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Joint Ventures

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Joint Ventures

Joint Ventures

Note 13 Joint Ventures

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During 2016, we entered into an agreement with Saudi Aramco, to form a new joint venture, SANAD, to own, manage and operate onshore drilling rigs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. SANAD, which is equally owned by Saudi Aramco and Nabors, began operations during the fourth quarter of 2017.

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During 2017, Nabors and Saudi Aramco each contributed $20 million in cash for the purpose of capitalizing the joint venture upon formation. In addition, since inception Nabors and Saudi Aramco have each contributed a combination of drilling rigs, drilling rig equipment and other assets, including cash, each with a value of approximately $394 million to the joint venture. The contributions were received in exchange for redeemable ownership interests which accrue interest annually, have a twenty-five year maturity and are required to be converted to authorized capital should certain events occur, including the accumulation of specified losses. In the accompanying consolidated balance sheet Nabors has reported Saudi Aramco’s share of authorized capital as a component of noncontrolling interest in equity and Saudi Aramco’s share of the redeemable ownership interests as redeemable noncontrolling interests in subsidiary, classified as mezzanine equity. The accrued interest on the redeemable ownership interest is a non-cash financing activity and is reported as an increase in the redeemable noncontrolling interest in subsidiary line in our condensed consolidated balance sheet. In January 2021, SANAD settled approximately $100 million of the accrued interest from inception to December 31, 2020, by making a cash payment to each partner for their respective amounts. The assets and liabilities included in the condensed balance sheet below are (1) assets that can either be used to settle obligations of the

VIE or be made available in the future to the equity owners through dividends, distributions or in exchange of the redeemable ownership interests (upon mutual agreement of the owners) or (2) liabilities for which creditors do not have recourse to other assets of Nabors.

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The condensed balance sheet of SANAD, as included in our consolidated balance sheet, is presented below.

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​	​	December 31,
​		2020			2019
​	​	(In thousands)
Assets:	​	​	​	​	​	​	​
Cash and cash equivalents	​	$	368,981	​	$	289,575	​
Accounts receivable	​		79,711	​		68,624	​
Other current assets	​		17,148	​		18,149	​
Property, plant and equipment, net	​		428,331	​		455,751	​
Other long-term assets	​		2,590	​		15,118	​
Total assets	​	$	896,761	​	$	847,217	​
Liabilities:	​	​	​	​	​	​	​
Accounts payable	​	$	61,808	​	$	64,365	​
Accrued liabilities	​		18,791	​		17,929	​
Total liabilities	​	$	80,599	​	$	82,294	​

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