CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
We desire to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, or the PSLRA, and are
including this cautionary statement in connection therewith. The PSLRA provides safe harbor protections for forward-looking statements
to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business.
Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and
underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical or present facts or conditions.
These forward-looking statements can often, but not necessarily, be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the
terms "assumes", "projects", "forecasts", "estimates", "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "plans", "intends", "may", "might", "will",
"would", "can", "could", "should" or, in each case, their negative, or other variations or comparable terminology.
The forward-looking statements in this document are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further
assumptions, including, without limitation, management’s examination of historical operating trends, data contained in our records and
other data available from third parties. Although we believe that these assumptions were reasonable when made, because these
assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies that are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond
our control, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or projections.
In addition to these important factors and matters discussed elsewhere in this report on Form 6-K, and in the documents incorporated by
reference to this report, important factors that, in our view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the
forward-looking statements include:
•our ability to maintain relationships with suppliers, customers, employees and other third parties following emergence from the
Chapter 11 proceedings;
•our ability to maintain and obtain adequate financing to support our business plans following emergence from the Chapter 11
proceedings;
•factors related to the offshore drilling market, including volatility and changes in oil and gas prices and the state of the global
economy on market outlook for our various geographical operating sectors and classes of rigs;
•the impact of global economic conditions, including potential trade wars;
•supply and demand for drilling units, changes in new technology and competitive pressure on utilization rates and dayrates;
•customer contracts, including contract backlog, contract commencements, contract terminations, contract option exercises,
contract revenues, contract awards and rig mobilizations;
•the repudiation, nullification, modification or renegotiation of drilling contracts;
•delays in payments by, or disputes with, our customers under our drilling contracts or the outcome of litigation, legal
proceedings, investigations or other claims or contract disputes;
•fluctuations in the market value of our drilling units and the amount of debt we can incur under certain covenants in our debt
financing agreements;
•potential additional asset impairments;
•our liquidity and the adequacy of cash flows for our obligations;
•downtime and other risks associated with offshore rig operations and ability to successfully employ our drilling units;
•our expected debt levels;
•the impact of the operating and financial restrictions imposed by covenants in our debt agreements;
•the ability of our affiliated or related companies to service their debt requirements and comply with the provisions contained in
their loan agreements;
•our ability to satisfy the continued listing requirements of the Euronext Expand market of the Oslo stock Exchange, or other
exchange where our common stock may be listed, or to cure any continued listing standard deficiency with respect thereto;
•credit risks of our key customers;
•political and other uncertainties, including political unrest, risks of terrorist acts, war and civil disturbances, public health
threats, piracy, corruption, significant governmental influence over many aspects of local economies, or the seizure,
nationalization or expropriation of property or equipment;
•risks related to the ongoing geopolitical situation and sanctions imposed relating to the conflict in Ukraine;
•the concentration of our revenues in certain geographical jurisdictions;
•limitations on insurance coverage, such as war risk coverage, in certain regions;
•any inability to repatriate income or capital;
•the operation and maintenance of our drilling units, including complications associated with repairing and replacing equipment
in remote locations and maintenance costs incurred while idle;
•newbuildings, upgrades, shipyard and other capital projects, including the completion, delivery and commencement of
operation dates;
•our ability to successfully complete mergers, acquisitions and divestitures;
•import-export quotas;
•wage and price controls and the imposition of trade barriers;
•our ability to attract and retain skilled personnel on commercially reasonable terms, whether due to labor regulations,
unionization, or otherwise;
•internal control risk due to significant employee reductions;
•regulatory or financial requirements to comply with foreign bureaucratic actions, including potential limitations on drilling
activity, changing taxation policies, the impact of global climate change or air emissions and other forms of government
regulation and economic conditions that are beyond our control;
•the level of expected capital expenditures, our expected financing of such capital expenditures, and the timing and cost of
completion of capital projects;