CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Jan 23, 2017) - Trican Well Service Ltd. (TCW.TO) ("Trican") is pleased to announce that it has sold the share consideration received in connection with the previously completed transaction with National Oilwell Varco, Inc. ("NOV") for the sale of Trican's Completion Tools business. Trican will realize net proceeds of USD$21.4 million. In addition, Trican and NOV have finalized the adjustment to the purchase price, which resulted in a working capital adjustment of CAD$7.2 million payable to Trican.
Keane Group, Inc. (FRAC) ("Keane") announced on January 20, 2017, the pricing of its initial public offering of 26,760,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of USD$19.00 per share. Of this offering, 15,700,000 shares are being offered by Keane and 11,060,000 shares are being offered by the selling stockholder group, which includes Trican. The selling stockholder group also granted the underwriters a 30-day over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 4,014,000 shares of Keane's common stock, which was exercised in full on January 20, 2017. Based on the pricing of USD$19.00 per share of the Keane public offering, Trican's net proceeds from the secondary offering and exercise of the over-allotment option is expected to be USD$28.4 million.
The selling stock holder group retains 72,354,019 shares of common stock of Keane, including Trican's ownership interest therein. Trican, as well as all other officers, directors and holders of substantially all common stock of Keane on the date of the offering have entered into lock-up agreements with the underwriters providing that we and they will not, subject to certain exceptions, dispose of or hedge any shares of our common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of common stock during the period from the date of this offering continuing through the date that is 180 days after the date of offering unless extended pursuant to the terms of the lock-up agreements.
The total expected proceeds from these transactions are approximately CAD$73.5 million based on closing Canadian dollar / US dollar exchange rate on January 20, 2017. Trican intends to utilize the net cash proceeds from these transactions to reduce its outstanding debt.
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