Note 1 - Background and Basis of Presentation

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

Notes to Financial Statements

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NOTE 1 – BACKGROUND AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

Business Operations: MRC Global Inc. is a holding company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Our wholly owned subsidiaries are global distributors of pipe, valves, fittings (“PVF”) and infrastructure products and services across each of the following sectors:

● gas utilities (storage and distribution of natural gas)

● downstream, industrial and energy transition (crude oil refining, petrochemical and chemical processing, general industrials and energy transition projects)

● upstream production (exploration, production and extraction of underground oil and gas)

● midstream pipeline (gathering, processing and transmission of oil and gas)

We have service centers in principal industrial, chemical, gas distribution and hydrocarbon producing and refining areas throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australasia, and the Middle East. We obtain products from a broad range of suppliers.

Basis of Presentation: We have prepared our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X for interim financial statements. These statements do not include all information and footnotes that generally accepted accounting principles require for complete annual financial statements. However, the information in these statements reflects all normal recurring adjustments which are, in our opinion, necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods. The results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2022, are not necessarily indicative of the results that will be realized for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022. We have derived our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2021, from the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021. You should read these condensed consolidated financial statements in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2021.

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of MRC Global Inc. and its wholly owned and majority owned subsidiaries (collectively referred to as the “Company” or by terms such as “we,” “our” or “us”). All material intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements: In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ASU 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) ("ASU 2020-04"), which provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying U.S. GAAP to contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that the discontinuation of certain reference rates, including the London Interbank Offered Rate ("LIBOR"), impacts. The update was effective upon issuance and the expedients and exceptions may be applied prospectively to contract modifications and hedging relationships entered into or evaluated through December 31, 2022. We are currently evaluating the impacts of the provisions of ASU 2020-04 on our consolidated financial statements, however, with respect to existing transactions, we do not believe the update will have a material impact.

Adoption of New Accounting Standards: In August 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2020-06, Debt – Debt with Conversion and Other Options and Derivative Hedging – Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40) ("ASU 2020-06"), which simplifies guidance on the topics of convertible instruments, derivative contracts and earnings per share ("EPS") calculations. This accounting standard update, which we adopted as of January 1, 2022, did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.