Oil States International Q2 2024 Earnings Report

Oil States International EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.07
• Consensus EPS: $0.04
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.03
• One Year Ago EPS: $0.01

Oil States International Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $186.40 million
• Expected Revenue: $183.40 million
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$3.00 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: +1.60%

Oil States International Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2024
• Date: 7/29/2024
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Monday, July 29, 2024
• Conference Call Time: 10:00AM ET

Oil States International (NYSE:OIS) is a Houston-based provider of products and services to the global oil and gas industry. Through its well site solutions and flat steel solutions segments, the company supplies critical equipment and consumables used in drilling, completion and production operations. Its well site offerings include a broad range of rental products—such as coiled tubing, frac iron, pressure control equipment and downhole tool rentals—designed to support drilling rigs and well completion crews.

In addition to rental and service offerings, Oil States International’s flat steel solutions business manufactures and distributes steel pipeline and flowback products. These include casing and tubing accessories, premium couplings and valves used in onshore and offshore production. The company also produces composite matting and access solutions that enable safe rig and pipeline access over challenging terrain, helping operators mobilize equipment more efficiently and reduce environmental footprint.

Oil States International serves a diverse geographic footprint, with operations in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. The company maintains manufacturing facilities, service centers and rental depots in key oilfield regions to support major exploration and production basins. With an emphasis on technical support, equipment reliability and logistics, Oil States International aims to help energy companies optimize well performance and manage project schedules under evolving market conditions.

Oil States International Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Oil States reported Q2 consolidated revenues of $186 million and adjusted EBITDA of $21 million, up 11% and 38% sequentially, driven by stronger drilling, subsea and production-system demand and strategic segment optimization.
• The Offshore Manufactured Products segment delivered revenues of $102 million (+17% q/q) and adjusted EBITDA of $20 million (+27%), backed by $101 million in bookings, a $300 million backlog and a 1× book-to-bill ratio, led by managed pressure drilling system orders.
• Well Site Services saw a 2% revenue decline but achieved a 30% sequential rise in adjusted EBITDA and an 18% margin (ex-charges) by exiting underperforming U.S. locations and deploying new technologies like active seat valves.
• Downhole Technologies grew revenues by 16% and adjusted EBITDA by 42% q/q, lifting its EBITDA margin to 8% on higher completion-product sales and international perforating demand.
• The company generated $10 million of operating cash flow, repurchased convertible debt and shares at discounts, ended Q2 with net debt/EBITDA of 1.2×, and reaffirmed its 2024 guidance of $85–$90 million in adjusted EBITDA and ~$40 million in free cash flow.

Presentation

[Operator]

Thank you for standing by. My name is Eric, and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Oil States Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. If you'd like to ask a question during this time, simply press star, followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, please press star one again. Thank you. I would now like to turn the call over to Ellen Pennington, Oil States Assistant Corporate Secretary. Please go ahead.

[Ellen Pennington, Assistant Corporate Secretary at Oil States]

Good morning and welcome to Oil States Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. Our call today will be led by our President and CEO, Cindy Taylor, and Lloyd Hajdik, Oil States Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, we would like to caution listeners regarding forward-looking statements. To the extent that our remarks today contain information other than historical information, please note that we are relying on the safe harbor protections afforded by federal law. No one should assume these forward-looking statements remain valid later in the quarter or beyond. Any such remarks should be weighed in the context of the many factors that affect our business, including those risks disclosed in our 2023 Form 10-K, along with other recent SEC filings. This call is being webcast and can be accessed at Oil States' website.

