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DOF Subsea is pleased to announce the award of a 3-year contract for two vessels with Esso Exploration & Production Guyana Limited. Under the agreement, DOF Subsea will perform IMR, well intervention support, and light subsea construction activities to support the growing subsea infrastructures in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana.

Two Multipurpose Support Construction Vessels with 250-ton AHC crane and 2 work class ROV systems will be deployed in Guyana for 3-year terms, plus 2 years options.

The first vessel will mobilize in late October while the second vessel is planned to commence in January 2023.

Mons S Aase, CEO, DOF Subsea said, “I am extremely happy with this contract award from ExxonMobil Guyana, and entering the important and flourishing Guyanese market. The award further underlines DOF’s leading position in the IMR segment.”

The estimated firm backlog for the group is approximately NOK 2.7 billion.

For further information, please contact:
Mons S. Aase, CEO, DOF Subsea. Tel: +47 91 66 10 12
Marianne Møgster, SVP Finance, DOF Subsea. Tel: 99 30 69 16

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The Group’s operating revenue for the 1st quarter (management reporting) was NOK 1 CEO DOF Subsea AS - Tel: +47 91 66 10 12 Martin Lundberg CFO DOF Subsea AS - Tel: +47 91 62 10 57 About DOF Subsea: The DOF Subsea Group is a specialist subsea service business that provides subsea construction subsea engineering inspection repair and maintenance and survey services which involve complex and challenging engineering in an international environment. DOF Subsea owns a large fleet of modern subsea construction intervention and survey vessels that enable it to offer differentiated positions with its clients and work in long term relationships which enhance service delivery and reduce the overall risk. The company’s core business is project management engineering vessel operations survey remote intervention and diving operations primarily for the Oil and Gas Marine Telecommunications and Renewables markets. www.dofsubsea.com"

DOF Subsea is pleased to announce that an option has been exercised for the vessel Skandi Africa. The new commitment will now run until February 2024 and will commence in direct continuation with the current commitment. Skandi Africa is a high-end subsea vessel designed for harsh environment and deepwater subsea construction and flexlay operations. DOF Subsea CEO please contact: Mons S. Aase CEO DOF Subsea. Tel: +47 91 66 10 12 Marianne Møgster SVP Finance DOF Subsea. Tel: 99 30 69 16 About DOF Subsea: The DOF Subsea Group is a specialist subsea service business that provides subsea construction subsea engineering inspection repair and maintenance and survey services which involve complex and challenging engineering in an international environment. DOF Subsea owns a large fleet of modern subsea construction intervention and survey vessels that enable it to offer differentiated positions with its clients and work in long term relationships which enhance service delivery and reduce the overall risk. The company’s core business is project management engineering vessel operations survey remote intervention and diving operations primarily for the Oil and Gas Marine Telecommunications and Renewables markets. www.dofsubsea.com

DOF Subsea is pleased to announce that an option has been exercised for the vessel Skandi Africa. The new commitment will now run until February 2024 and will commence in direct continuation with the current commitment.

Skandi Africa is a high-end subsea vessel designed for harsh environment and deepwater subsea construction and flexlay operations.

DOF Subsea CEO, Mons S. Aase, stated, “Skandi Africa is the most sophisticated vessel in our fleet and we are looking forward to continuing the journey, delivering successful installation campaigns.”

DOF has been recognised in the Financial Times (FT) 2022 report, which can be viewed here, as one of Europe's Climate Leaders. The report was undertaken in co-operation with independent data company Statista and reviewed tens of thousands of companies, scrutinising existing GHG emissions in order to identify 'outstanding European companies that are successfully reducing their core GHG emissions relative to the their revenue'. Read more about the methodology used on FT's website.

Reference is made to previous announcements regarding the extension of standstill arrangements with the DOF group's secured lenders expiring 30 April 2022 and extension of standstill arrangements with bondholders in DOF Subsea AS' bond issues also expiring 30 April 2022. DOF ASA and DOF Subsea AS are pleased to announce that each of the companies have agreed to further extend the principal and interest suspension agreements with 53% and 100% of the votes in DOFSUB07 DOFSUB08 and DOFSUB09 respectively. Approval of the proposal set out in the summons required 2/3 majority in all three bonds and the proposal was consequently approved. Please see the attached minutes from the bondholders' meetings. The extensions of the standstill periods will facilitate the DOF group's continued dialogue with its secured lenders and the bondholders under the DOF group's bonds regarding a long-term financial restructuring of the DOF group. For further information please contact: CEO Mons Aase tel. +47 91 66 10 12 CFO Martin Lundberg tel. + 47 91 62 10 57 This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. About DOF Subsea: The DOF Subsea Group is a specialist subsea service business that provides subsea construction subsea engineering inspection repair and maintenance and survey services which involve complex and challenging engineering in an international environment. DOF Subsea owns a large fleet of modern subsea construction intervention and survey vessels that enable it to offer differentiated positions with its clients and work in long term relationships which enhance service delivery and reduce the overall risk. The company’s core business is project management engineering vessel operations survey remote intervention and diving operations primarily for the Oil and Gas Marine Telecommunications and Renewables markets. www.dofsubsea.com

Reference is made to previous announcements regarding the extension of standstill arrangements with the DOF group's secured lenders expiring 30 April 2022 and extension of standstill arrangements with bondholders in DOF Subsea AS' bond issues also expiring 30 April 2022.

