Company: TDDWW
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-005487
Chunk: 59

Company: TIDEWATER INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 59
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 higher commodity prices will not necessarily translate into increased demand for offshore support services or sustained higher pricing for offshore support vessel services, in part because customer demand is often driven by capital expenditure programs focused on future commodity price expectations and not solely on current prices, along with customer opportunities to invest in onshore conventional and unconventional oil and gas production.

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Many of our customers' capital expenditure programs are lower than expected given current commodity prices and supply and demand dynamics. The amounts previously allocated to capital expenditures have been re-allocated to several competing priorities, including returning capital to stockholders and investing in alternative energy sources. A significant industry downturn, sustained market uncertainty, or increased availability of economical alternative energy sources could reduce demand for our services, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.

Factors associated with environmental, social and governance matters, including evolving and expanding regulations, varied and expansive scope of standards, rating criteria, our sustainability disclosures, and the perception and expectations of the public and our stakeholders could adversely affect our business, reputation, results of operations and financial position.

Companies across all industries are facing increasing focus from certain regulators, investors, and other stakeholders related to environmental, social, and governance matters. We communicate our sustainability performance, initiatives, goals and other matters in our annual Sustainability Report. Any sustainability-related initiatives could be difficult to achieve and costly to implement, and we may be unable to economically develop or deploy technologies to achieve our goals, if at all. In addition, we could be criticized for the timing, scope or nature of these initiatives or goals, or for any revisions to them. The standards for tracking and reporting on climate-related and other sustainability matters are relatively new, have not been harmonized and continue to evolve. Further, historical, current and forward-looking sustainability-related statements may be based on standards for measuring progress that are still developing, internal controls and processes that continue to evolve and definitions, assumptions, data sources and estimates or measurements that are subject to change in the future, including through rulemaking or guidance. There are multiple proposed or recently adopted changes to various GHG reporting regulations and protocols, including from the GHG Protocol, the European Union (EU) Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the standards of the International Sustainability Standards Board. As the nature, scope and complexity of sustainability reporting, calculation methodologies, voluntary reporting standards and disclosure requirements expand and change, we will likely incur additional costs to control, assess, report and assure our sustainability performance. We could also be penalized or criticized for the accuracy, adequ