We are a global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry. We design, manufacture and service technologically sophisticated systems and products such as subsea production and processing systems, surface wellhead production systems, high pressure fluid control equipment, measurement solutions, and marine loading systems for the oil and gas industry. Our operations are aggregated into two reportable segments: Energy Production Systems and Energy Processing Systems.
We were incorporated in November 2000 under Delaware law and were a wholly owned subsidiary of FMC Corporation until our initial public offering in June 2001, when 17% of our common stock was sold to the public. On December 31, 2001, FMC Corporation distributed its remaining 83% ownership of our stock to FMC Corporation’s stockholders in the form of a dividend.
On July 31, 2008, we spun-off our FoodTech and Airport Systems businesses, which are now known as John Bean Technologies Corporation (“JBT”), through a tax-free dividend to our shareholders. The results of JBT have been reported as discontinued operations for all periods presented.
Our principal executive offices are located at 1803 Gears Road, Houston, Texas 77067. As used in this report, except where otherwise stated or indicated by the context, all references to “FMC Technologies,” “we,” “us,” or “our” are to FMC Technologies, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.
Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are available free of charge through our website at www.fmctechnologies.com, under “Investors—Financial Information—SEC Filings.” Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, is also available in print to any stockholder free of charge upon written request submitted to Jeffrey W. Carr, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, FMC Technologies, Inc., 1803 Gears Road, Houston, Texas 77067.
BUSINESS SEGMENTS
Energy Production Systems
Energy Production Systems designs and manufactures systems and provides services used by oil and gas companies involved in land and offshore, including deepwater, exploration and production of crude oil and gas. Our production systems control the flow of oil and gas from producing wells. We specialize in offshore production systems and have manufacturing facilities near most of the world’s principal offshore oil and gas producing basins. We market our products primarily through our own technical sales organization. Energy Production Systems revenue comprised approximately 84%, 81% and 79% of our consolidated revenue in 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
Principal Products and Services
Subsea Systems. Subsea systems represented approximately 70%, 66% and 62% of our consolidated revenues in 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively. Our systems are used in the offshore production of crude oil and natural gas. Subsea systems are placed on the seafloor and are used to control the flow of crude oil and natural gas from the reservoir to a host processing facility, such as a floating production facility, a fixed platform, or an onshore facility. Our subsea equipment is controlled by the host processing facility.
The design and manufacture of our subsea systems require a high degree of technical expertise and innovation. Some of our systems are designed to withstand exposure to the extreme hydrostatic pressure that deepwater environments present as well as internal pressures of up to 15,000 pounds per square inch (“psi”) and temperatures in excess of 350º F. The foundation of this business is our technology and engineering expertise.
The development of our integrated subsea systems usually includes initial engineering design studies, subsea trees, control systems, manifolds, seabed template systems, flowline connection and tie-in systems, installation and workover tools, and subsea wellheads. In order to provide these systems and services, we utilize engineering, project management, global procurement, manufacturing, assembly and testing capabilities. Further, we provide service technicians for installation assistance and field support for commissioning, intervention and maintenance of our subsea systems throughout the life of the oilfield. Additionally, we provide tools such as our light well intervention system for certain well workover and intervention tasks.
Surface Wellhead. In addition to our subsea systems, we provide a full range of surface wellheads and production systems for both standard service and critical service applications. Surface production systems, or trees, are used to control and regulate the flow of oil and gas from the well. Our surface products and systems are used worldwide on both land and offshore platforms and can be used in difficult climatic conditions, such as arctic cold or desert high temperatures. We support our customers through engineering, manufacturing, field installation support, and aftermarket services. Surface products and systems represented approximately 14%, 14% and 16% of our consolidated revenues in 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
Separation Systems. We design and manufacture systems that separate production flows from wells into oil, gas, sand and water. Our separation technology improves upon conventional separation technologies by moving the flow in a spiral, spinning motion. This causes the elements of the flow stream to separate more efficiently. These systems are currently capable of operating onshore or offshore with successful subsea operation in 2007.
