−Removed: Weatherford International plc, an Irish public limited company, together with its subsidiaries (“Weatherford,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our”), is a multinational oilfield service company.
−Removed: We are a leading wellbore and production solution company providing equipment and services used in the drilling, evaluation, completion, production and intervention of oil and natural gas wells.
−Removed: We were originally incorporated in Delaware in 1972, and are currently incorporated in Ireland.
+Added: Weatherford International plc, an Irish public limited company, together with its subsidiaries (“Weatherford,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our”), is a multinational energy services company.
+Added: We are a leading global energy services company providing equipment and services used in the drilling, evaluation, well construction, completion, production, intervention and responsible abandonment of wells across the broad spectrum of energy sources.
Many of our businesses, including those of our predecessor companies, have been operating for more than 50 years.
−Removed: We conduct operations in over 75 countries, answering the challenges of the energy industry with approximately 390 operating locations including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities.
−Removed: Our operational performance is reviewed on a geographic basis and we report our Western Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere as separate and distinct reporting segments.
+Added: We conduct operations in approximately 75 countries, answering the challenges of the energy industry with 350 operating locations including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities.
+Added: Our operational performance is reviewed and managed across the life cycle of the wellbore and we report in three product line segments (1) Drilling and Evaluation, (2) Well Construction and Completions, and (3) Production and Intervention.
Our principal executive offices are located at 2000 St.
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Our internet address is www.weatherford.com.
−Removed: General information about us, including our corporate governance policies, code of business conduct and charters for the committees of our Board of Directors, can be found on our website.
+Added: General information about us, including our corporate governance policies, code of business conduct and charters for the committees of our Board of Directors, can be found on our website, and such information provided on our website, is not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K.
On our website we make available, free of charge, our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file or furnish them to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
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The address of that site is www.sec.gov.
−Removed: On April 17, 2020, the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) filed a Form 25 with the SEC.
−Removed: The delisting of our ordinary shares from the NYSE became effective on April 27, 2020, and our ordinary shares were subsequently deregistered under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act on July 16, 2020.
−Removed: We continue to evaluate listing options and intend to relist our ordinary shares when our Board of Directors determines market conditions are appropriate.
−Removed: Until such time as our ordinary shares are relisted, the Company intends to continue filing periodic reports with the SEC on a voluntary basis.
−Removed: Our ordinary shares trade on the OTC Pink Marketplace under the ticker symbol “WFTLF”.
−Removed: COVID-19 Pandemic
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic, travel constraints and access restrictions to customer work locations continue to cause significant uncertainty for the global economy, resulting in the continued significant decline in the global demand for oil and gas and related customer activity shutdowns.
−Removed: This continues to cause an imbalance in the supply and demand for oil and gas.
−Removed: The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic together with uncertainty around the extent and timing for an economic recovery, have caused significant market volatility of commodity prices in the first half of 2020 and resulted in significant reductions to the capital spending during 2020 of our primary customer base which consists of exploration and production companies, with lowering expectations of oil and gas related spending into 2021 and beyond.
−Removed: In addition, the risk of additional COVID-19 related restrictions or lockdowns remains, which creates further uncertainty in the global economic outlook and impact on oil and gas markets.
−Removed: We continue to closely monitor the global impacts surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, including operational and manufacturing disruptions, logistical constraints and travel restrictions.
−Removed: These factors have negatively impacted our ability to operate and we expect these negative impacts to continue.
−Removed: We have experienced and expect to continue to experience delays or a lack of availability of key components from our suppliers, shipping and other logistical delays and disruptions, customer restrictions that prevent access to their sites, community measures to contain the spread of the virus, and changes to Weatherford’s policies that have both restricted and changed the way our employees work.
−Removed: We expect most, if not all, of these disruptions and constraints to have lasting effects on how we and our customers and suppliers work in the future.
−Removed: Faced with these challenges, we have evolved our digital portfolio and enhanced our applications to offer fully-integrated digital oilfield solutions.
−Removed: We have also increased our offerings of automated well construction and remote monitoring and predictive analytics related to our production offerings.
−Removed: Finally, we continuously improve crew rotations and management practices to minimize our employees’ exposure to COVID-19.
−Removed: Our identification and management of COVID-19 cases continues to improve, through updated protocols, advanced testing and response procedures.
−Removed: Weatherford International plc – 2020 Form 10-K | 2
+Added: On June 1, 2021, The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC stock exchange (“NASDAQ”) approved our application for the listing of our ordinary shares.
+Added: In connection with the listing, we became subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended, the “Exchange Act”).
+Added: Our ordinary shares began trading on The Nasdaq Global Select Market on June 2, 2021 under the ticker symbol “WFRD”.
Reorganization and Emergence from Bankruptcy Proceedings
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Under Fresh Start Accounting, our balance sheet on the Effective Date reflected all our assets and liabilities at fair value.
