EX-99.2 5 o38240exv99w2.htm EXHIBIT 99.2 exv99w2
 

Exhibit 99.2
Precision Drilling Trust
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (UNAUDITED )
                   
    September 30,       December 31,  
(Stated in thousands of Canadian dollars)   2007       2006  
ASSETS
                 
Current assets:
                 
Cash
  $ 116       $  
Accounts receivable
    227,148         354,671  
Income tax recoverable
    12,387         8,701  
Inventory
    8,762         9,073  
 
             
 
    248,413         372,445  
Property, plant and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation
    1,199,576         1,107,617  
Intangibles, net of accumulated amortization
    308         375  
Goodwill
    280,749         280,749  
 
             
 
  $ 1,729,046       $ 1,761,186  
 
             
 
                 
LIABILITIES AND UNITHOLDERS ’ EQUITY
                 
Current liabilities:
                 
Bank indebtedness
  $       $ 36,774  
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
    82,548         130,202  
Distributions payable
    16,349         38,985  
 
             
 
    98,897         205,961  
Long-term compensation plans
    12,386         22,699  
Long-term debt
    123,773         140,880  
Future income taxes
    197,787         174,571  
 
             
 
    432,843         544,111  
 
             
 
                 
Unitholders’ equity:
                 
Unitholders’ capital (note 3)
    1,412,294         1,412,294  
Deficit
    (116,091 )       (195,219 )
 
             
 
    1,296,203         1,217,075  
 
             
 
  $ 1,729,046       $ 1,761,186  
 
             
Units outstanding (000s)
    125,758         125,758  
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 


 

Precision Drilling Trust
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EARNINGS AND DEFICIT (UNAUDITED)
                                   
(Stated in thousands of Canadian dollars,   Three months ended September 30,     Nine months ended September 30,
except per unit amounts)   2007     2006       2007     2006  
       
Revenue
  $ 227,928     $ 349,558       $ 760,475     $ 1,109,535  
Expenses:
                                 
Operating
    123,197       167,810         389,259       532,474  
General and administrative
    12,663       20,168         37,492       58,967  
Depreciation and amortization
    17,535       19,134         53,045       55,324  
Foreign exchange
    1,131       15         2,024       (113 )
           
 
    154,526       207,127         481,820       646,652  
           
Operating earnings
    73,402       142,431         278,655       462,883  
Interest:
                                 
Long-term debt
    1,623       1,808         5,802       6,444  
Other
    25       10         83       36  
Income
    (84 )     (116 )       (279 )     (324 )
Other
                        (408 )
           
Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes
    71,838       140,729         273,049       457,135  
Income taxes: (note 4)
    (3 )     5,616         (3,650 )     29,850  
Current Future
    2,139       1,561         23,208       (18,753 )
           
 
    2,136       7,177         19,558       11,097  
           
Earnings from continuing operations
    69,702       133,552         253,491       446,038  
Gain on disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax
    2,956       6,115         2,956       6,115  
           
Net earnings
    72,658       139,667         256,447       452,153  
Deficit, beginning of period
    (139,703 )     (204,102 )       (195,219 )     (303,284 )
Distributions declared
    (49,046 )     (116,785 )       (177,319 )     (330,089 )
           
Deficit, end of period
  $ (116,091 )   $ (181,220 )     $ (116,091 )   $ (181,220 )
           
Earnings per unit from continuing operations:
                                 
Basic and diluted
  $ 0.55     $ 1.06       $ 2.02     $ 3.55  
           
Earnings per unit:
                                 
Basic and diluted
  $ 0.58     $ 1.11       $ 2.04     $ 3.60  
           
Units outstanding (000s)
    125,758       125,613         125,758       125,613  
Weighted average and diluted units outstanding (000s)
    125,758       125,557         125,758       125,497  
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 


 

Precision Drilling Trust
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOW (UNAUDITED)
                                   
    Three months ended September 30,     Nine months ended September 30,
(Stated in thousands of Canadian dollars)   2007     2006       2007     2006  
       
Cash provided by (used in):
                                 
Continuing operations:
                                 
Earnings from continuing operations
  $ 69,702     $ 133,552       $ 253,491     $ 446,038  
Adjustments and other items not involving cash:
                                 
