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TechnipFMC plc

For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 27, 2024.

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FY2023 · Filed Feb 27, 2024

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Item 1. Business

Company Overview

TechnipFMC plc (“TechnipFMC,” the “Company,” “we,” or “our”) is a leading technology provider to the traditional and new energy industries, delivering fully integrated projects, products, and services. With our proprietary technologies and comprehensive solutions, we are transforming our clients’ project economics helping them unlock new possibilities to develop energy resources while reducing carbon intensity and supporting their energy transition ambitions.

Organized in two business segments — Subsea and Surface Technologies — we will continue driving change in the energy industry with our pioneering integrated ecosystems, technology leadership and digital innovation.

Each of our approximately 21,000 employees is driven by a commitment to our clients’ success and a culture of execution excellence, purposeful innovation, and challenging industry conventions.

History

On January 17, 2017, FMC Technologies, Inc. and Technip S.A. combined through a merger of equals to create a global subsea leader, TechnipFMC, that would drive change by redefining the development of the subsea infrastructure used in the production of oil and natural gas through a new integrated commercial model. By integrating the complementary work scopes of the subsea production system (“SPS”) with the subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines (“SURF”) and installation vessels, we can more efficiently deliver an entire subsea development utilizing our integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation model, which we refer to as iEPCI™ (“iEPCI”).

As the only subsea provider to integrate these work scopes, we successfully created a new market and helped expand the deepwater opportunity set for our clients during a challenging market environment. iEPCI has since grown to represent nearly one-third of the addressable subsea market, validating the benefits of our unique business model aimed at improving project economics by lowering project costs and accelerating the delivery schedule of hydrocarbon production. We have created a differentiated platform for further expansion and value creation through our technology innovation, including our Subsea 2.0™ (“Subsea 2.0”) configure-to-order product suite, our vast network of customer partnerships, and our services business levered to serve our large and expanding installed base.

On February 16, 2021, we completed the separation of the Technip Energies business segment (the “Spin-off”). Technip Energies offered design, project management, and construction services spanning the entire downstream value chain. The separation created two industry-leading, independent, publicly traded companies, TechnipFMC and Technip Energies.

Following the separation of Technip Energies, the Company completed the voluntary delisting of our shares from Euronext Paris in February 2022. A single listing on the New York Stock Exchange was more consistent with the Company’s strategic refocus and the geographic location of our shareholder base and allowed the Company to better align with our most appropriate peer set.

BUSINESS SEGMENTS

Subsea

Our Subsea segment provides integrated design, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, fabrication, installation, and life of field services for subsea systems, subsea field infrastructure, and subsea pipeline systems used in oil and natural gas production and transportation.

We are an industry leader in front-end engineering and design (“FEED”), subsea production systems (“SPS”), subsea flexible pipe, subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines (“SURF”), and subsea robotics. We also have the capability to install and service these products and systems using our fleet of highly specialized vessels. We are able to drive even greater value to our clients by integrating the SPS and SURF through more efficient design and installation of subsea field architecture. The resulting improvement in project economics has enabled the successful market adoption of our integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation model, iEPCI, which now serves as the industry standard for integrated project execution.

iEPCI is our unique, fully integrated approach to designing, managing, and executing subsea projects. By combining complementary skills with innovative technologies, we improve project economics by lowering costs and accelerating time to first oil and natural gas for our clients. iEPCI projects are partnerships based on mutual trust and sharing knowledge. Success is built on early engagement and a collaborative, cooperative approach, both internally and with our clients.

Our integrated commercial model often begins with an integrated FEED study, or iFEED™ (“iFEED”), where we are uniquely positioned to influence project concept and design through early client engagement, allowing for the highest degree of integration. Using innovative solutions for subsea architecture, including standardized configurable equipment, new technologies, digital services, and simplified installation, we can optimize field design and layout.

Our first-mover advantage and ability to convert iFEED studies into iEPCI contracts, often as direct awards, creates a unique set of opportunities for us. This allows us to deliver a fully integrated – and technologically differentiated – subsea system, and to better manage the complete work scope through a single contracting mechanism and a single interface.

Following project delivery, we continue to support our clients by offering aftermarket and life of field services, which include production optimization, asset life extension, debottlenecking, and condition-based maintenance. Our wide range of capabilities and solutions allow us to help clients increase oil and natural gas recovery and equipment uptime while reducing overall cost. Our integrated life of field offering, iLOF™, is designed to unlock the full potential of subsea infrastructures during operations by proactively addressing the challenges operators face over the life of subsea fields.

Subsea Segment Products and Services

Subsea Production Systems (SPS). Our SPS are used in the offshore production of oil and natural gas. Systems are placed on the seafloor and are used to control the flow of 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 products and integrated systems include subsea trees, chokes and flow modules, manifold pipeline systems, controls and automation systems, well access systems, multiphase and wet-gas flow meters, and additional technologies. We offer both electro-hydraulic and all-electric Subsea Production Systems, depending on the specific needs of the customer or field. The design and manufacture of our subsea systems requires a high degree of technical expertise and innovation. Some of our systems are designed to withstand exposure to the extreme hydrostatic pressure of deepwater environments, as well as internal pressures of up to 20,000 pounds per square inch (psi) and temperatures of up to 400º F. The development of our integrated subsea production systems includes initial engineering design studies and field development planning, and considers all relevant aspects and project requirements, including optimization of drilling programs and subsea architecture.

Subsea Processing Systems. Our subsea processing systems, which include subsea boosting, subsea gas compression, and subsea separation, are designed to accelerate production, increase recovery, extend field life, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and lower operators’ production costs for greenfield and brownfield applications.

Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines (SURF). We are a leading provider of SURF infrastructure. We develop, engineer, manufacture and install umbilicals, flexible, hybrid-flexible and rigid pipelines, connections, and tie-ins for subsea systems.

We offer a comprehensive range of umbilical systems including steel tube umbilicals, thermoplastic hose umbilicals, power and communication systems, and hybrid umbilicals.

We are the industry leader in the design and manufacture of flexible pipe that consists of the combination of plastic and steel layers that can be easily adapted to the diverse requirements of subsea developments. We are also the industry innovator in “hybrid-flexible” pipe, which utilizes unique and proprietary thermoplastic composite materials to meet the needs of the most challenging production environments. Our rigid pipes are designed to optimize flow assurance through innovative insulation coatings, electric trace heating, plastic liners, and pipe-in-pipe systems.

Vessels. We have a fleet of 16 vessels, which typically perform the installation of our products and systems. We have sole ownership of eight vessels, ownership of six vessels as part of joint ventures, and two vessels operated under charter agreements.

Subsea Services. Subsea Services provides a portfolio of Well and Asset services that drive value and efficiency throughout the life of our clients' subsea development cycle. Our vision is to deliver customer service excellence every day, with the purpose of maximizing the performance of our clients’ well and asset operations.

Well Services include the following offerings:

Drilling: exploration and production wellhead systems and services;

Installation: installation of subsea production and processing systems;

Intervention: rig and vessel-based well intervention services;

Plug and abandonment: rig- and vessel-based subsea equipment retrieval and plug and abandonment; and

ROV: remotely operated vehicle (“ROV”) support services.

Asset Services include the following offerings:

Maintenance: test, modification, refurbishment and upgrade of subsea equipment and tooling;

Asset integrity: optimizing the performance of the subsea asset through product and field data, including inspection, maintenance, and repair ("IMR"); and

Production management: enhanced well and field production, including real-time virtual metering and flow assurance services.

Robotics. Our Schilling Robotics business is the leading designer and manufacturer of Subsea Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), ROV tooling systems, and robotic manipulator arms. We continue to revolutionize deepwater productivity – enabling safe and more challenging subsea developments through our advanced and industry-leading robotic technologies.

The Company manufactures GEMINI®, a fully integrated, next generation ROV intervention system that provides unprecedented subsea productivity for our clients. The integration of ROV, manipulators and tooling, advanced automation, and computer vision technology, enables a transition to highly-automated subsea robotics, which reduces task time from hours to minutes, ensuring predictable results every time. GEMINI® can easily access tools for subsea intervention operations without returning to deck to reconfigure tooling – maximizing productivity and significantly reducing operating time offshore.

Our robotic offerings also include the Athena™ manipulator system – the latest addition to the portfolio – which leverages a subset of GEMINI® technologies and can be retrofitted to existing ROVs.

Subsea Studio™ Digital Platform. Through Subsea Studio™, we connect data, technology, and expertise to optimize the development, execution, and operation of current and future subsea fields. Our open ecosystem connects applications using common data models throughout a project’s lifecycle and can exchange data with suppliers, partners, and clients, providing immediate access to information to improve the efficiency and quality of decisions and planning.

Dependence on Key Customers

Generally, our customers in the Subsea segment are major integrated oil companies, national oil companies, and independent exploration and production companies. Petrobras accounted for more than 16 percent of our 2023 consolidated revenue. Our list of customers has expanded to more than 40 unique clients, which has allowed us to further diversify our dependence away from any single customer.

We actively pursue alliances with companies engaged in the subsea development of oil and natural gas to promote our integrated systems for subsea production. These alliances are typically related to the procurement of subsea production equipment, although some are related to engineering, procurement, construction, and installation services. Development of subsea fields, particularly in deepwater environments, involves substantial capital investments. Operators have also sought alliances with us to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of subsea and other energy-related systems that provide integrated solutions to meet their needs.

Our alliances establish important ongoing relationships with our customers. While these alliances do not contractually obligate our customers to purchase our systems and services, they have resulted in a growing number of direct awards to the Company.

The commitment to our customers goes beyond project delivery, and we foster these alliances with transparency and collaboration to better understand their needs and ensure customer success.

Competition

We are the only fully integrated company that can provide the complete suite of SPS and SURF equipment with the installation and life of field services, enabling us to develop a subsea field as a single company. We compete with companies that supply various components and services of a subsea development. Our competitors include Baker Hughes Company, Dril-Quip, Inc., McDermott International, Inc., NOV Inc., Oceaneering International, Inc., SLB, and Subsea 7 S.A.

Seasonality

Seasonal weather conditions generally subdue drilling activity, reducing vessel utilization and demand for subsea services as certain activities cannot be performed. As a result, the level of offshore activity in our Subsea segment is negatively impacted during such periods.

Strategy

Our vision for Subsea is to focus on safely providing innovative technologies and integrated solutions that drive change, improving economics, enhancing performance, and reducing emissions.

Our offering is enabled by our digital solutions and products that unlock new possibilities for growth in energy resources. Through our established services and transformative offerings, including iEPCI and the Subsea 2.0™ Configure-to-Order (“CTO”) platform, we are making energy produced offshore more sustainable and competitive with alternative sources.

As we look to the future, we remain focused on innovation, client relationships, and execution excellence. Our success will be achieved in part by developing and empowering our people, becoming a data-centric organization, advancing automation and robotics, and delivering all-electric fields.

The energy landscape is evolving rapidly, and we are confident that oil and natural gas will remain a significant portion of the energy mix in the decades to come. By capitalizing on our subsea expertise, core competencies, and integration capabilities, we will continue to improve the project economics of both oil and natural gas and new energies, while reducing carbon emissions.

