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Q1 2017 Earnings Call· Thu, Apr 27, 2017

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Operator

Operator

Good day, everyone, and welcome to Ensco Plc's First Quarter 2017 Financial Results Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please note this event is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Nick Georgas, Director of Investor Relations, who will moderate the call. Please go ahead, sir.

Nick Georgas - Ensco Plc

Management

Welcome, everyone, to Ensco's first quarter 2017 conference call. With me today are Carl Trowell, CEO; Carey Lowe, our Chief Operating Officer; Jon Baksht, CFO; as well as other members of our executive management team. We issued our earnings release which is available on our website at enscoplc.com. Any comments we make about expectations are forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially. Please refer to our earnings release and SEC filings on our website that define forward-looking statements and list risk factors and other events that could impact future results. Also, please note that the company undertakes no duty to update forward-looking statements. During this call, we will refer to GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. Please see our earnings release on our website for additional information. As a reminder, we issued our most recent fleet status report on April 24. An updated investor presentation is also available on our website. Now, let me turn the call over to Carl Trowell, CEO and President.

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Thanks, Nick, and good morning, everyone. The offshore drilling sector continues to face extremely difficult market conditions, and day rates and utilization of the global fleet remain under pressure. As such, we remain laser-focused on what we can control, namely operational excellence and cost management. Our offshore crews and onshore employees continue to deliver high levels of operational up time and safety to customers. During the first quarter, we achieved operational utilization of 99% across our fleet and our safety results were in line with last year's record-setting performance. While safety and operational excellence are important at all times, service quality to our customers has heightened the importance given the current environment. This is why we were honored to be recognized by our customers as the number one rated offshore driller in overall satisfaction in the annual EnergyPoint Research survey, our seventh consecutive year to win this award. Importantly, we also took top ratings in several of the categories including safety in the environment, performance and reliability, and job quality to name a few. Turning now to market conditions. As we mentioned on our last earnings call, we're in the midst of arguably the worst downturn this sector has ever experienced, but we feel that we are now in a different phase of the cycle. We feel even more confident in this view today as we have seen a broad-based pickup in customer activity especially for Jackups, albeit off a very low base. For example, during the first quarter the number of new contracted rig years awarded globally increased sequentially for the third consecutive quarter. Tenders and inquiries which are a leading indicator of future contracts are up year-over-year for both Floaters and Jackups. On a trailing six-month basis, the total number of tenders and inquiries and rig years required…

P. Carey Lowe - Ensco Plc

Management

Thanks, Carl. During the first quarter, Ensco was once again recognized by our customers as the industry leader in customer satisfaction in an independent survey by EnergyPoint Research. In addition to total satisfaction, our customers rated Ensco as the top offshore driller in 11 other categories including ultra-deepwater wells, deepwater wells, and shelf wells as well as several other technical and geographical categories. These results are a reflection of our commitment to delivering the highest levels of service, quality, and operational excellence to our customers and the wide range of capabilities that our rig fleet offers to clients. Our customer satisfaction results and improved operational and safety performance benefited from targeted investments in our systems, processes, and technology over the past several years. Our proprietary Ensco Asset Management System which was developed in-house and implemented across our fleet last year has been instrumental to our improved rig uptime and consequently has delivered lower non-productive time for our customers. As we continue to leverage data analytics and condition-based monitoring technologies, we're expanding our in-house expertise and capabilities with the goal of optimizing the deployment of our resources while maximizing performance and reliability over the life of our assets. We believe that getting the most out of our equipment is a core competency for Ensco and a significant part of our value proposition. In this regard, our results validate our in-house approach, and we view the continued enhancement of our Ensco Asset Management System as a true competitive advantage. In order to further differentiate our rigs, we're focused on finding innovative ways to improve the drilling process, and we have expanded our library of intellectual property by filing 20 patents since 2015. This intellectual property library includes technology that creates efficiencies for customers. One example is our patented Canti-Leverage Advantage technology which…

