New Fortress Energy Inc. reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2020. NFE also announced that its Board of Directors has declared a first quarter 2021 common stock dividend of $0.10 per Class A common share.
Business Highlights
- Announced 3 separate transactions for $5.1bn enterprise value
- Acquiring Hygo Energy Transition Ltd., which includes Brazil’s largest thermal power plant and 3 Operational(1) or In Development(2) terminals. These terminals are expected to be Operational within 12 months.
- Acquiring Golar LNG Partners LP, which includes stable, contracted cash flows from 13 vessels. Once released from current contracts, these vessels will serve as NFE’s logistics backbone for terminal operations.
- Developing Suape Terminal – NFE acquired 288 MW of PPAs and is developing a terminal at the port of Suape that has material growth prospects and access to the TAG pipeline market.
- Transactions would bring NFE’s total Operational or In Development terminals from five to nine.
- Our projects in Mexico and Nicaragua are expected to be Operational in Q2 2021
- We were awarded a supply contract by CFE to supply ~250k gallons per day (“GPD”) of LNG replacing their high cost diesel; first gas is expected in Q2 2021.
- We are finalizing a framework agreement for a terminal in Southeast Asia that is expected to begin operations in 2H 2021.
Developing long-term fixed price LNG supply
- Acquiring 50% of the common units of Golar Hilli LLC, the disponent owner of the 2.4 MTPA floating liquefier, Hilli, through the GMLP acquisition.
- Announcing FID(3) on floating liquefaction solution (“Fast LNG”) that is expected to be Operational by end of 2022.
- Significant volume growth – over 5.1 million GPD Committed(4) with over 15 million GPD of In Discussion Volumes(5)
- Our Board of Directors approved a dividend of $0.10 per share, with a record date of March 26, 2021 and a payment date of March 31, 2021
Fast LNG
NFE announced that it has made a final investment decision (“FID”) on an innovative “Fast LNG” 1.4 million tonnes per annum capacity modular liquefaction facility to provide a low-cost supply of liquefied natural gas for its growing customer base. The “Fast LNG” design pairs the latest advancements in modular, midsize liquefaction technology with jack up rigs or similar floating infrastructure to enable a much lower cost and faster deployment schedule than today’s floating liquefaction vessels. A permanently moored FSU will serve as an LNG storage facility alongside the floating liquefaction infrastructure, which can be deployed anywhere there is abundant and stranded natural gas.
“Our innovative Fast LNG liquefiers should allow us to produce LNG between an expected $3-4 MMBtu for our growing portfolio of terminals around the world,” said NFE CEO and Chairman Wes Edens. “This technology can be installed quickly and cheaply to access stranded, low-cost natural gas at a fixed price to meet the global demand for more affordable, reliable and cleaner energy. Alongside our terrific partners, we look forward to deploying one of the world’s lowest-cost LNG production facilities by 2022.”
NFE has issued a limited notice to proceed to Fluor, Chart Industries Inc. and Baker Hughes Company for the construction of the first “Fast LNG” project, which is anticipated to become Operational in an estimated 20 months.
Financial Highlights
- Record quarterly revenue of $145.7 million, increasing $8.8 million from Q3 2020
- Net loss was $0.5 million, as compared to the Q3 2020 net loss of $36.7 million
- Operating Margin*(6) was over $60 million, representing 42% of revenue in Q4 2020, improving from 38% of revenue in Q3 2020
- Average daily volumes sold in Q4 2020 were approximately 1.4 million GPD
- In December 2020, issued $250.0 million of 6.75% senior secured notes, at a premium for net proceeds of $259 million
- Issued 5,882,352 shares of Class A common stock and received proceeds of $290.8 million