MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

02.04.2008

 

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

SCHLUMBERGER ASIA SERVICES LIMITED

 

 

India  Office :

NSE Estate, W E Highway, Goregaon (East), Mumbai – 400063, Maharashtra

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.12.2004

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

01.09.1987

 

 

FCRN:

F01099

 

 

TAN No.:

[Tax Deduction & Collection Account No.]

DELS21903A

 

 

 

PAN No.:

[Permanent Account No.]

AADCS1107J

 

 

Legal Form :

A closely held Public Limited Liability Company  

 

 

Line of Business :

To provide wire line logging, perforating and related services.

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

A

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

Fairly Large

 

Maximum Credit Limit :

USD 758676

 

 

Status :

Branch of Foreign Company

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Usually correct

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is a branch of a Hong Kong based company. Trade relations are fair. Business is active. General financial position is satisfactory. Payments are reported as usually correct and as per commitments.

 

The company can be considered normal for business dealings at usual trade terms and conditions.

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

2507, Gloucester Tower, The Landmark, 11 Peddar Street, Hong  Kong                                                       

 

 

Line India Offices 1:

Timber Plot No 10, Madras Harbour, Chennai- 600 009, Tamil Nadu, India.

Tel. No.:

91-984-0050857

 

 

Line India Offices 2:

NSE Estate, Off W / E Highway, Near Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon (East), Mumbai – 400063, Maharashtra, India

Tel. No.:

91-22-26855730 / 27783800

Fax No.:

91-22-26854143 / 27782103 / 26854222

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

Name :

Mr. Brian Wallace

Designation :

Director

Address :

P. O. Box 9261, Dubai International Trade Centre, Abu Dhabi Road, Dubai, UAE

 

 

Name :

Mr. Jean Pierre Broseet

Designation :

Director

Address :

P. O. Box 9261, Dubai International Trade Centre, Abu Dhabi Road, Dubai, UAE

 

 

Name :

Mr. Kanfred Wittman

Designation :

Director

Address :

36 Pejataan Barat, Kemang, Jakarta, Indonesia

 

 

Name :

Mr. Stewart P Smith

Designation :

Director

 

 

KEY EXECUTIVES

 

Name :

Inveresk Secretaries Limited

Designation :

Company Secretary

Address :

2507, Gloucester Tower, The Landmark, 11, Peddar Street, Hong Kong.

 

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

To provide wire line logging, perforating and related services.

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Customers :

·         Oil and Natural Gas Corp Limited

·         Cairn Energy India Private Limited

·         Oil India limited

·         Joshi Technologies International INC

·         Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited

·         Phoenix Overseas Limited

·         R and B Falcon (A) Private Limited

·         Reliance Industries Limited

·         Dolphin Drilling Limited

·         B G Exploration and production

·         SEDCO Forex

·         Transocean

 

 

Bankers :

J P Morgan Chase Bank, 1 Mahattan Plaza, New York 10081, USA

 

 

Banking Relations :

Satisfactory 

 

 

Auditors :

 

Name :

Lovelock and Lewes

Chartered Accountants

Address :

Building 8, 7th and 8th Floor, Tower – B DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon – 122 002, Haryana, India

Tel. No.:

91-124-4620000/3060000

Fax No.:

91-124-4620620

 

 

Associates/Subsidiaries :

Nil

 

 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

Head Office A/C:

 

31.12.2004

(Rs. in millions)

Balance at Beginning of the year

81.884

Remittances from Head office

1885.732

Recoverable from HO

[332.588]

Income Tax Refund

0.000

Rupee receipts under contracts (Net of Tax)

49.190

Revenue for the year

8.332

Expenses for the year

[1502.881]

Total

189.669

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET

 

SOURCES OF FUNDS

 

 

31.12.2004

31.12.2003

SHAREHOLDERS FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Head Office Account

 

189.669

81.884

2] Share Application Money

 

0.000

0.000

3] Reserves & Surplus

 

0.000

0.000

4] (Accumulated Losses)

 

0.000

0.000

NETWORTH

 

189.669

81.884

LOAN FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Secured Loans

 

0.000

0.000

2] Unsecured Loans

 

0.000

0.000

TOTAL BORROWING

 

0.000

0.000

DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

189.669

81.884

 

 

 

 

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIXED ASSETS [Net Block]

 

39.065

58.655

Capital work-in-progress

 

78.653

0.000

Capital Advances

 

2.570

4.264

 

 

 

 

INVESTMENT

 

0.000

0.000

DEFERREX TAX ASSETS

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS & ADVANCES

 

 

 

 

Inventories

 

0.000

0.000

 

Sundry Debtors

 

0.000

0.000

 

Cash & Bank Balances

 

0.642

0.638

 

Other Current Assets

 

0.000

0.000

 

Loans & Advances

 

323.160

178.845

Total Current Assets

 

323.802

179.483

Less : CURRENT LIABILITIES & PROVISIONS

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities

 

181.677

108.020

 

Provisions

 

72.744

52.498

Total Current Liabilities

 

254.421

160.518

Net Current Assets

 

69.381

18.965

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

189.669

81.884

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KEY RATIOS

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

 

31.12.2004

31.12.2003

Debt Equity Ratio

(Total Liability/Networth)

 

 

1.34

1.96

 

 

 

 

 

Current Ratio

(Current Asset/Current Liability)

 

 

1.27

1.18

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

OTHER BUSINESS ACTIVITIES:

 

Ř       To import, export, buy, sell and deal in goods, materials, substances, articles and merchandise of all kinds in, from and to any part of the world, Whether as principal or as agent.

