Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. is a provider and operator of large horsepower contract compression infrastructure in the U.S.
The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary is Kodiak Gas Services, LLC (Kodiak Services). On April 1, 2024, the company completed the acquisition of CSI Compressco LP (CSI Compressco), pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement.
On September 12, 2024, the company sold certain property, plant, and equipment, and other assets in the U.S., as well as its legal entity in Canada, t...
Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. is a provider and operator of large horsepower contract compression infrastructure in the U.S.
The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary is Kodiak Gas Services, LLC (Kodiak Services). On April 1, 2024, the company completed the acquisition of CSI Compressco LP (CSI Compressco), pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement.
On September 12, 2024, the company sold certain property, plant, and equipment, and other assets in the U.S., as well as its legal entity in Canada, to a third-party buyer. The majority of the operations were included in the Contract Services segment through the date of sale.
On December 9, 2024, the company sold certain assets and its legal entity in Argentina. The transaction constituted the sale of a business for accounting purposes.
In connection with the CSI Acquisition, the company re-evaluated its reportable segments. As a result, the company’s business is managed through the following two operating segments: Contract Services and Other Services.
The company’s Contract Services and related services are critical to its customers’ ability to reliably produce, gather, and transport natural gas and oil. The company is a market leader in the Permian Basin, which is the largest producing natural gas and oil basin in the U.S. It operates large horsepower compression units under fixed-revenue term contracts with many upstream and midstream customers. When properly maintained, its compression assets have long useful lives, consistent with the expected production lives of the key regions where it operates. Furthermore, the company maintains an intense focus on being one of the most sustainable and responsible operators of contract compression infrastructure.
The company’s other services (‘Other Services’) consist of a broad range of services to support the needs of its customers, including station construction, customer-owned compression maintenance and overhaul, freight and crane charges, parts sales, and other ancillary time and material-based offerings. The company’s Other Services offerings are often cross-sold with Contract Services.
The company focuses on and is an industry leader in large horsepower compression. Approximately 78% of the company’s 4.4 million overall fleet horsepower is categorized as large horsepower, which the company defines as horsepower in an amount greater than 1,000 arising from a single unit. Due to lower initial reservoir pressures, production from unconventional resources, such as the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale requires significantly more compression horsepower than from conventional production. This need for additional horsepower in those regions supports the company’s large horsepower strategy. Additionally, increased demand for large horsepower infrastructure is driven by multi-well pad drilling, overall well density, and large-scale gathering systems.
The combination of the reliability and critical nature of the company’s assets, the strong capabilities of its workforce, the strength of its customer relationships and contract structures, and its market leadership in the prolific Permian Basin have resulted in historically high fleet utilization for the company. The company is focused on being a resilient and sustainable enterprise. Finally, it operates its business with integrity and ethics and maintains a corporate governance structure that includes appropriate oversight and transparency in all aspects of its operations.
Operations
The company’s business model is focused on large horsepower Contract Services, which is central to its customers’ efforts to meet the expected growing natural gas and oil demand from the Permian Basin and other regions in the U.S. Large horsepower Contract Services tend to garner longer-term contracts than small horsepower Contract Services, and as a result, large horsepower Contract Services provide the company with better predictability of revenues and cash flows. The company’s focus on customer service in top-tier regions, and the critical nature of its assets results in long-term customer relationships and enhanced financial stability for its business.
The company’s preventative and predictive maintenance and overhaul programs are designed to maximize mechanical availability and extend the useful lives of its assets over multiple decades. The company’s highly standardized fleet also enables streamlined and systematic training and on-site maintenance, which contributes to increased equipment reliability and mechanical availability. It continues to implement advanced systems to proactively analyze and monitor the operating conditions of its equipment, with a focus on maximizing uptime.
The company’s customers will continue to outsource all or a portion of their compression infrastructure needs, allowing them to limit their capital investments in compression equipment and increase their free cash flow or deploy capital on projects directly related to their core businesses. By outsourcing compression infrastructure, customers can efficiently address their changing compression requirements over time. Additionally, the company’s customers benefit from the technical skills of its specialized personnel, and its focus on reliability and emissions reduction helps them advance their sustainability goals.
