At December 31, 2003, the Company had $354.0 million of cash and cash equivalents, as well as $250.0 million available for borrowing under its Credit Agreement. Management expects to fund the Company's short-term liquidity needs, including contractual obligations of $107.6 million and anticipated capital expenditures, excluding the ENSCO 68 which is included in contractual obligations, of $316.1 million during 2004, as well as any working capital requirements, from its cash and cash equivalents and operating cash flow. Management expects to fund the Company's long-term liquidity needs, including contractual obligations and anticipated capital expenditures, from its cash and cash equivalents, investments, operating cash flow and, if necessary, funds drawn under its Credit Agreement or other future financing arrangements. The Company has historically funded the majority of its liquidity from operating cash flow. The Company anticipates the majority of its cash flow in the near to intermediate-term will continue to be invested in the expansion and enhancement of its fleet of drilling rigs. As a substantial majority of such expenditures are elective, the Company expects to be able to maintain adequate liquidity throughout future business cycles through the deferral or acceleration of its future capital investments, as necessary. Accordingly, while future operating cash flow cannot be accurately predicted, management believes its long-term liquidity will continue to be funded primarily by operating cash flow. MARKET RISK The Company uses various methods to manage its exposure to foreign currency exchange risk. The Company predominantly structures its drilling rig contracts in U.S. dollars, which significantly reduces the portion of the Company's cash flows and assets denominated in foreign currencies. The Company also employs various strategies, including the use of derivative instruments, to match foreign currency denominated assets with equal or near equal amounts of foreign currency denominated liabilities, thereby minimizing exposure to earnings fluctuations caused by changes in foreign currency exchange rates. The Company occasionally utilizes derivative instruments to hedge forecasted foreign currency denominated transactions. At December 31, 2003, the Company had foreign currency exchange contracts outstanding to exchange $18.7 million U.S. dollars for Australian dollars and Great Britain pounds. The Company uses various derivative financial instruments to manage its exposure to interest rate risk. The Company occasionally uses interest rate swap agreements to effectively convert the variable interest rate on debt to a fixed rate, and interest rate lock agreements to hedge against increases in interest rates on pending financing. At December 31, 2003, the Company had no outstanding interest rate swap agreements or interest rate lock agreements. In connection with the acquisition of Chiles on August 7, 2002, the Company obtained $80.0 million notional amount of outstanding treasury rate lock agreements that were scheduled to mature in October 2003. Upon acquisition, the Company designated approximately $65.0 million notional amount of the treasury rate lock agreements as an effective hedge against the variability in cash flows of $76.5 million of MARAD guaranteed bonds the Company intended to issue in October 2003. The Company deemed the remaining $15.0 million notional amount of treasury rate lock agreements obtained in the Chiles acquisition to be speculative in nature. The Company subsequently settled the $15.0 million notional amount of treasury rate lock agreements deemed as speculative in October 2002 ($10.0 million) and June 2003 ($5.0 million). The Company settled the $65.0 million notional amount of treasury rate lock agreements designated as an effective hedge in October 2003 in connection with the pricing and subsequent issuance of the MARAD bonds. (See Note 8 to the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements.) The Company utilizes derivative instruments and undertakes hedging activities in accordance with its established policies for the management of market risk. The Company does not enter into derivative instruments for trading or other speculative purposes. Management believes that the Company's use of derivative instruments and related hedging activities do not expose the Company to any material interest rate risk, foreign currency exchange rate risk, commodity price risk, credit risk or any other market rate or price risk. OUTLOOK Changes in industry conditions and the corresponding impact on the Company's operations cannot be accurately predicted because of the short-term nature of many of the Company's contracts and the volatility of oil and natural gas prices, which impact expenditures for oil and gas drilling. Whether recent levels of regional and worldwide expenditures for oil and gas drilling will increase, decrease or remain unchanged, is not determinable at this time. Management's current plans and expectations relative to its major areas of operations and near-term industry conditions are detailed below. Rig Construction On February 17, 2004, the Company entered into an agreement with Keppel FELS Limited ("KFELS") to exchange three rigs (ENSCO 23, ENSCO 24 and ENSCO 55) and $55.0 million for the construction of a new high performance premium jackup rig to be named ENSCO 107. The ENSCO 107 will be an enhanced KFELS MOD V (B) design modified to ENSCO specifications and a sister rig to the ENSCO 106, which is currently under construction in Singapore. The ENSCO 106, which is being constructed under a joint venture with KFELS, is expected to be delivered by year-end 2004, and delivery of the ENSCO 107 is expected in late 2005. The transaction is subject to execution of a definitive construction contract and regulatory approvals. The ENSCO 55 is currently working in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to be transferred