senor_c
44 minutes ago
My educated guess, based on the comments of the CEO and some of the reports, is that each vessel will be a separate company (LLC for now), and my thinking is that they will all be listed as assets under the parent of Delfin Midstream (including the Avocet vessels and so on), so they won't need to merge. I suspect that they will want to maintain majority ownership of each vessel (or subsidiary company), with the option to buy out an investor or minority owner when the time comes. I think people were originally upset by my theory because they didn't understand the parent/subsidiary concept and that a public parent company can have private subsidiaries, which I maintain will be the case here. It does not change how the parent (Delfin Midstream) would use TGLO to go public.
senor_c
7 hours ago
There's an old post of mine (that no one liked) that went into some of these details. The idea is that each ship will be set up as their own individual subsidiary of Delfin Midstream - a separate company. Also, a while back, I researched the Delaware Business site and found Delfin FLNG 1 LLC. My feeling is that they will create separate LLCs (e.g., FLNG 2 LLC, FLNG 3 LLC, etc) for each vessel. We've seen some third parties already take some investment stake in FLNG 1, so that's not new. I want to say it was MOL (maybe Devon has the option?). Also, we have no idea how the Pyletech investment is being used (although there is a short summary on their site: https://www.pyletech.com/portfolio-item/energy/).
The R/M would be for the parent company, Delfin Midstream - not the subs. I have kids to cart around, but I'll look for that post to see if it refreshes my memory.
chen1992
7 hours ago
I was re-reading the MARAD denial from April 2024 and it states, “Delfin was to own and operate the FLNGVs under the license. As discussed in several meetings with the Delfin project team, Delfin now proposes to have the FLNGVs, which are critical to port operations, potentially owned, financed, and operated by third parties other than Delfin.”
Who could those third parties be if Delfin no longer plans to own or operate them directly? And how does that affect R/M?