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Why invest in Petrofac?

We enable our clients to meet the world's evolving energy needs. The long-term fundamentals of our business are sound, and our strategy remains valid – enabling Petrofac to build on established strengths, enhance competitiveness, maintain resilience and, through our newly-created new energies business, pursue the opportunities presented by the energy transition. 

Our competitive differentiation 

Leading international service provider to the energy industry
  • Petrofac designs, builds, manages and maintains oil, gas, refining, petrochemicals and renewable energy infrastructure 
  • We are a trusted partner to a diverse portfolio of clients, providing a flexible offering of services and commercial models 
  • Our purpose is to enable our clients to meet the world’s evolving energy needs 
  • Our four values – driven; agile; respectful; open – are at the heart of everything we do

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Well positioned in resilient markets, with an attractive growth opportunities
  • Leading presence in our addressable MENA markets, which enjoy some of the lowest marginal costs of production in the world and resilient spending on energy infrastructure through the cycle 
  • Leading presence in the UK North Sea, where essential operations and maintenance activity provides a durable baseline of revenue 
  • Successfully diversifying our bidding pipeline into geographies beyond our core markets, like India, South East Asia, Africa, CIS, Europe and the US 

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Differentiated client offering for the energy transition
  • Rapidly growing addressable markets where Petrofac has the necessary capabilities and track record from its oil & gas experience, including: offshore wind, hydrogen, CCUS and waste-to-value  
  • Unique life-of-asset service, with the capabilities to take a project from concept through to EPC delivery and then operations, giving the customer a single technical and delivery interface 
  • Targeting US$1 billion revenue in the medium term and continued strong growth thereafter
Strong competitive position underpins sector-leading margins
  • Exceptional track record of safe, reliable, and innovative execution built over several decades 
  • Cost effective and local delivery model with a strong focus on incountry value 
  • Best-in-class delivery being enhanced through simplifying organisation, creating an optimal structure supported by technology, efficient processes, and local, customer-focused delivery to a global standard  

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Financial position
  • Capital light business model and targeting return to a net cash position  
  • Strong liquidity 
  • Clear, disciplined capital allocation framework 

Our strategy at a glance

We are confident that our strategy, underpinned by an operating model that drives consistency, efficiency and stringent assurance, will position us well to capitalise on a range of diverse growth opportunities that will deliver superior returns and value to all stakeholders over the medium term. 

Our strategy encompasses: best-in-class delivery, return to growth, and superior returns.    

Best-in-class delivery
  • Simplify the organisation 
  • Global capability, local execution 
  • Digitally enabled 
  • Strategic partnerships/technology neutral 
Return to growth
  • Customer centric approach 
  • Rebuild backlog 
  • Selective growth in new geographies
  • Leverage capabilities in new energies 
Superior returns
  • Enhanced risk management framework 
  • Deliver premium margins, consistently 
  • Capital light business model 
  • Maintain strong balance sheet 

Our new operating model and structure entail a single Group-wide technical services organisation, which delivers functional excellence to all Petrofac projects and operations globally. It is supplemented by a standalone, self-governing assurance function. 

Return to growth in the medium term 

We believe Petrofac remains a compelling investment proposition, driven by sustained recovery in addressable core markets, geographic diversification to target new market opportunities, and accelerated growth in new energies. 

MEDIUM TERM

c.US$4-5bn

Group revenue

c.US1bn

Energy Transition revenue

>20%

Revenue contribution from New Energy

Net cash

Strong balance sheet

Financial performance 

You can find our financial performance for the last five years below. 

 

2023  

20222  

20212  

20202 

2019 

Revenue (US$ million) 

2,496

2,567

3,038

4,066 

5,530 

Backlog (US$ billion) 

8.1

3.4

4.0

5.0 

7.4 

EBITDA (US$ million)1 

(310)

(150)

56

211 

559 

EBIT (US$ million)1 

(393)

(229)

(12)

88

426

  1. Business performance before separately disclosed items 
  2. The prior year numbers are restated as detailed in the Annual report and accounts