Jonathan Baksht - Ensco Plc

Management

Thanks, Carey. Today, I'll cover first quarter 2017 financial results, our outlook for the second quarter, and a summary of our financial position. Starting with the first quarter results versus prior year, a loss of $0.09 per share compared to earnings per share of $0.74 a year ago. As detailed in our press release, first quarter 2017 results included $8 million of discrete tax expense and $6 million of other expense to complete a previously announced debt exchange. Excluding these items, an adjusted loss per share of $0.04 compared to earnings per share of $0.74 a year ago. Total first quarter revenue was $471 million versus $814 million last year. In the Floater segment, revenue was $285 million compared to $513 million in the first quarter 2016 primarily due to a decline in reported utilization to 47% from 64% a year ago and a decrease in the average day rate to $337,000 from $365,000 last year. The sale of ENSCO 6003 and ENSCO 6004, both of which operated during the first quarter 2016, also contributed to lower year-to-year revenues. Operational utilization for the Floater segment which adjusts for uncontracted days and planned downtime was 99%, equal to a year ago. In the Jackup segment, revenue was $172 million compared to $278 million a year ago due to a decline in the average day rate to $86,000 from $118,000 last year and fewer rig operating days as reported utilization declined to 64% from 66% a year ago. Operational utilization for the Jackup fleet was 99.2% compared to 99.8% a year ago. Total contract drilling expense declined to $278 million from $364 million last year as lower personnel and other activity-based expenses due to fewer rig operating days more than offset rig re-activation and contract preparation costs. First quarter contract drilling expense…

Nick Georgas - Ensco Plc

Operator

Thanks, Jon. Denise, at this time, please open the line for questions.

Operator

Operator

The first question will come from Gregory Lewis of Credit Suisse. Please go ahead. Gregory Lewis - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC: Yes. Thank you and good morning.

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Good morning, Greg.

Jonathan Baksht - Ensco Plc

Management

Good morning. Gregory Lewis - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC: Carl, you mentioned in your prepared remarks about pickup in tendering and inquiries for Floaters and Jackups. Just as we think about that and the pace of these tenders and inquiries, are these for near-term work or are customers generally looking for rigs and they're exploring for rigs, but maybe they don't need these rigs until the back half of 2018 or even longer? Any sort of color you could give around that would probably be helpful.

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Greg, it's a real mixture. We have some for the latter half of 2017 and we're actually seeing quite a lot for 2018 at the moment. And then we have a few tail ends into people who are looking for starts in 2019. It's approximate but maybe if it helps, I would say that we're looking at probably sort of 30-odd percent of them being for 2017, 40% to 50% of them being in 2018, and 20% in 2019 if that makes sense. But that's just really to give some broad guidance. The area we're seeing the greatest number of newer inquiries is for 2018. Gregory Lewis - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC: Okay. Great. And then just another thing that I think has been happening. Clearly, during the down cycle a lot of customers and rig operators – for various reasons, contracts were terminated and negotiations were done. As we start to see some sign of recovery, is there sort of customers and rig companies are sort of kissing and making up and, hey, we had to walk away from a contract but we have you in mind for that next rig we need. Are we seeing any signs of that, whether it's specific to Ensco? Or maybe even, hey, you were out-bidding on some work that you thought you had a good chance of winning but some history sort of kept you out of potentially winning some of that work?

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

No. I mean, I think we are seeing some customers begin to come back and look for rigs. I think the overarching trend which we've tried to draw attention to here is that there is a tendency for them to go to the Tier 1 established drilling companies, those that have got good operational performance and certainly those with good financial strength. There's certainly some – not talking about Ensco-specific – there are some maybe some raw relationships there on the back of some very hard negotiations and some issues in the overall marketplace. We are not seeing that ourselves. I think we're seeing the opposite which is where we have been cooperative, collaborative, we've been flexible with clients, we are seeing them come back to us. We're seeing them give us chance at contracts. So we are seeing a little bit of quid pro quo where the relationship has been collaborative on our basis. I think the trend that we would draw your attention to is that customers are looking very carefully at the survivability and the financial wherewithal of their counterparties when they come to contracting. Gregory Lewis - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC: Well, hey, that's really good news for you guys given your position. So, hey, guys, thank you very much for the time.

