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MAMMOTH ENERGY SERVICES, INC.CIK 0001679268 · Oil & Gas Field Services, NEC
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About MAMMOTH ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
Source: Item 1 (Business) from the 10-K filed March 6, 2026. Description as filed by the company with the SEC.
Item 1. Business
Overview
We are an integrated, growth-oriented services company focused on providing products and services to our customers primarily in the oil and natural gas, aviation and utility infrastructure industries. Our primary business objective is to drive returns through improved execution by prioritizing asset utilization, margin expansion, and capital efficiency across the portfolio. Our suite of services includes rental services, infrastructure services, natural sand proppant services, accommodation services and drilling services. Our rental services segment provides a wide range of equipment used in oilfield, construction and aviation activities. Our infrastructure services division provides engineering, design, construction, upgrade, maintenance and repair services to the fiber industry. Our natural sand proppant services division mines, processes and sells natural sand proppant used for hydraulic fracturing. Our drilling services segment provides directional drilling to oilfield operators. We believe that the services we offer play a critical role in increasing the ultimate recovery and present value of production streams from unconventional resources as well as in constructing and improving fiber network. Our complementary suite of services provides us with the opportunity to cross-sell our services and expand our customer base and geographic positioning.
We continue to focus on growing our rental business. We believe our portfolio of aviation assets provides an attractive form of aviation asset financing for operators that allows capital deployment and fleet flexibility while eliminating residual value risk for the operators.
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Our facilities and service centers are strategically located in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Alberta, Canada primarily to serve the following areas:
•Eastern Ohio;
•Southern Ohio;
•West Texas;
•The Appalachian Basin in the Northeast;
•The SCOOP and STACK in Oklahoma;
•The Arkoma Basin in Arkansas and Oklahoma;
•The Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma;
•The Marcellus Shale in West Virginia and Pennsylvania;
•Southeastern New Mexico;
•The Barnett Shale in Texas;
•The Granite Wash and Mississippi Shale in Oklahoma and Texas;
•The Cana Woodford and Woodford Shales and the Cleveland Sand in Oklahoma; and
•The oil sands in Alberta, Canada.
Our operational division heads have an extensive track record with an average of over 29 years of services experience. They bring valuable expertise and long-term customer relationships to our business. We provide our rental services, infrastructure services, natural sand proppant, accommodation services and drilling services to a diversified range of both public and private independent oil and natural gas producers, sand suppliers, fiber network owners and aircraft-based passenger and cargo providers.
Our Services
Our revenues, operating income (loss) and identifiable assets are primarily attributable to five reportable segments: rental services, infrastructure services, natural sand proppant services, accommodation services, and drilling services.
Rental Services
Our equipment rental services provide a wide range of equipment used in drilling, flowback and hydraulic fracturing services as well as in construction activities. Our equipment rentals consist of cranes, light plants, generators and other oilfield related equipment. We provide equipment rental in West Texas, Eastern Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Our aviation services include leasing aircraft and aircraft equipment to customers. Aircraft equipment is comprised of auxiliary power units (“APUs”) and engines. As of December 31, 2025, we owned nine regional aircraft, two helicopters, five jet engines, and ten APUs.
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Infrastructure Services
Our infrastructure services business provides engineering, design, construction, upgrade, maintenance and repair services to fiber networks. We provide infrastructure services primarily in the southwest and midwest portions of the United States.
Settlement Agreement with PREPA
Since we commenced operations in this line of business, a substantial portion of our infrastructure revenue has been generated from storm restoration work, primarily from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or PREPA, due to damage caused by Hurricane Maria. On October 19, 2017, Cobra Acquisitions LLC, or Cobra, and PREPA entered into an emergency master services agreement for repairs to PREPA’s electrical grid. The one-year contract, as amended, provided for payments of up to $945 million. On May 26, 2018, Cobra and PREPA entered into a second one-year, $900 million master services agreement to provide additional repair services and begin the initial phase of reconstruction of the electrical power system in Puerto Rico. Our work under each of the contracts with PREPA ended on March 31, 2019. PREPA is currently subject to bankruptcy proceedings, which were filed in July 2017 and are currently pending in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (the “Title III Court”). As a result, PREPA’s ability to meet its payment obligations under the above-referenced agreements was largely dependent upon funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) or other sources. Since September 30, 2019, Cobra has been pursuing litigation in the Title III Court and other dispute resolution efforts seeking recovery of the amounts owed to Cobra by PREPA for restoration services in Puerto Rico, which proceedings are discussed in more detail in the Company’s prior reports filed with the SEC. PREPA was holding approximately $18.4 million in funds (the “Withheld FEMA Funds”) received from FEMA and considered payable to Cobra but had been withheld due to garnishments asserted by three Puerto Rican municipalities (the “Specified Municipalities”) for certain municipal tax claims discussed in Mammoth’s filings with the SEC (the “Specified Municipal Tax Claims”) and for which Cobra disputed any valid garnishment.