−Removed: As described in “Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” references to “Predecessor” relate to the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the period from January 1, 2019 through and including the adjustments from the application of Fresh Start Accounting on December 13, 2019 and for the year ended December 31, 2018 and (“Predecessor Periods”).
−Removed: References to “Successor” relate to the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2020 and the period from December 14, 2019 through December 31, 2019 (“Successor Periods”).
−Removed: References and comparisons to results for the year ended December 31, 2019 relate to the combined Successor and Predecessor Periods for the year ended December 31, 2019 (“2019 Combined Period”) as the 18 days of the Successor Period is not a significant period of time impacting the combined 2019 results.
−Removed: Our primary objective is to build value through profitable growth in our core product lines with disciplined use of capital and a strong customer focus.
−Removed: Our customers’ objectives are continually evolving and are currently focused on lowering capital and operational expenditures, generating positive cash flow, reducing emissions, and enhancing safety.
−Removed: Weatherford has aligned its technology development and operations around these trends and expanding its role as a market leading solutions provider that assists our customers in addressing their key operational challenges related to four domains:
+Added: As described in “Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” references to “Predecessor” relate to the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the period from January 1, 2019 through and including the adjustments from the application of Fresh Start Accounting on December 13, 2019 (“Predecessor Period”).
+Added: References to “Successor” relate to the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 and the period from December 14, 2019 through December 31, 2019 (“Successor Periods”).
+Added: References and comparisons to results for the year ended December 31, 2019 relate to the combined Successor and Predecessor Periods for the year ended December 31, 2019 (“2019 Combined Period”) as the 18 days of the Successor Period are not a significant period of time impacting the combined 2019 results.
+Added: Weatherford International plc – 2021 Form 10-K | 2
+Added: Our primary objective is to create and build value through sustainable profitability and free cash flow generation in our product lines from the disciplined use of capital and a strong customer focus.
+Added: Our customers’ objectives are continually evolving and are currently focused on disciplined capital and operational expenditures, generating positive cash flow, reducing emissions, participating in the energy transition, and enhancing safety.
+Added: Weatherford has aligned its technology development and operations around these objectives and expanded its role as a market leading provider of solutions that assists our customers in addressing their key operational challenges not just in conventional reservoirs but also in the following:
• Mature Fields :
−Removed: rejuvenating aging assets from the reservoir to the point of sale through optimizing lift efficiency, restoring wellbore efficiency and integrity, accelerating reservoir recovery, and permanently abandoning wells when they are no longer economic to produce;
+Added: rejuvenating aging assets through optimizing lift efficiency, restoring wellbore integrity, accelerating reservoir recovery, and permanently abandoning wells when they are no longer economic to produce;
• Unconventionals :
−Removed: enabling customers to solve reservoir challenges and maximize production by drilling faster, deeper, safer and cheaper and combating production declines through accurate reservoir evaluation, efficient well construction, effective stimulation, and optimizing production;
+Added: enabling customers to solve reservoir challenges and maximize production by drilling faster, deeper, safer and cheaper and combating production declines through accurate reservoir evaluation, efficient well construction, effective stimulation, and production optimization;
supporting customers sustain high-margin, long-term production with a focus on reducing rig time, enhancing safety and reliability, and increasing well integrity through the optimization of well placement and construction;
• Digitalization and Automation :
−Removed: leveraging our core competencies and significant presence at well sites to capture, analyze and present information for our customers by leveraging the internet of things, data analytics, and cloud computing across our many solutions.
−Removed: We have enabled this solution-based focus across our organization through a commitment to improving safety and service quality, embedding a returns-focused mindset in our organization, and developing and commercializing new technologies.
−Removed: Weatherford International plc – 2020 Form 10-K | 3
−Removed: We are a leading global wellbore and production solutions company providing equipment and services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry.
−Removed: Demand for our industry’s services and products depends in part upon commodity prices for oil and gas, the number of oil and natural gas wells drilled, the depth and drilling conditions of wells, the number of well completions, the depletion and age of existing wells and the level of workover activity worldwide.
−Removed: Technology is critical to the oil and natural gas marketplace as a result of the maturity of the world’s oil and natural gas reservoirs, the acceleration of production decline rates and the focus on complex well designs, including deepwater prospects.
+Added: leveraging our core competencies and significant presence at well sites to capture, analyze and present information for our customers to enable better decision making by leveraging the internet of things, multiple data sources, advanced analytics, and cloud computing across our many solutions.
+Added: We have driven this solution-based focus across our organization through a commitment to improving safety and service quality, embedding a returns-focused mindset in our organization, and developing and commercializing new technologies that add value to our customers’ operations.
+Added: Demand for our industry’s services and products depends in part upon commodity prices, number of oil and gas rigs and wells drilled, depth and drilling conditions of wells, number of well completions, age of existing wells, reservoir depletion, regulatory environment and the level of workover activity worldwide.
+Added: Technology is critical to the energy services marketplace as a result of the maturity of the world’s oil and natural gas reservoirs, the acceleration of production decline rates and the focus on complex well designs, including deepwater prospects.
