Deep Industries Limited (DEEPINDS) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

July 29, 2026

NSEI IN Energy Energy Equipment and Services earnings 66 min

Earnings Call Speaker Segments

Operator

operator
#1

Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to Deep Industries Q1 FY '27 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Siddharth Rath from InCred Equities. Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#2

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us today for Q1 FY '27 [indiscernible] .

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#3

[indiscernible] It gives me my pleasure to speak to you all today as we present our first quarter performance for the financial year '27. We sincerely appreciate your continued interest and confidence in deep industries. I trust you have had the opportunity to review our financial results, press release and investor presentation which have been made available on the company website and stock exchanges. I'm joined today by our -- with our Director of Finance and CFO, Mr. Rohan Shah, who will take you through the financial performance for the quarter ended 30th June 2026, in detail after my remarks. Let me briefly take you through the India's macroeconomic environment and the evolving dynamics of the energy sector. The global energy landscape is undergoing a pivotal shift while the acute high-tension crisis management of early 2026 triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has begun to settle into a structural rebalancing of supply chain. The underlying gravity of the situation remains with the Strait still operating under restricted capacity lingering geopolitical and operational bottlenecks continue to keep global markets on edge even as supply networks gradually adapt to new reality. Driven primarily by Asian economy, global oil demand is projected to rebound sharply through FY 2027. However, the overarching theme across boardrooms is clear, energy security over short-term expediency, achieve long-term security. Natural gas is firmly taking age as the critical bridge fuel. Emerging markets across Asia, led aggressively by India and China are accelerating LNG regasification infrastructure investments to insulate domestic manufacturing from its crude markets. I give an idea about the domestic landscape. So here in India, the regulatory policy backdrop has shifted dramatically in favor of domestic exploration and production that is E&P players. The government strategy has undergone a fundamental transformation devoting from a revenue-sharing mindset to an aggressive exploration for agenda. This policy overhaul aims to reverse a decade-long decline in domestic crude oil production, which fell from 28.4 MMT in '24-'25 and dramatically less our national input dependency. Upstream discovery is only half the battle, bringing molecules to market efficiently is what yield cash flows. Through the implementation of the unified pipeline tariff, a manufacturing unit in a remote district space, the exact same gas transportation tariff as 1 located next to an import terminal. This creates a truly democratic, steady national market for every standard cubic meter of gas we produce. Guided by the region of Honorable Prime Minister in Narendra Modiji for an Atmanirbar Bharat, India is actively positioning itself to attract capital into its E&P sector, part of the broader USD 500 million energy infrastructure opportunity by 2030. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is doing up INR 80,000 crore incentive package under the national deepwater exploration mission term as Samudra manthan. The mission aims to derisk high stakes offshore oil and gas exploration and attract global energy measures to India's deepwater basins. Government to bear up 50% of the cost of drilling exploratory wells. India imports over 85% of its crude oil requirements. Boosting domestic offshore production is key to insulating the economy from global energy volatility and supply chain disruptions. As a leader, covering over 70% of the post exploration services value chain, spanning gas compression, gas detraction, gas processing facilities workover rigs, drilling rig services, integrated project management and production enhancement contract and an offshore support, these macro shifts and policy overall act a direct structural tailwinds for our core business. I'll just take you through our business verticals. Basically, we are active into 4 business verticals. The first 1 is gas processing. Tata hire of entire natural gas processing, a gas processing facility is a specialized industrial plant designed to receive raw natural gas from wells and process it into marketable products suitable for distribution and use. This is a value-added services by Deep and a unique proposition by Deep. We have converted EPC projects into charter hire model. Deep Industries Limited has started providing design, supply, installation, commissioning and regular operation and maintenance of production system to receive process and deliver hydrocarbons at custody transfer points, which are produced from the wells. The development of facility signifies the continuous efforts of the company to offer various value-added services to the client as a key player in oil and gas industry. It started with 1 such plan of gain site in Dea and then has been adding a few more of such facilities with ONGC. With gas compression, this is the first services that the company has started with in 1996. Natural gas compression refers to the process of increasing the pressure of natural gas to make it usable for different end uses. Various types of compressors are used in natural gas compression, including reciprocating compressors, centrifical compressors and screw compressors. These compressors are designed to handle different volumes and pressures of natural gas based on specific operational requirements. Out of approximately 30% of the business being outsourced, currently, almost 85% of debt outsourced gas compression has been executed by Deep Industries Limited throughout the country. We own more than 80 gas compressor units, which is highest fleet in India. On the gas dehydration is a process which ensures to remove water moisture and heavy hydrocarbons out of natural gas before putting the same in pipeline so as to ensure safety of national grid. Natural gas dehydration services are crucial in natural gas processing plants, pipeline and facilities where dry gas is essential for transportation storage and used in industrial and residential applications. Deep Industries Limited is 1 of the first companies in India who qualifies to provide gas dehydration services. The second vertical is an integrated project management. We have adopted the integrated project management services as our turnkey solutions to drill and complete wells under single contracts. We have capabilities to provide pool of niche services