Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG: Annual General Meeting resolves to distribute dividend of EUR 0.50 per share
 

Ternitz/Vienna, 27 April 2016. This year's Annual General Meeting of Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG (SBO), listed on the ATX index of the Vienna Stock Exchange, resolved to distribute, for fiscal 2015, a dividend in the amount of EUR 0.50 per share. The ex-dividend date was set to 9 May 2016, the record date to 10 May 2016 and the dividend payment date to 11 May 2016.

The Executive Board and the Supervisory Board were granted discharge for fiscal 2015. Karl Samstag, whose Supervisory Board mandate ended at this year's Annual General Meeting by draw, has retired from this body. He has been succeeded by Dr. Wolfram Littich, who was appointed for the maximum permissible period of about five years.

For the current fiscal year, Deloitte Schwarz & Schmid Wirtschaftsprüfungs GmbH was appointed auditor of the annual financial statements of the company, and Ernst & Young Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft m.b.H. was appointed auditor of the consolidated financial statements.

Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG is the global market leader in high-precision components and a leading supplier of oilfield equipment for the oilfield service industry. The business focus is on non-magnetic drillstring components and high-tech downhole tools for drilling and completing directional and horizontal wells. As of 31 December 2015, SBO employed a workforce of 1,135 worldwide (31 December 2014: 1,720), thereof 376 in Ternitz/Austria and 399 in North America (including Mexico).

Further inquiry note:

Andreas Boecskoer, Investor Relations
Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG
A-2630 Ternitz, Hauptstraße 2
Phone: +43 2630/315 ext 252, fax ext 101
e-mail: a.boecskoer@sbo.co.at