Customers continue to seek, test and use production-enabling technologies at an increasing rate.
−Removed: We invested substantial resources into building our technology offerings, which helps us to provide our customers with more efficient tools to find and produce oil and natural gas.
−Removed: Our products and services enable our customers to reduce their costs of drilling and production, increase production rates, or both.
−Removed: Furthermore, these technology offerings afford us additional opportunities to sell our core products and services to our customers.
−Removed: Reporting Segments
−Removed: The Company’s chief operating decision maker (the Chief Executive Officer) regularly reviews the information of our two reportable segments which are our Western Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere.
−Removed: These reportable segments are based on management’s organization and view of Weatherford’s business when making operating decisions, allocating resources and assessing performance.
−Removed: Research and development expenses are included in the results of both our Western and Eastern Hemisphere segments.
−Removed: Our corporate and other expenses that do not individually meet the criteria for segment reporting are reported separately under the caption Corporate General and Administrative in our Segment Information disclosures.
+Added: We invest substantial resources into building our technology offerings, which enable our customers to find and produce oil and natural gas more efficiently.
+Added: Our products and services enable our customers to increase production rates while reducing their costs of drilling and production.
+Added: Reportable Segments
+Added: The Company's chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), our chief executive officer, regularly reviews information to make operating decisions, allocate resources and assess performance of the business.
+Added: During the fourth quarter of 2021, the CODM changed the information regularly reviewed to be aligned with how we offer our services and technologies in relation to the well life cycle and we have realigned our reportable segments to reflect the change.
+Added: We now have three reportable segments:
+Added: (1) Drilling and Evaluation (2) Well Construction and Completions, and (3) Production and Intervention.
+Added: Previously we had two geographic based reportable segments, Western Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere.
+Added: Weatherford International plc – 2021 Form 10-K | 3
Products and Services
−Removed: Our principal business is to provide equipment and services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry, both onshore and offshore.
−Removed: During the second quarter of 2020, in order to support the streamlining and realignment of the business, we combined our prior reported four product lines into two product lines.
−Removed: Our two product lines are:
−Removed: (1) Completion and Production and (2) Drilling, Evaluation and Intervention.
−Removed: Our new combined Completion and Production product line was previously reported as two separate product lines.
−Removed: Our new Drilling, Evaluation and Intervention product line was previously reported as two separate product lines of (i) Drilling and Evaluation, and (ii) Well Construction.
−Removed: Completion and Production offers production optimization services and a complete production ecosystem, featuring our artificial-lift portfolio, testing and flow-measurement solutions, and optimization software to boost productivity and profitability.
−Removed: In addition, we have a suite of modern completion products, reservoir stimulation designs, and engineering capabilities that isolate zones and unlock reserves in deepwater, unconventional, and aging reservoirs.
−Removed: The following is a detailed description of our product and service offerings under our Completion and Production product line.
−Removed: Artificial Lift Systems provides a mechanical method to produce oil or gas from a well lacking sufficient reservoir pressure for natural flow.
+Added: Our principal business is to provide equipment and services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry as well as new energy platforms across our three product line segments:
+Added: (1) Drilling and Evaluation (2) Well Construction and Completions, and (3) Production and Intervention.
+Added: All of our segments are enabled by a full suite of digital, monitoring, optimization and artificial intelligence solutions providing services throughout the well life cycle, including responsible abandonment.
+Added: Drilling and Evaluation (“DRE”) offers a suite of services including managed pressure drilling, drilling services, wireline and drilling fluids.
+Added: DRE offerings range from early well planning to reservoir management through innovative tools and expert engineering to optimize reservoir access and productivity.
+Added: Managed Pressure Drilling helps to manage wellbore pressures to optimize drilling performance.
+Added: We incorporate various technologies, including rotating control devices and advanced automated control systems, as well as, several drilling techniques, such as closed-loop drilling, air drilling, managed-pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling.
+Added: Drilling Services includes directional drilling, logging while drilling, measurement while drilling and rotary-steerable systems.
+Added: We provide a full range of downhole equipment, including high-temperature and high-pressure sensors, drilling reamers and circulation subs.
+Added: Wireline includes open-hole and cased-hole logging services that measure the physical properties of subsurface formations to determine production potential, locate resources and detect cement and casing integrity issues.
+Added: We also execute well intervention and remediation operations by conveying equipment via cable into existing wells.
+Added: Drilling Fluids provides the of fluids and chemicals essential to the drilling process.
+Added: Well Construction and Completions (“WCC”) offers products and services for well integrity assurance across the full life cycle of the well.
+Added: The primary offerings are tubular running services, cementation products, completions, liner hangers and well services.
+Added: WCC deploys conventional to advanced technologies, providing safe and efficient services in any environment during the well construction phase.
+Added: Tubular Running Services provides equipment, tubular handling, tubular management and tubular connection services for the drilling, completions and workover of oil and natural gas wells.