involving highly technical jobs and services under 1 roof, improves coordination, time and cost management. Deep is the first Indian company to offer integrated solutions. The company has adopted various services of oil and gas exploration since 2016. Considering the opportunity in the space and unconventional energy being the future, deep is 1 of the only Indian incorporated company where the unique combination of providing services to upstream and midstream. Deep's experience, expertise and quality equipment helps to deliver results to the challenging projects and meet stringent client demands. Our integrated project management services include surface held drilling, air drilling, cementing, geophysical logging, wireline service, hydrofracturing and coil units. Deep commands a healthy market position in the area of providing the drilling and workover services on basis in India. Deep is having vision to expand rig business in overseas market, too. Deep is also approved drilling contractor in Kuwait Oil Company for providing the rigs. We own total 20 numbers of onshore drilling rigs and workover rigs, of which 14 are workover rigs. The capacity ranging from 30 to 50 tonne, and 6 drilling rigs with capacity of 1,000 horsepower. The company has remarkably carried out and successfully completed various contracts for different operators and in diverse areas spreading from deserts of India, ecosensitive areas and difficult terrain of mountain range area. Our fleet utilization is 100% in the segment as on date. Considering huge demand on onshore drilling rigs under integrated project management, the company is exploring opportunities of entering into higher capacity drilling rigs, which can add further to the growth of business. The third vertical is production enhancement services. Deep Industries has secured INR 1,402 crores contract from PC for 15 years. The said contract offers comprehensive services to boost production from 1 of the mature fields of ONGC. Under the production enhancement contract, Deep is enhanced by the hydrodocarbon production and extend the overall life spend of the field by deploying advanced techniques in creating practices and specialized field equipment. We had taken over the field in April 2025 and started with the baseline products. But due to an unfortunate incident at 1 of our wells at Mori 5, the incremental production was delayed by 5 to 6 months. However, we expect to deploy our rig soon and restart with all the facilities. We also plan to drill new wells to support the incremental production. We expect to start contributing through incremental production by October 2026. We also plan to do a CapEx of close to INR 150 crores by March 2027. The fourth vertical, offshore services. Deep Industries has been engaged into onshore services segment for more than 3 decades. And with an intention to expand, its services portfolio in the offshore segment. Deep acquired Dolphin Offshore Enterprise through NCLT in 2022 and gained control in January 2023. It is the step-down subsidiary of the company. We are currently revising the business of the company step by step and have put its DP2 barge, that is Prababarge into operations. It is to explore both the national and international markets, keeping the current scenario in mind. We are pursuing a disciplined contract backed fleet expansion strategy to ensure optimal capital allocation and minimal exposure. Capital expenditure is strictly committed only upon securing firm deployment contracts. We are actively evaluating both national and international tenders to drive sustainable risk-managed growth. The mission aims to derisk high stakes offshore oil and gas exploration and attract global energy measures to India's deepwater basins. This is also an excellent opportunity for us to deploy our various offshore support services in national waters. Now, I'll speak on green energy and new initiatives. In FY '26, we entered into an MoU for venturing into green hydrogen business to explore the new business areas to add into our services portfolio. This MoU aims to bid for and execute various green hydrogen project tenders and contracts. We are actively evaluating opportunities in the said field. Deep is actively exploring new opportunities within geothermal energy resources. Geothermal energy is it derived from beneath the earth surface. In this venture, our extensive industry experience in onshore drilling will provide a strategic advantage, enabling efficient resource extraction and project development because geothermal projects heavily on the same subsurface extraction techniques used in land gas well drilling. Many of our core competencies transfer directly. The mechanics of operating heavy onshore drilling rigs, managing drill strings, selecting drill bits and handling circulation systems are nearly identical. Those geothermal environments require handling higher temperatures and aggressive volcanic crop. Beyond geothermal, we are also evaluating various types of hydrogen energy production. Our established expertise in gas processing will play a crucial role in scaling and optimizing these emerging hydrogen initiatives. Our background in gas processing provides a powerful technical foundation for entering into the hydrogen sector. Because hydrogen production, purification and handling rely heavily on unit operations already standard in oil and gas industry, many of our core competencies translate directly. We are continuously exploring new opportunities to venture into innovative segments and expand our industry footprint. Business momentum, across our core service offerings, onshore drilling, workover services, gas processing and production enhancement, asset utilization remained healthy during the quarter. Continued policy thrust on expanding exploration acreage strengthening gas infrastructure and enhancing domestic production capabilities is supporting sustained demand for integrated oilfield services. Our strategic priorities for the remainder FY '27 are clearly defined. We aim to maximize asset utilization and safety across our drilling and workover fleet, expanding our footprint in UR and unconventional segments through new PCs, scaled up charter high deployment of gas processing plant modules and accommodation units to broaden -- accretive M&A to broaden our service capabilities. As we move forward, our commitment to rigorous corporate governance and uncompromising safety standard remains our guiding priority. We want to take a moment to express our sincere thanks to our employees for setting a high standard of professionalism to our clients and partners for the collaborative trust and to our investors for their continued confidence in the industry. With this, I now invite Mr. Rohan Shah to provide a detailed overview of the financial performance of quarter 1 FY '27. Following his remarks, we will be happy to address any questions you may have. Thank you.

