Seacrest Petroleo Bermuda Limited: Event of Default on USD 120 million senior unsecured Nordic bonds
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/Hamilton, Bermuda, 17 December 2024: Seacrest Petroleo Bermuda Limited ("Seacrest Petroleo" or the "Company") announces that Nordic Trustee AS, the bond trustee (the “Bond Trustee”) for the Company’s 16.00% senior unsecured USD 120,000,000 bonds 2024/2027 (the “Bonds”), will notify bondholders today that an Event of Default has occurred as a result of the Company’s failure to pay to each bondholder the second instalment of a consent fee in cash, in the amount of 0.50% of the principal amount of the Bonds, by 16 December 2024, as required by the Written Resolution approved by the bondholders on 19 September 2024. Default interest will accrue on the unpaid amount from and including 16 December 2024 and until the payment is made. A copy of the notification by the Bond Trustee will be available at https://new.stamdata.com/app/issuer/260004030.
As stated in the Bond Trustee’s notification, the Issuer remains engaged in discussions with bondholders with a view to entering into a short-term forbearance. The forbearance is intended to enable ongoing discussions to continue in relation to potential further debt investment into the Seacrest Group.
For further information, please contact:
John de los Santos, Head of Investor Relations
Seacrest Petroleo Bermuda Limited
Tel. +44 79 4971 4756
E-mail: john.santos@seacrestpetroleo.com
This information is subject to the disclosure requirements in article 17 of the Regulation EU 596/2014 (the EU Market Abuse Regulation) and section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
About Seacrest Petroleo
Seacrest Petroleo is an independent oil and gas production company with an integrated portfolio of onshore producing oil fields and export infrastructure onshore in Espírito Santo, Brazil. The fields have estimated oil and gas in place volumes of 1.2 billion barrels of oil equivalents and certified 2P reserves of 144 million barrels of oil equivalents. The Company has exclusive control over its infrastructure, continuously from field production to offshore tanker loading terminal, allowing for cost-effective operations, and enabling direct access to markets for its premium grade products. The Company has offices in Bermuda, Norway and Brazil.
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