Report
Martin Huseby Karlsen
EUR 466.27 For Business Accounts Only

Cycle duration narrative intact with dayrate risk skewed to the upside

As sell-side consensus awareness of 2024 challenges now (finally) looks to be properly understood, we see all capital markets stakeholders being ready to focus on the (in our view) attractive 2026e valuation of the offshore drillers. In the coming months, we expect to see further evidence of cycle duration through long-term tenders and awards. For high-spec deepwater rigs, we also see the opportunity to push dayrates higher, potentially breaking the USD500k barrier after being rangebound at USD450k–490k for c12 months. With near-term challenges now understood, an attractive long-term valuation, improved backlog visibility and dayrate risk skewed to the upside, we believe deepwater-focused offshore drillers should be a good place to be in the coming months.
Underlyings
Borr Drilling

Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.

Diamond Offshore Drilling provides contract drilling services to the energy industry around the globe. The company's fleet enables it to provide services in the floater market on a worldwide basis. The company's contracts to provide offshore drilling services vary in their terms and provisions. The principal markets for the company's offshore contract drilling services are: the Gulf of Mexico, including the U.S., and Mexico; South America, principally offshore Brazil, and Trinidad and Tobago; Australia and Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam; Europe, principally offshore the U.K., and Norway; East and West Africa; and the Mediterranean.

NOBLE CORP NEW

Odfjell Drilling

Odfjell Drilling Ltd. (Odfjell Drilling) is an integrated offshore drilling and oil service company. The Company operates through three segments: Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU), Drilling & Technology, and Well Services. The Mobile Offshore Drilling Units is responsible for operations of mobile drilling units fully or partly owned by the Company and units owned by other companies. It operates mobile drilling units in Norway, United Kingdom, Angola, Vietnam and Brazil. The Drilling & Technology segment is providing platform drilling, project management and engineering services. Drilling & Technology operates from offices in Bergen, Stavanger and Aberdeen. The Well Services segment is a provider of casing and tubing running services (TRS), drill tool rental and well intervention services to the onshore and offshore oil and gas industry. The Well Services are provided to onshore and offshore drilling operations in the North Sea, mainland Europe and Black Sea, among others.

SeaDrill Ltd

Shelf Drilling Ltd.

Shelf Drilling North Sea

Transocean Ltd.

VALARIS LTD

Provider
DnB Markets
DnB Markets

DNB Markets is the investment banking arm of DNB Bank ASA and is focused primarily on the Nordic region, as well as internationally on niches such as global shipping, energy and related services, and seafood. DNB Markets offers services in FICC, Equities and Investment Banking advisory from offices in Oslo, Stockholm, London, Singapore and New York. Equity research coverage is offered on c250 Nordic companies. DNB was ranked no.2 in Extel Nordic Research 2017. The DNB Markets’ Credit and FICC Macro & FX Research teams are repeatedly highly rated by Prospera Nordic Institutional Investor Surveys.

 

Analysts
Martin Huseby Karlsen

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