[Ellen Pennington, Assistant Corporate Secretary at Oil States]

A replay of the conference call will be available two hours after the completion of this call and will continue to be available for 12 months. I will now turn the call over to Cindy.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Thank you, Ellen. Good morning, and thank you for joining our conference call today, where we will discuss our second quarter 2024 results and provide our thoughts on market trends, in addition to discussing our company-specific outlook comments. Our second quarter consolidated revenues and adjusted EBITDA increased 11% and 38% sequentially, driven by increased drilling, subsea and production system demand, and key offshore basins, along with the advancement of several significant projects in our Offshore Manufactured Products segment. On a consolidated basis, our offshore and international revenues were up 18% sequentially, while U.S. land-driven revenues increased 1%. Our results in the current quarter also benefited from continued customer adoption of our newer technologies and strategic optimization of our Well-Site Services segment, with the exit of certain underperforming U.S. locations. Given these initiatives, our Well-Site Services adjusted segment EBITDA increased 30% sequentially in an otherwise declining U.S. land market.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

During the quarter, our Offshore Manufactured Products segment revenues increased 17% sequentially, totaling $102 million, while adjusted segment EBITDA rose 27%. Bookings totaled $101 million compared to $66 million received in the first quarter of 2024, yielding backlog of $300 million as of June 30th and a quarterly book-to-bill ratio of one times. Our bookings improvement was partially driven by our newer technology offerings, including orders for our managed pressure drilling systems. Our Well-Site Services segment revenues decreased 2% on a sequential quarter basis, given the impact of lower U.S. activity, along with the segment's consolidation and exit over the past six months of four underperforming locations. Adjusted segment EBITDA increased 30% from the first quarter of 2024 due to stronger offshore activity in the Gulf of Mexico, along with modest market share gains in the Permian Basin. Our cost reduction initiatives helped yield very strong incremental margins.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

In our Downhole Technology segment, revenues and adjusted segment EBITDA increased 16% and 42% respectively from the first quarter of 2024, driven primarily by increased completion product and international perforating sales. We will continue to focus on improving operations and allocating capital to efficiently and safely provide our customers with advanced technologies and services while enhancing returns, reducing debt, and returning cash to our stockholders. During the quarter, we generated cash flows from operations totaling $10 million, repurchased some of our convertible debt at a discount to par, and also made share repurchases. Our gross debt to EBITDA at June 30th was 1.5x, and net was 1.2x, giving us significant flexibility. Lloyd will now review our operational results along with our financial position in more detail.

[Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States]

Thanks, Cindy. Good morning, everyone. During the second quarter, Oil States generated revenues of $186 million, adjusted consolidated EBITDA of $21 million, and net income of $1.3 million, or $0.02 per share. Our reported second quarter results included pre-tax facility consolidation exit charges of $3.5 million, patent defense charges of $1 million, and gains of $0.5 million on debt extinguishment. Excluding these net charges and credits, our adjusted net income was $4.4 million, or $0.07 per share. Our Offshore Manufactured Products segment generated revenues of $102 million and adjusted segment EBITDA of $20 million in the second quarter. During the second quarter, charges of $1.5 million were recorded at the segment due to the consolidation of Oil States' Southeast Asian operations. Excluding the facility consolidation charges, adjusted segment EBITDA margin was 20% in the second quarter compared to 18% in the first quarter.

[Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States]

Regarding our facility planning, we have strategically relocated our Southeast Asian manufacturing and service operations from Singapore to Batam, Indonesia, which is expected to reduce future manufacturing costs for a number of our global product offerings. During the second quarter, we sold our facility in Singapore and received net cash proceeds of $10 million. While construction of our long-term Batam facility continues, with completion targeted for the first half of 2025, provisional operations were established in Batam during the quarter, allowing us to efficiently execute both our contracted backlog and subsequent orders during the construction phase. We own one remaining U.S. facility that was classified as a held-for-sale asset at June 30th. Net proceeds from the sale of this facility, which is expected to close in late 2024, are expected to total approximately $25 million.

[Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States]

In our Well-Site Services segment, we generated revenues of $46 million and adjusted segment EBITDA of $9 million in the second quarter. During the quarter, the segment recognized $2 million in costs associated with the consolidation and exit of underperforming locations. Additionally, the segment recorded charges of $1 million associated with the enforcement of patents related to its proprietary technologies. Excluding these charges, adjusted segment EBITDA margin was 18% in the second quarter compared to 14% in the first quarter. In our Downhole Technology segment, we reported revenues of $38 million and adjusted segment EBITDA of $3 million for the second quarter. Adjusted segment EBITDA margin was 8% in the second quarter compared to 7% in the first quarter. During the second quarter, Oil States generated $10 million in cash flows from operations and received $10 million in proceeds from the facility sale.

[Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States]

Cash was used to fund capital expenditures of $6 million, purchased $11.5 million principal amount of our 4.75% convertible senior notes at a discount, and buy back $2.4 million of our common stock. Now, Cindy will offer some market outlook and concluding comments.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Despite some concerns about oil demand in China and the possibility of OPEC+ ceasing voluntary production cuts in 2025, crude oil pricing has remained relatively stable over the first half of the year, generally in the $75-$85 per barrel price range, which has provided our E&P customers a predictable environment for planning and sanctioning major offshore and international projects. Stable oil prices and a strong long-term outlook for natural gas and LNG demand support significant levels of capital investment in offshore field development led by the U.S., Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Major subsea OEMs continue to experience significant backlog growth as a result of orders for subsea production systems. We expect this trend to positively influence our business and future bookings.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Growth trends continue to look favorable given the level of offshore capital investment, our bidding and quoting activity, new product introductions, along with strong levels of bookings and backlog. Second quarter U.S. land activity levels have declined despite favorable WTI crude oil prices. Even with lower activity levels and weak natural gas prices, production and inventory levels have remained high, leading to a more challenging land market. Given current industry dynamics, we expect U.S. land drilling and completion spending over the balance of 2024 to remain at or near current levels. We expect our well-site services and Downhole Technology segments to perform in line with market activity indicators, which are weighted to U.S. land activity. The consolidation and exit of underperforming locations and the implementation of additional cost control measures should provide tangible margin benefits in subsequent quarters as assets are redeployed to more favorable operating locations.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

We are benefiting from the continued adoption and deployment of our new technologies, including our proprietary Active Seat Valves within our Well-Site Services segment. Within our Downhole Technology segment, we expect to see further market penetration with the recent introduction of our new EPIC portfolio of perforating systems. Considering market dynamics, we are able to confirm our adjusted EBITDA guidance of $85 million-$90 million for 2024. In terms of free cash flow generation, we expect to generate approximately $40 million in free cash flow during 2024, which excludes the planned fourth quarter U.S. facility sale and remains in line with prior guidance, implying a free cash flow yield of 10% or greater. We will continue to maintain disciplined capital allocation priorities by judiciously investing in growth CapEx and organic research and development opportunities to drive additional technology differentiation.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

We will continue to evaluate debt reduction opportunities, share repurchases, and targeted acquisitions. Now, I would like to offer some concluding comments. We remain focused on optimizing our operations and pursuing profitable activity in support of our global customer base. As market opportunities unfold both in the U.S. and in international and offshore markets, we will continue to focus on core areas of expertise with the deployment of our recently enhanced equipment and technologies to further differentiate our product and service offerings.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Our core competencies are well entrenched in the markets we serve, and we continue to bid on potential opportunities supporting our traditional subsea, floating, and fixed production systems, drilling and military customers, while also bidding to support multiple new customers and projects involved in developments such as deep-sea minerals gathering, fixed and floating offshore wind, carbon capture and storage, geothermal applications, and other renewable and clean tech energy opportunities. These new energy transition opportunities create strong potential for us to expand our product and service offerings and our revenue base over the longer term. Oil States will continue to conduct safe operations and will remain focused on providing technology leadership in our various product and service offerings with value-added products and services available to meet customer demands globally. That completes our prepared comments. Eric, would you open up the call for questions and answers at this time?

[Operator]

At this time, I would like to remind everyone, in order to ask a question, please press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. The first question comes from the line of Jim Rollyson with Raymond James. Please go ahead.

[Jim Rollyson, Director of Oilfield Services Houston at Raymond James]

Hey, good morning, Cindy and Lloyd.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Good morning.

[Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States]

Hi, Jim.

[Jim Rollyson, Director of Oilfield Services Houston at Raymond James]

Cindy, it was obviously great to see a nice sequential rebound in the Offshore Manufactured Products business, which kind of falls in line, typically, I guess, with your seasonal factors. But curious with kind of the orders and backlog, and as you see that over the back half of the year, how are you thinking about kind of revenue and margin trajectory based on kind of the timing of what's in backlog today? Kind of a similar trend to last year or something different?