Multi Phase Meters. We acquired 100% of Multi Phase Meters AS (“MPM”) in October 2009. Through MPM, we now design and manufacture high-performance multiphase flow meters. MPM’s product applications include production and surface well testing, reservoir monitoring, remote operation, fiscal allocation, process monitoring and control, and turbine and compressor monitoring. This technology delivers high accuracy and self-calibrating multiphase meters, with low maintenance features to meet our customers’ increasingly demanding requirements for subsea applications as well as topside applications. The MPM product line augments our portfolio of technologies for optimizing oil and gas recovery.
Status of Product Development
We continue to advance the development of subsea separation processing technologies. Subsea processing is an emerging technology in the industry, which we believe offers considerable benefits to the oil and gas producer, enabling a more rapid and cost-efficient approach to separation. If separation is performed on the seabed, the hydrostatic pressure of the fluid going from the seabed to the surface is reduced, allowing the well to flow more efficiently, accelerating production and enabling higher recoveries from the subsea reservoir. Also, it can significantly reduce the capital investment required for floating vessels or platforms, since the integration of processing capabilities will not be required. We introduced this technology commercially with Statoil’s Tordis field in the North Sea during 2007.
We are developing the world’s first system for deepwater subsea separation of heavy oil and water that includes reinjection of water to boost production in a mature field development with Petrobras’ Marlim field in Brazil. The subsea separation module will separate heavy oil, gas, sand and water at a water depth of 2,950 feet, or 900 meters. The system will apply our separation and sand management technologies, utilizing a novel pipe separator design, licensed and developed in cooperation with Statoil. The separation system also includes cyclone modules that will perform water treatment before reinjecting the water back into the reservoir.
We continue to advance our in-line separation technology, leveraging our patented products for gas, liquid, water and sand separation. These in-line technologies enable operators to achieve complete phase separation by using pipe segments and cyclonic technology instead of using conventional technology that requires several large vessels to do the same job. Inline separators will be a cost-effective option in a number of surface and subsea applications, requiring approximately 20% of the weight and space required by most conventional separator systems.
Another subsea processing technology we believe will serve this industry in the future is gas compression in subsea applications. Subsea gas compression allows the operator to maintain gas production as the reservoir pressure declines. It also boosts gas pressure and allows for transportation of the gas to shore without the need for surface facilities. We are currently developing subsea control systems for gas compression suitable for large pressure ratios and volume flow.
As the rapidly growing installed base of subsea wells matures and requires maintenance similar to those on land, we believe using wireline or coiled tubing to access the downhole portion of the well will require riserless well servicing equipment that can be deployed from a small vessel. We have developed and deployed three wireline-based systems that are currently in operation in the North Sea.
Much of the subsea activity today is taking place in deeper waters, requiring enhancements of our existing technologies to increase the performance of our equipment and the value of our systems to our customers in these challenging environments. For this purpose we have developed an Enhanced Vertical Deepwater Tree (EVDT) system, which includes technologically advanced controls and communications capable of installation and operation in water depths up to 10,000 feet, or 3,048 meters, and with well bore pressures up to 10,000 psi. The system has been designed to minimize installation and operating costs borne by the operator, and provide a highly reliable fixture on the seabed to control the flow of hydrocarbons from the well. The first EVDT units were installed in Brazil for Shell’s Parque das Conchas (formerly BC-10) field and in the Gulf of Mexico for Shell’s Perdido field during 2008. One EVDT unit in the Perdido field was installed at a water depth of 9,356 feet, or 2,852 meters, setting a new world record for the deepest subsea tree installation.
Capital Intensity
Most of the systems and products that we supply for subsea applications are highly engineered to meet the unique demands of our customers and are typically ordered one to two years prior to installation. We commonly receive advance and progress payments from our customers in order to fund initial development and our working capital requirements. In addition, due to factors such as higher engineering content and our manufacturing strategy of outsourcing certain low value-added manufacturing activities, we believe that our Energy Production Systems business is less capital intensive than our competitors’ businesses.
Dependence on Key Customers
Generally, our customers in this segment are major integrated oil or exploration and production companies.
With our integrated systems for subsea production, we have aggressively pursued alliances with oil and gas companies that are actively engaged in the subsea development of crude oil and natural gas. Development of subsea fields, particularly in deepwater environments, involves substantial capital investments by our customers. Our customers have sought the security of alliances with us to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of subsea and other energy-related systems that provide an integrated solution to their needs. Our alliances establish important ongoing relationships with our customers. While our alliances do not always contractually commit our customers to purchase our systems and services, they have historically led to, and we expect that they will continue to result in such purchases. For instance, we have an alliance of this type with Statoil. In 2009, we generated approximately 16% of our consolidated revenues from Statoil.