 

Ř       To carry on the business of an investment company and/or a holding company.

 

Ř       To carry on in any part of the world all or any of the business of agents, managers, brokers, advisers and consultants.

 

Ř       To undertake and execute any trusts the undertaking Where of may seem desirable and to undertake the office of or act as executor, administrator, director, treasurer, accountant, secretary, registrar, custodian, depository or nominee or in such other capacity as the Directors may from time to time think fit.

 

Ř       To carry on any other business of any nature what so ever Which may seem to the Directors to be capable of being conveniently carried on in connection or conjunction expedient with a view to rendering profitable or more profitable any of the Company’s assets or utilising its know-how or expertise.

 

Ř       To subscribe, underwrite, Purchase, or otherwise acquire, and to hold, dispose of, and deal with, any shares or other securities or investments of any nature what so ever, and any options or rights in respect there of, and to buy and sell foreign exchange.

 

Ř       To draw, make accept, endorse, discount, negotiate, execute, and issue, and to buy, sell and deal with bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other negotiable or transferable instruments or securities.

 

OTHER INFORMATION:

 

Particulars

31.12.2004

(Rs. in millions)

31.12.2003

(Rs. in millions)

Capital commitments

2.570

3.423

 

 

 

Contingent Liabilities

 

 

Customs Duty Case against which an appeal has been preferred

13.278

16.161

Service Tax

99.612

99.612

 

India Projects Office:

·         New Delhi

·         Chennai

·         Mumbai

·         Duliajan

·         Baroda

·         Bhavnagar

·         Cochin

·         Kolkata

·         Nazira

·         Rajahmundry

·         Jodhpur

·         Ahmedabad

·         Guda Malani

·         Gandhi Nagar

·         Hazira

·         Yanam

·         Jharia

·         Pondicherry

·         Vishakhapatnam Saurashtra

 

FIXED ASSETS:

·         Furniture and Fixtures

·         Motor Vehicles

·         Office Equipment

·         Plant and Machinery

·         Leasehold Improvements

 

 


CMT REPORT (Corruption, Money Laundering & Terrorism]

 

The Public Notice information has been collected from various sources including but not limited to: The Courts, India Prisons Service, Interpol, etc.

 

1]         INFORMATION ON DESIGNATED PARTY

No exist designating subject or any of its beneficial owners, controlling shareholders or senior officers as terrorist or terrorist organization or whom notice had been received that all financial transactions involving their assets have been blocked or convicted, found guilty or against whom a judgement or order had been entered in a proceedings for violating money-laundering, anti-corruption or bribery or international economic or anti-terrorism sanction laws or whose assets were seized, blocked, frozen or ordered forfeited for violation of money laundering or international anti-terrorism laws.

 

2]         Court Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that subject is or was the subject of any formal or informal allegations, prosecutions or other official proceeding for making any prohibited payments or other improper payments to government officials for engaging in prohibited transactions or with designated parties.

 

3]         Asset Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that the property or assets of the subject are derived from criminal conduct or a prohibited transaction.

 

4]         Record on Financial Crime :

            Charges or conviction registered against subject:                                                  None

 

5]         Records on Violation of Anti-Corruption Laws :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

6]         Records on Int’l Anti-Money Laundering Laws/Standards :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

7]         Criminal Records

No available information exist that suggest that subject or any of its principals have been formally charged or convicted by a competent governmental authority for any financial crime or under any formal investigation by a competent government authority for any violation of anti-corruption laws or international anti-money laundering laws or standard.

 

8]         Affiliation with Government :

No record exists to suggest that any director or indirect owners, controlling shareholders, director, officer or employee of the company is a government official or a family member or close business associate of a Government official.

 

9]         Compensation Package :

Our market survey revealed that the amount of compensation sought by the subject is fair and reasonable and comparable to compensation paid to others for similar services.

 

10]        Press Report :

            No press reports / filings exists on the subject.

 

 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

MIRA INFORM as part of its Due Diligence do provide comments on Corporate Governance to identify management and governance. These factors often have been predictive and in some cases have created vulnerabilities to credit deterioration.

 

Our Governance Assessment focuses principally on the interactions between a company’s management, its Board of Directors, Shareholders and other financial stakeholders.

 

 

CONTRAVENTION

 

Subject is not known to have contravened any existing local laws, regulations or policies that prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect the terms and conditions that could be included in the agreement with the subject.

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.39.93

UK Pound

1

Rs.79.34

Euro

1

Rs.62.55

 

 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

7

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

7

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

7

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

8

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

6

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

7

--LEVERAGE

1~10

7

--RESERVES

1~10

7

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

7

--MARGINS

-5~5

---

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

YES

--LITIGATION

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER ADVERSE INFORMATION

YES/NO

NO

MERIT POINTS

 

 

--SOLE DISTRIBUTORSHIP

YES/NO

NO

--EXPORT ACTIVITIES

YES/NO

NO

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

YES

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

63

 

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 


 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Unfavourable & favourable factors carry similar weight in credit consideration. Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

NR

In view of the lack of information, we have no basis upon which to recommend credit dealings

No Rating

 

 

 

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