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

The next question will come from Ian Macpherson of Piper Jaffray Simmons. Please go ahead. Ian Macpherson - Simmons & Company International: Hi. Thank you. We've had a couple of interesting jackup transactions lately between Borr's investments and now more recently Shelf Drilling picking up three jackups for reportedly $225 million. I wonder if you could comment on those data points? And maybe on the more recent one, indicate whether or not that was something you had a look at and whether you have any comment or opinion on that deal from an attractiveness standpoint to Ensco?

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Ian, by the latter one did you mean the Shelf transaction? Ian Macpherson - Simmons & Company International: Yes. Yes, Carl.

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Okay. I think probably the first thing to say is that it's been Ensco's long-stated strategy to be a hybrid driller, in that we are in both the shallow water jackup segment and the deepwater, and I think that we still intend to continue that strategy certainly at this point in the cycle where we feel exposure to the jackup market is a positive. And so accordingly, we have been having a look at the various opportunities that have been coming up around assets. However, we are not in the mode of just chasing any deal even if it just looks like it's cheap or a bargain. We have in mind certain asset types that if we saw them come available for the right price we are very much looking at if we're going to target individual assets, that they are ones that we feel really will be at the front of the queue, that meet our own criteria that we've put together for competitiveness, capability, and also the cost to put the rigs in full working order. And so accordingly, we're not just chasing every single deal that pops up. We're quite targeted at what we've been looking at and none of those have really reached our investment criteria yet. A while back, if you go back a few quarters or a year or two, what we did say was at that point we were not prioritizing individual assets. I think as we said in our prepared remarks, we feel we're at a different point in the cycle which means we are a little bit more prepared now to have a look at individual assets but we are very selective on those. I think we would have to see that they enhance the rig fleet and composition without them just being a good deal. And of the, not necessarily the two transactions that you described, but broadly looking at some others, what we haven't yet found is rigs that we think are at the kind of higher end, the top quartile in terms of capabilities for the right price yet. Ian Macpherson - Simmons & Company International: Okay. That's a good comprehensive answer. Thanks. I was wondering if I could ask on a separate topic. It's been a while since we've heard anything either from, well, mainly from the industry press which reported on your drillship opportunity in Brazil a couple months ago. Could you comment at all on that opportunity, whether the Upstream article was directionally factual in its content or what your expectations are in terms of the timeline of progressing towards a major award there?

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Ian, generally we don't speculate around potential awards until they're made. We released our latest fleet status report on Monday and you'll see that for our drill ships, the ones that you referenced, we haven't reported any new awards. But as a matter of just clarity and principle, we err on the precautionary side which means that we don't announce deals until we actually have full signed-off contract in hand, that we're confident about the start, and we'll keep with that policy. For those of you that are a little bit sharp-eyed have noticed that in our fleet status report and in our comments we actually do reference to the ENSCO 120. The reason we've done that is because we do actually have a contract in hand for that rig. The contract doesn't become fully effective until we get the work call-off order which we're expecting imminently. So we've sort of hedged that a little bit but we do have the contract in hand. So it's worth understanding that that's how we'll do it. So as and when we get contracts and we formally have them, we'll announce them then. In addition, what I would add is, and this probably adds a little bit more clarity onto our first quarter CD&E, last quarter we said we were going to be investing in some of our rigs that we will have some re-activation charges in Q1. Well, that did occur. We did it. We spent about $16 million in Q1 and that's within the CD&E expense on re-activation and contract preparation for rigs in anticipation of future contract awards in the second half of the year. And so we have $16 million baked into our Q1 CD&E which was not for ongoing work. It was in preparation for the future. As far as Q2 is concerned, we will do further re-activation work and we have announced today $8 million of further re-activation, and that is within the CD&E range that Jon gave you earlier of the $270 million to $280 million for Q2. Ian Macpherson - Simmons & Company International: Got it. Thanks, Carl.