Rohan Shah

executive
#4

Thank you, Paras bhai. Investor friends, thank you for joining the call today. Happy to share with you another excellent quarterly performance of Deep Industries Limited. All the comparisons are on a year-on-year basis, which would provide fair evaluation. Revenue for quarter 1 FY '27 rose to INR 278.92 crores, up by 40% year-on-year. Operational efficiencies have helped us post 38.7% Y-o-Y growth in EBITDA to INR 131.8 crores in FY '21 -- in Q1 FY '27 with EBITDA margin of 43.6%. We have been maintaining EBITDA margin in the range of 43% to 45%, providing us a decent cash flow to strategize our future growth trajectory. Net profit for the first quarter stood at INR 89.14 crores, up by 44.5% year-on-year. As on June 30, our orders stood at INR 3,047 crores. Entering the remainder of FY '27, Deep Industry is backed by strong operational resilience and financial discipline. Our recent momentum anchored by strategic capital location, lean operations and flawless execution equips us to effectively navigate market shift and seize growth opportunities. Moving forward, we prioritize generating healthy cash flows, maximizing return on deployed capital and supporting our expansion with performance-driven approach. With sharp strategic clarity and solid core fundamentals, we remain fully committed to maximizing long-term stakeholder value. With this, I now open the forum for question and answer. Thank you.

Operator

operator
#5

[Operator Instructions] The first question is from the line of Parth Sora from Trinetra Asset Manager.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#6

Congratulations on a good set of numbers. And also thank you for incorporating the net dollar book bridge in the presentation. It definitely improves the transparency for investors. So my first question is on offshore business. Like how do you see the offshore business evolving over, let's say, next 2 to 3 years? Is the focus on adding assets or improving utilization of the existing assets?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#7

See, as I mentioned in the call today, there is an immense opportunity in the offshore segment. Indian government has already allotted a sizable amount for the development of these offshore facilities. Definitely, the growth has to come in with addition of more assets to the fleet. So currently, we have 1 -- we have 2 assets and which are completely deployed. So utilization of the current assets is complete. It's with the new assets that will be added to the pool and the growth has to happen thereafter.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#8

Okay. Got it. And how do you feel like it evolving over let say the next 2 to 3 years? What are the targets for -- especially for the offshore business?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#9

And we are very bullish on the fact that the entire offshore segment would have an excellent opportunity for growth. And all the services related to this sector would in 1 way or another will definitely be impacting. So I expect a good amount of significant growth to happening in this sector in next 2 to 3 years.

Operator

operator
#10

The next question is from the line of Balasubramanian from Arihant Capital.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#11

Congratulations or group setup numbers. And sir, you have listed, you were top priorities like PC, higher speed drilling rigs and offshore fleet expansion. And how do your exploration of new adjacencies like green hydrogen, coal acetations, geothermal fit into this priority list? And whether we have entire capability on internal -- internally or through partnerships? And then we can expect are these adjacent sales to contribute material is on the top line side?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#12

As mentioned, we are into the segment of gas compression. We are into the business of drilling. All these activities in 1 way or the complement the segments that we are now trying to look at, so be it in hydrogen or be it the geothermal services, you would directly be having an advantage because we are well aware about how the fundamentals in the industry. Having said that, there would be definitely a possibilities of collaborating or doing joint ventures as we go ahead to develop these bills to the maximum possible level.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#13

Okay, sir. Sir, on that gas processing capacity side, what is our current appreciation?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#14

So in entire gas processing, currently, we are operating from 3 different fields, 2 of ONGC and one-off can and one of Cairns. With regards to capacity, we can definitely increase it as and when the opportunity comes.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#15

Okay, sir. And sir, these Dolphin acquisitions, I think we are revising and aptamer synergies also there. So could you please explain this both areas like then we can expect complete synergies from this merger and acquisitions?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#16

So Dolphin has already started contributing in our top line as well as bottom line. With an increase in fleet in offshore segments, this growth will continue in next 2, 3 years with an excellent pace. With regards to Kandla, the primary motive to acquire was to improve on our operating margins by manufacturing the hydrocarbon fluids in-house. So on that part, we are working on it on reviving their manufacturing facilities. So we are expecting probably later in this current financial year to start getting contribution from Kandla as well on improvement of our operating margin.

