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Moody's downgrades Forum Energy Technologies' notes to B3; outlook remains negative

Rating Action: Moody's downgrades Forum Energy Technologies' notes to B3; outlook remains negative. Global Credit Research- 22 Jan 2020. New York, January 22, 2020-- Moody's Investors Service downgraded Forum Energy Technologies, Inc.' s Corporate Family Rating to B2 from B1, its Probability of Default Rating to B2-PD from B1-PD and its senior unsecured notes to B3 from B2.
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Forum Energy Technologies Inc.

Forum Energy Technologies is an oilfield products company. The company's segments include: Drilling and Downhole, which provides drilling technologies including capital equipment and products consumed in the drilling process, downhole technologies including cementing and casing tools and protection products, and subsea technologies including robotic vehicles and other capital equipment; Completions, which provides stimulation and intervention technologies including hydraulic fracturing pumps and pump consumables, and coiled tubing products including coiled tubing strings and coiled line pipe; and Production, which supplies production equipment including well site production and process equipment.

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Moody's Investors Service
Moody's Investors Service

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