Operator

Operator

The next question will come from Samantha Hoh of Evercore ISI. Please go ahead.

Samantha Kay Hoh - Evercore Group LLC

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Please go ahead

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my call. I think I would like to start in the Gulf of Mexico. We saw a peer of yours announce yesterday that a customer has requested to take a rig off standby. And I was just kind of wondering if you could give us a little bit of color in terms of, directionally in the Gulf, do you think that drilling activity has maybe starting to find a bottom? And then also if you could talk a little about the competitiveness of the jackup market as well where you have such a strong position right now but isn't an area that you have really been in more recently?

P. Carey Lowe - Ensco Plc

Management

Hey, Samantha. This is Carey Lowe. The jackup market in the Gulf of Mexico, the market has picked up. It's been very busy but it's one to two-well type work and it strings along a number of jobs together to keep the rig working. We think that this will continue, and the number of tenders coming out right now leads us to believe that it will. The floater market, as you can see, ENSCO 8503 has work that will take it through the end of the year. This is indicative of a number of jobs that have strung together including new work in Mexico for us. At ENSCO 8505, we have some bids that we're working on, that a number of tenders are out for, again, one to two-well type work and some longer work has also come up. So I wouldn't necessarily call it the bottom but it surely has picked up quite a bit, and the number of tenders gives us some hope that we're starting to see something at the end.

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Yeah. Samantha, what I would add is that thus far what we see is probably more shorter to medium-term opportunities for the type of work that the 8500s are doing, so well interventions, sidetracks, P&A, step-out wells, than we do any kind of major return to FID development drilling. There are a couple of projects out there where clients are committed to do them and we've got a couple of tenders that are either out there now or are likely to come for bigger FID drilling. But the area we've seen the early kind of signs of response is people going back to what we've sometimes referred to as in-field drilling which is work around existing infrastructure, existing fields to be able to maintain production levels.

Samantha Kay Hoh - Evercore Group LLC

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Please go ahead

Okay. Great. That kind of leads me to my next question which is regarding a lot of the increase in tender and inquiries for 2018 in particular. Do you see a preference for customers to go back to rigs that they have worked with, operators that they have a strong comfort in all of their service quality and all that good stuff. But I'm kind of curious how they're looking at the new builds that are coming out. You mentioned that you were actively marketing the ENSCO DS-10 last quarter and I'm just kind of wondering if operators are open to maybe working with the new rigs or if they just really want something that's been hot or, well, active right now?

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

I'll maybe make a comment and see if Carey wants to add anything to it but I think it's very much a mixed bag. We see some customers who have got a preference for rigs that are certainly working within their own fleet at that time or they've worked with before, but it's not significant. I think when it's a fresh start, it's a new contract, I think people are open to look at any new rigs. So a past relationship doesn't necessarily carry any great weight. What does matter, though, is operational excellence and capability and safety. And as we've said, there is a bit of a flight to quality and I think what we are certainly seeing is that a lot of customers have got a choice of a huge range of rigs and suppliers at almost equivalent price points, and what we're seeing is that they are very much in the process of them going down to short list, narrowing down to a smaller number of quality players. And I think that that's the more relevant issue than whether they worked with a rig necessarily before a particular rig. I think it's much more around the quality of the operator. Now in reference to the new builds, I think it's very mixed. We have got some customers who are very happy to look at new builds. We've got others that said they want rigs that are already out and working. I think for us, we feel extremely confident that we can bring a new build-out on how they go to work at the type of operational levels an uptime that we see across our standard fleet to the extent that we're prepared to guarantee that and backstop it with a contract terms with the client.

P. Carey Lowe - Ensco Plc

Management

Yeah, this is Carey. I'd just like to add that I think it really comes down to reputation with a particular client and we've had some repeat customers for new builds with the ENSCO DS-7 and ENSCO DS-8 and the excellent startup record we've had on those rigs. Impressive downtime statistics and performance goes a long way to ensuring that there is not necessarily a reluctance to picking up a new build with Ensco.