On July 22, 2024, Cobra entered into a release and settlement agreement with PREPA and the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico (“FOMB”), in its capacity as Title III representative for PREPA, to settle all outstanding matters between Cobra and PREPA (the “Settlement Agreement”). Under the terms of the Settlement Agreement, Cobra was allowed an administrative expense claim against PREPA of $170.0 million, plus the $18.4 million in the Withheld FEMA Funds. Cobra’s allowed claim will be paid through three installments: (i) $150.0 million on the later of (A) ten business days following approval of the Settlement Agreement by the Title III Court and (B) August 31, 2024; (ii) $20.0 million within seven days following the effective date of PREPA’s plan of adjustment; and (iii) $18.4 million (subject to providing one or more indemnity letters of credit) in the Withheld FEMA Funds within either (A) ten business days after the deadline for appealing the entry of the settlement order by the Title III Court under the applicable bankruptcy rules of procedure if no such appeal is filed, or (B) if the provisions of the settlement order allowing PREPA to release the Withheld FEMA Funds to Cobra without retaining any liability to the Specified Municipalities are appealed by the Specified Municipalities, within ten business days of the filing of the notice of such appeal.
The Settlement Agreement was approved by the Company’s Board of Directors on July 22, 2024, and was also approved by the PREPA Board and by the FOMB. On September 18, 2024, the Settlement Agreement was approved by the Title III Court overruling all objections thereto and an order was entered the same day (the “Settlement Order”). On October 1, 2024, Cobra received the first installment payment of $150.0 million from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in connection with the Settlement Agreement with PREPA. Also on October 1, 2024, certain Puerto Rico municipalities and Foreman Electric Services Inc. that had objected to approval of the Settlement Order each filed timely notices of appeal of the Settlement Order to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. None of the foregoing parties have sought a stay of the Settlement Order pending such appeals. Although the ultimate outcome of these appeals cannot be predicted with certainty, Cobra believes that the appeals are without merit.
On October 18, 2024, Cobra received a payment from PREPA totaling $18.4 million under the terms of the Settlement Agreement. In connection with the receipt of the $18.4 million from PREPA, Cobra instructed Fifth Third Bank, National Association (“Fifth Third Bank”) to issue a letter of credit to PREPA under the Reimbursement Agreement in the amount of $18.4 million and transferred a total of $19.3 million to a restricted cash account maintained by Fifth Third Bank as collateral for the letter of credit.
As a result of the Settlement Agreement, the Company recorded a non-cash, pre-tax charge of approximately $170.7 million in the second quarter of 2024 to reduce its accounts receivable balance from PREPA of $359.1 million, representing the amount owed to Cobra by PREPA in relation to these agreements as of June 30, 2024, including the accrued but unpaid interest,
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prior to the Settlement Agreement, to the amount expected to be received from the Settlement Agreement. Of the $170.7 million, $89.2 million was charged to credit loss expense, which is included in “selling, general and administrative” on the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss), and $81.5 million was charged to interest on delinquent accounts receivable, which is included in “other (expense) income, net” on the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) for the year ended December 31, 2024. See Note 2. “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies—Accounts Receivable” and Note 18. “Commitments and Contingencies—Litigation” to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this annual report for more information.
Natural Sand Proppant Services
In our natural sand proppant business, we mine, process and sell sand. In the past, we have also bought processed sand from suppliers on the spot market for resale. Natural sand proppant, also known as frac sand, is the most widely used type of proppant due to its broad applicability in unconventional oil and natural gas wells and its favorable physical characteristics relative to other proppants. Natural frac sand may be used as proppant in all but the highest pressure and temperature environments and is being employed in nearly all major U.S. unconventional oil and natural gas producing basins, including those in which we operate.