Operator

operator
#17

The next question is from the line of Sudhir Beda from Beda Family Office.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#18

Yes. Congratulations to the entire management team of Deep Industry for outstanding numbers. Hearty congratulations. Sir, your company is growing at, say, last 5 years at the top line is growing at more than 35%. And bottom line is growing at more than 40% since last 5 years. So can I assume it is right to assume that the same growth rate will continue for the next couple of years?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#19

So looking to the development and the need of the country for the oil and gas, we won't be surprised that this momentum should continue. And we are quite bullish on this.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#20

Great. Great. So that means even if you look at FY '28, is it fair to assume the company can deliver a profit of, say, INR 450 crores to INR 500 crores going by the same run rate what the company has delivered in the past?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#21

We believe it should with the is currently going on. It would surprise us if we can do that much.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#22

Great. And sir, can you throw some light on production sharing announcement contract from second half, I think it should contribute to the top line and bottom line, right? So what is the outlook on -- in FY '28 for this particular segment?

Rohan Shah

executive
#23

So yes, in current financial year, production enhancement with incremental production would start contributing from second half of this current financial year. And for FY '28, we are quite bullish on getting almost more than INR 150 crores of revenue from this particular contract.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#24

That is very nice to hear that. And are we looking at the further contract like this as ONGC is also coming out with a lot of blocks for this, and the government is also planning to invest billions of dollars into the oil and gas sector. So your take on that?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#25

Yes, definitely. So production enhancement contract, we would definitely add a few more along with the existing ones. So as you rightly said, ONGC came up with similar requirement recently. So we are evaluating that, and we would definitely would like to bid those contracts as well.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#26

Great. And all the best. And again, congratulations believing the consistence numbers since last many years.

Operator

operator
#27

The next question is from the line of Manan Shah from Munib Investment.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#28

Sir, in previous calls, we highlighted 3 strategic priorities for this year. The first 1 was on the PC, and we had also mentioned that there was 1 tender floated in the previous call, which we were evaluating. So have we decided anything on that particular tender Apart from that, also, we were in the process of identifying a DSP or a PSV for our offshore opportunities. So have we been able to identify any asset or any opportunity on that side? And thirdly, if you can throw some light on the market size or market opportunity in terms of 1,000 HP drilling rigs versus the 2,000 HP drilling rigs? And where are we in the process of bidding for any tender for the 2,000 HP?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#29

Right. So with regards to PEC, the tender has been floated probably months ago only. So, yes, we are actively evaluating that, and we wish to bid for this depending on the results, which we get on our evaluation of that particular field. So that is 1. With regards to offshore opportunities, we are evaluating various tenders internationally as well as nationally. So as a policy, we always go for CapEx only after getting firm order. And this policy will continue here as well. So based on the award of any particular contract, we will go for CapEx or for adding a new vessel in the fleet. And third, with regards to higher capacity drilling rigs, so of course, 1,000 horsepower is largely in demand because in India, we believe that majority of production can be achieved within 3,000 meter well depth. But having said so, the demand of 2,000 horsepower and 3,000 horsepower are also good and coming up in a greater way in near future. So we are in process of evaluating and bidding this higher capacity drilling rigs in -- probably in the next few months.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#30

Okay. So what would be the current bid pipeline? And does it include any bids for any of these 3 priorities?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#31

So as of now, the existing bidding pipeline is not having any of these 3, which I believe would be coming up in bidding stage in coming few months.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#32

Okay. And what...

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#33

The current pipeline would be continuously hovering around INR 700 crores to INR 800 crores.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#34

Okay. Understood. I would like to welcome Mr. Rajiv Sina to the Deep team as well. If you can just highlight what sort of experience he brings? And what sort of role is he going to play in our company?

Rohan Shah

executive
#35

So he has been appointed as the Head of Operations. And he has got an immense experience into the oil and gas sector over 2 decades. And he was quite active while he was working with Vedanta, and he has a good amount of experience on the onshore operations. And we are looking forward...

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#36

So you would be playing a clear role in the PEC contract that we have or it is in the entire existing operations that we are?

Rohan Shah

executive
#37

It would be under the entire operating operations of the compressor and the rates and also PC to a certain extent.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#38

Understood. Lastly, in terms of our numbers, it seems there have been some other subsidiaries, which have contributed to our overall performance for this quarter. So if you can help me understand which subsidiary was it? And what was this contribution from? Because apart from the Dolphin, there seems to be some decent contribution from some other of our subsidiary.

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#39

Right. So apart from Dolphin contributing around INR 43 crores in this quarter, we have good amount of contribution from other subsidiaries, including our Dubai subsidiary. So I think around more than INR 50 crores revenue has came from Dubai to Dubai subsidiaries as well as the Indian subsidiary put together.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#40

Okay. And this sort of performance is expected to continue for the subsidiaries? And what sort of contracts or services are these subsidiaries providing in those geographies?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#41

So the way subsidiaries are primarily into gas processing services as well as they are having some opportunities in equipment sales as well. So 2 subsidiaries are focusing on 2 different areas. And we believe this kind of opportunities will continue throughout the year.

