Abengoa’s annual revenue fell 58% in 2016 to 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) and the Spanish company is nearing the end of its financial restructuring which has limited project activity, the company said February 28.
Abengoa filed for Chapter 11 and 15 bankruptcy protection in 2016 and sold off certain assets to reduce its debt pile. In September, the company signed a restructuring agreement with financial creditors and investors.
Abengoa recorded an EBITDA loss of 241 million euros in 2016, compared with positive EBITDA of 343 million euros in 2015.
«During the year 2016, the activity in Abengoa has been strongly conditioned by the restrictions on liquidity which caused a general slowdown in business development,» the company said in its financial statement. This impacted projects in Mexico, Chile and South Africa and transmission line projects in Brazil, it said.
Abengoa was awarded 1.3 billion euros of projects in 2016, including projects in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Peru, and Uruguay, it said.
The group’s backlog in engineering and construction amounted to approximately 2.7 billion euros as of December 31, 2016. This includes adjustments from the sale of assets, the financial restructuring of Brazilian transmission lines, mothballing of certain projects in line with the new strategy plan and adjustments for other canceled projects.
A number of restructuring milestones were achieved in the fourth quarter of 2016. On November 22, 2016 the Company held the Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting, in which the necessary measures for the implementation of the Restructuring Agreement signed in September 2016 were approved, including the share capital increase and the designation of the new Board of Directors.
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