Willbros Announces Initial Transaction of Recently Disclosed Plan to Sell Professional Services Segment

HOUSTON, June 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Willbros Group, Inc. (NYSE: WG) announced today that it has completed the initial transaction of its recently disclosed intention to sell its Professional Services segment. On June 12 Willbros closed the sale of its Downstream Engineering services, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and its Heater Engineering Services, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a group led by Bernhard Capital Partners. The Company is continuing to pursue the sale of the balance of the Professional Services segment, which includes the midstream and mainline engineering operations, the Integrity solutions and technology business, the Land and Survey group, and the Government Services business.  The balance of the businesses which remain to be sold includes the Company's legacy engineering operations in Tulsa, acquired in 1981 with the purchase of Butler Associates, Inc., and the technology solutions developed jointly with Google, trademarked as IntegraLink. These remaining businesses constitute the core service offerings of the Professional Services segment. Willbros has retained Greenhill & Co., LLC, to represent the Company and manage the sale process.

The Company noted that there can be no assurance that the decision to offer the segment for sale will result in the Company pursuing a particular transaction or completing any such transaction. The Company has not set a definitive timetable for completion of the process and does not intend to disclose further developments until its Board of Directors approves a specific action.

Willbros is a specialty energy infrastructure contractor serving the oil, gas, refining, petrochemical and power industries. Our offerings include engineering, procurement and construction (either individually or as an integrated EPC service offering), maintenance, facilities development and operations services. For more information on Willbros, please visit our web site at www.willbros.com.

This announcement contains forward-looking statements.  All statements, other than statements of historical facts, which address activities, events or developments the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, are forward-looking statements.  A number of risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements, including unanticipated accounting or other issues regarding any material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting; inability of the Company or its independent auditor to confirm relevant information or data; unanticipated issues that prevent or delay the Company's independent auditor from completing its review of financial statements or that require additional efforts, procedures or review; the untimely filing of financial statements; pending and potential investigations and lawsuits; the identification of one or more issues that require restatement of one or more other prior period financial statements; ability to remain in compliance with, or obtain waivers under, the Company's existing loan agreements; ability to dispose of businesses and assets in a timely manner at reasonable valuations; the existence of other material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting; contract and billing disputes; new legislation or regulations detrimental to the economic operation of refining capacity in the United States; availability of quality management; availability and terms of capital; changes in, or the failure to comply with, government regulations; the promulgation, application, and interpretation of environmental laws and regulations; future E&P capital expenditures; oil, gas, gas liquids, and power prices and demand; the amount and location of planned pipelines; poor refinery crack spreads; delay of planned refinery outages and upgrades and development trends of the oil, gas, power, refining and petrochemical industries; as well as other risk factors described from time to time in the Company's documents and reports filed with the SEC.  The Company assumes no obligation to update publicly such forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law.

SOURCE Willbros Group, Inc.

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