Baker Hughes Co. expects to score a few orders for liquefied natural gas (LNG) equipment before year’s end, with a double-digit growth forecast for 2022, CEO Lorenzo Simonelli said Wednesday.

Simonelli and CFO Brian Worrell shared a microphone to detail for investors the 3Q2021 performance. Some “challenges” hit the bottom during the quarter, Simonelli said, partly because of supply chain issues, mirroring in part what Halliburton Co. reported Tuesday in its quarterly conference call. 

Challenges aside, Simonelli said the outlook is positive into 2022 for orders in the Turbomachinery & Process Solutions (TPS) segment, which houses the LNG infrastructure business.

“We do expect as was mentioned that we’ll see double-digit order growth in 2022,” the CEO said. “A lot...