+Added: We include conventional rig services, automated rig systems, real-time torque-monitoring and remote viewing of the makeup and breakout verification process.
+Added: Cementation Products enable operators to centralize the casing throughout the wellbore and control the displacement of cement and other fluids for proper zonal isolation.
+Added: Specialized equipment includes plugs, float and stage equipment and torque-and-drag reduction technology.
+Added: Our cementation engineers analyze customer requirements and provide software enabled design input from pre-job planning to phases.
+Added: Completions offer customers a comprehensive line of completion tools, such as safety valves, production packers, downhole reservoir monitoring, flow control, isolation packers, multistage fracturing systems and sand-control technologies that set the stage for maximum production with minimal cost per barrel.
+Added: Liner Hangers suspend a casing string within a previous casing string thereby eliminating the need to run casing to the surface.
+Added: We offer a comprehensive liner-hanger portfolio, along with engineering and execution experience, for a wide range of applications that include high-temperature and high-pressure wells.
+Added: Well Services provides through tubing product and services which ensure consistent delivery of well solutions that extend the economic life of our customer's assets.
+Added: Production and Intervention (“PRI”) offers production optimization technologies through the Company’s ability to design and deliver a complete production ecosystem to boost productivity and responsible abandonment for our customers.
+Added: The primary offerings are intervention services & drilling tools, artificial lift, production automation & software, sub-sea intervention and pressure pumping services in select markets.
+Added: PRI utilizes a suite of reservoir stimulation designs, and engineering capabilities that isolate zones and unlock reserves in conventional and unconventional wells, deep water, and aging reservoirs.
+Added: Weatherford International plc – 2021 Form 10-K | 4
+Added: Intervention Services & Drilling Tools provides re-entry, fishing, wellbore cleaning and well abandonment services as well as patented bottom hole, tubular-handling equipment, pressure-control equipment and drill pipe and collars for oil and gas wells.
+Added: Artificial Lift provides pressure enabling methods to produce oil or gas from wells lacking sufficient reservoir pressure for natural flow.
We provide most forms of lift, including reciprocating rod lift systems, progressing cavity pumping, gas-lift systems, hydraulic-lift systems, plunger-lift systems and hybrid lift systems for special applications.
We also offer related automation and control systems.
−Removed: Pressure Pumping offers customers advanced chemical technology and services for safe and effective production enhancements.
−Removed: In selected international markets, we provide pressure pumping and reservoir stimulation services, including acidizing, fracturing and fluid systems, cementing and coiled-tubing intervention.
−Removed: Testing and Production Services provides well test data and slickline and intervention services.
−Removed: The service line includes drillstem test tools, surface well testing services, and multiphase flow measurement.
−Removed: Completion Systems offers customers a comprehensive line of completion tools-such as safety systems, production packers, downhole reservoir monitoring, flow control, isolation packers, multistage fracturing systems and sand-control technologies that set the stage for maximum production with minimal cost per barrel.
−Removed: Weatherford International plc – 2020 Form 10-K | 4
−Removed: Liner Systems includes liner hangers to suspend a casing string within a previous casing string rather than from the top of the wellbore.
−Removed: The service line offers a comprehensive liner-hanger portfolio, along with engineering and executional experience, for a wide range of applications that include high-temperature and high-pressure wells.
−Removed: Cementing Products enables operators to centralize the casing throughout the wellbore and control the displacement of cement and other fluids for proper zonal isolation.
−Removed: Specialized equipment includes plugs, float and stage equipment and torque-and-drag reduction technology.
−Removed: Our cementing engineers analyze complex wells and provide all job requirements from pre-job planning to installation.
−Removed: Drilling, Evaluation and Intervention comprises a suite of services ranging from early well planning to reservoir management.
−Removed: The drilling services offer innovative tools and expert engineering to increase efficiency and maximize reservoir exposure.
−Removed: The evaluation services merge wellsite capabilities including wireline and managed pressure drilling.
−Removed: We also build or rebuild well integrity for the full life cycle of the well.
−Removed: Using conventional to advanced equipment, we offer safe and efficient tubular running services in any environment.
−Removed: Our skilled fishing and re-entry teams execute under any contingency from drilling to abandonment, and our drilling tools provide reliable pressure control even in extreme wellbores.
−Removed: The following is a detailed description of our product and service offerings currently provided by our Drilling, Evaluation and Intervention product line.
−Removed: Drilling Services includes directional drilling, logging while drilling, measurement while drilling and rotary-steerable systems.
−Removed: This service line also includes our full range of downhole equipment, including high-temperature and high-pressure sensors, drilling reamers and circulation subs.
−Removed: Managed Pressure Drilling helps to manage wellbore pressures to optimize drilling performance.
−Removed: The services incorporate various technologies, including rotating control devices and advanced automated control systems, as well as, several drilling techniques, such as closed-loop drilling, air drilling, managed-pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling.