Product Development

We are industrializing our Subsea business with Subsea 2.0 by using pre-engineered modular architectures to achieve a fully flexible suite of product offerings, while making an evolutionary shift from unique project requirements to a CTO execution model.

Our Subsea 2.0 configurable product platform consists of pre-engineered products designed to provide the flexibility to accommodate client needs and functional requirements, combining field-proven and new technologies.

Our CTO execution model requires no product engineering work to deliver these configurable products to our clients, which ensures quality, manufacturing, supply chain, and services are fully industrialized in order to deliver the value offered with Subsea 2.0.

By pivoting from bespoke Engineer-to-Order solutions, to pre-engineered CTO products, we can leverage the efficiencies our execution model creates and bring value to our clients through reduced lead time, an optimized execution model, and improved predictability and reliability for delivery. CTO also allows us to drive manufacturing efficiency to improve throughput and increase capacity of the existing manufacturing assets.

Our CTO Subsea 2.0 program attributes include:

Pre-engineered standard configurations;

Pre-approved and qualified supply chain;

Pre-defined quality, code, and surveillance requirements;

Optimized manufacturing with dedicated capacity; and

Pre-defined and developed services.

Our core Subsea 2.0 products include subsea trees, compact manifolds, flexible jumpers, distribution, controls, flexible pipe, umbilicals, and integrated connectors. Additional components of the subsea infrastructure will be made available on this configurable platform as we further industrialize our product offering.

We are also qualifying a new hybrid-flexible pipe technology that utilizes thermoplastic composite technology and is highly resistant to corrosive compounds. Hybrid flexible pipe brings many advantages to the market, including the ability to withstand the most corrosive production environments, but also significant operational advantages due to the lighter materials.

In the third quarter of 2022, we renewed the TechnipFMC and Halliburton technology alliance. This extends our agreement signed in 2017 with a focus on the development of innovative technologies for use in all-electric wells, subsea interventions, subsea fiber optics, and carbon transportation and storage. By collaborating on certain field domains, we are able to develop disruptive technologies to improve productivity, reduce cost, and lower emissions of our clients. We believe the alliance has a superior value proposition, leveraging TechnipFMC’s pioneering integrated ecosystems (such as iEPCI) and technology leadership with Halliburton’s subsurface, well completion, and production knowledge and service offering.

Acquisitions and disposals, Investments, and Partnerships

Acquisitions and disposals

We did not have any material acquisitions in 2023.

In August 2023, the Company completed the sale of the Apache II pipelay vessel for net cash proceeds of $54.4 million.

Investments

As part of our commitment to advancing the country's emerging energy industry, in April 2022, we officially opened our new service base in Georgetown, Guyana. More than 100 Guyanese women and men are at the heart of our world-class Service Center, with this number projected to grow in response to the increased activity in the area over the next several years. The Guyana Service Base consists of a low bay, storage, and testing capabilities for both drilling and completion activities.

Partnerships

Refer to the Other Business Information Relevant to Our Business Segments section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for information about our partnerships.

Our Surface Technologies segment designs, manufactures, and services fully integrated products and systems used by companies involved in land and shallow water exploration and production of oil and natural gas, as well as specialized equipment supporting integrated carbon transportation and storage ("iCTSTM"), hydrogen storage, and geothermal production. Surface Technologies provides integrated solutions for onshore applications in drilling, stimulation, production, measurement, digital, and services globally.

Principal Products and Services

Drilling. We provide a full range of drilling and completion systems for both standard and custom-engineered applications. The client base for drilling and completion offerings is energy production, transportation, and storage companies.

Surface Wellheads and Production Trees. Our products are used to control and regulate the flow of oil and natural gas from the well. The wellhead is a system of spools and sealing devices from which the entire downhole well string hangs and provides the structural support for surface production trees. The production tree is comprised of valves, actuators and chokes which can be combined into various configurations, depending on client-specific requirements.

These systems are designed for onshore unconventional, onshore conventional, and offshore platform applications, and are typically sold directly to exploration and production operators during the drilling and completion phases of the well lifecycle. Our surface wellheads and production trees are used worldwide and include a full range of system configurations from conventional wellheads, to high-pressure, high-temperature production tree systems for extreme production applications.

We provide services for these systems, including service personnel and rental tooling, life of field maintenance, as well as digital monitoring and remote operational control and automation.

Our products are also used for geothermal production and CO 2 injection, and we have qualified designs to support underground hydrogen storage solutions.

Stimulation and Pressure Pumping. We design and manufacture equipment used in well completion and stimulation activities. Our iComplete™ offering is the first integrated pressure control system for the onshore unconventional stimulation market. Our extensive knowledge of flexible pipe, manifold, and check valve technologies has been adapted to make this a very reliable and predictable system. iComplete™ utilizes our digital offering CyberFrac™ to improve safety by reducing manpower in high-risk areas (“red zone”), boost efficiency by automating operations and reduce unplanned stoppages by using predictive analytics. Our system can also manage continuous pumping and multi-well operations and integrate data from adjacent wells. Together, this significantly reduces safety risks and the cost of operations for our clients.

Fracturing Tree and Manifold Systems. During the completion of a shale well, the well undergoes hydraulic fracturing. During this phase, durable and wear-resistant wellsite equipment is temporarily deployed.

Our equipment includes fracturing tree systems, fracturing valve greasing systems, hydraulic control units, fracturing manifold systems, and rigid and flexible flowlines, and is designed to sustain the high pressure and the highly erosive fracturing fluid which is pumped through the well in the formation. Exploration and production operators typically rent this equipment directly from the Company during the hydraulic fracturing activities. Fracturing equipment rental includes rig-up/rig-down field service personnel as well as oversight and operation of the equipment during the multiple fracturing stages.

