UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of November 2017

Commission File Number 001-35298

OCEAN RIG UDW INC.

Ocean Rig Cayman Management Services SEZC Limited

3rd Floor Flagship Building

Harbour Drive, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

 

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INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT

Extraordinary General Meeting

As previously announced and as described further in Exhibit 99.1 hereto, on November 3, 2017, an extraordinary general meeting of the Company's shareholders ("EGM") was held, at which the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company were approved. The Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company provide, among other things, for certain changes to the Company's authorized share capital, the creation of the Class B Common Shares and the re-designation of the Company's existing common shares as Class A Common Shares.

On November 3, 2017, the Company issued 895,404 Class B Common Shares to certain of the Company's shareholders pursuant to the terms of our recently completed financial Rrestructuring.

 

 

 

John Simon was appointed director in November 2017. Mr. Simon is a senior oil and gas industry executive with over 40 years of experience across a broad spectrum of onshore and offshore E&P positions.  He currently serves on the board and is the chair of the risk committee of Nine Point Energy, where he started in March 2017.  Mr. Simon was previously Chief Executive Officer at Bennu Oil and Gas from July 2013 to November 2016.  While at Bennu, Mr. Simon supervised the company's capital raising and acquisition of assets out of the ATP Oil & Gas bankruptcy in 2013, developed forward business strategy and plans, and led Bennu through its bankruptcy filing through proactive engagement with financial and legal advisors in response to the dramatic decline in oil prices. John also served in several roles at Hess from June 1989 to April 2013, most recently as the SVP of Global E&P Services.  He led an aggressive Bakken activity ramp-up and acquisition strategy and worked as the project executive over significant Hess projects, including the $1.8bn Okume Complex development in Equatorial Guinea and over Hess' first deepwater Gulf of Mexico developments.  Mr. Simon began his career at Tenneco Oil in 1977, where he served as an engineer in a variety of technical, geographical and supervisory assignments which developed fundamental technical, leadership, and business acumen. Mr. Simon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering summa cum laude from Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

 

Karl Blanchard was appointed as a director in November 2017. Mr. Blanchard is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Weatherford.  He assumed this position in August 2017.  In his role at Weatherford, Karl utilizes his depth of experience to oversee all region and product line operations, QHSSE, sales, engineering, R&D, and supply chain. Mr. Blanchard brings with him a career of significant achievement and valuable insight gained from more than 35 years in the oil and gas service industry.  He served as Chief Operating Officer for Seventy Seven Energy where he was responsible for the drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and rental tool business units, as well as key support functions.  As part of Seventy Seven's leadership team, he successfully transitioned the company into a stand-alone publically traded company, executed cost management initiatives, and implemented a structured process focused on developing in-house leadership talent.  These accomplishments resulted in Seventy Seven's successful merger with Patterson-UTI, creating the second largest land driller and top five pressure pumping company in the United States. Prior to Seventy Seven Energy, Mr. Blanchard spent more than 30 years at Halliburton throughout which he was responsible for a significant portion of the company's flagship product service lines, including serving as Vice President, Production Enhancement, the number one provider of hydraulic fracturing services globally; Vice President, Cementing, the number one provider of cementing services in the industry; and Vice President, Testing and Subsea which was successfully established as a strategic product line within the Halliburton portfolio.  He also served as Country Vice President of Halliburton Indonesia. Mr. Blanchard has a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Texas A&M University and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

 

Jim Devine was appointed as a director in November 2017. Mr. Devine serves and has served on various boards in the UK, Europe, Australia the USA.  He is currently involved with several companies in the investment management, commodities and information technology sectors.  Previous board roles have included director and chairman of Horizon Offshore, Inc., a publicly quoted US offshore construction group, from 1999 to 2003, director and executive chairman of Grant Geophysical Inc., a US based geotechnical company with worldwide operations from 2000 until its sale to Geokinetics Inc in 2006, and various other non-executive and executive directorships representing private equity interests in several sectors. A lawyer by training, Mr. Devine has previously been a commercial consultant to the oil and gas industry specializing in offshore construction, drilling, shipbuilding and project financing.  In this capacity he has been heavily involved in numerous very large drill rig, FPSO, FSO, pipeline and turnkey field development projects in the US, Brazil, Korea, Australia and the North Sea from deal structure through financing to construction execution and delivery. Prior to that he served as Corporate Vice President and General Counsel of Colflexip Stena Offshore Group, S.A. in Paris from 1994 to 1996 , as Group Legal Director and board member of Stena Offshore limited in Aberdeen from 1990 to 1994 and as an in-house legal Counsel for Halliburton Inc from 1985 to 1990 also in Aberdeen.

 

Dimitris Koukoulas was appointed as Executive Vice President of the Company on December 16, 2016. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Koukoulas served in various positions with ship management entities controlled by Mr. George Economou since 2005, prior to which he was the Technical Manager of Oceanbulk Maritime SA. Mr. Koukoulas has over 30 years of experience in the shipping industry and shipbuilding projects, 25 years of which has been in managerial positions in the technical management field of bulk carriers, general cargo ships, containers, multi-purpose ships and offshore support vessels, including six years of experience in the marine repairs field in Houston, Texas. Mr. Koukoulas holds a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toledo, Ohio. He is a member of the ASME and the Hellenic Technical Committees of Bureau Veritas, Class NK, CCS, DNV GL, KRS and Lloyd's Register.

 

 

Committees of the Board of Directors

 

On November 14, 2017, our board of directors appointed Mr. Liveris, Mr. Blanchard and Mr. Simon as members of our audit committee, which among other things, reviews our external financial reporting, engages our external auditors and oversees our internal audit activities, procedures and the adequacy of our internal accounting controls and which consists of three independent directors. Mr. Liveris will serve as Chairman of the audit committee. The board of directors has determined that Mr. Liveris qualifies as an "audit committee financial expert" as defined in Item 407 of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC and Form 20-F.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.