TechnipFMC Wins Pluto Upgrade Award From Woodside Petroleum
TechnipFMC plc FTI was recently awarded a contract from the Australian operator, Woodside Petroleum Limited, for platform upgrade of the Pluto project. Per the contract, TechnipFMC will carry out engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning of the Pluto water handling module. The module will be installed on the Pluto Alpha Gas Production Platform, and provide water separation and treatment facilities, along with upgraded power-generation units.
Located offshore Western Australia, the gas produced from Pluto facility will be transferred to the Pluto LNG Offshore Plant. The Pluto offshore facility is chiefly operated by Woodside Petroleum, with 90% stake. The other partners in the project include Kansai Electric and Tokyo Gas, each carrying 5% stake. While the value of the contract is kept under wraps, it reinforces the close association of TechnipFMC with Woodside Petroleum, one of the major oil and gas operators in Australia.
Notably, this inbound order had been included in TechnipFMC’s onshore/offshore segment along with Energean Karish Project offshore Israel in the last earnings report. With recovering crude strength, TechnipFMC looks poised to boost backlog, revenues and profitability in its offshore segment, which is primarily responsible for design, manufacture and installation of fixed and floating platforms, for producing and processing oil and gas reserves.
In fact, the inbound order in the onshore/offshore segment (accounting for 53% of the total inbound orders) in the last reported quarter stood at $1850 million, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1,412 million. The revenues of $1,573 million from the segment also surpassed the estimates of $1,536 million. Operating income rose to $202.9 million versus $142.8 million recorded in the first quarter of 2017 on strong project execution.
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