Flexible Pipe. We have been a leading supplier of flexible pipe since the 1970s and our Coflexip® product is an industry standard for drilling and stimulation operations offshore. We have adapted this product for use in high-pressure, high-volume stimulation. Our PumpFlex™, WellFlex™, and PadFlex™ products are incorporated into most shale operations and are an integral part of our iComplete™ system. Our product is the only mechanical solution available today and has demonstrated excellent wear resistance and durability.

Flowline. We are a leading supplier of flowline products and services to the oilfield industry. From the original Chiksan® and Weco® products to our revolutionary equipment designs and integrated services, our family of flowline products and services provides our clients with reliable and durable pressure pumping equipment. Our total solutions approach includes the InteServ tracking and management system, mobile inspection and repair, strategically located service centers, and Chiksan® and Weco® spare parts.

Production. Our upstream production offering includes well control, safety and integrity systems, multiphase meter modules, in-line separation and processing systems, compact ball valves for manifolds, and standard pumps. These offerings are differentiated by our comprehensive portfolio of in-house compact, modular, and digital technologies, and are designed to enhance field project economics and reduce operating expenditures with an integrated system that spans from wellhead to pipeline.

Our E-Mission TM suite addresses ways to reduce carbon intensity in the production of oil and natural gas products. By leveraging digital solutions to optimize the performance of assets on the production site, it helps to reduce flaring and CO 2 emissions, predicting methane escape events by using machine learning, thereby helping to prevent such events from ever happening.

Our iProduction TM system is the first automated integrated production platform for onshore unconventional resources. This system can be deployed at new and existing client sites to upgrade technology, improve safety, and reduce operating costs and carbon emissions.

Our digital systems leverage two of our core software products - our proprietary UCOS system for control and automation of assets, and InsiteX for data visualization and analytics. These systems are deployed in standalone applications, which address real client issues and can be integrated seamlessly to form an ecosystem or system level Digital Twin. These technologies help clients improve health and safety, reduce carbon intensity, reduce operating expense, reduce unplanned shutdowns, and increase productivity.

Well Control and Integrity Systems. We supply both hydraulic and electrical control components and safety systems designed to safely and efficiently run a well pad, offshore platform module, or production facility. Our systems are based on standardized, field-proven solutions and are designed for minimal maintenance during life of field operations.

Separation and Processing Systems. We provide industry-leading technology for the separation of oil, gas, sand, and water. These solutions are used in onshore production facilities and on offshore platforms worldwide. Our family of separation products delivers client success by increasing efficiency and throughput and reducing the footprint of processing facilities. Our separation systems offering includes internal components for oil and natural gas multiphase separation, in-line separation, and solids removal, as well as fully assembled separation modules and packages designed and fabricated for oil and natural gas separation, fracturing flowback treatment, solids removal, and primary produced water treatment.

Standard Pumps and Skid Systems. We provide complete skid solutions, from design consultation through startup and commissioning. We offer a diverse line of reciprocating pumps, customized according to the application with pressure ranges available up to 10,000 psi and flow rates up to 1,500 gallons per minute.

Measurement Solutions. We deliver accurate and reliable measurement solutions for the transportation, distribution, and storage of energy products by truck, rail, vessel, aircraft, and pipeline. We are making measurement smarter with integrated flow measurement and automation solutions. Our clients can also reduce complexity by working with one supplier that can provide measurement and control systems, automation, and key data insights.

Our systems are an industry standard in mechanical custody metering, and we are adapting technology for the emerging harsh gas environment in metering CO 2 and hydrogen, which will be critical to the energy transition.

Services. We offer our clients a comprehensive suite of service packages to ensure optimal performance and reliability of our upstream and midstream equipment. These service packages include all phases of the asset’s life cycle from early planning stages through testing and installation, commissioning, and operations, replacement and upgrade, maintenance, storage, preservation, intervention, integrity, decommissioning, and abandonment.

Dependence on Key Customers

Surface Technologies’ customers include major integrated oil companies, national oil companies, independent exploration and production companies and oil and natural gas service companies. No single Surface Technologies customer accounted for 10 percent or more of our 2023 consolidated revenue.

Competition

We are a market leader for many of our products and services. Some of the factors that distinguish TechnipFMC from other companies in the sector include our technological innovation, integrated solutions, reliability, and product quality. Surface Technologies competes with other companies that supply surface production equipment and pressure control products, including Baker Hughes Company, Cactus, Inc., Forum Energy Technologies, Inc., Gardner Denver, Inc., SLB, Halliburton Co, and SPM Oil & Gas.

Strategy

We serve the onshore and shallow water markets from well to export pipeline, providing our clients with reductions in cost, cycle time, and carbon intensity. We distinguish our offerings through three key strengths:

Core Technology. We are committed to applying technology within our core products to solve client problems, leveraging the benefits of smarter designs.

Decarbonization. We are developing new ways for our clients to make the production of oil and natural gas less carbon intensive.

Digital and Automation. We are leveraging simple, pragmatic digital solutions to improve health and safety, reduce carbon intensity, reduce operating cost, reduce non-productive time, and increase production.

Acquisitions and disposals, Investments, and Partnerships

Acquisitions and disposals

We did not have any material acquisitions in 2023.

In November 2023, TechnipFMC announced an agreement to sell the Company’s Measurement Solutions business to One Equity Partners for $205 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments at the closing of the transaction. As part of the Surface Technologies segment, the Measurement Solutions business encompasses terminal management solutions and metering products and systems and includes engineering and manufacturing locations in North America and Europe. This transaction is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2024.