The loss of one or more of our significant oil and gas company customers could have a material adverse effect on our Energy Production Systems business segment.
Competition
Energy Production Systems competes with other companies that supply subsea systems, surface production equipment, and separation systems, and with smaller companies that are focused on a specific application, technology or geographical niche in which we operate. Companies such as Cameron International Corporation, GE Oil & Gas, Aker Solutions, and Wood Group compete with us in the marketplace across our various product lines.
Some of the factors on which we compete include reliability, cost-effective technology, execution and delivery. Our competitive strengths include our intellectual capital, experience base and breadth of technologies and products that enable us to design a unique solution for our customers’ project requirements while incorporating standardized components to contain costs. We have a strong presence in all of the major producing basins. Our deepwater expertise, experience and technology help us to maintain a leadership position in subsea systems.
Energy Processing Systems
Energy Processing Systems designs, manufactures and supplies technologically advanced high pressure valves and fittings for oilfield service customers. We also manufacture and supply liquid and gas measurement and transportation equipment and systems to customers involved in the production, transportation and processing of crude oil, natural gas and petroleum-based refined products. We sell to the end user through authorized representatives, distributor networks and our own technical sales organization. The segment’s products include fluid control, measurement solutions, loading systems, material handling systems, blending and transfer systems and direct drive systems. Energy Processing Systems revenue comprised approximately 16%, 19% and 21% of our consolidated revenue in 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.
Principal Products and Services
Fluid Control. We design and manufacture flowline products, under the WECO®/Chiksan® trademarks, and pumps and valves used in well completion and stimulation activities by major oilfield service companies, such as Schlumberger Limited, BJ Services Company, Halliburton Company and Weatherford International Ltd.
Our flowline products are used in equipment that pumps corrosive and/or erosive fluid into a well during the well construction, hydraulic fracturing or other stimulation processes. Our reciprocating pump product line includes duplex, triplex and quintuplex pumps utilized in a variety of applications. The performance of this business typically rises and falls with variations in the active rig count throughout the world.
Measurement Solutions. Our measurement systems provide solutions for use in custody transfer of crude oil, natural gas and refined products. We combine advanced measurement technology with state-of-the-art electronics and supervisory control systems to provide the measurement of both liquids and gases for purposes of verifying ownership and determining revenue and tax obligations. Our Smith Meter product lines are well-established in the industry.
Loading Systems. We provide land and marine-based fluid loading and transfer systems primarily to the oil and gas industry. Our systems are capable of loading and offloading marine vessels transporting a wide range of fluids, such as crude oil, liquefied natural gas and refined products. While these systems are typically constructed on a fixed jetty platform, we have also developed advanced loading systems that can be mounted on a vessel or structure to facilitate ship-to-ship or tandem loading and offloading operations in open seas or exposed locations.
Material Handling Systems. We provide material handling systems, including bulk conveying systems to the power generation industry. We provide innovative solutions for conveying, feeding, screening and orienting bulk product for customers in diverse industries. Our process, engineering, mechanical design and project management expertise enable us to execute these projects on a turnkey basis.
Blending and Transfer Systems. We provide engineering, design and construction management services in connection with the application of blending technology, process controls and automation for manufacturers in the lubricant, petroleum, additive, fuel and chemical industries.
Direct Drive Systems. We acquired Direct Drive Systems, Inc. (“DDS”) in October 2009. As such, we now develop and manufacture high-performance permanent magnet motors and bearings. DDS provides operationally superior machines for a variety of primary energy related applications, including integral motors and related system components for compression and pumping for natural gas pipelines, offshore platform and subsea processing markets. The compact size, efficiency and reliability of the motors make them ideal for these demanding applications.
Dependence on Key Customers
No single Energy Processing Systems customer accounts for more than 10% of our annual consolidated revenue.
Employees
As of December 31, 2009, we had approximately 10,400 full-time employees; approximately 3,200 in the United States and 7,200 in non-U.S. locations. A small percentage of our U.S. employees are represented by labor unions.





