Quarter 3

December 31, 2019

Sub :: Intimation of Trading Window Closure

We wish to inform you that pursuant to the provisions of SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 and the Company’s code of conduct to regulate, monitor and report trading in Securities of the Company, the Trading Window for trading in the Securities of the Company will remain closed from January 1, 2020 till Forty eight hours after the declaration of Unaudited Financial Results of the Company for the quarter ended December 31,2019.

Further the date of Board Meeting for consideration of the Unaudited Financial Results of the Company for the quarter ended December 31,2019 will be intimated in due course.



Dec 05, 2019

Sub : Regulation 23 (9) of SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (“Listing Regulations”)
Pursuant to Regulation 23(9) of the Listing Regulations, please find enclosed a statement showing the details of Related Party Transactions for the half year ended September 30, 2019.

I. Names of related parties and related party relationship

A. Associate Company of Aban Holdings Pte Ltd, (WOS) of AOL

Belati Oilfield Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Aban Hydrocarbons Pte Ltd


B. Associate Company of Aban Offshore Ltd

Aban Drilling services Private Limited

C. Key Management personnel

(i) Mr. Reji Abraham - Managing Director
(ii) Mr. P. Venkateswaran- Dy. Managing Director
(iii) Mr. C. P. Gopalkrishnan- Dy. Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer


D. Relative of Key Management Personnel – Mrs. Deepa Reji Abraham - Director


II. Related Party Transactions

*In view of losses suffered in the Year ended 31/03/2019, excess remuneration paid to whole time directors is proposed to be recovered.

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November 18, 2019

Bank lenders to a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company have signed an Inter-Creditor Agreement ("ICA") to undertake the process of formulation and implementation of a resolution plan for the debts owed to such lenders; also, certain step-down subsidiaries of the Company have engaged Pareto Securities AS and ABG Sundal Collier ASA to explore a possible capital raise based on a new structure involving the nine modern jack-up drilling rigs owned by step-down subsidiaries of the Company, in order to settle the debts owed by the Company's subsidiaries.


October 31, 2019

This is to inform that a Meeting of Board of Directors of the Company will be held on Monday, the 11th November 2019 to transact the following items.

· To consider and take on record the Unaudited Quarterly Standalone Financial Results of the Company for the period ended 30th September, 2019.

· To consider and take on record the Unaudited Quarterly Consolidated Financial Results of the Company for the period ended 30th September, 2019.


October 10, 2019


A Letter of Award has been received for deployment of jack-up rig ABAN II from ONGC for a firm period of three years. The deployment is expected to commence during the second quarter of the Calendar year 2020.


October 1, 2019

An application filed against the Company by one of the financial creditors under Section 7 of Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code stands withdrawn.