Investments

In 2022, we started the manufacture of our first in-country orders in our new facility in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The facility is part of our continued investment in the Middle East and positions us to respond to the expected increase in activity in the area. The new facility extends our range of capabilities and offers greater in-country value-add, supporting our full portfolio with high technology equipment in the drilling, completion, production, and pressure control sectors.

We also committed to investing in new manufacturing space at our ICAD facility in Abu Dhabi in support of our 10-year framework agreement with ADNOC for the supply of surface wellheads, trees and associated services. We are the first company to be API6A qualified and in 2023, we became one of the first to secure a license to operate as a 100 percent foreign-owned entity in Abu Dhabi.

To support our developments in the Middle East, we are investing in hiring, training, and developing personnel in the region. These investments position us to respond to the increasing demand for local content and increasing opportunity in the region.

Partnerships

Refer to the Other Business Information Relevant to Our Business Segments section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for information about our partnerships.

OTHER BUSINESS INFORMATION RELEVANT TO OUR BUSINESS SEGMENTS

Capitalizing on Energy Transition

Since our inception as an integrated company in 2017, TechnipFMC has been pursuing innovation to reduce emissions within the conventional energy space. We have also been exploring ways to position ourselves in the energy transition by delivering differentiated solutions and leveraging our core competencies and existing resources. This is the role of our New Energy business at TechnipFMC, where we will serve as system architect and integrator, from technology development through project delivery and life of field services. We believe offshore will be the next frontier of the energy transition, and our Company is ready to accelerate and grow our contribution.

We plan to be a key enabler of greenhouse gas removal, offshore floating renewables, and hydrogen solutions. To excel in these three pillars, we will leverage our onshore and offshore expertise and demonstrated capabilities in project integration. We will commercialize innovative solutions through our continued collaboration with energy companies and technology providers.

We will also utilize a configure-to-order (“CTO”) manufacturing model to create superior value for our clients.

Our contributions to greenhouse gas removal begin with carbon transportation and storage (“CTS”). Leveraging our existing equipment and integration expertise, we will safely transport and store carbon dioxide (“CO 2”) using our integrated carbon transportation and storage solution, or iCTSTM. CTO modules for CO 2 distribution and injection will reduce project-specific engineering while enabling custom storage system solutions to be built from pre-engineered products. Integrated control systems will provide flexibility to manage a wide range of functionalities, from surface and subsea injection equipment to downhole and seabed reservoir monitoring systems. We are also developing advanced digital solutions for onshore and offshore storage projects that will enable constant monitoring of CO 2 at both the storage site and in the subsurface, a critical element of the CTS value chain.

We also see strong integration potential across offshore renewable markets, driven by continued development of wind, wave, and tidal technologies. By leveraging our extensive experience in project integration throughout the water column, from the ocean surface to the seafloor, we will bring scalability to offshore renewable markets in our role as system architect.

When used as baseload generation, renewable power sources do increase variability to the system and require additional energy storage capacity to ensure continuity of supply. We believe that creating large scale storage solutions to overcome this challenge is fundamental to the expanded use of renewable power, and we have been developing our Long Duration Energy Storage (“LDES”) hydrogen solution for offshore renewables to help meet the growing demand for power.

We will approach integration opportunities in renewable markets with an execution model that builds on the success of our iEPCI model in oil and natural gas. By acting as system architect and integrator in a complex and rapidly changing environment, we can play a meaningful role in enabling offshore renewable solutions.

The Markets

Greenhouse gas removal. We believe one of the safest and most efficient storage locations for greenhouse gases is in naturally occurring reservoirs and saline aquifers.

Existing equipment developed by our Surface Technologies and Subsea businesses can be leveraged to achieve this aim. Our efforts and achievements in this area include:

Development of our integrated carbon transportation and storage system, or iCTSTM;

Development and manufacturing of new gas transportation technologies, including thermoplastic composite pipe and hybrid flexible pipe;

Agreement to commercialize PETRONAS’ unique natural gas processing membrane which reduces emissions of CO 2 and hydrogen sulfide by integrating the technology into our onshore and offshore production offering; and

Awards for several commercial contracts for carbon injection wellheads to be used for permanent sequestration in the Middle East, Australia, and the Netherlands.

Offshore floating renewables. TechnipFMC aspires to lead the offshore floating renewables industry by leveraging our differentiated technologies, product standardization, and system integration approach. This emerging market is predicted to grow from very limited today, to an installed base of 11 gigawatts by 2030. Our efforts and achievements in this area include:

Partnership with Magnora ASA, Magnora Offshore Wind, to develop floating offshore wind projects;

Partnership with Floating Power Plant, a renewable energy technology company, for an offshore green hydrogen pilot in the Canary Islands which will leverage our Deep Purple TM system to deliver stable, renewable, and scalable energy offshore;

Strategic investment in Orbital Marine Power, owner of the world's most powerful floating tidal energy turbine, which we believe to be the most mature tidal technology;

Development of best-in-class 66KV dynamic inter array cables, (“DIAC”), which are a key component of our engineered system used by floating renewables infrastructure to transmit electricity generated offshore to the onshore power grid; and

Development of advanced integrated water column solutions, including the engineering of the optimum coupled DIAC and mooring and anchoring system.