Operator

operator
#42

The next question is from the line of Bhavia Gandhi from Bajaj Alternate Investment.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#43

Congratulations on a very good set of numbers. A couple of questions from my end. Sir, if you were to dissect the incremental revenue from Dolphin Kandla PC for '27 and '28, that will be great. How much we have already booked? And how much is yet to come in?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#44

So with regards to Dolphin, we are working on a contract of 3 years, which is for the barge, which is our DP2 barge Prabha. So that single contract, we believe, would continue to contribute more than INR 150 crores a year. With an addition into fleet, we are expecting some good amount of growth in Dolphin FY '28. With regards to Kandla, as I said before, we have taken that company for backward integration to improve on our operating margins, so probably on revenue side, we are not expecting much from Kandla going forward. So it will help us in improving our operating margins.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#45

Okay. And sir, in case of PEC contract, if we suppose hypothetically if gas prices fall below $8 MMBtu, still, we will receive $8 per MMBtu irrespective of the spot rate?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#46

No. So it's a -- this block is under free price mechanism. So it would govern with spot price and the market-driven prices. So we don't foresee any possibility of falling gas price below that.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#47

Okay. Okay. And what would be the current rate for dollar per MMBtu, if you can just quantify that?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#48

Around -- it's ranging from $8 to even $14, $15 as well in spot market.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#49

Okay. Got it. SP1 Sir, if you were to quantify the total number of onshore workover and drilling rigs in the country and how much would be the outsourced rig market, total number of rigs in the country? That would be really helpful.

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#50

So while I'm saying this, this is purely a justice. But around there should be a fleet of close to 20, 25 rigs, which are outsourced, and close to that much amount of rigs, which would be captive by the producers. So in all I have to say the total market would be close to around 215 to 220 kinds of workover in drilling rigs onshore.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#51

Okay. And sir, this shift, we are seeing that the outsourced market is increasing gradually on the rig side as well?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#52

Yes, yes, absolutely.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#53

Okay. Okay. And sir, how often is the rig tender opening process? I mean, it opens every 6 months, yearly, how is it usually?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#54

Basically, you can't time that out, but basis on the requirement and with the services that they require, they come -- they may come one after another, maybe the frequency could be even a few days and that can even be a few months. So that is not in order to work 3 months or 6 months timing.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#55

Got it. And just 1 last thing on the green hydrogen business, sir. Is the contract tendering started? And if you can provide some unit economics or revenue metrics on that front? And when can we expect some revenues fructifying in terms of numbers for us?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#56

For now, we are evaluating the possibilities to get into the sector. We have already bidded 1 of the tender wherein we have undertaken the job to do in balance of plant, that is the EPC jobs. And the electrolyzer was something that was provided by another joint venture partner. So we don't have the outcome of that tender yet, but we are still closely monitoring any such opportunities that keep coming in this sector.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#57

Okay. Wonderful. Congratulations once again.

Operator

operator
#58

The next question is from the line of Naman Keri from Sequent Investments.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#59

Sir, I just have a few questions. One is with respect to write-off with which we did in the previous year as well as a year before with respect to Kandla. Can we expect any further write-off in -- during the year? Or are we completely done with it?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#60

With regards to Kandla, we are completely done with the legacy issues, and so no more further the write-off in current year.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#61

Understood, sir. And sir, I just want to understand with respect to the production enhancement contract, the vertical, what's the business opportunity as in like how much the government is -- how much of the government's mature will under you expect that will go through a production enhancement requirement?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#62

So we don't have exact numbers or what kind of strategies would government be doing. But what, as I understand, government is actively looking into enhanced oil and gas production through various mediums, and PEC being 1 of them, it's assumingly seems to be 1 of the best opportunities. There were PECs that happened before a year or so. And now we have a few more PECs that have already arrived. So going forward, we foresee a good amount of such drives coming in from the government.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#63

And sir, with respect to offshore business, you said currently 2 assets have been deployed and you're looking to add more assets, is there any particular bid pipeline for you wherein your bidding for our offshore business? And if so, can you give a ballpark number for it?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#64

For now, we don't have any bidding pipeline, but there are a few tenders which are upcoming, and we are eyeing on those tenders. So the moment we bid it, then we will be able to tell what kind of a pipeline could that be.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#65

So the nature of the tender because it's an offshore drilling business, it will be a long term. So will it be on a fixed price basis? Or will it be wearing where it be on the market price?

Rohan Shah

executive
#66

So we would be bidding for support services, not for offshore drilling. So it would be kind of charter hiring of barges, tugs and a few vessels. So it would be fixed price kind of contracts.

Operator

operator
#67

The next question is from the line of Manan from Wolford PMS.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#68

And congratulations to the team on the great set of numbers. 2, 3 questions I have. One is on the Kandla. I know that you said that we have started taking that up Q2 for our margin expansion. So can you quantify how much margin expansion can that have? That is one. And second, how much CapEx will we have to do so that the Kandla becomes beneficial for us? And any sort of debt we have to take on that.

