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| Fifth, Rig Technologies also grew with signs that an upgrade rectification cycle is commencing and with encouraging performance from our IT business |
| This performance represents the highest sequential quarterly progress in all of 2023 |
| Daily margins in the US Lower 48 and international drilling improved |
| In the US, casing running and performance software drove robust growth |
| So I'm pretty proud of that that we actually do a newbuild program that no one's doing of the size that we're doing here at all |
| This helped drive the increase in our daily rig margin along with outstanding expense control |
| Our Drilling Solutions and Rig Technologies segments together generated EBITDA of $43 million, a record |
| Our combined drilling rig and solutions daily gross margin reached $20,151, a 4.7% improvement |
| Daily big margins in our Lower 48 rig fleet exceeded our expectations |
| Average rig count and average daily gross margin improved, largely driven by the additional three rigs deployed as well as by operating expense reductions and improved operational performance in Saudi Arabia |
| Overall, our 2023 EBITDA was historically strong |
| In fact, the underlying cash flow was strong and remained strong |
| I am pleased with this performance |
| These results demonstrate our team's ability to execute at an impressive level in this market environment |
| On a net basis, Alaska and the US offshore businesses performed better than we anticipated |
| In conclusion, the fourth quarter had many positives |
| Our view of the international market is bullish |
| This fourth quarter improvement resulted from the contribution from newbuilds deployed during the third and fourth quarters of last year, plus strong operating performance across the entire fleet |
| This improvement was driven by the M400 maintenance related downtime in the third quarter and higher daily margins in the Lower 48 market |
| What I'm focusing on is that our underlying cash flow generation, Waqar, was very strong from our operations |
| First, our EBITDA rebounded close to the levels of the first half and was significantly above our expectations |
| Revenue grew sequentially in all three portions of NDS's business, a Nabors Lower 48 rigs on third party Lower 48 rigs and in international markets |
| The international business recorded the strongest growth with revenue up 13% sequentially |
| Second, the Lower 48 was higher than we expected and very strong price and cost performance |
| Combined, these two businesses grew EBITDA by $43.6 million in 2023, a 38% improvement year-over-year |
| Our NDS EBITDA increased by 13%, which beat our expectations |
| We expect our segment revenue to grow by low double digits and our EBITDA margins to expand |
| The improvement was primarily driven by significant daily margin expansion in both our drilling businesses and rig count expansion in international markets |
| When you do that NDS margin this last quarter is 3,900 and you add that to the margin of over $20,000 per rig, which I think is pretty good in this market |
| This significant incremental margin contribution, a quarterly record, comes with limited capital spending returns on capital in NDS are the highest in our company |
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| For the fourth quarter, revenue from operations was $726 million or 1% below the third, a slight decrease, reflecting a decline in US average rig count |
| Revenue for our US Drilling segment at $266 million was down $11 million or 4% |
| Although we are forecasting positive trends for our Drilling Solutions and Rig Technology to persist in the first quarter, we will miss the impact of the seasonal year end equipment sales |
| Rig Technologies revenue decreased by $2.2 million or 3.5%, primarily due to lower capital equipment sales through the Nabors fleet |
| But based on our client schedules and requests, we have to move out some of the deliveries of these items, and that hit us pretty bad in the fourth quarter |
| William Restrepo So we did dial in a slight reduction in margin in the first quarter, because we're going to have like seven rigs coming in, we took a little bit of a cautious view on deploying those rigs and the amount of uptime we're going to get at the beginning until those rigs are fully operational |
| Lower 48 drilling rate EBITDA decreased by $1.2 million or 1.2% sequentially |
| Our global average rig count for the fourth quarter declined by two rigs |
| As we forecasted, the industry rig count in the Lower 48 declined modestly in the fourth quarter |
| We believe that with the uncertainty in commodity prices customers remain cautious about their plans for 2024 |
| So you talked about the dynamic of repricing your rigs lower down the current market rate, which is putting some pressure on your first quarter margins |
| And in Saudi Arabia, we delayed newbuild deployment |
| We expect first quarter EBITDA for drilling solutions to come in between $30 million and $31 million, primarily driven by the absence of seasonally high equipment sales |
| We anticipate a high level of churn during the first quarter |
| So if I focus just on the fourth quarter, the biggest shortfall was really working capital, Waqar, and that was about $50 million versus what we forecast |
| But undoubtedly, because of where our revenue per day and in fact, the fourth quarter was a bit of a surprise to us and how well we managed to renew our contracts and maintain the day rates at a pretty high level, but we do think we'll see some deterioration in the first quarter |
| East Texas, I would call the churn medium, activity down |
| We really have had a tougher time in the second half of this year collecting from our customers |
| The anticipated sequential decrease as compared to the fourth quarter reflects potentially higher start-up costs for several rigs during the first quarter |
| Average rig count of 70.3 declined by 4.6% |
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