At our Jackson County, Wisconsin plant, we mine and process sand into premium monocrystalline sand, a specialized mineral that is used as frac sand. Until September 2025, we mined and processed out of a plant in Jackson County, Wisconsin. We can also purchase raw or washed sand and process it at our indoor sand processing plant located in Pierce County, Wisconsin; however, this facility has been temporarily idled since September 2018 due to market conditions. We sell sand to our customers for use in their hydraulic fracturing operations to enhance recovery rates from unconventional wells. Our sand processing plants produce a range of frac sand sizes for use in all major North American shale basins, including a majority of the standard proppant sizes as defined by the ISO/API 13503-2 specifications. These grain sizes can be customized to meet the demands of our customers with respect to a specific well. Our supply of Jordan substrate exhibits the physical properties necessary to withstand the completion and production environments of the wells in these shale basins. Our indoor processing plant in Pierce County, Wisconsin is designed for year-round continuous wet and dry plant operation. Our multi-environment processing plants in Barron County and Jackson County, Wisconsin have indoor dry plants designed to operate year-round and outdoor wet plants that generally operate eight months per year.
We also provide logistics solutions to facilitate delivery of our frac sand products to our customers. Our frac sand products out of our Jackson County, Wisconsin plant are primarily shipped by rail to our customers in the Utica Shale, the Montney Shale in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The sand products out of our Barron County, Wisconsin plant were primarily shipped by rail to customers in the SCOOP/STACK, DJ Basin and Permian Basin. Our logistics capabilities are important to our customers, who focus on both the reliability and flexibility of product delivery. Because our customers generally find it impractical to store frac sand in large quantities near their well completion sites, they typically prefer product to be delivered where and as needed, which requires predictable and efficient loading and shipping capabilities. We contract with third party providers to transport our frac sand products to railroad facilities for delivery to our customers. We currently lease or have access to origin transloading facilities on the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) rail system and use an in-house railcar fleet that we lease from various third parties to deliver our frac sand products to our customers. Origin transloading facilities on multiple railways allow us to provide predictable and efficient loading and shipping of our frac sand products.
Accommodation Services
Our remote accommodations business provides housing, kitchen and dining, and recreational service facilities for oilfield workers located in remote areas away from readily available lodging. We provide a turnkey solution for our customers’ accommodation needs. These modular camps, when assembled together, form large dormitories, with kitchen/dining facilities and recreation areas. These camps are operated as “all inclusive,” where meals are prepared and provided for the guests. The primary revenue source for these camps is lodging fees. As of December 31, 2025, we had a capacity of 764 rooms, 612 of which are at Sand Tiger Lodge, our camp in northern Alberta, Canada, and 152 of which are available to be leased as rental equipment to a third party. On average, 186 rooms were utilized per night during the year ended December 31, 2025.
Drilling Services
Our directional drilling services provide for the efficient drilling and production of oil and natural gas from unconventional resource plays. Our directional drilling equipment includes mud motors used to propel drill bits and kits for measurement-while-drilling, or MWD, and electromagnetic, or EM, technology. MWD kits are down-hole tools that provide
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real-time measurements of the location and orientation of the bottom-hole assembly, which is necessary to adjust the drilling process and guide the wellbore to a specific target. This technology, coupled with our complementary services, allows our customers to drill wellbores to specific objectives within narrow location parameters within target horizons. The evolution of unconventional resource reserve recovery has increased the need for the precise placement of a wellbore. Wellbores often travel across long-lateral intervals within narrow formations as thin as ten feet. Our personnel are involved in all aspects of a well from the initial planning of a customer’s drilling program to the management and execution of the horizontal or directional drilling operation.
As of December 31, 2025, we owned four MWD kits and one EM kit used in vertical, horizontal and directional drilling applications, 89 mud motors, nine air motors and an inventory of related parts and equipment. Currently, we perform our directional drilling services in the Anadarko Basin, Arkoma Basin, Powder River Basin and Permian Basin.
Business Developments
During 2025, we completed four strategic divestitures. On April 11, 2025, we sold a portion of our infrastructure services entities, including our distribution, transmission and substation operations, for aggregate proceeds of approximately $108.7 million, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. On June 16, 2025, we sold all of the equipment previously used in our hydraulic fracturing services for $15.0 million. On September 15, 2025, the Company completed the sale of assets related to its natural sand proppant operations at its Piranha Proppant LLC processing plant. On December 2, 2025, we completed the sale of our engineering services business, Aquawolf, for approximately $30.0 million, also subject to customary post-closing adjustments. The results of operations, financial position and cash flows for these businesses are reported as discontinued operations for all periods presented and discussed in this report. Unless otherwise indicated, the information presented in this Management’s Discussion and Analysis relates only to our continuing operations.