−Removed: Wireline Service s includes open-hole and cased-hole logging services that measure the physical properties of underground formations to determine production potential, locate resources and detect cement and casing integrity issues.
−Removed: The service line also executes well intervention and remediation operations by conveying equipment via cable into oil and natural gas wells.
−Removed: Tubular Running Services provides equipment, tubular handling, tubular management and tubular connection services for the drilling, completions and workover of oil or natural gas wells.
−Removed: The services include conventional rig services, automated rig systems, real-time torque-monitoring and remote viewing of the makeup and breakout verification process.
−Removed: In addition, they include drilling-with-casing services.
−Removed: Intervention Services provides re-entry, fishing, wellbore cleaning and well abandonment services, as well as, advanced multilateral well systems.
−Removed: Drilling Tools and Rental Equipment delivers our patented tools and equipment, including drillpipe and collars, bottom hole assembly tools, tubular-handling equipment, pressure-control equipment, and machine-shop services, for drilling oil and natural gas wells.
−Removed: Other Business Data
−Removed: We provide our products and services worldwide and compete in a variety of distinct segments with a number of competitors.
−Removed: Our principal competitors include Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, National Oilwell Varco, Nabors Industries, ChampionX Corporation and Frank’s International.
−Removed: We also compete with various other regional suppliers that provide a limited range of equipment and services tailored for local markets.
+Added: Production Automation & Software provides flow measurement solutions, monitoring and automation capabilities and production software to optimize asset productivity.
+Added: Sub-Sea Intervention provides electrical and hydraulic power transmission to subsea equipment in order to facilitate workovers in deep and ultra-deep water operations in select markets.
+Added: Pressure Pumping Services offers advanced chemistry-based solutions and associated pumping services for safe and effective production enhancements.
+Added: In select international markets, we provide pressure pumping and reservoir stimulation services, including acidizing, fracturing, cementation and coiled-tubing intervention.
+Added: We provide our products and services worldwide and compete in a variety of distinct segments with a number of global and regional competitors.
+Added: Our principal competitors include Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, National Oilwell Varco, Nabors Industries, ChampionX and Expro Group Holdings.
+Added: We also compete with various other regional suppliers that provide a limited range of equipment and services focused on the local markets.
Competition is based on a number of factors, including performance, safety, quality, reliability, service, price, response time and, in some cases, depth and breadth of products.
−Removed: The oilfield services business is highly competitive, which may adversely affect our ability to succeed.
+Added: The energy services business is highly competitive, which may adversely affect our ability to succeed.
Additionally, the impact of consolidation and acquisitions of our competitors is difficult to predict and may harm our business as a result.
−Removed: Weatherford International plc – 2020 Form 10-K | 5
Raw Materials
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Many of the products or components of products sold by us are manufactured by other parties.
−Removed: We are not dependent in any material respect on any single supplier for our raw materials or purchased components.
−Removed: Substantially all of our customers are engaged in the energy industry.
−Removed: Most of our international sales are to large international or national oil companies and North America sales are to independent oil companies.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2020, the Eastern and Western Hemisphere accounted for 54 % and 46 %, respectively, of our total net outstanding accounts receivable from customers balance.
+Added: We consistently evaluate our supplier portfolio to reduce our risk from sole sourcing and to ensure the availability of resources and raw materials.
+Added: Substantially all of our customers are engaged in the energy industry and include international and independent oil and gas companies as well as new energy companies.
As of December 31, 2021, customer receivables in Mexico and the U.S.
−Removed: accounted for 23 % and 12 %, respectively, of our total net outstanding accounts receivables from customers.
−Removed: No other country accounted for more than 10% of our net outstanding accounts receivables balance.
+Added: accounted for 22 % and 15 %, respectively, of our total net outstanding accounts receivable from customers.
+Added: No other country accounted for more than 10% of our net outstanding accounts receivable balance.
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, no individual customer accounted for more than 10 % of our consolidated revenues.
Our services are usually short-term, day-rate based and cancellable should our customers wish to alter the scope of work.
−Removed: Consequently, our backlog of firm orders is not material to our business.
+Added: Consequently, our backlog of firm orders is not a material indicator of our future business.
+Added: Weatherford International plc – 2021 Form 10-K | 5
Research, Development and Patents
We maintain world-class technology and training centers throughout the world.
−Removed: Additionally, we have research, development and engineering facilities that are focused on improving existing products and services and developing new technologies to meet customer demands for improved drilling performance and enhanced reservoir productivity.
−Removed: Weatherford has significant expertise, trade secrets, intellectual property and know-how with respect to manufacturing equipment and providing services.
+Added: Additionally, we have research, development and engineering facilities focused on developing new technologies and improving existing products and services to meet customer demands for improved drilling performance, well integrity, and enhanced reservoir productivity, with emphasis on safety and the environment.
+Added: Weatherford has significant expertise, trade secrets, intellectual property and know-how with respect to manufacturing our equipment and providing our services.
As many areas of our business rely on patents and proprietary technology, we seek and ensure patent protection both inside and outside the U.S.