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Yeah. We feel confident about this. And so to the extent though where we do feel as we go through the cycle, we are going to be able to bring out our new builds and we're going to be able to bring out our preservation stacked rigs as swing capacity. And I think as we go through the next couple of years, I think we're going to be able to demonstrate that.

Samantha Kay Hoh - Evercore Group LLC

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Please go ahead

Actually, can I squeeze in one more? I'm curious about the in-house analytics that you guys are working on. And, Carey, if you could just give us a quick background of how long that has been in development and how many rigs that has been implemented in and just how the tick up is like on the customer side?

P. Carey Lowe - Ensco Plc

Management

Sure. Yeah. When we commenced the design and build-out of the Ensco Asset Management System, we were already considering a move towards condition-based maintenance which uses data such as vibration and temperature measurements, oil analysis and so on to predict the requirements for maintenance. The Ensco Asset Management System was rolled out last year and was a result of over four years' worth of work to develop it completely. A lot of people think an asset management system is just buying a packaged software, well it's more than that. It's also modifying your preventive maintenance routines and so on. And in fact, the software was just a very small part of the overall cost of the program. Since we've completed the asset management system last year, and we're starting to see some good results which I think has played a pretty significant role in our 99% operational utilization, so this year we decided that we were going to start moving heavily into the next portion of the program which was condition-based maintenance. And so far, what we've done is assessed some commercially available data analytic software that we will use as the tool to perform the analysis. And we've done some backtesting on that to see whether it actually could've predict some failures we've had in the past, and we've been pleased to see that it can. And in addition to that, in parallel we've started the process of modifying our maintenance protocols which will be required to make use of the data and drive maintenance decisions. And this will be a multi-year program, maybe two to two and a half years, but we believe that this will be another step change improvement in our asset management system. And we also believe that this is something that should be a core competency of a drilling contractor, and we'll do this in-house. This will be another in-house project.

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Yeah. I'd add a little bit more to that. As Carey indicated, we're up sort of four-plus years down the road of building the platforms on which we're now adding more data analytics. And I think that that's often misunderstood as to what the core investment is required in setting up the platforms, both the IT platform and some of the processes and infrastructure for it. Now, we're chasing two key areas in analytics. We're doing it around the condition-based monitoring and maintenance of our equipment and uptime; and we're also on the drilling process, exactly how we can optimize the drillings for the client. And I think we feel that we're a long way down that path and we can now accelerate because of the investment we've made over the past four years.

Samantha Kay Hoh - Evercore Group LLC

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Please go ahead

Thank you so much.

Operator

Operator

The next question will be from Eduardo Royes of Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Eduardo B. Royes - Jefferies LLC

Analyst · Jefferies. Please go ahead

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my question. If you could talk a little bit about, obviously not getting into numbers and day rates and all of that, but as we think about as you guys maybe start booking some more longer-term work like you've seen obviously in the North Sea on the jackup side of things, can you talk a little bit about what your sort of preference is assuming that the negotiating power is mostly on the operator's court in terms of being able to build in cost escalation – not cost escalation but just market index rates or maybe linked to the oil price? Or if maybe, again, that contracts is about all you can hope for and if you lock in for three years at the bottom then it is what it is? But maybe more importantly, if guys are looking for out clauses you'll say, look, we'll give you the bottom rate. Right now, it's pretty low but we're not going to give you a right to terminate. Any sort of perspective on how, again, assuming this is an evolution and we're going to move ahead and we're going to see more long-term contracts in the next couple of months, how is that maybe changing maybe some of the Ensco preferences, what you guys really want? What's ideal there?