to KFELS in May 2004, upon completion of its contractual commitment. The ENSCO 23 and ENSCO 24, two idle platform rigs, are expected to be transferred to KFELS simultaneously with, or before, transfer of the ENSCO 55. North America Management continues to evaluate the relocation of jackup rigs from the Gulf of Mexico. The Company has moved three of its Gulf of Mexico-based jackup rigs to pursue international opportunities during the past 30 months and management currently anticipates the international deployment of at least two additional jackup rigs during 2004. The Company continues its program of upgrading its Gulf of Mexico jackup rig fleet. The ENSCO 68 is currently in a shipyard undergoing major enhancements and is projected to return to service in October 2004. The Company plans to commence enhancement procedures on at least four additional Gulf of Mexico jackup rigs during 2004, with shipyard durations of at least four months each. The ENSCO 7500, the Company's deep water semisubmersible rig, completed an approximate three-year contract on February 29, 2004 and is currently being marketed at a day rate of approximately $100,000. As of February 29, 2004, one of the Company's five platform rigs is operating under a contract scheduled for completion in April 2004. As discussed above, two of the four idle platform rigs are pending sale and transfer in connection with the construction of the ENSCO 107. The Company's platform rigs have experienced utilization in the 40% to 60% range during the previous five years, primarily as a result of reduced opportunities for deep-well drilling contracts. The Company's platform rigs, which are all capable of completing 25,000 to 30,000 feet wells, are best suited for long-term, deep well drilling applications where the platform rig components will stay in place for a substantial period of time. The Company's platform rigs currently compete against smaller, easier to mobilize and assemble, self-erecting platform rigs for shallow well drilling. The Company is not able to predict when there will be a recovery of drilling activity that will require increased use of the class of platform rigs owned and operated by the Company. The Company evaluated the carrying values of its platform rigs in December 2003 and determined such carrying values were not impaired. The Company will continue to perform such evaluations as circumstances dictate. Europe/Africa As of February 29, 2004, all eight of the Company's jackup rigs in the Europe/Africa region are working. However, three of these rigs with contract completions scheduled in March 2004 do not have commitments for subsequent work. Management currently anticipates idle time for some or all of these three rigs in the near term. Asia Pacific As of February 29, 2004, 11 of the Company's 13 rigs in the Asia Pacific region are operating and both idle rigs have contractual commitments to commence working in March 2004. The Company currently has substantial backlog in the Asia Pacific region, with nine of the 13 rigs committed through the fourth quarter of 2004 or later. The Company plans to increase the size of its Asia Pacific fleet during 2004 through the relocation of at least two jackup rigs from the Gulf of Mexico. Allowing for mobilization and shipyard procedures upon arrival, management does not expect any rigs relocated from the Gulf of Mexico to be available for service in the Asia Pacific region until the second half of 2004. South America/Caribbean The Company's jackup rig working offshore Trinidad and Tobago, the ENSCO 76, continues operations under a contract scheduled for completion in September 2004. As of February 29, 2004, five of the Company's six barge rigs located in Venezuela are idle and the ENSCO II, which is currently working, is scheduled to complete its contract in May 2004. Due to the deterioration in the political and economic environment in Venezuela, the Company believes the timing of a recovery of drilling activity in Venezuela is uncertain and unlikely in the near term. The Company evaluated the carrying values of its barge rigs in December 2003 and determined such carrying values were not impaired. The Company will continue to perform such evaluations and monitor the situation in Venezuela, as circumstances dictate. CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES The preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States requires the Company's management to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. The Company's significant accounting policies are included in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. These policies, along with the underlying assumptions and judgments made by the Company's management in their application, have a significant impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements. The Company identifies its most critical accounting policies as those that are the most pervasive and important to the portrayal of the Company's financial position and results of operations, and that require the most difficult, subjective and/or complex judgments by management regarding estimates about matters that are inherently uncertain. The Company's most critical accounting policies are those related to property and equipment, impairment of long-lived assets and income taxes. Property and Equipment At December 31, 2003, the carrying value of the Company's property and equipment totaled $2,217.2 million, which represents 70% of total assets. This carrying value reflects the application of the Company's property and equipment accounting policies, which incorporate estimates, assumptions and judgments by management relative to the capitalized costs, useful lives and salvage values of the Company's rigs. The Company develops and applies property and equipment accounting policies that are designed to appropriately and consistently capitalize those costs incurred to enhance, improve and extend the useful lives of its assets and