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#69

Yes. One of the critical chemical, I would say, which we use in our drilling and integrated project management can be manufactured in Kandla's manufacturing facility. So our primary estimate suggests that we can improve on operating margin by 1.5% with the help of manufacturing this chemical in-house. With regards to CapEx, we are not forcing much CapEx for reviving these facilities because those facilities are available. Of course, they need a certain amount of repair and modification, so it would not be more than INR 10 crores, INR 15 crores as our initial estimates suggests. And for that, probably we'll not go for any debt.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#70

Okay. Perfect. So the 1.5% increase you said, was it in the EBITDA margin?

Rohan Shah

executive
#71

Would improve our EBITDA margin going forward. Yes.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#72

Okay. Perfect. So first, done. Sir, second would be on the -- our PAT, which was almost INR 90 crores this quarter. So just assuming some things you can correct me if I'm wrong, sir, annualizing our PAT leads us to almost INR 360 crores for this year. Last quarter, we guided for almost INR 400 crores in FY '28. So do you think we should increase our guidance for FY '28? Or we might do -- like what are your thoughts on this, sir?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#73

No, on FY '28, we are gunning for a PAT of almost INR 500 crores. So I'm not sure we have said INR 400 crores for FY '28 because in FY '27, only, we are expecting somewhere above INR 350 crores kind of PAT.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#74

Okay. Perfect, sir. And sir, last would be in our coal gasification part, where would we be placed in the value chain? Please can you help on that?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#75

No, no. So in coal gasification, we are not there.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#76

Okay. Because last quarter, we said we are looking into it. Okay, no problem. And then just the last question would be, sir, you said we have 2 offshore assets. Sir, one of them is BPI, the Prabha bars and which is the other one, sir? And how much more are we planning to add?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#77

The other 1 is EHTS, which is anchor handling tub. Other than this, we wish to add a few more tugs and barge and probably 1 or 2 support vessels 1 by 1 over a period of next 3 to 5 years.

Operator

operator
#78

The next question is from the line of Pankaj from Avis Capital.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#79

Let me add my congratulations to great set of results to you yourself and the entire management team. I have 3 quick questions. One is on the working capital side. Historically, we have been able to convert our EBITDA to cash to the tune of 75 to 80-odd percent. Is quarter 1 on the similar lines? Or is it different?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#80

Yes, yes, it is on similar lines.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#81

Okay. Fantastic. I think in the presentation, you mentioned that you are planning to enter into high-capacity drilling rigs. So is there a CapEx which is expected in '27 because of that? If yes, then are we planning to take debt? Or I mean, what is the plan we have for funding that piece?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#82

Yes. Because in this higher capacity drilling rigs, as of now, we do not have the asset. So if it would be awarded to us, we'll go for adding higher capacity rig in our fleet, which will require CapEx, but that would be funded by debt as well as internal approval.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#83

Okay. But do you have some plan of what kind of CapEx you are looking forward in FY '27 for that reason?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#84

See in our business, CapEx is always backed by form order. So we cannot just estimate that how much CapEx we'll be doing unless we win the contracts. But yes, based on our broad estimates, we may do CapEx of around INR 250 crores to INR 300 crores in FY '27.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#85

Okay. Great. My next question is about the margin profile. I think we have seen a good 200, 250-odd basis points improvement in our EBITDA percentages in Q1 as compared to the guidance we saw or historical trends we have seen. So -- and also, we understood the basis what you said and explained in the early part of your session that our focus is also moving towards offshore in addition to the onshore stuff we are doing. So how do you see the blended EBITDA margins going forward, say, in FY '27 or FY '28.

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#86

So we believe that blended EBITDA should improve in FY '28 and probably in later year as well because by getting incremental contribution from offshore as well as production enhancement contracts will help us improving blended EBITDA.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#87

Great. And is it fair to assume that the EBITDA margins on offshore stock would be better than also?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#88

Yes.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#89

Okay. That's fantastic. Last question, sir, from my side, we had some INR 3,000-odd crores open order book we have. So how much of that you plan to execute in FY '27 and '28, sir?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#90

So of this order book, probably more than 60% value is something which has been executed over next 2, 2.5 years. and 1 major chunk is of production enhancement contracts, which is a long tenure contract.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#91

Great. And would you have some number for FY 27 out of this INR 3,000-odd crores?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#92

So I think you can consider almost INR 800 crores kind of contracts would be executed over FY '27.

Operator

operator
#93

The next question is from the line of Hemant Soni, an Individual Investor.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#94

Actually, I'm new to the company, so pardon me if I ask something, I mean because -- I just wanted to know how does the pricing and all work? Are they a -- is it a revenue sharing model or something or there is a fixed price contract?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#95

So largely, our services business runs on fixed price contracts. So these are all tender-driven contracts with L1 bidding. So these all are fixed-price contracts.