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Okay. Maybe let me start with the big picture which is that we're very much in the mode of building back our utilization and maintaining a core active fleet, particularly for contracts in the sort of the next 18 to 24 months. And so that's very much a primary driver of our marketing. Now that said, we are not in the mode of trying to lock in a large number of long-term contracts. Where there are long-term contracts, where possible, we are trying to get them where they have some price escalations in or performance escalations when they're sort of longer than, say, a 24-month period. Now as you've probably seen, there aren't as yet too many contracts that are very long-term. And we're also – in balance with this, we are running a portfolio approach which is that we are as happy as we can be in the current market but we are happy to put some of our rigs away on long-term contracts that we know are working, that are cash-generative, and that we then have them working. We would not lock away all of our rigs like that. So we are running a bit of a balanced approach when it comes to long-term contracts.

Eduardo B. Royes - Jefferies LLC

Analyst · Jefferies. Please go ahead

Okay. Great. Thank you. And then as a follow-up. Carl, you alluded to it in terms of maybe the assets out there. Obviously, you're going to be very selective; you're not just chasing anything. I guess if you could give any more perspective in terms of, maybe, even more from a rig spec feature or something, like, that's harder for guys in our seats not being in the industry to understand. But any more color or perspective you can offer on what, in this environment, in what feels like a very commoditized industry today with just a bunch of new drill ships running around that, on paper, all look very similar. How can we think about what may actually be a little bit better or worse or what can make the cut of being differentiated enough? Because it's obviously, from our seat, there's three shipyards and they all allegedly build pretty good rigs for a bunch of contractors. It's hard for us to see that, the differences.

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

If you don't mind, I'm going to dodge that question a little bit because it's almost impossible to answer because there are different needs in different places. And also, what's been happening in the market is people have been jumping on various things of what the latest contract request did and saying, well, that's the only thing that's going to get contracted in the future, and it's not so. There are a range of different specs and of rigs required, and the other thing is that there are different tools for different jobs. So I think the first one is to say that we are happy that we have a diversified fleet with different rigs of different types and capabilities because clients have different fields, different water depths, different requirements. And having the ability to serve them in multiple areas I think is going to be very useful going forward, and I think you see that in some of the contracting success we've had. There are certain attributes and capabilities around rigs that we internally value and we're not going to signal it too obviously outside because, for competitive reasons, we don't want to signal which type of rigs we might be pursuing. And so if you don't mind, I'm going to – and then the other is that whatever I say, someone else will come around and say it's different or wrong or something like this. And so it's a no-win answer to that question.

Eduardo B. Royes - Jefferies LLC

Analyst · Jefferies. Please go ahead

Okay. No, that's totally fair. I thought I'd try. Thank you. I'll turn it over.

Operator

Operator

The next question will come from Vebs Vaishnav of Cowen. Please go ahead. Vaibhav Vaishnav - Cowen & Co. LLC: Hey. Thanks for taking my question. I wanted to touch on OpEx. If you can help me walk through the OpEx guide maybe starting from last quarter? OpEx guide for first quarter was higher than expected, then came in below, and now the midpoint for 2Q implies $275 million versus $290 million guide earlier. Does it mean you have, like, deferred some reactivations that you were anticipating earlier or where's the decline coming from?

Jonathan Baksht - Ensco Plc

Management

Yeah, yeah. Sure. Happy to address that. I think Carl hit on this a little bit earlier. Let me just expand upon it a little bit. So we did beat our guidance for Q1 by $22 million for the first quarter. As we mentioned in the remarks, that was attributable to some deferral of R&M which of that $22 million about half of that was that amount, so about $11 million. And those are projects that are now scheduled to take place later this year or into next year. And so that's spend that will just be deferred out. The remainder, the other half, the $11 million, Vebs, was attributable to a variety of items across several rigs. But to summarize it a bit, we delivered on the planned reactivation that we had announced last quarter and we took part of in Q1, so that was work that we did within our scope and under budget. And then across the fleet, just disciplined operational cost management so that it all added up to $11 million on the quarter. So I would characterize half of it as just very disciplined operations. Now, just to expand upon just the Q1, how to think about how much of this is just running the rigs versus the reactivation, so $16 million of the first quarter CD&E was re-activation and it was across multiple rigs. And, again, that was work that we anticipated doing and achieved the scope that we intended under budget. As you look towards Q2, I guided to a range of $270 million to $280 million, but inclusive in that number is $8 million for rig re-activation and contract preparation across multiple rigs. So if you take that out, the $8 million, that would be the range for just running the fleet. Vaibhav Vaishnav - Cowen & Co. LLC: Okay, okay, okay. And a few quick ones. On ENSCO DS-10, let's say if you were to get an award, how soon can it be delivered?