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Clearly, if you kind of look at the guidance, to some degree, the revenue and trajectory, I'll call it, over the next couple of quarters looks, I'm going to call it, strong but fairly level given that our bookings to date are at 0.9x. And so a lot of the momentum we're seeing, I would say, carries into 2025. Again, I don't know if we made comments about our bookings outlook, but we still expect our overall book-to-bill to be north of one, which implies greater than a one times book-to-bill for the second half of this year. And again, I think that sets up very well for 2025. I haven't looked at my individual quarters in terms of revenue generation, but again, embedded in our guidance, a lot of the activity is going to be driven by offshore and international.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

No surprise there based on the overall macro environment that we're looking at, and that implies strong results for this particular segment.

[Jim Rollyson, Director of Oilfield Services Houston at Raymond James]

Perfect. Yeah, just looking for confirmation there. So appreciate that. And on the Well-Site Services and Downhole Technologies, you mentioned similar to in the past, your revenues kind of perform in line with activity, but clearly some of the kind of internal things you're doing on the cost side and managing operations that weren't performing have obviously paid through in margin benefits this quarter. And you mentioned just that growing as you continue to work on those things. Any sense of kind of how you're thinking about magnitude of potential margin expansion and the kind of flattish from here outlook?

[Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States]

Yeah. So Jim, I'll take that. So when we're looking at Well-Site Services with us closing some of these underperforming locations, we could see the margins overall getting into the low to 20% range. EBITDA margins.

[Jim Rollyson, Director of Oilfield Services Houston at Raymond James]

Okay. Yeah. No, that's very healthy.

[Jim Rollyson, Director of Oilfield Services Houston at Raymond James]

What are you thinking about for Downhole Technologies? Because that obviously had an improved quarter as well from a few different things.

[Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States]

Yeah. So high single digits, low double digits.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

On EBITDA margins.

[Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States]

On EBITDA.

[Jim Rollyson, Director of Oilfield Services Houston at Raymond James]

Yeah.

[Jim Rollyson, Director of Oilfield Services Houston at Raymond James]

Yep. Yep. Perfect. Well, I appreciate that. I'll turn it back to someone else next question.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Thanks, Jim.

[Operator]

The next question comes from the line of Stephen Gengaro with Stifel. Please go ahead.

[Stephen Gengaro, Managing Director of Oilfield Services at Stifel]

Thanks. Good morning, everybody. So just quickly to clarify, Lloyd, were you suggesting Well-Site margins in the low 20s in the second half of the year? Was that your?

[Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States]

Yes.

[Stephen Gengaro, Managing Director of Oilfield Services at Stifel]

I was trying to just make sure I understood that correctly.

[Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States]

Yes.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Yes.

[Stephen Gengaro, Managing Director of Oilfield Services at Stifel]

Okay. Great. Thank you. I guess two things for me. First, Cindy, you've been watching this market a long time like I have, and we've been kind of consistently frustrated by the lack of U.S. activity growth on the land side. And I know there's M&A reasons and the gas market's been soft, but do you see anything else there? And maybe how do you think about maybe the catalysts or what needs to happen to get kind of a recovery on the U.S. land side, even if it's several quarters out?

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Yeah. Well, first and foremost, embedded in my comments is just the statement. If you look back for the last 15 months, maybe 18 months, activity on land is down kind of 20%+ . It's kind of shocking, quite frankly. And yet, despite that, we're producing record levels. And the way I look at that, I don't do basin-by-basin analysis, but certainly there are a lot of analysts that do that say productivity per foot is flat to down in most of the basins. And so it is my opinion that a lot of this M&A activity is more geared towards the resource play and being able to move from two-mile laterals to three. And when you do that, the real answer is you're just drilling and completing a lot of available footage, and we're benefiting from that.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