Operator

operator
#96

The next question is from the line of Saurav Mondel, an individual investor.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#97

So what is your target share of revenue coming from non-PSU and PSU in FY '27?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#98

See, our larger client base is, of course, PSU. So PSU will continue to contribute higher amount in overall revenue.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#99

Okay, sir. Sir, also, are you involved in exploration service are totally post exploration?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#100

So we are largely into post exploration only.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#101

Okay, okay. Like no -- 0% exploration.

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#102

Yes. But for us, it's a service, it can be pre exploration, but we will be charging our fixed prices. So we do not carry any success risk.

Operator

operator
#103

The next question is from the line of Seekar Sai, an Individual Investor.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#104

It's regarding our tender. This Morifi, how much was about the contribute? I mean, in increment of INR 1,80,000 .How much is the...

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#105

Sorry, your voice is a little low. If you can just repeat the question.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#106

Sir, I mean, we have the auction data from September 2025, there out of 18 CMB, expected to contribute 200 which was the smallest effect, so were we expecting any darkness or is it more than that?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#107

So Mori was beyond our surprise, and we had encountered a huge amount of gas with high pressure. But with the recent incident, as of now, Mori 5, we are not operating, but we may explore other wells around Mori 5.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#108

Sir, it's regarding other 2 production enhancement contracts, which have come up with. So in our present contract, we get around INR 1 crore per month to maintain the baseline in the PECs. But for damage is around INR 8 crores or INR 9 crores per month and for dilation like that. annually, it's coming out to around INR 100 crores per year for and around INR 300 crores to INR 340 crores per year for the -- so the contract value, I mean, generally out of 40 less for us, INR 150 crores or INR 180 crores was coming at minimum 6%. But here for these 2 contracts on INR 1,500 crores and around INR [indiscernible] per finance core. Are these again correct?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#109

Currently, we are evaluating these tenders. So it wouldn't be fair for us to comment about what our strategies would be and what kind of revenue visibility would it be because we have not yet been awarded. But once we have these awards, we would be able to keep a better guideline on how we are looking at these bills.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#110

Sure, this just the minimum which Omar offering according to the NIS. The next question is regarding the continuity of our other subsidiaries like redosing shipping or a equipment, were they contributing anything for our Q1 performance because maybe thought of INR 30 crores to INR 40 crores additionally somehow of these subsidiaries. So are we expecting something from the subsidiaries moving more in this particular year?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#111

The subsidiaries which you mentioned, they are contributing in overall revenue. But these 2 are not contributing substantial, but they would continue to contribute over a period of time.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#112

Okay. And also 1 last question, sir. Just regarding the kind of inquiry is being floated right now, like Vedanta Northeast exploration drive. And then recently for Rajasthan, they are asking dealing of 1,000 to 2,000 horsepower. And then again, workover services. And again, we are ONGC for 1,000 horsepower. And again, you have oil India with workover is. So is it a normal inquiry pipeline? Or is it really due to the Iran crisis we are actually seeing more of inquiries coming in?

Rohan Shah

executive
#113

Basically, it is a mixture of both. So there were inquiries. And now because of this situation, these things have ramped up. So we won't be able to identify that why this inquiry has come up for what reason. But we believe that these both reasons are equally valid for these inquiries.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#114

And also congratulations on a very, very great set of numbers.

Rohan Shah

executive
#115

Sorry, we didn't get your point.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#116

No, sir. I was congratulating on great set of numbers.

Operator

operator
#117

The next question is from the line of Yash from Avera E&C.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#118

Congratulations on excellent results. Sir, I have a couple of questions. One, first 1 is regarding the production enhancement. So post the Mesa, I think we have started the production is what I understand. So -- have we already reached the baseline production? That is 1 since you said that incremental production will come from H2 FY '27. And with regard to the production enhancement, so in the same contract, when are we expecting to start with newer wells under the same contract?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#119

Yes. So in existing production enhancement operations, we are a little above this baseline production. And so it is -- except that particular well, we are producing from all other wells, which we are producing. And with regards to incremental production, we expect to start operations probably in next month or so. And the incremental production should start contributing from September end or October onwards. With regards to new wells, again, we have planned to drill a few wells in this current financial year. And those new wells would start contributing probably in Q4 or Q1 next financial year.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#120

Understood. Understood. So with regard to the related party transaction, the loan to the group entity. So any progress on that? I mean, we were to evaluate that transaction, right?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#121

Yes. So from the loan given to Prabha Energy, we have received back almost INR 86 crores from them. And probably by end of second quarter, we are expecting to clear the entire loan repaid.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#122

Superb, sir. And sir, just last one. So out of the 4 verticals that we spoke about. So could you throw some light on the ROCEs across all the 4 verticals? And how do we see growing each of the verticals with regards to the returns that we generate?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#123

We do not have ROCE data for individual verticals. But as a whole, we believe that going forward, ROCE would tend to improve because with contribution coming in from offshore and production enhancement with higher margin, overall return ratios will improve only.