−Removed: for products and methods that appear to have commercial significance.
+Added: for products and methods that we believe to have commercial significance.
Although in the aggregate our patents are important to the manufacturing and marketing of many of our products and services, we do not believe that the expiration of any one of our patents would have a materially adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: With respect to the Successor, we amortize developed technology over 5 years.
−Removed: With respect to the Predecessor, we amortized patents over the years that we expected to benefit from their existence, which typically extended from the grant of the patent through and until 20 years after the filing date of the patent application.
−Removed: The widespread geographical locations of our operations serve to mitigate the overall impact of the seasonal nature of our business in certain geographic regions.
+Added: The widespread geographical locations of our operations serve to mitigate the overall impact of the seasonal nature of our business in any particular geographic region.
Weather and natural phenomena can temporarily affect the level of demand for our products and services.
Spring months in Canada and winter months in the North Sea and Russia can affect our operations negatively.
−Removed: Additionally, heavy rains, hurricanes or an exceedingly cold winter in a given region or other climate changes may impact our results.
−Removed: Unpredictable or unusually harsh weather conditions could lengthen the periods of reduced activity and have a detrimental impact to our results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, customer spending patterns for our products and services may result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each year as our customers seek to fully utilize their annual budgets.
−Removed: Conversely, customer budget constraints may lead to lower demand for our services and products in the fourth quarter of each year.
+Added: Additionally, heavy rains, hurricanes, unusual extreme freezes or other climate changes may impact our results.
+Added: Unpredictable or unusually harsh weather conditions could lengthen the periods of reduced activity and have a detrimental impact on our results of operations.
+Added: In addition, customer spending patterns for our products and services may result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each calendar year as our customers seek to fully utilize their annual budgets.
Federal Regulation and Environmental Matters
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Our 2021 expenditures to comply with environmental laws and regulations were not material, and we currently do not expect the cost of compliance with environmental laws and regulations for 2022 to be material.
−Removed: Weatherford International plc – 2020 Form 10-K | 6
We have obligations and expect to incur capital, operating and maintenance, and remediation expenditures, as a result of compliance with environmental laws and regulations.
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At this location we are performing a TCEQ-approved Remedial Action Plan (“RAP”) to address contaminated ground water.
−Removed: The performance of the RAP and related expenses are scheduled to be performed over a ten to twenty-year period and, may cost as much as $ 6 million, all of which is recorded as an undiscounted obligation on the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2020.
+Added: The performance of the RAP and related expenses are scheduled to be performed over a ten to twenty-year period and, may cost as much as $ 6 million, all of which is recorded as an undiscounted obligation on the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2021 and 2020.
We continuously monitor and strive to maintain compliance with changes in laws and regulations that impact our business.
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Focus on People and Culture
−Removed: At Weatherford, our people are our most critical asset, vital to our sustained, long-term success.
−Removed: We believe we have a dedicated and capable workforce and our employees have expertise in a variety of disciplines ranging from engineering to oilfield services support to multiple corporate functions.
−Removed: We strive daily to provide a culture that focuses on delivering results through attracting, developing and retaining the talent we need to build, sustain and operate effectively and efficiently across our organization and within the oilfield equipment and services industry.
−Removed: We understand the value that each individual brings to the table and we celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce.
−Removed: We are focused on building a high-performance culture through objective setting, ongoing and regular career discussions and individual development plans and regular coaching and feedback.
−Removed: During this process, we are grounded by our core values:
−Removed: ethics and integrity, discipline and accountability, flawless execution, collaboration and partnership, innovation and technology leadership and commitment to sustainability.
+Added: At Weatherford, our people are our most critical asset and vital to our sustained long-term success.
+Added: Our global team comprises world-class experts in various disciplines, including engineering, oilfield services support and multiple corporate functions.
+Added: Each employee brings tremendous value to our Company, and we are immensely proud of our global workforce.
+Added: We follow a series of guiding principles to enable our dedicated, talented and passionate employees to continue advancing our Company’s strategic priorities and deliver value to our customers:
+Added: We constantly evolve how we identify, develop and retain our global talent pipeline for today and tomorrow;
+Added: We innovate how we attract and integrate diverse and qualified people to give Weatherford a competitive advantage and harness the power of different perspectives;
+Added: We cultivate a high-performing, diverse environment to inspire innovation, make smarter decisions and better our business;
+Added: We provide a culture that supports employees and delivers the results we need to build, sustain and operate effectively and efficiently internally and within the energy services industry
+Added: Weatherford International plc – 2021 Form 10-K | 6
+Added: This past year, we focused on creating an enhanced recruitment experience and a more attractive employee value proposition for our candidates and new hires.
+Added: We will continue to monitor our recruiting effectiveness, refine our hiring and onboarding processes and review the experiences and satisfaction levels of these prospective and new employees.
