Market and Industry-Specific Challenges Sample Clauses

Market and Industry-Specific Challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the global economy to enter a recessionary period beginning in the second quarter of 2020. During 2020, the E&P industry faced the dual impact of demand deterioration from COVID-19 and market oversupply from increased production, which caused oil and natural gas prices to decline significantly for most of 2020. The sharp commodity-price decline triggered E&P companies to reduce budgets by approximately 25%. When commodity prices fall, E&P companies have less cash to invest and allocate capital to their highest return assets. Exploration offerings and data purchases are often discretionary and, therefore, receive disproportionately higher reduction rates than overall budget cuts. Consequently, there was a material slowdown in offshore seismic spending since the second quarter of 2020, which negatively impacted ION’s liquidity levels. In 2021, the global economy surpassed pre-pandemic levels and Xxxxx crude prices, which are most relevant to ION’s internationally focused business, rebounded above pre-pandemic levels. While this reflected a continued expectation of rising oil demand as both global economic activity and COVID-19 vaccination rates increased, combined with ongoing crude oil production limits from member of OPEC and partner countries, energy companies’ capital discipline persisted. As a result, the offshore seismic market remained challenging throughout 2021 and E&P companies continued portfolio rationalization and high-grading to find the best return on investment. Despite signs of gradual market improvement, ION’s 2021 revenues were lower than expected causing increased liquidity constraints. Moreover, ION faced significant near-term obligations coming due in the fourth quarter of 2021, including principal and interest in the amount of approximately $7.7 million on the Unsecured Notes and interest in the amount of approximately $4.6 million on the Second Lien Notes. Additionally, ION needed sufficient liquidity to maintain ongoing operations, including paying its seismic acquisition partners and royalty obligations. Accordingly, it became apparent that without an additional cash infusion or relief from its existing debt obligations, ION would likely not be able to continue to operate as a going concern through the first quarter of 2022.
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