Operator

operator
#124

[Operator Instructions] The next question is from the line of Sanjay Shah, an individual investor.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#125

Can you hear me?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#126

Yes.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#127

And again, congratulations for the great set of numbers and the overall transparency. Just if it is possible, Rohan, we spoke about the production enhancement accelerating from the second half of the year, so if you may just go to fiscal '28 and think about production enhancement and only this field, how much do we think when we talk about the INR 500 crores profit number would we expect the production enhancement contract to contribute? That's one. And second, with all the plants that we have, do we envisage raising capital in the near term? Or do we think that we are self-sufficient in terms of funding of all of our investment plans?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#128

Yes, yes. So with regards to production enhancement, we are expecting revenue of almost INR 150-plus crores kind in FY '28 with this single field, which we have. And I think these numbers can go up as well, depending on the performance we do in current financial year. With regards to fundraise, as of now, we do not have a major CapEx plan. And since we are having a debt free on net debt basis, probably our balance sheet support us for taking some debt as well in case of new CapEx. So as of now, we are not foreseeing any equity raise.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#129

Perfect. Just on the production enhancement, what the volume does that suggest when you say INR 150 crores revenues in FY '28?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#130

Sorry, the volume of gas you are seeing?

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#131

What kind of volumes does the production enhancement contracts suggest when you talk about revenues of INR 150 crore in fiscal '28?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#132

It would be around 2.5 to 3 lakh cubic meter a day.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#133

Sorry, can you repent that?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#134

2.5 to 3 lakh cubic meters per day.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#135

Second, what's the baseline sorry, if you can just repeat the baseline that you have to deliver beyond which you start getting the share of the profits?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#136

Baseline is around 1.44 kind of.

Operator

operator
#137

The next question is from the line of Pankaj Motwani from Equirus.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#138

So my question was on the stand-alone part. So I was looking at the standalone revenues. So it has been remained at around INR 175 crore for the last 5 quarters. So I just want to understand like what is concerning growth in the segment? And if I see your total order book, so if I exclude the PEC order and on order from a total order book, so our total order book some additional onshore is around INR 1,350 crores. And we have execution time of around 2.5 years. So that implies our revenue of around INR 600 crores from the traditional onshore business. And we have a current run rate of around INR 700 crores from the standalone, so I just want to understand, like what is the growth outlook for the stand-alone business? And how do we achieve the guided 30% to 35% is in this segment?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#139

Right. So on a stand-alone basis, this INR 170 crore kind of quarter would improve from Q2 onwards because by adding new contracts into the revenue. So we are currently working on different 4 to 5 gas compression and processing contracts, where we were supposed to start contributing from late Q1 and Q2. So those contracts will give contribution going forward. So on a stand-alone basis, we are not -- we are expecting growth of somewhere around 18% to 20% in this current financial year with consolidated growth of more than 25%.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#140

Okay. Got it. So our current order book will be able to suffice the 18% to 20% growth in the channel 1 because -- because as I mentioned, like if I exclude the Dolphin orders and these products then our order for us on the traditional onshore business INR 1,450 crores. And with the...

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#141

With the existing order book and the tenders which we are expecting to convert, there are a few tenders where we are expecting the outcome and the operation to start immediately on award. So we have considered that part as well. So I think we'll be able to achieve that growth.

Unknown Attendee

attendee
#142

Okay. Got it. And 1 more question, like you have mentioned that you have you have on most lead, which is the anchor handling part. So I just want to understand like the anchor hatch has started contributing to our bottom line? Because it is in the JV. So that it started contributed.

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#143

Yes, it has started contributing, but it is not under any long-term contract as of now. So the contribution is not significant from that particular end.

Operator

operator
#144

The next question is from the line of Chirag Satya from Satya Industries.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#145

Am I audible?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#146

Yes.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#147

First, congratulations on the great set of numbers. Thank you. So you have mentioned that currently outstanding order book is INR 3,047 crores. And out of this, this INR 800 crores will be executed in the next 9 months. Is that correct?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#148

Correct.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#149

Okay. So I wanted to understand 1 aspect of this is how much intake of orders will be for this year?

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#150

So I think you must have observed that over a period of last 4, 5 quarters, more or less, we are adding similar amount of contracts as we are executing. So we believe this run rate should continue and probably will add few more larger contracts in coming future.

Operator

operator
#151

Due to time constraints, that was the last question for today. I now hand the conference over to the management for closing comments. Over to you, sir.

Parasbhai Savla

executive
#152

Thank you, everyone, for joining this call. It was pleasure interaction with you. If you have any further queries, you can directly connect us, we would be happy to answer all your queries. Thank you.

Operator

operator
#153

On behalf of InCred Equities, that concludes this conference. Thank you for joining us, and you may now disconnect your lines. Thank you.

Rohan Shah

executive
#154

Thank you.

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