Hydrogen solutions. We believe hydrogen will become an important part of the global energy mix needed to reach Net Zero targets, driven in part by regulatory frameworks. Hydrogen as an energy carrier will bring reliability, stability, and efficiency to renewable sources. TechnipFMC’s extensive experience with oil and natural gas resources positions us well to develop new solutions for this emerging offshore market. Our strategy is focused on two main areas: the transportation and storage of green hydrogen produced offshore and in coastal areas, and LDES, where hydrogen is used as a battery solution that can exceed the traditional efficiency limits of lithium-ion technologies. Our efforts and achievements in this area include:

Deep Purple™, which is our sustainable energy solution that provides renewable and scalable energy production offshore by integrating hydrogen production, compression, storage, and re-electrification via a fuel cell. An at-scale pilot program began in Norway in January 2022 and was successfully completed in October 2023;

The Hardanger Hydrogen Project, with several partners including Statkraft, where TechnipFMC will qualify its subsea hydrogen storage pressure vessels and associated connection hardware, such as umbilicals and connectors. We may also provide hydrogen subsea storage for the next commercial phases of the project; and

Hydrogen wellhead products and underground storage solutions as well as the integration of these systems including participation in Storengy’s Hydrogen Pilot STorage for large Ecosystem Replication (“HyPSTER”) project in France, where we have re-engineered and repurposed a Surface Technologies’ wellhead to facilitate the large-scale storage of green hydrogen in underground salt caverns.

Sources and Availability of Raw Materials

Our business segments purchase carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, steel castings and forgings, polymers, micro-processors, integrated circuits and various other materials from the global marketplace. We typically do not use single source suppliers for the majority of our raw material purchases; however, certain geographic areas of our businesses, or a project or group of projects, may heavily depend on certain suppliers for raw materials or supply of semi-finished goods. We believe the available supplies of raw materials are adequate to meet our needs, leveraging our CTO strategy.

Research and Development

We are engaged in research and development (“R&D”) activities directed toward the improvement of existing products and services, the design of specialized products to meet client needs, and the development of new products, processes, and services. A large part of our product development spending has focused on the improved design and standardization of our Subsea products to meet our client needs.

Patents, Trademarks, and Other Intellectual Property

We own a number of patents, trademarks, and licenses that are cumulatively important to our businesses. As part of our ongoing R&D focus, we seek patents when appropriate for new products, product improvements, and related service innovations. Further, we license intellectual property rights to or from third parties. We also own numerous trademarks and trade names worldwide.

We protect and promote our intellectual property portfolio and take actions we deem appropriate to enforce and defend our intellectual property rights. We do not believe, however, that the loss of any one patent, trademark, or license, or group of related patents, trademarks, or licenses would have a material adverse effect on our overall business.

Segment and Geographic Financial Information

The majority of our consolidated revenue and segment operating profit is generated in markets outside of the United States. Each segment’s revenue is dependent upon worldwide oil and natural gas exploration and production activity. Financial information about our segments and geographic areas is incorporated herein by reference from Note 6 to our consolidated financial statements in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Order Backlog

Information regarding order backlog is incorporated herein by reference from the section entitled “Inbound Orders and Order Backlog” in Part II, Item 7 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Governmental Regulations

We are subject to a number of environmental and other governmental and regulatory requirements related to our operations globally. Refer to “Item 1(a) Risk Factors - Risks Related to Legal Proceedings, Tax and Regulatory Matters” and “Item 7 Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Other Matters,” both of which are incorporated by reference in this Item 1.

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Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, Proxy Statements, and Forms 3, 4, and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports and statements, are available free of charge through our website at www.technipfmc.com, under “Investors” as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. Alternatively, our reports may be accessed through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. Unless expressly noted, the information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K or any other filing we make with the SEC.

HUMAN CAPITAL

Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and they drive our culture of strong execution, purposeful innovation and challenging industry conventions. We are committed to the development of our employees, and our employee guidelines are specified in our Code of Business Conduct, which applies to all employees, regardless of their roles, and no matter where they work.

We believe that all our employees are entitled to fair treatment and respect, wherever they work: in the office, offshore, on industrial and construction sites, or in client offices. We do not tolerate any form of abuse or harassment, and we will not tolerate any action, conduct, or behavior that is discriminating, intimidating, or hostile.

Furthermore, we are committed to hiring and employee development decisions that are fair, objective, and not based on protected characteristics. Our policy is for employment decisions to be based only on relevant qualifications, performance, demonstrated skills, experience, and other job-related factors, with our goal of creating a diverse, tolerant, equitable and inclusive workforce.

Workforce Overview

Our workforce consists of the following:

As of December 31,
202320222021
Permanent employees21,46920,30119,103
Temporary employees (fixed-term)1,2931,6711,507
Employees on payroll22,76221,97220,610
Contracted workforce2,2651,3741,392
Total workforce25,02723,34622,002

Attracting Talent

Our Employee Value Proposition ("EVP") is part of the way we attract, engage and retain our people. It is an aspect of our employer brand that communicates the attributes and qualities that make our organization a great place to work, and helps us attract people who will contribute to, and thrive within TechnipFMC.

In 2023, we redefined our EVP in a way that reflects the company we are today. We sought extensive input and feedback from a cross-section of our employees, senior leadership team, and new recruits, and announced “The energy to transform” as our new EVP. Built on two pillars – relentless innovation and caring for the future – it is underpinned by our global collaborative culture. It links to our overall brand positioning, which is driving change in the energy industry, and it describes both what the company does and what it offers employees and potential employees.

We encouraged and included more people from our business to share their inspiring experiences and stories that truly reflect the diversity and plurality we have in the Company. People from different cultures, generations, genders, races, disabilities, and sexual preferences are represented by what they all have in common: inspiring experiences lived at TechnipFMC. We continue to explore how best we can share these experiences with external candidates as well as internally through different channels. Significant effort was put into improving candidate experiences when accessing our website’s new career page as well as on our internal EVP-dedicated web page.

Our global recruitment system is being optimized to provide a more dynamic, modern and attractive experience with relevant content. Our onboarding program will be further simplified, with better global alignment and more efficient communication to make the experience of new employees and line managers more streamlined and connected.

Key performance indicators linked to talent acquisition are now available and accessible to key stakeholders through our internal tracking platform. In 2023, we achieved a reduction in recruiting lead times, even in a year of increased hiring volume.

