FMC Technologies, Technip Agree to $13 Billion Oil-Services Merger
May 19 2016 - 4:20AM
Dow Jones News
PARIS—FMC Technologies Inc. and French oil-services rival
Technip SA Thursday said they would merge in a $13 billion deal, a
sign of accelerating consolidation in the sector hit hard by
spending cutbacks by large oil groups amid the recent slump in
crude prices.
The two companies have signed an agreement to merge in an
all-stock transaction, FMC and Technip said in a joint statement.
The merged company will be named TechnipFMC. "Each company's
shareholders will own close to 50% of the combined company," the
companies said.
The merger will allow the companies to cut costs by $400 million
annually from 2019 on, they said.
The companies had combined earnings before interest, taxes,
depreciation and amortization of $2.4 billion on revenue of $20
billion last year, with an order backlog of $20 billion, they
said.
Consolidation in the oil-services business is a response to the
collapse in oil prices in the past two years, a rout that has
squeezed margins at oil-industry suppliers sometimes even more
severely that oil companies as major oil firms often have other
sources of profit, such as refining or producing petrochemicals, to
partly offset plunging revenue from oil production.
"This is a compelling combination that will create significant
additional value for clients and all shareholders," said FMC
Technologies Chairman and Chief Executive John Gremp in a
statement.
"We have complementary skills, technologies and capabilities
which our customers can access on an integrated basis or separately
as they prefer," said Technip Chairman CEO Thierry Pilenko.
Mr. Pilenko is slated to become the merged company's Executive
Chairman, with FMC Technologies' President and Chief Operating
Officer Doug Pferdehirt to become its CEO.
The FMC, Technip merger is expected to be fully completed in
early 2017. Each Technip shares will be converted into two shares
of the new company, with each FMC Technologies share converted into
one share of the new company.
Write to Inti Landauro at inti.landauro@wsj.com and Thomas
Varela at thomas.varela@wsj.co
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
May 19, 2016 04:05 ET (08:05 GMT)
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