LNG

McDermott International, the leading LNG and energy project engineering company, has decided to invest in Lummus Technology Holdings, the company it sold as part of its restructuring to help emerge from financial difficulties over the last several years.

Under the terms of the asset purchase agreement for the sale of Lummus Technology, entered into with a joint partnership between Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd., a flagship company of The Chatterjee Group, and Rhône Capital, in January 2020, McDermott was provided the option to purchase a minority common equity ownership interest.

The Houston, Texas-based company said it had now exercised this option.

Lummus is a leading licensor of proprietary petrochemical, refining, gasification and gas processing technologies, and a supplier of catalysts, other equipment and related engineering services.

It became part of McDermott after the ill-timed takeover of CB&I, which itself had acquired Lummus for $950 million in 2007 from Swiss-Swedish power and automation company ABB.

“This agreement not only reinforces our already-robust and active relationship, but also reflects our support of, and belief in the Lummus long-term strategic plan,” said David Dickson, President and Chief Executive of McDermott.

“Together, we will continue to combine McDermott's iEPC delivery with Lummus's innovative technology solutions to our customers across the globe,” added Dickson.

The sale of Lummus was part of McDermott's comprehensive restructuring process, which McDermott successfully completed on June 30 in 2020 to help it emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Since the sale, McDermott and Lummus have continued to work together through their strategic agreement to connect customers to technology solutions.

McDermott is involved in some of the world’s leading LNG construction projects, including on the US Gulf Coast and the North Field Expansion in Qatar.

McDermott has additionally been engaged as a contractor on the Golden Pass LNG export project for Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil.

Qatar Petroleum announced in January 2021 that its North Field South (NFS) project front-end engineering and design contract had been awarded to McDermott.

McDermott has executed projects in Qatar's North Field for more than 30 years and said it would leverage its experience and resources for this contract.

The contract scope includes the replication of five offshore wellhead platforms.

The FEED contract will be executed from McDermott's office in the Qatari capital Doha and work would begin immediately.

Qatar’s LNG expansion involves production increasing from the current 77 million tonnes per annum to 110 MTPA and then to 126 MTPA by 2027.

Qatar has already started developing its drilling campaign for the Arab Gulf feed-gas from the North Field that will underpin the liquefaction needs at the Ras Laffan plant in Qatar.

Oct 21 (LNGJ) - McDermott International, the leading US energy and LNG engineering company, has appointed industry veteran Neil Bruce to its Board. Bruce is a British subject who was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the Queen in 2012 for his services to energy engineering. “He started his career in the North Sea with Brown and Root, delivering ground-breaking offshore projects for 10 years, then moved to Atlantic Richfield where he delivered full lifecycle offshore gas development projects,” said McDermott.

   Bruce, from Aberdeen in Scotland, subsequently worked for Amec Plc as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer and Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin where he was President and Chief Executive until 2019. “Neil's leadership and decades of experience navigating our industry's dynamic operating environment strongly supplements our current board,” said McDermott CEO David Dickson.

McDermott International, the US LNG and energy engineering company, is set to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas approved the sale of its Lummus Technology business to New York equity funds.

McDermott International, the company involved in some of the world’s leading LNG construction projects, including several on the US Gulf Coast and the North Field Expansion in Qatar, said it had been formally notified by the New York Stock Exchange that it was not meeting price requirements for future listing.

McDermott International, the energy and LNG engineering company, reported progress on three US LNG export projects and with other orders pending as it also registered third-quarter losses of $1.9 billion in the midst of a corporate overhaul and asset sales.

McDermott International, the US energy and LNG project contractor, said it had entered into an agreement with lenders for access to up to $1.7 billion of additional financing, including letters of credit as it embarks on a company overhaul to regain profitability.

McDermott International, said it had received unsolicited approaches to sell all or part of its Lummus Technology business with a valuation exceeding $2.5 billion and analysts said this could be the starting point for a corporate overhaul.

Global LNG and natural gas industry executives are gathered in Houston for the three-day Gastech conference and exhibition taking place from September 17-19 at the NRG Center, a convention hall in the Texan city constructed around the former Astrodome.

McDermott International posted a more than 23 percent rise in second-quarter revenues to 2.1 billion and a small net loss as it continued to make progress on two US Gulf Coast LNG export projects, the Cameron liquefaction plant in Louisiana and Freeport facility in Texas.

McDermott International, the energy and LNG engineering company, posted fourth-quarter earnings seriously impacted by $2.2 billion in charges and other items related to the Cameron LNG and Freeport LNG projects in Louisiana and Texas and the Calpine gas-fired power venture in Pennsylvania.