Restructurings

The recent decline in crude oil prices to five-year lows and the depressed level of natural gas prices have negatively impacted the economic outlook of the Company’s exploration and production (“E&P”) company customers, which has also negatively impacted the outlook for the Company’s seismic contractor customers. In response to the decline in crude oil prices, E&P companies have reduced their capital expenditures and shifted their spending from exploration to production-related activities on existing assets. Seismic spending is discretionary; therefore, E&P companies have disproportionately cut their spending on seismic-related services and products.

During the first three quarters of 2015, the Company continued its restructuring program by (i) focusing on centralizing the Company’s global data processing capabilities to two core geographical hubs in the U.S. and the U.K., (ii) reducing the Company’s marine repair infrastructure to two locations in the U.S. and U.A.E., and (iii) making further reductions in personnel across all of the Company’s segments in the third quarter 2015 that, combined with reductions starting in December 2014 and continuing through the first nine months of 2015, have reduced the Company’s full-time employee base by approximately 50%. During the nine months ended September 30, 2015, the Company recognized the following charges and credits (in thousands):



	Severance Charges^(a)			Facility Charges^(b)			Total
Cost of goods sold	$	3,981		$	—		$	3,981
Operating expenses	1,910			1,323			3,233
Other (income) expense	—			1,618			1,618
Income tax benefit	(119		)	(150		)	(269		)
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest	(172		)	—			(172		)
Consolidated total	$	5,600		$	2,791		$	8,391


^(a)	Represents severance charges related to 2015 restructurings, a portion of which relates to a noncontrolling interest.


^(b)	Represents facility charges related to 2015 restructurings.