Joint Ventures

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Joint Ventures

Joint Ventures

Note 13 Joint Ventures

During 2016, we entered into an agreement with Saudi Aramco, to form a new joint venture, SANAD, to own, manage and operate onshore drilling rigs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. SANAD, which is equally owned by Saudi Aramco and Nabors, began operations during the fourth quarter of 2017.

During 2017, Nabors and Saudi Aramco each contributed $20 million in cash for the purpose of capitalizing the joint venture upon formation. In addition, since inception Nabors and Saudi Aramco have each contributed a combination of drilling rigs, drilling rig equipment and other assets, including cash, each with a value of approximately $394 million to the joint venture. The contributions were received in exchange for redeemable ownership interests which accrue interest annually, have a twenty-five year maturity and are required to be converted to authorized capital should certain events occur, including the accumulation of specified losses. In Nabors’ accompanying consolidated balance sheet, Saudi Aramco’s share of authorized capital is reported as a component of noncontrolling interest in equity and Saudi Aramco’s share of the redeemable ownership interests as redeemable noncontrolling interests in subsidiary, classified as mezzanine equity. As of December 31, 2021, the amount included in redeemable noncontrolling interest was $393.8 million. The accrued interest on the redeemable ownership interest is a non-cash financing activity and is reported as an increase in the redeemable noncontrolling interest in subsidiary line in our condensed consolidated balance sheet. In January 2021, SANAD settled approximately $100 million of the accrued interest from inception to December 31, 2020, by making a cash payment to each partner for their respective amounts. The assets and liabilities included in the condensed balance sheet below are (1) assets that can either be used to settle obligations of the VIE or be made available in the future to the equity owners through dividends, distributions or in exchange of the redeemable ownership interests (upon mutual agreement of the owners) or (2) liabilities for which creditors do not have recourse to other assets of Nabors.

The condensed balance sheet of SANAD, as included in our consolidated balance sheet, is presented below.

	December 31,
	2021		2020
	(In thousands)
Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	293,037	$	368,981
Accounts receivable		88,174		79,711
Other current assets		6,662		17,148
Property, plant and equipment, net		467,587		428,331
Other long-term assets		19,010		2,590
Total assets	$	874,470	$	896,761
Liabilities:
Accounts payable	$	61,278	$	61,808
Accrued liabilities		6,021		18,791
Other liabilities		26,300		—
Total liabilities	$	93,599	$	80,599