expense those costs incurred to repair or maintain the existing condition or useful lives of its assets. The development and application of such policies requires judgment and assumptions by management relative to the nature of, and benefits from, expenditures on Company assets. The Company establishes property and equipment accounting policies that are designed to depreciate or amortize its assets over their estimated useful lives. The assumptions and judgments used by management in determining the estimated useful lives of its property and equipment reflect both historical experience and expectations regarding future operations, utilization and performance of its assets. The use of different estimates, assumptions and judgments in the establishment of property and equipment accounting policies, especially those involving the useful lives of the Company's rigs and vessels, would likely result in materially different carrying values of assets and results of operations. Impairment of Long-Lived Assets The Company evaluates the carrying value of its property and equipment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of such assets may not be recoverable. Generally, extended periods of idle time and/or inability to contract assets at economical rates are an indication that an asset may be impaired. However, the offshore drilling industry is highly cyclical and it is not unusual for assets to be unutilized or underutilized for significant periods of time and subsequently resume full or near full utilization when business cycles change. Likewise, during periods of supply and demand imbalance, assets are frequently contracted at or near cash break-even rates for extended periods of time until demand comes back into balance with supply. Impairment situations may arise with respect to specific individual assets, groups of assets, such as a type of drilling rig, or assets in a certain geographic location. The Company's assets are mobile and may be moved from markets with excess supply, if economically feasible. The Company's jackup rigs and semisubmersible rig are suited for, and accessible to, broad and numerous markets throughout the world. However, there are fewer economically feasible markets available to the Company's barge rigs and platform rigs. As a result of the adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142, "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets", in the first quarter of 2002, the Company no longer amortizes goodwill but instead tests goodwill for impairment on an annual basis, or when events or changes in circumstances indicate that a potential impairment exists. The goodwill impairment test requires the Company to identify reporting units and estimate the fair value of those units as of the testing date. If the estimated fair value of the reporting units is determined to be less than their carrying value, the Company is required to perform the second step of the goodwill impairment test to determine the amount of impairment loss, if any. Based on the Company's test performed as of December 31, 2003, there was no impairment of goodwill. Asset impairment evaluations are, by nature, highly subjective. They involve expectations of future cash flows to be generated by the Company's drilling rigs, and are based on management's assumptions and judgments regarding future industry conditions and operations, as well as management's estimates of future expected utilization, contract rates, expense levels and capital requirements of the Company's drilling rigs. The estimates, assumptions and judgments used by management in the application of the Company's asset impairment policies reflect both historical experience and an assessment of current operational, industry, economic and political environments. The use of different estimates, assumptions, judgments and expectations regarding future industry conditions and operations, would likely result in materially different carrying values of assets and results of operations. Income Taxes The Company conducts operations and earns income in numerous foreign countries and is subject to the laws of taxing jurisdictions within those countries, as well as U.S. federal and state tax laws. At December 31, 2003, the Company has a $336.2 million net deferred income tax liability and $59.9 million of accrued liabilities for income taxes currently payable. The carrying values of deferred income tax assets and liabilities reflect the application of the Company's income tax accounting policies in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes" ("SFAS 109"), and are based on management's assumptions and estimates regarding future operating results and levels of taxable income, as well as management's judgments regarding the interpretation of the provisions of SFAS 109. The carrying values of liabilities for income taxes currently payable are based on management's interpretation of applicable tax laws, and incorporate management's assumptions and judgments regarding the use of tax planning strategies in various taxing jurisdictions. The use of different estimates, assumptions and judgments in connection with accounting for income taxes, especially those involving the deployment of tax planning strategies, may result in materially different carrying values of income tax assets and liabilities and results of operations. NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS In April 2003, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 149, "Amendment of Statement 133 on Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities" ("SFAS 149"). This statement amends and clarifies accounting and reporting for derivative instruments, including certain derivative instruments embedded in other contracts, and for hedging activities under SFAS No. 133. SFAS 149 is effective for contracts entered into or modified after June 30, 2003, with certain exceptions, and for hedging relationships designated after June 30, 