石油设备网讯 据世界能源网2019年5月13日休斯顿报道，总部位于爱尔兰的全球第4大油田服务巨头美国威德福国际公司（Weatherford International）日前已与其主要债权人达成了一项协议，这项协议允许威德福国际公司根据美国破产法第11章规定申请“预先打包”破产——在此之前威德福国际公司已连续4年多没有任何盈利。
威德福国际公司预计将通过“预先打包”破产法第11章流程来实施重组协议，并预计将提出美国破产法第11章和爱尔兰的审查程序。
作为这一过程的一部分，威德福国际公司打算在提交申请前就拟议中的重组计划继续与其债权人进行讨论，并开始争取他们的支持。
威德福国际公司已与一组高级票据持有人签署了一项重组支持协议，这些高级票据持有人共同持有或控制着威德福国际公司大约62%的高级无担保票据。拟议中的全面财务重组将大大降低威德福国际公司的长期债务和相关利息成本，提供更多融资渠道，并建立更可持续的资本结构。
威德福国际公司总裁兼首席执行官马克·麦科勒姆表示：“在过去一年里，我们一直在全公司范围内实施转型，从根本上改善我们的运营方式，并从长远角度加强威德福国际公司的实力。”
根据重组协议的条款，威德福国际公司的无担保债券持有人将用大约74亿美元的高级无担保债券交换大约99%的公司股权和12.5亿美元的新B级高级无担保债券。
李峻 编译自 世界能源
原文如下：
Weatherford to File for Bankruptcy
Irish-domiciled multinational oil and natural gas service company Weatherford International has entered into an agreement with its top creditors that will allow the company to file for a "prepackaged" Chapter 11 bankruptcy - after more than four years without making a profit.
Weatherford expects to implement the Restructuring Agreement through a "pre-packaged" Chapter 11 process and expects to file U.S. chapter 11 and Irish examinership proceedings.
As part of this process, Weatherford intends to continue engaging in discussions with, and begin soliciting votes from, its creditors in connection with a proposed Plan of Reorganization prior to filing.
It has executed a restructuring support agreement with a group of its senior noteholders that collectively holds or controls approximately 62% of the Company's senior unsecured notes. The proposed comprehensive financial restructuring would significantly reduce the Company's long-term debt and related interest costs, provide access to additional financing and establish a more sustainable capital structure.
"During the past year, we have been executing a company-wide transformation to fundamentally improve the way we operate our business and to strengthen Weatherford for the long run," said Mark A. McCollum, President and CEO of Weatherford.
Under the terms of the Restructuring Agreement, the Company's unsecured noteholders would exchange approximately $7.4 billion of senior unsecured notes for approximately 99% of the equity in the Company and $1.25 billion of new tranche B senior unsecured notes.