DOF ASA and DOF Subsea AS are pleased to announce that each of the companies have agreed to further extend the principal and interest suspension agreements with, or received extensions of similar concessions from, secured lenders representing in total 91% of the secured debt of DOF ASA and DOF Rederi AS and in total 95% of the secured debt of companies within the DOF Subsea AS group (excluding DOF Subsea Brasil Servicos Ltda.) until 31 May 2022.

Reference is further made to the previous announcement on 12 April 2022 regarding summons to bondholders' meetings in DOFSUB07 (ISIN NO0010971005), DOFSUB08 (ISIN NO0010788177) and DOFSUB09 (ISIN NO0010836810) in which DOF Subsea AS requested an extension of the standstill period for the three bonds initially until 31 May 2022 and with the possibility to extend to 30 September 2022 with the approval of an ad-hoc committee of bondholders.

DOF Subsea AS is pleased to announce that the bondholders' meetings were held today and the proposed resolution received 100%, 92,53% and 100% of the votes in DOFSUB07, DOFSUB08, and DOFSUB09, respectively. Approval of the proposal set out in the summons required 2/3 majority in all three bonds, and the proposal wasconsequently approved. Please see the attached minutes from the bondholders' meetings.

The extensions of the standstill periods will facilitate the DOF group's continued dialogue with its secured lenders and the bondholders under the DOF group's bonds regarding a long-term financial restructuring of the DOF group.

Reference is made to the resolutions adopted in the bondholders' meetings in DOF Subsea AS' three bond loans (FRN DOF Subsea AS Senior Unsecured Bond Issue 2013/2020 with a possibility to further extend the standstill arrangement currently in place to 30 April 2022 with the approval of the ad-hoc committee of bondholders. Reference is further made to the announcements on 31 March 2022 regarding the ad-hoc committee's approval of extension of the standstill arrangement with the bondholders described above to 30 April 2022. Discussions and negotiations on the restructuring of the DOF group (the ""Group"") are progressing and the Group its secured lenders and the advisers to the bondholders have since the bondholders' meetings in February 2022 continued negotiations on an overall financial restructuring of the Group. Further progress has been made in such negotiations but there are still certain issues that remain to be resolved to achieve an overall consensual restructuring of the Group. Consequently no assurances can be made that the terms of a binding restructuring agreement will be agreed. DOF Subsea AS has requested Nordic Trustee AS to summon bondholders' meetings in the three bond loans to consider the extension of the standstill period initially until 31 May 2022 and with a possibility to extend the standstill period on one or more occasions to 30 September 2022 with the approval of an ad-hoc committee of bondholders to facilitate the finalisation of the negotiation and documentation of the proposed consensual restructuring. The proposal is further described in the attached summons to the bondholders in the three bond loans. A request will also be made to the Group's secured lenders to correspondingly extend the suspension of payments of principal and interest that have been granted by a majority of its secured lenders as necessary to finalise the restructuring. For further information please contact: Mons S. Aase CEO DOF Subsea. Tel: +47 91 66 10 12 Martin Lundberg CFO DOF Subsea. Tel +47 91 62 10 57 This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. The DOF Subsea Group is a specialist subsea service business that provides subsea construction subsea engineering inspection repair and maintenance and survey services which involve complex and challenging engineering in an international environment. DOF Subsea owns a large fleet of modern subsea construction intervention and survey vessels that enable it to offer differentiated positions with its clients and work in long term relationships which enhance service delivery and reduce the overall risk. The company’s core business is project management engineering vessel operations survey remote intervention and diving operations primarily for the Oil and Gas Marine Telecommunications and Renewables markets. www.dofsubsea.com"

Reference is made to the resolutions adopted in the bondholders' meetings in DOF Subsea AS' three bond loans (FRN DOF Subsea AS Senior Unsecured Bond Issue 2013/2020, DOF Subsea AS 9.50% Senior Unsecured Bond Issue 2017/2022 and FRN DOF Subsea AS Senior Unsecured Bond Issue 2018/2023) on 28 February 2022, whereby the bondholders on certain conditions approved to extend their waiver from, and suspension of, all payment obligations under each of the bond loans until 31 March 2022, with a possibility to further extend the standstill arrangement currently in place to 30 April 2022 with the approval of the ad-hoc committee of bondholders.

Reference is further made to the announcements on 31 March 2022 regarding the ad-hoc committee's approval of extension of the standstill arrangement with the bondholders described above to 30 April 2022.

Discussions and negotiations on the restructuring of the DOF group (the "Group") are progressing, and the Group, its secured lenders and the advisers to the bondholders have since the bondholders' meetings in February 2022 continued negotiations on an overall financial restructuring of the Group. Further progress has been made in such negotiations, but there are still certain issues that remain to be resolved to achieve an overall consensual restructuring of the Group. Consequently, no assurances can be made that the terms of a binding restructuring agreement will be agreed.

DOF Subsea AS has requested Nordic Trustee AS to summon bondholders' meetings in the three bond loans to consider the extension of the standstill period initially until 31 May 2022 and with a possibility to extend the standstill period on one or more occasions to 30 September 2022 with the approval of an ad-hoc committee of bondholders to facilitate the finalisation of the negotiation and documentation of the proposed consensual restructuring. The proposal is further described in the attached summons to the bondholders in the three bond loans. A request will also be made to the Group's secured lenders to correspondingly extend the suspension of payments of principal and interest that have been granted by a majority of its secured lenders as necessary to finalise the restructuring.