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Note 15 - Asset Dispositions, Assets Held for Sale and Asset Impairments

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

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ASSET DISPOSITIONS, ASSETS HELD FOR SALE AND ASSET IMPAIRMENTS

In the fourth quarter of 2019, we evaluated our fleet for vessels to be considered for disposal and identified 46 (approximately 20% of our total vessels at the time) vessels to be classified as held for sale. Beginning late in the first quarter of 2020, the industry and world economies were affected by a global pandemic and a concurrent reduction in the demand for and the price of crude oil. The pandemic and oil price impact severely affected the oil and gas industry and caused us to expand our disposal program to include more vessels. In 2020, we added 32 vessels, none in the first quarter, to our assets held for sale, sold 53, eight in the first quarter, of the vessels that were classified as held for sale, and had 23 vessels, valued at $34.4 million, remaining in the held for sale account as of December 31, 2020. During the first quarter of 2021, we sold three of our vessels held for sale and had 20 vessels, valued at $31.2 million, remaining in the held for sale account as of March 31, 2021. In addition, we also sold three vessels from our active fleet in the first quarter of 2021 and one vessel from our active fleet in the first quarter of 2020. The vessel sales in the first quarter of 2021 contributed approximately $11.0 million in proceeds and we incurred a net $1.9 million loss on the sales, primarily on the vessels sold from the active fleet. The vessel sales in the first quarter of 2020 contributed $9.5 million in proceeds and we recognized a $5.3 million net gain on the sales.

During the first quarter of 2020, we recorded $10.2 million in impairment related to revaluation of our assets held for sale. In the first quarter of 2021, we did not add any vessels to our held for sale account and we did not record any additional impairment to the value of vessels in the held for sale account. We consider the valuation approach for our assets held for sale to be a Level 3 fair value measurement due to the level of estimation involved in valuing assets to be recycled or sold. We determined the fair value of the vessels held for sale using two methodologies depending on the vessel and on our planned method of disposition. We designated certain vessels to be recycled and valued those vessels using recycling yard pricing schedules based on dollars per ton. We generally value vessels that will be sold rather than recycled at the midpoint of a value range based on sales agreements or using comparative sales in the marketplace. We do not separate our asset impairment expense by segment because of the significant movement of our assets between segments.

In early 2020, it became evident that a novel coronavirus originating in Asia (COVID-19) could become a pandemic with worldwide reach. By mid- March, when the World Health Organization declared the outbreak to be a pandemic (the COVID-19 pandemic), much of the industrialized world had initiated severe measures to lessen its impact. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic created significant volatility, uncertainty, and economic disruption during the first quarter of 2020. With respect to our particular sector, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a much lower demand for oil as national, regional, and local governments imposed travel restrictions, border closings, restrictions on public gatherings, stay at home orders, and limitations on business operations in order to contain its spread. During this same time period, oil-producing countries struggled to reach consensus on worldwide production levels, resulting in both a market oversupply of oil and a precipitous fall in oil prices. Combined, these conditions adversely affected our operations and business beginning in the latter part of the first quarter of 2020 and continuing throughout the remainder of the year. The reduction in demand for hydrocarbons together with an unprecedented decline in the price of oil has resulted in our primary customers, the oil and gas companies, making material reductions to their planned spending on offshore projects, compounding the effect of the virus on offshore operations. Further, these conditions, separately or together, are expected to continue to impact the demand for our services, the utilization and/or rates we can achieve for our assets and services, and the outlook for our industry in general.

In the first and second quarters of 2020, we considered these events to be indicators that the value of our active offshore vessel fleet may be impaired. As a result, as of March 31, 2020 and June 30, 2020, we performed Step 1 evaluations of our active offshore fleet under FASB Accounting Standards Codification 360, which governs the methodology for identifying and recording impairment of long-lived assets to determine if any of our asset groups have net book value in excess of undiscounted future net cash flows. Our evaluations did not indicate impairment of any of our asset groups. Beginning with the third quarter of 2020, conditions related to the pandemic and oil price environment stabilized and in the fourth quarter industry conditions marginally improved. Similarly, in the first quarter of 2021 we have not seen indications in the industry that would indicate impairment of any of our asset groups. As a result, we did not identify additional events or conditions that would require us to perform a Step 1 evaluation as of March 31, 2021. We will continue to monitor the expected future cash flows and the fair market value of our asset groups for impairment.