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Precision Drilling reports $5.3M Q1 loss, warns of drop in demand well into 2021

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Precision Drilling Corp. reported a loss in its first quarter and warned that it expected a significant and sustained drop in customer demand for oil and gas services well into next year as a result of the recent plunge in oil prices.

The drilling company says the COVID-19 pandemic and the oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia has resulted in the deepest downturn the oil and gas services industry has ever experienced.

Precision says it lost $5.3 million or two cents per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31 compared with a profit of $25.0 million or eight cents per diluted share a year earlier.

Revenue totalled $379.5 million, down from $434.0 million in the first quarter of 2019. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for

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