To reflect on how management evaluates the business following these divestitures, prior period segment information presented in our results of operations below has been recast to conform with our segment composition as of December 31, 2025. See Note 3. “Discontinued Operations” to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this annual report for more information.
Our Industries
Aircraft Industry
The operating environment for the lease of aircraft and aircraft assets is currently favorable. Factors such as population growth as well as improved global economic health and development are positively influencing both passenger and freight demand. In addition, factors and trends including Original Equipment Manufacturer (“OEM”) supply chain challenges and backlogs, the financing needs of airlines and the availability of maintenance facilities as well as repair timelines may increase the demand for our aircraft and aircraft equipment.
Oil and Natural Gas Industry
The oil and natural gas industry has traditionally been volatile and is influenced by a combination of long-term, short-term and cyclical trends, including the domestic and international supply and demand for oil and natural gas, current and expected future prices for oil and natural gas and the perceived stability and sustainability of those prices, production depletion rates and the resultant levels of cash flows generated and allocated by exploration and production companies to their drilling, completion and related services and products budgets. The oil and natural gas industry is also impacted by general domestic and international economic conditions, political instability in oil producing countries, government regulations (both in the United States and elsewhere), levels of customer demand, the availability of pipeline capacity, storage capacity, shortages of equipment and materials and other conditions and factors that are beyond our control.
Demand for most of our oil and natural gas products and services depends substantially on the level of expenditures by companies in the oil and natural gas industry. The levels of capital expenditures of our customers are driven by many factors, including the prices of oil and natural gas. Throughout 2025 and 2024, we experienced challenges in our oil and gas businesses as a result of a generally declining rig count combined with elevated oil and natural gas production in the U.S. We expect 2026 activity to remain steady during the first half of the year with potential for upside in the back half of the year. Positive trends that may contribute to increased activity will come from LNG export capacity coming online and general electricity and power demand enhancements. We will be strategically positioned to capitalize on this anticipated demand if and when it ramps up.
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In response to prior market conditions, we previously idled several service lines, including cementing, acidizing, flowback, contract drilling, rig hauling, coil tubing, pressure control, full‑service transportation, and crude oil hauling. Based on the demand environment described above, these service lines have remained idled, and we continue to assess whether market conditions will support their recommencement.
Natural Sand Proppant Industry
Increased demand from oil and gas companies in 2022 resulted in higher demand and pricing for our sand compared to 2021, which continued throughout the first quarter of 2023. Demand for our natural sand proppant was adversely impacted in the second quarter of 2023 by the wildfires in Canada, which hindered our ability to transport sand. As discussed above, pricing for crude oil and natural gas declined from levels seen in 2022, which slowed down completion activities and adversely impacted demand for our sand proppant services in the second half of 2023. Activity remained suppressed throughout 2024 and 2025. As discussed above, we expect 2026 activity to be relatively steady, with the potential for moderate upside compared to 2025 driven by increases in natural gas demand to support power demand and LNG exports.
Our proppant sand reserves consist of Northern White silica sand, giving us access to a range of high-quality sand grades meeting or exceeding all API specifications, including a mix between concentrations of coarse grades (20/40 and 30/50 mesh size) and finer grades (40/70 and 100 mesh size). Our sample boring data and our historical production data have indicated that our reserves contain deposits of approximately 60% 40 mesh size or finer substrate. The coarseness and conductivity of Northern White frac sand significantly enhances recovery of oil and liquids-rich gas by allowing hydrocarbons to flow more freely than is sometimes possible with native sand. The low acid-solubility increases the integrity of Northern White frac sand relative to other proppants with higher acid-solubility, especially in shales where hydrogen sulfide and other acidic chemicals are co-mingled with the targeted hydrocarbons. In addition, its crush resistant properties enable Northern White frac sand to be used in deeper drilling applications than the frac sand produced from many native mineral deposits.
