prior question and then maybe add one. But on the LNG front in Canada you mentioned the two projects. What’s your best guess right now as far as is this a '16 event or later?

Bradley Dodson

President

My hope Steven is that it is award event in 2015 but to your point, in terms of meaningfully impacting our P&L it’s a 2015 event maybe a little bit in the fourth quarter, but primarily a 2016 event of earnings.

Steven Gengaro

Analyst · Sterne Agee. Steven please go ahead

Yes exactly and is the competition for those jobs similar to what you face in the other parts of Canada?

Bradley Dodson

President

Yeah it would be the same list of competitors that we compete in the oil sands region. We’re all active and pursuing that work. The one piece of the work that I neglected to mention when answering Jeff’s question was the other piece that’s been actively out in the market is around the pipeline work to support the LNG. So we’re actively pursuing that as well.

Steven Gengaro

Analyst · Sterne Agee. Steven please go ahead

Okay. Thank you and then the other question I had it has to do with the 2015 guidance. And I know you originally gave guidance you gave some parameters on sort of contracted rooms and then occupancy embedded in your guidance. And it seems like from this contract awards you’ve filled in some of those holes. Any update specifically on where you stand on your guidance versus what’s booked right now?

Bradley Dodson

President

We've filled in some and really implicitly in our guidance what we’re seeing is little bit stronger Canada and originally thought a little bit stronger Australia then originally thought and the U.S. being a lot weaker than we initially thought as we gave guidance. But all in all, the modest improvement relative to initial budgeting or forecasting and that was the basis for our December guidance. We’re doing a little better in Canada, little bit better in Australia and the U.S. has been a very difficult market. The falloff in the U.S. rig count has been precipitous that it is obviously impacting overall volumes of rentals whereas on the units and the pricing has been -- has reacted negatively very quickly. So all in all, the guidance we’ve been able to maintain full year guidance, but there’s been a real -- a little bit of mix shift there, but we’re starting to fill in some of the uncontracted guidance if you will from the original guidance data late December. So I feel like the team has done a very good job of hassling to capture the work that is available out there.

Steven Gengaro

Analyst · Sterne Agee. Steven please go ahead

Okay. Thank you. That’s helpful.

Operator

Operator

And our next question comes from [Stephan Gibson from Altfort Capital] [ph]. Stephan, please go ahead.

Bradley Dodson

President

Good morning.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

I’m just wondering if you could…

Bradley Dodson

President

I’m apologize I’m having a very high time hearing the question. Could you repeat it please?

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Can you hear me now?

Bradley Dodson

President

Yeah, that’s much better. Thank you.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Sorry guys. Could you guys set your relative strength in Kitamaat versus French or Burton if you're seeing any differences between the two?

Bradley Dodson

President

Well we have land bank in several locations in the BC LNG market including Kitamaat and Port Edward as well as another locations and I would say that right now for us, our strength is modestly better in Kitamaat market than in the Port Edward model, but we feel like we've got a good position in both.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. Sounds good.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And we have no further questions at this, oh, I’m sorry. Our next question comes from [Shenal Patel from Blue Lake Ridge]. Shenal, please go ahead.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

I would like to ask you a question about it is -- I don’t know I got in the conference call a little late but I don't know if it was already address or not if there is any future pursuit the size of your contract later this year, any other contracts that might be coming up in the future that would be -- that would draw the bottom line for the company?

Bradley Dodson

President

Sure, well as we -- as I alluded to we’re pursuing opportunities in the British Columbia markets around LNG developments there. We’re hopeful and obviously it's dependent on customer timing and ultimately customers deciding to move forward with their projects. But we’re hopefully and to receive an award middle part of this year, either on the LNG Canada project or on Petronas project and I would be potentially additive to fourth quarter results but certainly much more meaningfully additive to 2016 results.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. So enough info as far as third quarter?

Bradley Dodson

President

Well, those -- as I mentioned, those awards could happen in either second or third quarter of last year as shown on the timing we know today.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. And what is the probability -- can you say like how big is the competition for those contracts?

Bradley Dodson

President

Well as we talked about, we have the same competitors that we face in the oil sand region. We feel like we have done a good job of land banking in the key markets where these product where we could serve these projects, but ultimately it’s too tough to handicap at this point.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay.

Bradley Dodson

President

Principally it still depends on the customers agreeing or move forward with their project. So it’s difficult to handicap at this point.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Thank you. So thank you, that’s it, that’s all my questions.

Bradley Dodson

President

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And we have no further questions at this time.