+Added: Once an individual decides to become part of the One Weatherford family, we are committed to helping the team member grow and develop professionally by providing them with the necessary training, tools and support to enable a long, meaningful, exciting and thriving career at Weatherford.
+Added: Through role-specific competency-based training, leadership development programs and safety, ethics and unconscious bias training, we seek to expand our employees’ skill sets and regularly reinforce important topics that align with our core values and strategic priorities.
+Added: In addition, to further our employees’ growth and help them chart a successful career path, we remain focused on building a high-performance culture through objective setting, ongoing and regular coaching and feedback and individual development plans.
+Added: We also believe in providing development opportunities to prepare our employees for future positions at Weatherford and have designed programs to accelerate the development of defined competencies and skills through dedicated mentors and a structured curriculum.
+Added: In all cases of employee development, we remain guided by our core values and our One Weatherford spirit.
Focus on Safety
−Removed: The safety of our employees remains the primary focus of our management.
−Removed: Our vision is to be a company that is incident free, delivers on our promises to our customers, and leaves the environments and communities in which we operate better than we found them.
−Removed: Our Eight GEMS (Getting Everyone Managing Safety) program is designed to educate employees and empower them to intervene when they see unsafe situations.
−Removed: Each GEM focuses on a specific opportunity for risk prevention, including driver and vehicle safety, commitment and intervention, facility safety, induction and training, risk management, lifting equipment and operations, hazardous substances, hazardous environments, and occupational health.
−Removed: Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, we have remained focused on protecting the health and safety of our customers and employees.
−Removed: Shortly after the outset of COVID-19, we adopted enhanced safety measures and practices across our organization to protect employee health and safety and ensure that we would continue to be able to play a critical role in providing energy.
−Removed: We monitor and track the impact of the pandemic on our employees and within our operations, and proactively modify or adopt new practices to promote their health and safety.
−Removed: Our goal in our compensation programs is to provide competitive compensation opportunities to each of our employees that are well-balanced between our short- and long-term strategic priorities, that discourage excessive or unnecessary risk taking and that reward our employees appropriately for their efforts.
+Added: Weatherford is committed to the health, safety and well-being of our employees, customers and communities.
+Added: Our vision is to be a company that is incident free, delivers on our promises and leaves the environments and communities in which we operate better than we found them.
+Added: Our commitment to safety and service quality is embedded into every level of our organization.
+Added: Our Operational Excellence and Performance System (“OEPS”), which meets criteria outlined by national and international management system standards, supports our employees in the field and enables us to deliver on our customer commitments without sacrificing quality, health, safety, security or environmental performance.
+Added: In addition, we have safety programs that are designed to educate employees and empower them to intervene when they see unsafe situations.
+Added: In these programs, we focus on opportunities for risk prevention, including in areas such as driver and vehicle safety, commitment and intervention, facility safety, induction and training, risk management, lifting equipment and operations, hazardous substances, hazardous environments and occupational health.
+Added: Furthermore, our Four Tenets program aims to bring awareness to how each of us plays a role in protecting our environment, including through monitoring impacts to land, water use, energy consumption and waste management.
+Added: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have remained focused on protecting the health, safety and well-being of our employees and customers.
+Added: We are closely following the guidance set forth by the medical community, including the World Health Organization (“WHO”) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”), to ensure our operations are aligned with recommended health and safety procedures and regularly communicate with our stakeholders regarding the protective measures in place.
+Added: In addition, we have focused on employee wellness and we remain committed to nurturing our culture and creating a sense of unity, even during times of physical distancing.
+Added: For example, in 2021 we increased employee recognition efforts across the globe - spotlighting the successes and contributions of our team - and provided opportunities for virtual collaboration on topics such as innovation, navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and diversity, equity and inclusion.
+Added: We believe in aligning our employees’ compensation with the positive performance of our Company.
+Added: Our goal in our compensation programs is to provide competitive compensation opportunities to each of our employees that are well-balanced between our current and long-term strategic priorities, that discourage excessive or unnecessary risk taking and that reward our employees appropriately for their efforts.
We are committed to maintaining and fostering a culture grounded in the principles inherent in pay-for-performance over the short and long-term for our employees eligible to receive a bonus.
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We believe our culture of aligning our strategic priorities with our compensation programs supports a cohesive drive towards value creation for all our stakeholders.
−Removed: Diversity & Inclusion
−Removed: We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels comfortable bringing their true selves to work.
−Removed: It is important that we operate in a collaborative and inclusive manner across all levels of our organization, embracing gender, racial and ethnic diversity among our employees and recognizing the strength and competitive advantages that
+Added: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
+Added: We understand the importance of operating in a collaborative and inclusive manner across all levels of our organization, embracing the full spectrum of diversity among our employees and recognizing the strength and competitive advantages that our differences afford us as a Company.
+Added: Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (“DE&I”) Program is a core element of our One Weatherford culture.
+Added: Through our DE&I efforts, we aim to provide learning, engagement and philanthropic opportunities to help our people and our communities flourish.
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−Removed: our differences afford us as an individual and a company.