And so this "efficiency measure" gets a little more elusive when you're talking about productivity per foot versus just extended laterals. It's all good for the operator, but again, I think we and everybody else believe that production is going to turn at some point. And the age-old question is, when does that happen? But clearly, in my opinion, 2025 kind of spells a different level of overall production as some of these decline curves hit. That's number one. Number two is just natural gas. There isn't anyone that really debates the long-term contribution and benefit from both natural gas and LNG. It will come. And if you get kind of the double trigger, if you will, between natural gas activity and an improved crude oil activity environment, those are clearly the drivers for a service company like us as it relates to U.S. land.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

It's just very hard for me to see how that does not happen in 2025. But all I hear from everybody right now is kind of a muted 2025 U.S. land outlook. And that's because of two things right now: this perception of reduced demand in China, which I mentioned in my notes, coupled with the fact that OPEC+ has voluntary production cuts in place that they're telling the market they may reverse late this year, early 2025. So it's always about the macro in this world. And maybe I'm just an optimist because you need to be an optimist in this space, but I see a better 2025 shaping up than maybe the analysts have in their models and what they're thinking. In fact, we had one kind of cut our outlook for 2025, and I just don't see it right now.

[Stephen Gengaro, Managing Director of Oilfield Services at Stifel]

Gotcha. Great. Thanks for the color. And then maybe as a follow-up to that, when you think about rig efficiency and completion efficiency and longer laterals, where does that benefit you guys the most? Which product lines? Yeah, that might be helpful for just some color on that.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

It's really across both our Well-Site Services and our Downhole Technology segments predominantly because you're really talking again about a U.S. land-driven activity at this point in time. And with our Active Seat Valves, number one, they are more efficient to the operator. They work very well in extended laterals, multi-pad type work. And it's cost-effective for us to bring those to market just from the efficiency at the Well Site. And then our new suite of Downhole Technologies, again, the EPIC product line, we hope to gain market share even in a flatter market, much less an improving market. That coupled with international penetration, we believe, helps us turn that segment around.

[Stephen Gengaro, Managing Director of Oilfield Services at Stifel]

Great. Now, that's very helpful. And then just maybe one final one for me. I think you mentioned maybe a book-to-bill of over one in Offshore Manufactured Products in the back half of the year. When we think about the trajectory of growth for that business, should we just really be thinking about offshore deep water rig activity and then any rigs that get added and how that kind of ultimately morphs into demand for your products? I mean, is that the best proxy we can use for what that growth could look like in 2025 and 2026?

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Yeah. It's kind of near-term, long-term. And let me explain that a little bit. Rigs go to work in development drilling profiles, prove up work that leads into longer-term production infrastructure. Again, you know all of that. It used to be we were not heavily exposed. And we're still weighted to offshore production facility development. But however is with the recent introduction of our new managed pressure drilling technologies, as rigs do go to work, we are seeing incremental demand for particularly MPD equipment, but even deck equipment and other types of riser products that we have. So we'll see some, that's what I call nearer term because everybody knows rigs are going to work. They're being upgraded. They're getting longer-term contracts. But the great news is the follow-on from that will be increased subsea and production infrastructure development.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Again, you've seen other larger companies in the space with some very good bookings that kind of are a precursor to the demand for some of our products and services.

[Stephen Gengaro, Managing Director of Oilfield Services at Stifel]

Great. No, thank you for all the color.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Thank you, Stephen. Good talking to you.

[Stephen Gengaro, Managing Director of Oilfield Services at Stifel]

Thanks.

[Operator]

At this time, I would like to remind everyone, in order to ask a question, please press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. The next question comes from the line of John Daniel with Daniel Energy Partners. Please go ahead.

[John Daniel, Founder at Daniel Energy Partners]

Hey, good morning, Cindy and Lloyd.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Hi, John.

[John Daniel, Founder at Daniel Energy Partners]

Just two for me. You noted in the prepared remarks that you anticipate activity in the, I guess, lower 48 to be at or near current levels. I'm just curious if that's where we stay for the balance of the year and maybe even into Q1. How do you see that changing the competitive landscape in the areas you serve? How many people don't make it, if you will? Just your thoughts on that.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

I'm sorry. You're asking kind of the competitive landscape on U.S. land activity?

[John Daniel, Founder at Daniel Energy Partners]

If we stay in this sort of flattish range right now, do you see it changing the competitive landscape at all over the next six to nine months?