P. Carey Lowe - Ensco Plc

Management

It could be delivered, leaving the shipyard, within three months. Vaibhav Vaishnav - Cowen & Co. LLC: Three months. Okay. And on ENSCO DS-4, it's stacked. How long does it take for you guys to re-activate, let's say, a ENSCO DS-4?

P. Carey Lowe - Ensco Plc

Management

We've given guidance in the past that we can re-activate a rig within 120 days and that includes the depreservation, catching up on deferred maintenance, and any testing or trials that we would do prior to saying that we're confident that it's re-activated. Vaibhav Vaishnav - Cowen & Co. LLC: Okay.

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Now, without reference to – sorry, I was just going to add something there. Without reference specifically to ENSCO DS-4, but one of the reasons we have taken some costs in Q1 and we're going to take a little bit more in Q2 is to be able to fast-track some of these times that we've been talking about. Vaibhav Vaishnav - Cowen & Co. LLC: Got it. Okay. And last one for me, and I apologize if you mentioned this earlier. ENSCO 104, did you guys mention how much was the termination payment?

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

No, we haven't done and it's not material. So it hasn't affected the quarter and won't materially affect next quarter. In fact, there is a possibility just by the nature of how this has worked that although we've received the termination contract, there is the possibility that the rig will continue on to further work, and we'll know more about that over the next few weeks. So we've not guided to it and because it's not material we haven't put it in. Vaibhav Vaishnav - Cowen & Co. LLC: All right. That's all for me. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

The next question will be from Jacob Ng of Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead. Jacob Ng - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Thank you and good job on the quarter. Schlumberger recently announced an investment in a new offshore drilling start-up. I wonder if you could share your thoughts around replicating a performance-based drilling services contract model more extensively offshore and would this integrated approach be something you'd consider in order to improve your competitive position?

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Well first of all, that is probably some questions you should ask Schlumberger directly. But I think today we do see some contracts which are sort of either you could fall into the book here of being called integrated or bundled contracts. In many cases, they're not performance-based. They're really a form of kind of management of services or bundling. The number of truly potential integrated offshore contracts at this point are very limited. It's potentially an area that could grow. We don't see a huge amount of client pull for it at this point outside of one or two places, but we would definitely be willing to participate in that either as a lead or a joint partnership or alliance with one of the big service companies, and we have pursued those contracts and we are doing. And I think if you know my background, I know this business very well and, of course, we would naturally look at it. But as of today, that market is not significant and it's not big enough today to build a company or an approach off it. I think we all have to see where it goes and how it develops. Jacob Ng - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Got it. Thank you. My follow-up is I just noticed here in your 10-Q that you're in discussions with the SEC regarding an extension of tolling agreement. And I just wonder if you could also share an update on communication as it relates to the Department of Justice around the ENSCO DS-5 contract?

Carl Trowell - Ensco Plc

Management

Yeah. There's nothing really much to add that isn't in the filing. It's pretty customary, it's normal, and we had a tolling agreement and it's just a customary extension of that tolling agreement. Jacob Ng - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Got it. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

And ladies and gentlemen, this will conclude our question-and-answer session. I would like to hand the conference back over to Nick Georgas for any closing remarks.

Nick Georgas - Ensco Plc

Operator

Thank you, Denise. I want to thank everyone for your interest in Ensco and for participating in our call today. Have a great day.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, the conference has concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect your lines.