−Removed: Our Diversity and Inclusion (“D&I”) Program promotes partnerships, engagement, and collaboration across our organization.
−Removed: Our D&I Executive Council, which includes our executive leadership team and other senior leaders, provides strategic direction and oversight of the D&I Program.
−Removed: In addition, we have a Global D&I Advisory Board with global employee representation.
−Removed: Employee Resource Groups (“ERGs”) based on the needs and requests of our employees seek to align activities to enrich our culture and drive D&I initiatives at the local level that engage, educate and empower our workforce while having a positive impact on our business.
−Removed: In the fourth quarter of 2020, we rolled out “Avoiding Unconscious Bias eLearning” as a global training course for employees and managers, and we conducted an interactive virtual session on Inclusive Leadership.
+Added: Our commitment to embedding our DE&I Program into our organization is championed from the Executive team to the frontline employees.
+Added: To continue advancing our program, in 2021 we also established a DE&I Champions Network as an integrated approach to build, educate and promote ongoing DE&I initiatives in a way that best aligns with local considerations.
+Added: This team is comprised of key members from various business functions, job disciplines and with all our geographical areas represented.
+Added: Their goal is to reinforce all aspects of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
+Added: Furthermore, our Employee Resource Groups continue to align activities to enrich our culture and drive DE&I initiatives at the local level that engage, educate and empower our workforce while having a positive impact on our business.
Employee Statistics
As of December 31, 2021, Weatherford had approximately 17,000 employees globally, located in 75 different countries.
−Removed: In response to the price of crude oil and a lower level of exploration and production spending, in addition to other overall cost reductions, we reduced our workforce by 28% and 35% from our workforce totals at December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Certain of our operations are subject to union contracts and these contracts cover approximately 17% of our employees.
+Added: As a result of efforts to continuously streamline our processes our workforce reduced by 1% in 2021 compared to December 31, 2020.
+Added: Some of our operations are subject to union contracts and these contracts cover approximately 19% of our employees.
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Senior Vice President Global Services of Exterran Corporation from August 2016 to August 2018
−Removed: Positions of increasing responsibilities at GE Oil & Gas ending with General Manager, Downstream Products & Services, in August 2016
−Removed: Karl Blanchard (a)
−Removed: 61 Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Weatherford International plc, from August 2017 to present;
−Removed: Interim Chief Executive Officer of Weatherford International plc, from June 2020 to October 2020;
−Removed: Principal Financial Officer of Weatherford International plc from August 2020 to September 2020
−Removed: Chief Operating Officer of Seventy Seven Energy, Inc., June 2014 to April 2017
Keith Jennings 52 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Weatherford International plc, since September 2020
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Vice President and Treasurer of Eastman Chemical Company from August 2016 to May 2018
−Removed: Vice President and Treasurer of Cameron International Corporation from June 2009 to April 2016
−Removed: Weatherholt (b)
+Added: Weatherholt (a)
44 Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer of Weatherford International plc, since July 2020
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Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc., from February 2015 to August 2019
−Removed: (a) On July 1, 2019, the Weatherford Parties, filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the U.S.
−Removed: Bankruptcy Code in the U.S.
−Removed: Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
−Removed: Weatherford continued to operate their business as “debtors-in-possession” under the jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code.
−Removed: On September 11, 2019 the Plan, as amended, was confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court and on December 13, 2019 we emerged from bankruptcy after successfully completing the reorganization pursuant to the Plan.
−Removed: Prior to joining the Weatherford, Karl Blanchard served as the Chief Operating Officer of Seventy Seven Energy, Inc.
−Removed: (“SSE”), a position he started in June of 2014.
−Removed: SSE and its subsidiaries voluntarily filed for relief under Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on June 7, 2016.
−Removed: SSE continued to operate their business as “debtors-in-possession” under the jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code.
−Removed: On July 14, 2016, the Bankruptcy Court issued an order confirming the Joint Pre-packaged Plan of Reorganization (the “SSE Reorganization Plan”).
−Removed: The SSE Reorganization Plan became effective on August 1, 2016, pursuant to its terms and SSE emerged from its Chapter 11 case.
−Removed: (b) Prior to joining Weatherford, Mr.
+Added: Joseph Mongrain 63 Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer of Weatherford International plc, since March 2021
+Added: Vice President Human Resources of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation from September 2016 to August 2019
+Added: Mills 49 Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Weatherford International plc, since December 2021
+Added: Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Weatherford International plc, from March 2021 to November 2021
+Added: Segment Compliance Manager, Construction Industries Segment, Caterpillar Inc., from July 2020 to March 2021
+Added: Division Chief Financial Officer, Integrated Components and Solutions Division, Caterpillar Inc., from September 2018 to July 2020
+Added: Finance Director, Caterpillar Brasil Ltda., Caterpillar Inc., from January 2015 to August 2018
+Added: (a) Prior to joining Weatherford, Mr.
Weatherholt was the General Counsel at Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc.
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