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Yeah. I'm going to respond to that, and I'll see if Lloyd has any add-on comments. We get anecdotal comments and evidence of smaller players kind of shutting down local operations, various facilities, trimming headcount, temping down for the summer. I almost think of those as one-offs that do modestly improve the competitive landscape. But I'll offer you a bigger picture comment that what I've probably not seen as many M&A opportunities in a very long time. And so I think when everybody recognizes how competitive the energy services market is, they're looking for opportunities to either exit or just kind of optimize their operations through M&A. And we see quite a lot. And certainly, on a basin-specific level, we're seeing that. But I'd say even importantly, larger service companies are, I'll call it, drinking our customer's Kool-Aid in the sense that they're seeing the market consolidation.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

They're seeing the need for size and scale from an operating perspective, not to mention from a shareholder perspective. And so we have all kinds of inbounds right now from both private and public entities. And so while, yes, I think some of the smaller players fall out just by closing locations, facilities, trimming headcount, I think the bigger picture is going to be the consolidation, which it seems like is heating up.

[John Daniel, Founder at Daniel Energy Partners]

Okay. Thank you for that. The next one is on the new products and technologies that you guys are introducing. Can you just address customer willingness to try new products at this stage and sort of how you see the expected adoption rates playing out over the next year to 1 year-2 years?

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Yeah. And again, my comments may not surprise you. There's much greater willingness to trial a one-off technology introduction on U.S. land. And just think about it. The wells are smaller. The AFE costs are smaller. Generally, they're going with proven operators in the first place. And secondarily, those types of customers are really coming to us and others telling us the enhancements that they need. And so to some degree, these are being developed in conjunction with operator involvement and communication. And so their willingness to trial them is better. Now, that being said, I'll use my example of Downhole Technologies. There's a lot of offerings in the market right now. And when activity's down to the degree it has been over the last 15 months-18 months, it is harder to get a partner to trial new technology. And so maybe the uptake's a little bit slower.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

I'll put that in complete contrast to deep water offshore. Our company has been participating in that space for 80 years. The barriers to entry are just significant. It always would stun me if, I'll call it, a one-off newer company tried to get a product introduced. I think it'd be very, very difficult as opposed to someone that has a deep, long, demonstrated operating history in the space. I'll use a couple of examples. Number one is our high-pressure riser systems. We've been putting riser systems in the market for decades. So you're more willing to be able to adapt and advance that technology and get market acceptance. Probably the newer technology I'll talk about is the MPD systems that we've got great acceptance thus far of our products and great interest thus far.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

But we brought a newer, more advanced, more efficient offering to the market than was already there, again, in conjunction with conversations around customer needs to get there. And I want to say, and oh, by the way, we've been working on this off and on for probably seven years. And so complete difference in terms of market introductions. And we're going to be cautious about bringing any new technology to bear just because the risk of reputation and the risk of failure is great offshore, right? And then I'll take this a step further. As we prove up technologies on U.S. land, then we're going to take those into international markets more efficiently.

[John Daniel, Founder at Daniel Energy Partners]

Okay. Very thorough. Thank you, Cindy, for that answer.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

Thanks, John.

[Operator]

I will now turn the call back over to Cindy Taylor, President and CEO, for closing remarks. Please go ahead.

[Cindy Taylor, President and CEO at Oil States]

You bet. Thank you, Eric. Thanks to all of you for joining our call today. I know it's a very busy portion of the earnings season. We're very glad to report stronger, improved results, both this quarter and our outlook. I think will guide to better days ahead as well. So I hope the rest of the earnings season goes well. We look forward to catching up with each of you throughout the next several months. Take care.

[Operator]

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's call. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Cindy Taylor, President and CEO

Analysts

• Ellen Pennington, Assistant Corporate Secretary at Oil States
• Jim Rollyson, Director of Oilfield Services Houston at Raymond James
• John Daniel, Founder at Daniel Energy Partners
• Lloyd Hajdik, EVP and CFO at Oil States
• Stephen Gengaro, Managing Director of Oilfield Services at Stifel