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| And in these markets, we have the best solution for our customers |
| And with the free cash flow that we can see coming off of FET now with our 2024 forecast gives us a real opportunity for what we might be able to do very accretively on a go-forward basis |
| This highly accretive acquisition demonstrates strong business logic while maintaining conservative net leverage and strong liquidity |
| Variperm's differentiated products and patent-protected technologies complement our artificial lift product portfolio |
| Their contributions along with FET's legacy business will generate significant financial returns for our shareholders |
| Together, we are a formidable manufacturer of highly engineered products and solutions, and we expect the larger and more profitable FET will generate significant financial returns for our shareholders |
| We did enter the year with a stronger backlog than we had in prior years |
| Industry investment has clearly increased outside the United States, and we are benefiting |
| Revenue grew in all international regions, led by 72% increase in the Middle East |
| In the aggregate, international revenue expanded 23%, more than twice the pace of international rig count growth |
| As I look at the synergies that we have, what's exciting to us is we mentioned in our comments that we think there's a great opportunity to expand our addressable market for artificial lift products |
| The industry is in a better position, but we do see some higher costs coming through on the freight side |
| In addition, aftermarket revenue was up almost 40%, supporting the higher utilization of the current global installed base |
| So we've had great success with the Iron Roughneck that's the FR120, 120,000 foot pounds of torque tool that our customers are using to deal with larger diameter drill pipe |
| And we've had some really, really good success |
| A focus on operating leverage, continued cost management and the utilization of our Saudi Arabian facility drove this improvement |
| These milestone strengths increase customer efficiency and capability, allowing them to reach hydrocarbons further from the rig and deeper below the surface |
| In the first half of 2023, we set quarterly revenue records, driven by our successful greaseless cable design |
| The segment delivered EBITDA margin improvement of 400 basis points with 42% incremental EBITDA margins compared with 2022 |
| I would like to highlight the impressive improvement this team has made in 2023 |
| As Neal mentioned, we expect strong revenue growth from Subsea as backlog has doubled from a year ago and demand for traditional oil and gas and offshore wind remains robust |
| And ideally, we're going to have nice accretion |
| Our revenue benefited from backlog conversion in our Subsea Technologies and production equipment product lines |
| Our drilling team's innovation significantly expands FET's addressable market |
| But I think the opportunity set is really good |
| We anticipate substantial improvements in per share metrics |
| We've got a great customer base |
| Internationally, we continue to see opportunities and inquiries for capital equipment, and this will be an area of strength for FET |
| Lastly, our Multilift product family has successfully helped customers mitigate sand and gas challenges in their ESP artificial lift operations for many years |
| We're excited |
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| And we've talked about collections, Dan, over the last several calls as a challenge with our free cash flow |
| Margins could be below that as we begin Q1 |
| For FET, these market conditions led to lower-than-expected revenue and EBITDA growth in 2023 |
| As a result, Completion company customers idled equipment, slowed purchases of consumable products and delayed demand for stimulation-related capital |
| Completions segment revenue decreased about 8%, primarily driven by lower seasonal coiled tubing sales into the Middle East |
| Definitely was disappointing to us to have to put off our earnings call last week around analysis of our BAs, but maybe just a little background of how that works |
| These include recent E&P company mergers, downward pressure on U.S |
| In the U.S., Completions activity was moderately lower to start the fourth quarter before falling sharply with the expected seasonal frac holiday |
| EBITDA was down just over $1 million despite the increase in revenue as unfavorable mix and slightly higher corporate costs offset volume growth |
| I mean, I think that activity was down about 20% from last year |
| We generated free cash flow of $9 million in the fourth quarter, a result that was well short of our expectation of $26 million |
| For the first quarter, we anticipate negative free cash flow typical of our seasonal use of cash |
| And in the fourth quarter, market activity and customer behavior continued the full year trend as exhibited by lower bookings and delayed payments |
| I know North American business looks softer, onshore business looks softer |
| Each factor presents near-term headwind for customer activity |
| These factors caused global rig count to grow only 4% instead of the 15% forecasted |
| Several factors lead us to expect a softer first quarter |
| Additionally, cash from our longer-term percentage of completion projects was delayed |
| natural gas prices were down 60% |
| However, we anticipate softer demand for drilling and completions capital equipment |
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