Long-term compensation plans
    (3,685 )     5,262         (10,313 )     12,507  
Depreciation and amortization
    17,535       19,134         53,045       55,324  
Future income taxes
    2,139       1,561         23,208       (18,753 )
Other
    3       1         8       (405 )
Changes in non-cash working capital balances
    (65,424 )     (84,558 )       86,202       (39,200 )
           
 
    20,270       74,952         405,641       455,511  
 
                                 
Investments:
                                 
Purchase of property, plant and equipment
    (40,926 )     (80,379 )       (149,468 )     (190,697 )
Proceeds on sale of property, plant and equipment
    1,273       4,251         4,531       25,595  
Business acquisitions, net of cash acquired
          (16,403 )             (16,403 )
Proceeds on disposal of discontinued operations
    2,956       7,337         2,956       7,337  
Proceeds on disposal of investments
                        510  
Changes in non-cash working capital balances
    406       4,465         (9,708 )     10,631  
           
 
    (36,291 )     (80,729 )       (151,689 )     (163,027 )
 
                                 
Financing:
                                 
Distributions paid
    (49,046 )     (116,752 )       (199,955 )     (327,784 )
Repayment of long-term debt
          (614 )       (95,753 )     (180,219 )
Increase in long-term debt
    71,836       120,574         78,646       248,338  
Issuance of Trust units
          4,031               5,722  
Changes in non-cash working capital balances
                        (22,060 )
Change in bank indebtedness
    (6,653 )     (1,462 )       (36,774 )     (16,481 )
           
 
    16,137       5,777         (253,836 )     (292,484 )
Increase in cash and cash equivalents
    116               116        
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period
                         
           
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period
  $ 116     $       $ 116     $  
           
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 


 

Precision Drilling Trust
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)
(Tabular amounts are stated in thousands of Canadian dollars, except unit numbers)
     
NOTE 1
  BASIS OF PRESENTATION
 
   
 
  These interim financial statements for Precision Drilling Trust (the “Trust”) were prepared using accounting policies and methods of their application consistent with those used in the preparation of the Trust’s consolidated audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2006 except as noted below. These interim financial statements conform in all material respects to the requirements of generally accepted accounting principles in Canada for annual financial statements with the exception of certain note disclosures regarding balance sheet items and transactions occurring prior to the current reporting period. As a result, these interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Trust’s consolidated audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2006.
 
   
 
  Effective January 1, 2007 the Trust adopted new accounting standards issued by The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. The standards regarding the disclosure of comprehensive income (Sections 1530 and 3251) require a statement of comprehensive income, which is comprised of net earnings and other comprehensive income. The Trust does have any amounts that would be included in comprehensive income, therefore, comprehensive income is equivalent to net earnings and no statement of comprehensive income is presented. The adoption of the standards relating to the recognition, measurement, disclosure and presentation of financial instruments (Sections 3855 and 3861), and hedge accounting (Section 3865) did not have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.
 
   
 
  New Canadian accounting standards relating to the disclosure of financial instruments and capital have been issued. The new standards have not yet been applied by the Trust. The application of these standards will result in additional disclosure when they become effective for the fiscal period commencing January 1, 2008.
 
   
 
  Certain of the prior period’s comparative figures have been reclassified to conform to the current year’s presentation.

 


 

     
NOTE 2
  SEASONALITY OF OPERATIONS
 
   
 
  The majority of the Trust’s operations are carried on in Canada. The ability to move heavy equipment in the Canadian oil and natural gas fields is dependent on weather conditions. As warm weather returns in the spring, the winter’s frost comes out of the ground rendering many secondary roads incapable of supporting the weight of heavy equipment until they have thoroughly dried out. The duration of this “spring breakup” has a direct impact on the Trust’s activity levels. In addition, many exploration and production areas in northern Canada are accessible only in winter months when the ground is frozen hard enough to support equipment. The timing of freeze up and spring breakup affects the ability to move equipment in and out of these areas. As a result, late March through May is traditionally the Trust’s slowest time.
 