Developing and Keeping Talent

People development is a key focus at TechnipFMC, including providing learning, career development and knowledge sharing opportunities enabling our people to perform at their fullest potential, and develop capabilities for simplification, standardization and industrialization.

We focus on talent development through a process called “Talking Talents.” This program forms the basis for developing employees into our three main career pathways, Leadership, Project Management and Technology. Input from the Talking Talents process is also used for succession planning. As in previous years, in 2023 our leaders spent a considerable amount of time planning for succession, resulting in an increase in depth of succession, utilization of talents and cross-pollination between business units and functions. Representation of underrepresented nationalities and gender also increased, as represented by the percentage of succession plans that included the specified populations.

We believe that regular dialogue between managers and employees is key to driving performance and building trust and engagement. Our Check-In process is embedded in our culture, where managers and employees meet at least quarterly to discuss goals, share feedback and have in-depth discussion about the employee’s development, including creating individual development plans. This process focuses leaders on the development of people on their team and enables employees to own their career path and focus on the future. In 2022 and 2023, we conducted Check-in Conversation workshops across our business attended by a majority of our managers. Our tools for developing employees also includes a continuous feedback platform that enables feedback to be provided from peers, leaders and reporting employees.

Developing effective leaders at all levels of the organization is also a top priority at TechnipFMC. Leadership You is our internal leadership development model which focuses on four areas: engaging people, thinking strategically, driving results and embracing change. This program is available to all employees, self-directed, customizable and driven by a global, enterprise-wide learning and knowledge management ecosystem.

Both employee attrition and key talent attrition in 2023 were lower compared to 2022 at around 7 percent and 6 percent, respectively. This was a result of the initiatives above, our focus on competitive compensation and benefits programs, dedicated efforts on providing learning and development opportunities and key talent moves identified in succession plans. Our internal hiring rate (percentage of posted jobs filled by internal candidates) also improved in 2023.

Learning and Training

With the forecasted growth in our business, sharpening our focus on enabling our people to grow, develop, and share knowledge will be imperative. The importance of being able to offer learning and knowledge-sharing opportunities in a digital, 24/7, and global environment has been key to our success. Building on our solid foundations, we delivered impactful courses, initiatives, and solutions across all of our business segments, in addition to being particularly focused on leadership, technology, and project management.

Our iLearn learning platform continues to be the main hub for delivering our formal learning initiatives such as eLearning courses, videos, instructor led training, and resource materials. We continue to embrace our digital transformation and strive to deliver engaging content. In 2023, there were more than 32,000 pieces of creative and innovative learning content available, with ongoing releases of new and meaningful courses, to support skills development for our employees and enhance their performance in their roles. In 2023, almost 432,000 training hours and 324,323 course completions were completed with 84 percent of completions being done online, which resulted in 18 training hours per employee. We also saw a substantial increase in the amount of training hours related to our technical and engineering training where 164,271 hours were completed. This was the result of a significant focus and strategy to better engage with our technical employees and provide additional learning opportunities.

We leverage our internal knowledge sharing tools, The Bridge and The Well, to collaborate across the Company. The Bridge has 49 chartered global knowledge-sharing networks, up from 44 networks in 2022. The related knowledge repository, The Well, has more than 5,450 pages (up from 5,100 in 2022), which received more than 1.3 million visits in 2023 (up from 824,000 in 2022). The Well is connected with the Company’s competency management platform and provides direct access to competency-based content. Employees in all regions access these and other knowledge management social learning tools such as an Experts Explain webinar series and Illuminate podcasts to increase their knowledge about business and technical topics, and to share their own knowledge.

Technical Expertise Program

The global Technical Expertise Program (“TEP”) recognizes employees (“Technical Experts”) who have demonstrated technical mastery in their discipline, as well as technical impact, people development, business impact and industry leadership. The TEP currently has about 859 members, and in 2023, we added new sub-disciplines to capture under-represented technical communities and activities.

Our Technology Fellows are the highest tier of the TEP and personify its mission of advancing the Company’s technical leadership by advising, innovating, enhancing operations, sharing knowledge, and inspiring others - within the company and across the industry. Each Fellow is a pillar in their field of expertise, setting standards across the industry, cultivating the next generation of experts and ensuring that TechnipFMC retains its market leadership and competitive advantage.

In 2023, our Fellows sponsored a significant global initiative on intellectual property called “Think IP.” Through this program, they will share their knowledge broadly across the Company’s learning ecosystem and drive initiatives to protect our competitive advantage and respect our Company’s intellectual property and the intellectual property of other companies.

Equal Opportunity and Fair Representation

Three of our Foundational Beliefs – integrity, respect, and sustainability – are tangibly embedded in our commitment to equal opportunity and fair representation. While we recognize the importance of equal opportunity and fair representation to our long-term value and performance, we also recognize the importance of pursuing these aims in legally compliant manners. It is our policy that employment decisions, including those related to recruitment, selection, evaluation, compensation, and development, among others, not be influenced by unlawful or unfair discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Our equal opportunity and fair representation efforts are part of our legal compliance considerations, and we are committed to only rewarding legal methods of promoting these efforts.

In 2023, TechnipFMC was named one of the World’s Top Companies for Women by Forbes, for the second year in a row.

It is our policy to encourage and give full and fair consideration to applications for employment from disabled people, and to assist with their training and development in light of their aptitudes and abilities. If an existing employee becomes disabled, it is the Company’s policy wherever practicable to provide continuing employment under our usual terms and conditions, and to provide training, career development, promotion opportunities and a safe work environment based on the requested, reasonable needs to disabled employees to the fullest extent possible.