We believe that the coarseness, conductivity, sphericity, acid-solubility, and crush-resistant properties of our Northern White sand reserves and our facilities’ connectivity to rail and other transportation infrastructure grant us logistical access to the Utica, Marcellus and Montney shale basins compared to many of our competitors and make us one of a select group of sand producers capable of delivering high volumes of frac sand that is optimal for oil and natural gas production to those basins.
Infrastructure Industry
The infrastructure industry involves the construction and maintenance of fiber networks. Demand for our services is driven by artificial intelligence ("AI") and data center projects.
Certain barriers to entry exist in the markets in which we operate, including adequate financial resources, technical expertise, high safety ratings and a proven track record of operational success. We compete based upon our industry experience, technical expertise, financial and operational resources, geographic presence, industry reputation, safety record and customer service. While we believe our customers consider a number of factors when selecting a service provider, they generally award most of their work through a bid process. Consequently, price is often a principal factor in determining which service provider is selected.
We believe that AI and high-performance computing will drive the upgrade and overbuild of fiber networks in order to increase data capacity. Funding for projects in the infrastructure space remains strong with added opportunities since the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ("IIJA") was signed into law on November 15, 2021. Federal and state agencies continue to implement multi‑year funding programs established under the IIJA, including substantial investments through Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment ("BEAD") program. These programs continue to support planned investment in broadband, utility, transportation, and clean‑energy projects. Although these programs were enacted several years ago, the implementation and distribution of funds remain ongoing and are expected to continue well into the latter half of the decade. Market participants across telecommunications, power, and energy‑transition sectors have announced substantial capital plans aligned with these programs, supported by federal incentives and growing private‑sector investment in areas such as fiber deployment, grid modernization, electrification, and data‑center‑related power demand.
Our Strengths
Our primary business objective is to grow our operations and create value for our stockholders through organic growth opportunities and accretive acquisitions. We believe that the following strengths position us well to capitalize on activity in unconventional resource plays and achieve our primary business objective:
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•Narrowed focus following divestitures. We believe we can drive returns through improved execution by prioritizing asset utilization, margin expansion, and capital efficiency across the portfolio.
•Strategic geographic positioning. We currently operate facilities and service centers to support our oilfield service operations in major unconventional resource plays in the United States, including the Utica Shale in Eastern Ohio, the Permian Basin in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, the SCOOP/STACK in Oklahoma, the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia, the Granite Wash in Oklahoma and Texas, the Cana Woodford Shale in Oklahoma and the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. We believe our geographic positioning within active oil and natural gas liquids resource plays will benefit us strategically as activity increases in these unconventional resource plays. We currently operate infrastructure facilities and service centers to support our infrastructure operations in the southwestern and midwestern portions of the United States.
•Experienced management and operating team. Our operational division heads have an extensive track record in the service businesses with an average of over 29 years of services experience. In addition, our field managers have expertise in the areas in which they operate and understand the challenges that our customers face. We believe their knowledge of our industries and business lines enhances our ability to provide innovative, client-focused and basin-specific customer service, which we also believe strengthens our relationships with our customers.
Our Business Strategy
We intend to achieve our primary business objective by the successful execution of our business plan to strategically deploy our equipment and personnel to provide rental services, natural sand proppant services and other energy services in unconventional resource plays, including the Utica Shale in Ohio, the SCOOP/STACK in Oklahoma and the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia. We intend to achieve our primary business objective in connection with our infrastructure services by the successful execution of our business plan to strategically deploy equipment and personnel to provide infrastructure services in the southwestern and midwestern portions of the United States. We believe our infrastructure services optimize our customers’ ability to maintain, improve and expand their fiber networks and that our oil and natural gas services optimize our customers’ ultimate resources recovery and present value of hydrocarbon reserves. We seek to create cost efficiencies for our customers by providing a suite of complementary services designed to address a wide range of our customers’ needs. Specifically, we strive to create value for our stockholders through the following strategies:
•Leverage our broad range of services for cross-selling opportunities. We offer a complementary suite of services and products. Our infrastructure services division provides engineering, design, construction, upgrade, maintenance and repair services for the infrastructure industry, with a specialization in fiber-optic network projects. Our natural sand proppant services division mines, processes and sells natural sand proppant for hydraulic fracturing. We intend to leverage our existing customer relationships and operational track record to cross sell our services and increase our exposure and product offerings to our existing customers, broaden our customer base and expand opportunistically to other geographic regions in which our customers have operations, as well as to create operational efficiencies for our customers.