   
NOTE 3
  UNITHOLDERS’ CAPITAL
 
   
 
  (a) Authorized – unlimited number of voting Trust units
 
   
 
                          – unlimited number of voting exchangeable LP units
 
   
 
  (b) Units issued:
                 
Trust units   Number     Amount  
 
Balance, December 31, 2006
    125,536,329     $ 1,409,828  
Issued on retraction of exchangeable LP units
    43,858       488  
     
Balance September 30, 2007
    125,580,187     $ 1,410,316  
     
 
Exchangeable LP units   Number     Amount  
 
Balance, December 31, 2006
    221,595     $ 2,466  
Redeemed on retraction of exchangeable LP units
    (43,858 )     (488 )
     
Balance September 30, 2007
    177,737     $ 1,978  
     
 
Summary   Number     Amount  
 
Trust units
    125,580,187     $ 1,410,316  
Exchangeable LP units
    177,737       1,978  
     
Unitholders’ capital
    125,757,924     $ 1,412,294  
     
     
 
  The Trust has a unitholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan”), the purpose of which is to protect unitholders in the event a third party attempts to acquire a significant interest in the Trust by ensuring that a person seeking control gives unitholders and the administrator of the Trust sufficient time to evaluate the bid, negotiate with the initial bidder and encourage competing bids to emerge. Rights issued under the Rights Plan become exercisable when any person or group bids to acquire or acquires 20% or more of the outstanding units without complying with certain provisions in the Rights Plan. Should such an acquisition or announcement occur, each right entitles the holder, other than the acquiring person, to purchase units at a 50% discount to the market price.

 


 

     
NOTE 4
  INCOME TAXES
 
   
 
  Currently, the Trust incurs taxes to the extent that there are certain provincial capital taxes, as well as taxes on any taxable income, of its underlying subsidiaries. Future income taxes arise from the differences between the accounting and tax basis of the Trust’s and its subsidiaries’ assets and liabilities.
 
   
 
  The provision for income taxes differs from that which would be expected by applying statutory Canadian income tax rates. A reconciliation of the difference at September 30 is as follows:
                                   
    Three months ended September 30,     Nine months ended September 30,
    2007     2006       2007     2006
       
Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes
  $ 71,838     $ 140,729       $ 273,049     457,135  
Federal and provincial statutory rates
    33 %     33 %       33 %     33 %
           
Tax at statutory rates
  $ 23,706     $ 46,441       $ 90,106     $ 150,855  
Adjusted for the effect of:
                                 
Non-deductible expenses
    50       70         455       198  
Income to be distributed to unitholders, not subject to tax in the Trust
    (21,468 )     (39,551 )       (68,544 )     (119,594 )
Other
    (152 )     217         (269 )     850  
           
Income tax expense before tax rate reductions
    2,136       7,177         21,748       32,309  
Reduction of future tax balances due to enacted tax rate reductions
                  (2,190 )     (21,212 )
           
Income tax expense
  $ 2,136     $ 7,177       $ 19,558     $ 11,097  
           
Effective income tax rate before enacted tax rate reductions
    3 %     5 %       8 %     7 %
     
 
  In June 2007 the federal government of Canada enacted a 0.5% reduction to corporate income tax rates to be effective after 2010.
 
   
 
  The government of Canada’s Bill C-52 Budget Implementation Act, 2007 was enacted in June 2007 and includes legislative provisions that impose a tax on certain distributions from publicly traded specified income flow-through (“SIFT”) trusts at a rate equal to the applicable federal corporate tax rate plus a provincial SIFT tax factor (a combined 31.5% in 2011). Precision will be a SIFT trust on the earlier of January 1, 2011 or the first day after it exceeds the normal growth guidelines announced by the federal Department of Finance on December 15, 2006. Due to Precision’s legal entity structure, the enacted SIFT tax measures have no significant impact on Precision’s future income tax provision.

 


 