In December 2023, we celebrated International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In recent years, we have had various initiatives to promote inclusion and respect featuring our colleagues throughout the globe, including:

Inspiring stories featuring perspectives from leadership and people with disabilities;

Creating awareness of disabilities through web-based learning experiences; and

Webcast with a diversity and inclusion expert, that shared a personal testimonial on disability in the workplace.

Other global days marked by TechnipFMC in 2023 include International Women's Day, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, and International Women in Engineering Day, among others.

Employee Networks and Resource Groups (“ENRGs”)

TechnipFMC’s ENRGs aim to engage and reinforce our commitment to creating an environment where all employees can achieve their full potential. Our ENRGs are open to all of our employees and include BOLD (Black Organization for Leadership and Development), EmPower Women’s Network, Parents Network, ¡PODER! Latin Network, OPEM (Proud to be Myself), Military Veterans and Friends Network, XYZ Network for professional development and STRIVE and IDEA Networks for diversity and inclusion. We continue to promote ENRGs globally by improving participation and sponsorship. ENRGs contribute in three ways:

Encouraging meaningful employee engagement and development of future leaders;

Acting as a resource for attraction and retention of talent; and

Sharing new ideas and perspectives for a changing workforce.

Giving Back to the Community

TechnipFMC is focused on making a long-term, positive impact in the communities where we live and work. We encourage our employees to actively engage in “doing something good'’ through active engagement in health, education, and local employment. Initiatives include our global volunteering program, which encourages employees to perform four hours of volunteering each year at the Company’s expense, and promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics (“STEM”) careers.

Employee Engagement and Well-being

In 2023, we conducted a global employee engagement survey. 73 percent of employees participated in the survey, and there was an improvement in overall engagement score as compared to the previous survey in 2021. This was the result of global actions and communications including a focus on senior leadership engagement through regular webcasts, site visits and quarterly meetings, roll out of a global wellbeing program “Workplace Options,” and regular communication to employees on business prospects and long-term strategy. In addition, engagement survey information was also made available by managers, location and business units, and leaders had access to review results, identify improvement opportunities and put action plans in place.

As committed by our Chair and CEO, we annually mark the month of October as mental health awareness month with several activities to promote awareness. Our 2023 activities included Take 5 Moments, webinars, employees podcasts, a virtual yoga event and a Global Wellbeing Questionnaire, which allows people to learn more about their physical, emotional, and practical well-being. A new Global Wellbeing & Mental Health Viva Engage page was created for employees to stimulate discussions around the topic. Employees around the world are able to share their own stories to better assist and educate us as we continue to push the message that “it’s okay not to be okay.” Our global well-being program from Workplace Options provides all our employees with access to mental health resources, counseling and health coaching.

Internal Communication

We have a robust internal communications strategy and support communication channels that ensure that we communicate with our employees in a timely and effective manner. The effectiveness of internal communication is monitored and adjusted based on various forms of feedback from multiple levels across the Company. Digital tools help us gauge the effectiveness of our digital communication platforms—from email to intranet to internal social media. Employees are regularly consulted and provided with information on changes and events that may affect them through channels such as regular meetings, employee representatives, and the Company’s intranet site. These consultations and meetings ensure that employees are kept informed of the financial and economic factors affecting the Company’s performance and matters of concern to them.

Labor Relations and Collective Agreements

We seek to maintain constructive relationships and regular dialogue and consultation with works councils and trade unions, and to comply with relevant local laws and collective agreements in relation to collective or individual labor relations. The Company’s European Works Council (“EWC”) includes all our eligible European entities and meets at least twice a year with management.

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Information regarding our executive officers called for by Item 401(b) of Regulation S-K is hereby included in Part I, Item 1 “Business” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

The following table indicates the names and ages of our executive officers as of February 27, 2024, including all offices and positions held by each in the past five years:

NameAgeCurrent Position and Business Experience (Start Date)
Douglas J. Pferdehirt (a)60Chair and Chief Executive Officer (2019)Chief Executive Officer (2017)
Alf Melin (a)54Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (2021)Senior Vice President, Finance Operations (2017)Senior Vice President, Surface Americas (2017)
Cristina Aalders (a)43Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary (2023)Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer (2021)Vice President, Legal, Surface Technologies (2019)
Luana Duffé (a)42Executive Vice President, New Energy business (2021)Vice President, Subsea Projects & Commercial and Country Manager for Brazil (2020)Vice President, Subsea Projects and Brazil Country Manager (2019)Vice President, Subsea Strategy (2018)Corporate Development Director (2018)
Nisha Rai (a)48Executive Vice President, People and Culture (2021)Vice President of Total Rewards (2020)Vice President Head of Human Resources of MRC Global (2017)
Justin Rounce (a)57Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (2018)President, Valves & Measurement of Schlumberger Limited (2018)
Jonathan Landes (a)51President, Subsea (2020)Senior Vice President, Subsea Commercial (2017)President, Subsea Projects North America (2017)
Thierry Conti (a)40President, Surface Technologies (2022)Senior Vice President, Subsea Commercial & Strategy (2020)Senior Vice President, Subsea Product Management (2019)
David Light (b)39Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (2023)Vice President, Internal Audit and Controls (2021)Vice President, Integrated Internal Controls (2020)

(a) Member of the Executive Leadership Team and a Rule 3b-7 executive officer and Section 16 officer under the Exchange Act.

(b) Section 16 officer under the Exchange Act.

No family relationships exist among any of the above-listed officers, and there are no arrangements or understandings between any of the above-listed officers and any other person pursuant to which they serve as an officer. During the past 10 years, none of the above-listed officers was involved in any legal proceedings as defined in Item 401(f) of Regulation S-K. All officers are appointed by the Board of Directors to hold office until their successors are appointed.

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