Cal Dive Announces Decision Not to Make Interest Payment
16 Janvier 2015 - 3:25AM
Business Wire
Cal Dive International, Inc. (OTC:CDVI) (the “Company”)
announced today that it has decided not to pay approximately $2.2
million in interest due January 15, 2015 on its 5.00% convertible
senior notes due 2017 (the “Notes”). Under the terms of the
indenture governing the Notes, the Company has a 30-day grace
period during which it may elect to make the interest payment
without being in default for non-payment.
The Company believes it is in the best interests of its debt and
equity holders to continue to focus on actively addressing the
Company’s debt and capital structure and intends during the 30-day
grace period to continue discussions with its debt providers. If
the Company does not make the interest payment before the grace
period expires, the Trustee or the requisite holders of the Notes
could declare the aggregate principal amount of the Notes, plus all
unpaid interest and any other amounts due and owing on the Notes,
immediately due and payable.
Additionally, as previously disclosed, the delisting of the
Company’s common stock from trading on the New York Stock Exchange
constituted a “Fundamental Change” under the Notes, and pursuant to
the terms of the Notes and indenture governing the Notes, each note
holder has the right to require the Company to purchase for cash
any or all of the Notes held by the note holders at a price equal
to 100% of the principal, plus accrued and unpaid interest. The
Company provided the Fundamental Change Notice to the note holders
on December 28, 2014, and has until February 2, 2015 to repurchase
any notes that are tendered by note holders on or before January
30, 2015. The Company currently has no plans to repurchase Notes
that are tendered, which will constitute a separate event of
default under the indenture governing the Notes.
In pursuit of its efforts to deleverage the Company and improve
its balance sheet and liquidity, the Company is continuing to
pursue financing transactions, non-core asset sales and other
strategic efforts that could provide the Company with additional
liquidity and allow for the repayment, restructuring or refinancing
of the Company’s first lien revolving credit facility and other
funded debt. However, there is no assurance that an agreement on
such a transaction will be reached in a timely manner. Accordingly,
the Company is also evaluating other, potentially less satisfactory
measures, including seeking protection under the bankruptcy laws as
it continues its efforts to restructure its business and capital
structure.
About Cal Dive International, Inc.
Cal Dive International, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas,
is a marine contractor that provides manned diving, pipelay and
pipe burial, platform installation and salvage, and light well
intervention services to the offshore oil and natural gas industry
on the Gulf of Mexico OCS, Northeastern U.S., Latin America,
Southeast Asia, China, Australia, West Africa, the Middle East, and
Europe, with a diversified fleet of dive support vessels and
construction barges.
Cautionary Statement
This press release may include “forward-looking” statements that
are generally identifiable through the use of words such as
“believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “estimate,”
“project” and similar expressions and include any statements that
are made regarding earnings expectations. The forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date of this release, and the
Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise such
statements to reflect new information or events as they occur.
These statements are based on a number of assumptions, risks and
uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company.
Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees
of future performance and that actual future results may differ
materially due to a variety of factors. Factors that could cause
the Company’s results to differ materially include: the Company’s
significant indebtedness and constraints on the Company’s
liquidity, the impact the delisting of the Company’s common stock
from the NYSE may have on the liquidity and market price of its
common stock and on its ability to conduct equity financings and
access the public capital markets, current economic and financial
market conditions, changes in commodity prices for natural gas and
oil (including the recent depressed levels of such prices), and in
the level of offshore exploration, development and production
activity in the oil and natural gas industry, the Company’s
inability to obtain contracts with favorable pricing terms in a
downturn of its business cycle, intense competition and pricing
pressure in the Company’s industry, the risks of cost overruns on
fixed price contracts, the uncertainties inherent in competitive
bidding for work, the operational risks inherent in the Company’s
business, risks associated with the Company’s increasing presence
internationally, and other risks detailed in the Company’s most
recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Cal Dive International, Inc.Ike Smith, 713-243-2713Vice
President-Finance
Cal Dive (CE) (USOTC:CDVIQ)
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