•Expand our infrastructure business. On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. This has brought new opportunities in the infrastructure industry, including new fiber-related projects. We consistently monitor market conditions and intend to expand the capacity and scope of our infrastructure services as demand warrants in geographic areas in which we currently operate, as well as in new geographic areas.
•Maintain a conservative balance sheet. We seek to maintain a conservative balance sheet, which allows us to better react to changes in commodity prices and related demand for our services, as well as overall market conditions. We used a portion of the proceeds received from our Settlement Agreement with PREPA to pay, in full, all amounts owed under our term credit facility and terminated the facility. As of December 31, 2025, we had no outstanding debt and unrestricted cash of $102.0 million.
•Leverage our experienced operational management team expertise. We seek to manage the services we provide as closely as possible to the needs of our customer base. Our operational division heads have long-term relationships with our largest customers. We intend to leverage these relationships and our operational management team’s expertise to deliver innovative, client-focused services to our customers.
•Expand through selected, accretive acquisitions. To complement our organic growth, we intend to pursue selected, accretive acquisitions of businesses and assets, primarily related to our infrastructure services and industrial based
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companies that can meet our targeted returns on invested capital and enhance our portfolio of products and services, market positioning and/or geographic presence. We believe this approach will help facilitate the strategic expansion of our customer base, geographic presence and service offerings. We also believe that our industry contacts and those of Wexford Capital LP (“Wexford”), our largest stockholder, may help us identify acquisition opportunities. We may use our common stock as consideration for accretive acquisitions.
Marketing and Customers
Our customers consist primarily of independent oil and natural gas producers, sand suppliers and fiber network owners in North America. For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, we had approximately 142 and 151 customers, respectively, including Source Energy Services Proppants, Hangingstone Demo Limited Partnership, Ascent Resources, Vero Fiber Networks and 24/7 Sands LLC. Our top five customers accounted for approximately 55% and 58%, respectively, of our revenue for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. Although we believe we have a broad customer base and wide geographic coverage of operations, it is likely that we will continue to derive a significant portion of our revenue from a relatively small number of customers in the future. If a major customer decides not to continue to use our services and is not replaced by new or existing customers, our revenue would decline and our operating results and financial condition would be harmed.
Operating Risks and Insurance
Our operations are subject to hazards inherent in the services industry, such as accidents, blowouts, explosions, fires and spills and releases that can cause:
•personal injury or loss of life;
•damage or destruction of property, equipment, natural resources and the environment; and
•suspension of operations.
In addition, claims for loss of oil and natural gas production and damage to formations can occur in the oilfield services industry. If a serious accident were to occur at a location where our equipment and services are being used, it could result in us being named as a defendant in lawsuits asserting large claims.
Because our business involves the transportation of heavy equipment and materials, we may also experience traffic accidents which may result in spills, property damage and personal injury.
Despite our efforts to maintain safety standards, from time to time we have suffered accidents in the past and anticipate that we could experience accidents in the future. In addition to the property damage, personal injury and other losses from these accidents, the frequency and severity of these incidents affect our operating costs and insurability and our relationships with customers, employees, regulatory agencies and other parties. Any significant increase in the frequency or severity of these incidents, or the general level of compensation awards, could adversely affect the cost of, or our ability to obtain, workers’ compensation and other forms of insurance, and could have other material adverse effects on our financial condition and results of operations.
We maintain commercial general liability, workers’ compensation, business auto, commercial property, motor truck cargo, umbrella liability, professional liability, cybersecurity, in certain instances, excess liability, and directors and officers insurance policies providing coverages of risks and amounts that we believe to be customary in our industry. With respect to our hydraulic fracturing operations, coverage would be available under our policy for any surface or subsurface environmental clean-up and liability to third parties arising from any surface or subsurface contamination. We also have certain specific coverages for some of our businesses, including our remote accommodation services and directional drilling services.
Although we maintain insurance coverage of types and amounts that we believe to be customary in the industry, we are not fully insured against all risks, either because insurance is not available or because of the high premium costs relative to perceived risk. Further, insurance rates have in the past been subject to wide fluctuation and changes in coverage could result in less coverage, increases in cost or higher deductibles and retentions. Liabilities for which we are not insured, or which exceed the policy limits of our applicable insurance, could have a material adverse effect on us. See