NOTE 5      COMPENSATION PLANS
(a) Non-management directors
Effective July 1, 2007 non-management directors of Precision may elect to receive their annual retainer and meeting fees in the form of deferred trust units (“DTUs”). These units fully vest upon issuance to directors and will be adjusted for each distribution to unitholders by issuing additional DTUs based on the closing market price of Trust units on the trading day immediately prior to the day distributions are paid. DTUs are redeemable for equivalent Trust units upon ceasing to be a director of Precision.
Subsequent to September 30, 2007 10,504 DTUs for this plan have been granted.
(b) Officers and employees
Eligible participants of Precision’s Performance Savings Plan may elect to receive a portion of their annual performance bonus in the form of deferred trust units (“Performance DTUs”). These units are redeemable in cash and are adjusted for each distribution to unitholders by issuing additional Performance DTUs based on the weighted average trading price on the Toronto Stock Exchange for the five days immediately following the ex-distribution date. All Performance DTUs must be redeemed within 60 days of ceasing to be an employee of Precision or by the end of the second full calendar year after the receipt of the Performance DTUs.
During 2007 Precision issued 81,296 Performance DTUs including additional Performance DTUs issued in lieu of cash distributions and redeemed 4,209 Performance DTUs on employee resignations and withdrawals. The values of these Performance DTUs are adjusted monthly based on the period-end trading price of Trust units and the resulting amount is included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities. Gains or losses resulting from these adjustments are charged to earnings. As at September 30, 2007 $1.6 million is included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities for the outstanding Performance DTUs. Included in net earnings for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007 is a recovery of $0.5 million and $0.6 million respectively.
(c) Executive Plan
During the third quarter Precision instituted a Deferred Signing Bonus Unit Plan for its Chief Executive Officer. Under the plan 178,336 deferred trust units (“Bonus DTUs”) were granted and vested on September 1, 2007. The units are redeemed one-third annually beginning September 1, 2008 and settled for cash. The number of Bonus DTUs is adjusted for each distribution to unitholders by issuing additional Bonus DTUs based on the weighted average trading price on the Toronto Stock Exchange for the five days immediately following the ex-distribution date. Subsequent changes in the unit value will be recorded as compensation expense and charged to earnings in the period the change occurs. Included in net earnings for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2007 is a charge of $3.4 million.

 


 

NOTE 6      SEGMENTED INFORMATION
The Trust operates primarily in Canada, in two segments; Contract Drilling Services and Completion and Production Services. Contract Drilling Services includes contract drilling rigs, procurement and distribution of oilfield supplies, camp and catering services and manufacture, sale, and repair of drilling equipment. Completion and Production Services includes service rigs, snubbing units, wastewater treatment units, and oilfield equipment rental.
                                         
    Contract     Completion                    
Three months ended   Drilling     and Production     Corporate     Inter-segment        
September 30, 2007   Services     Services     and Other     Eliminations     Total  
 
Revenue
  $ 160,068     $ 71,570     $     $ (3,710 )   $ 227,928  
Operating earnings
    58,877       22,538       (8,013 )           73,402  
Depreciation and amortization
    10,490       6,129       916             17,535  
Total assets
    1,241,666       460,116       27,264             1,729,046  
Goodwill
    172,440       108,309                   280,749  
Capital expenditures
    31,603       8,885       438             40,926  
     
                                         
    Contract     Completion                    
Three months ended   Drilling     and Production     Corporate     Inter-segment        
September 30, 2006   Services     Services     and Other     Eliminations     Total  
 
Revenue
  $ 246,364     $ 106,173     $     $ (2,979 )   $ 349,558  
Operating earnings
    114,552       39,015       (11,136 )           142,431  
Depreciation and amortization
    9,968       8,323       843             19,134  
Total assets
    1,184,581       491,954       61,506             1,738,041  
Goodwill
    172,440       108,284                   280,724  
Capital expenditures
    68,005       11,385       989             80,379  
     
                                         
    Contract     Completion                    
Nine months ended   Drilling     and Production     Corporate     Inter-segment        
September 30, 2007   Services     Services     and Other     Eliminations     Total  
 
Revenue
  $ 519,792     $ 249,754     $     $ (9,071 )   $ 760,475  
Operating earnings
    215,625       83,307       (20,277 )           278,655  
Depreciation and amortization
    29,212       20,973       2,860             53,045  
Total assets
    1,241,666       460,116       27,264             1,729,046  
Goodwill
    172,440       108,309                   280,749  
Capital expenditures
    127,169       21,330       969             149,468  
     
                                         
    Contract     Completion                    
Nine months ended   Drilling     and Production     Corporate     Inter-segment        
September 30, 2006   Services     Services     and Other     Eliminations     Total  
 
Revenue
  $ 786,659     $ 333,102     $     $ (10,226 )   $ 1,109,535  
Operating earnings
    369,708       123,364       (30,189 )           462,883  
Depreciation and amortization
    29,410       24,139       1,775             55,324  
Total assets
    1,184,581       491,954       61,506             1,738,041  
Goodwill
    172,440       108,284                   280,724  
Capital expenditures
    157,443       30,294       2,960             190,697