2003. The Company's adoption of SFAS 149 did not have a material effect on its consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows. In May 2003, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 150, "Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity" ("SFAS 150"). This statement establishes standards for how an issuer classifies and measures certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equity and requires that an issuer classify a financial instrument that is within its scope as a liability (or an asset in certain circumstances). SFAS 150 is effective for financial instruments entered into or modified after May 31, 2003 and otherwise is effective at the beginning of the first interim period beginning after June 15, 2003. The Company's adoption of SFAS 150 did not have material effect on its consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows. In December 2003, the FASB issued Interpretation No. 46 (revised December 2003), "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an Interpretation of ARB No. 51" ("FIN 46R"). FIN 46R requires a company to consolidate a variable interest entity, as defined, when the company will absorb a majority of the variable interest entity's expected losses, receive a majority of the variable interest entity's expected residual returns, or both. FIN 46R also requires certain disclosures relating to consolidated variable interest entities and unconsolidated variable interest entities in which a company has a significant variable interest. The provisions of FIN 46R are required for companies that have interests in variable interest entities or potential variable interest entities commonly referred to as special-purpose entities for periods ending after December 15, 2003. The provisions of FIN 46R are required to be applied for periods ending after March 15, 2004 for all other types of entities. The Company's equity interests in, and related charter arrangements associated with, ENSCO Enterprises Limited ("EEL") and ENSCO Enterprises Limited II ("EEL II") constitute variable interests in variable interest entities under FIN 46R. However, the Company will not absorb a majority of the expected losses or receive a majority of the expected residual returns, as defined by FIN 46R, of either EEL or EEL II, and accordingly is not required to consolidate EEL or EEL II. (See "Liquidity and Capital Resources - Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements" and Note 6 to the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements.) Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk Information required under Item 7A. has been incorporated into "Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Market Risk." Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary DataREPORT OF MANAGEMENT The management of ENSCO International Incorporated and its subsidiaries has responsibility for the preparation, integrity and reliability of the consolidated financial statements and related financial information contained in this report. The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and prevailing practices of the industries in which the Company operates. In some instances, these financial statements include amounts that are based on management's best estimates and judgments. The Company maintains a system of procedures and controls over financial reporting that is designed to provide reasonable assurance to the Company's management and Board of Directors regarding the integrity and the fair and reliable preparation and presentation, in all material respects, of its published financial statements. This system of financial controls and procedures is reviewed, modified, and improved as changes occur in business conditions and operations. There are inherent limitations in the effectiveness of any system of internal control and even an effective system of internal control can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to the financial statement preparation and may vary over time. Management believes that the Company's internal control system provides reasonable assurance that material errors or irregularities will be prevented or detected within a timely period. As part of management's responsibility for monitoring compliance with established policies and procedures, it relies on, among other things, audit procedures performed by internal auditors to give assurance that established policies and procedures are adhered to in all areas subject to their audits. The Board of Directors, operating through its Audit Committee composed solely of independent outside directors, meets periodically with management and the internal auditors to review and assess the activities of each. The internal auditors meet with the Audit Committee in private executive sessions, without management present, to review the results of their audits and their assessment of the adequacy of the systems of internal accounting control and the quality of financial reporting. REPORTS OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTSTo the Board of Directors and Stockholders of ENSCO International Incorporated We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of ENSCO International Incorporated (a Delaware corporation), and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related consolidated statements of income and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2003. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of ENSCO International Incorporated and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2003, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, ENSCO International Incorporated and subsidiaries changed its method of accounting for goodwill and other intangible assets in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142, "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets" in 2002. /s/ KPMG LLP Dallas, Texas January 26, 2004, except as to note 17 which is as of February 17, 2004 |