Spectrum ASA: 1st Quarter 2015 Financial Results


 

Summary    
     
       SPECTRUM GROUP
       Quarter   Quarter   12 months 
       ended   ended   ended 
       31.03.15   31.03.14   31.12.14 
 (USD 1000)       (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Audited) 
           
Net operating revenue       14 887  38 001  183 298
           
EBIT       (4 303)  8 500   52 795
           
Net Profit / (Loss)       (3 322)   5 958    38 229
           
Cash flow from operating activities       17 994   33 414   128 170
           
Investment in Multi-Client library       13 164   17 709   113 280
           
Multi-Client library Net book value     129 328 110 604   131 266
           
Cash and cash equivalents        17 670   17 369   8 364

Q1 Highlights

  • Net Multi-Client revenues in the quarter totaled MUSD 14.6 (2014: MUSD 37.3)
  • Net Multi-Client revenues were comprised of late sales of MUSD 3.9 (2014: MUSD 11.3), prefunding on Multi-Client investments of MUSD 7.4 (2014: MUSD 26.0) and other revenue of MUSD 3.4 (2014: MUSD 0.0).
  • EBIT for the quarter was MUSD (4.3)  (2014: MUSD 8.5)
  • Multi-Client investments were MUSD 13.2 with 56.1% prefunding rate based on costs incurred vs. net prefunding (2014: MUSD 17.7 with 146.6% prefunding) 
  • Operational cash flow before Multi-Client investments in Q1 was MUSD 18.0 (2014: MUSD 33.4)

 "Spectrum provides innovative Multi-Client seismic surveys and high-quality
seismic imaging services to the global oil and gas industry from offices in
Norway, the UK, US, Brazil, Egypt, Australia, Indonesia and Singapore.
Spectrum's Multi-Client strategy focuses on both the major, established
hydrocarbon-producing regions of the world as well as key frontier areas
identified by our experienced team of geoscientists. The Spectrum library of
Multi-Client data has projects from many of the foremost oil producing regions
of the world. These include new acquisition, reprocessing and interpretation
reports."

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.


Attachments

SPU Q1 15 presentation SPU Q1 15 report
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