Gulf Marine Services PLC Directorate Change (7307P)

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RNS Number : 7307P

Gulf Marine Services PLC

30 May 2018

Gulf Marine Services PLC

('Gulf Marine Services', 'GMS', or 'the Company')

DIRECTORATE CHANGE

Gulf Marine Services today announces that Dr. Karim El Solh (Board representative of Green Investment Commercial Investments LLC, a GMS shareholder) has notified GMS of his intention to stand down as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from 31 May 2018. He was appointed as a Non-Executive Director on 27 February 2014.

The shareholding of Green Investment Commercial Investments LLC (a subsidiary of Gulf Capital PJSC) has now fallen below 10 per cent, the threshold under a relationship agreement previously held with the Company which entitled it to have a Board representative.

Simon Heale, Chairman of the Board of Directors, GMS, said:

"The Board would like to express its gratitude to Dr. Karim for his valuable contribution to GMS and wish him well for the future."

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This announcement contains inside information.

John Brown

Company Secretary (responsible for arranging the release of this announcement)

Gulf Marine Services PLC

30 May 2018

Enquiries

For further information please contact:

 
 
  Gulf Marine Services 
  PLC                        Brunswick 
  Duncan Anderson            Patrick Handley - 
  John Brown                 UK 
  Tel: [phone]      Will Medvei - UK 
  Anne Toomey                Tel: [phone] 
  Tel: [phone]          5959 
  622736                     Jade Mamarbachi - 
                             UAE 
                             Tel: [phone] 
                             3829 
 

Notes to Editors:

Gulf Marine Services PLC, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange, was founded in Abu Dhabi in 1977 and has become the world's leading provider of advanced self-propelled self-elevating support vessels (SESVs). The fleet serves the oil, gas and renewable energy industries from its offices in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. The Group's assets are capable of serving clients' requirements across the globe, including those in the Middle East, South East Asia, West Africa and Europe.

The GMS core fleet of 13 SESVs is amongst the youngest in the industry, with an average age of seven years. The vessels support GMS' clients in a broad range of offshore oil and gas platform refurbishment and maintenance activities, well intervention work and offshore wind turbine maintenance work (which are opex-led activities), as well as offshore oil and gas platform installation and decommissioning and offshore wind turbine installation (which are capex-led activities).

The SESVs are categorised by size - Large, Mid-Size and Small Class - with these operating in water depths of 80m, 55m and 45m respectively. The vessels are four-legged and are self-propelled, which means they do not require tugs or similar support vessels for moves between locations in the field; this makes them significantly more cost-effective and time-efficient than conventional offshore support vessels without self-propulsion. They have a large deck space, crane capacity and accommodation facilities (for up to 300 people) that can be adapted to the requirements of the Group's clients. In addition, an innovative well workover cantilever system commissioned on a Large Class SESV in 2017 allows GMS to increase the well intervention activities carried out from the vessel and to supplant higher cost non-propelled drilling rigs.

Gulf Marine Services PLC's Legal Entity Identifier is 213800IGS2QE89SAJF77

www.gmsuae.com

Disclaimer

The content of the Gulf Marine Services PLC website should not be considered to form a part of or be incorporated into this announcement.

Cautionary Statement

This announcement includes statements that are forward-looking in nature. All statements other than statements of historical fact are capable of interpretation as forward-looking statements. These statements may generally, but not always, be identified by the use of words such as 'will', 'should', 'could', 'estimate', 'goals', 'outlook', 'probably', 'project', 'risks', 'schedule', 'seek', 'target', 'expects', 'is expected to', 'aims', 'may', 'objective', 'is likely to', 'intends', 'believes', 'anticipates', 'plans', 'we see' or similar expressions. By their nature these forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, as they relate to events and depend on circumstances that might occur in the future.

Accordingly, the actual results, operations, performance or achievements of the Company and its subsidiaries may be materially different from any future results, operations, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, due to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. Neither Gulf Marine Services PLC nor any of its subsidiaries undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or other information. No part of this announcement constitutes, or shall be taken to constitute, an invitation or inducement to invest the Company or any other entity, and must not be relied upon in any way in connection with any investment decision. All written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or to persons acting on the Company's behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements referred to above.

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