Business Segments
The company’s business is organized into two reportable segments: Contract Services and Other Services.
Contract Services consists of operating company-owned and customer-owned compression and gas treating and cooling infrastructure to enable the production, gathering, processing, and transportation of natural gas and oil.
Other Services consists of a broad range of services to support the needs of the company’s customers, including station construction, customer-owned compression maintenance and overhaul, freight and crane charges, parts sales, and other ancillary time and material-based offerings.
The company’s Other Services offerings are often cross-sold with Contract Services.
Assets
The company’s compression asset base includes both high-quality, large, and medium & small horsepower units. These assets serve as essential infrastructure in high-volume gas gathering systems, processing facilities, multi-well gas lift applications, and natural gas transmission systems. The horsepower its fleet provides is characterized by a focus on large horsepower compression units, which aligns with the evolving industry demand for such units. Large compression units enable multi-well pad development, reduce downtime, improve overall unit economics, and provide lower emissions per horsepower relative to small horsepower compression units.
The company has standardized its fleet and operational processes, creating an effective fleet maintenance program and spare parts inventory, as well as an efficient and resilient supply chain. Additionally, the company’s assets are designed to serve a wide variety of large horsepower applications, such as gathering, processing, and transportation of natural gas, and centralized gas lift of oil.
Key Areas of Operation
The company strategically focuses on deploying its compression assets in leading onshore U.S. regions with superior hydrocarbon well and long production horizons.
As of December 31, 2024, approximately 82% of the company’s compression assets were deployed in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale, which the United States Energy Information Administration (‘EIA’) expects to maintain significant production volumes through at least 2050. These two regions have some of the largest and lowest-cost unconventional resources in the U.S. Additionally, there are significant liquefied natural gas (‘LNG’) export projects in development, and overall, the U.S. LNG export capacity is expected to double by 2030, according to the EIA. The company expects this to translate into continued Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale natural gas production growth, requiring substantial additional compression horsepower. In addition to the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale, the company has assets located in the Powder River Basin, Mid-Continent Region, DJ Basin, Appalachian Basin, Barnett Shale / East Texas Region, and Black Warrior Basin.
Customers
The company has developed long-term commercial relationships with premier upstream and midstream customers in its key areas of operations. The company prioritizes maintaining a high level of mechanical availability, which maximizes total customer operational uptime and revenue stability.
The company has developed a systematic and selective customer evaluation methodology, based on key criteria that include customers' credit rating, size, and geological asset quality. For the year ended December 31, 2024, the company’s four largest customers accounted for approximately 32% of its total revenues. Each of these customers is a S&P 500 constituent and investment grade-rated upstream or midstream company active in the Permian Basin. There was one customer accounting for more than 10% of total revenues in 2024.
Marketing and Sales
The company’s marketing and customer service functions are performed on a coordinated basis by its sales and operations teams. Sales, fleet, and operations personnel analyze and scope new compression applications. Additionally, the company’s salespeople regularly visit its customers to ensure customer satisfaction, to determine a customer’s needs related to existing Contract Services being provided, and to determine the customer’s future compression requirements. This ongoing communication allows the company to quickly identify and respond to its customers’ compression requirements and gives it significant insight into their activities.
Suppliers and Service Providers
The company relies primarily on a small number of key vendors to manufacture, package, and assemble its compression equipment. Although the company relies primarily on these suppliers, alternative sources for natural gas compression equipment are generally available if needed.
Governmental Regulation
The company is in substantial compliance with the Endangered Specifies Act.
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (‘RCRA’) and comparable state laws control the management and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste. These laws and regulations govern the generation, storage, treatment, transfer, and disposal of wastes that the company generates, including, but not limited to, used oil, antifreeze, filters, sludges, paint, solvents, and sandblast materials. The EPA and various state agencies have limited the approved methods of disposal for these types of wastes.
The Occupational Safety and Health Act (‘OSHA’) and comparable state laws and regulations govern the protection of the health and safety of employees. The OSHA hazard communication standard, the EPA community right-to-know regulations under Title III of CERCLA, and similar state statutes and regulations require that the company organize and, as necessary, disclose information about hazardous materials used or produced in its operations to various federal, state, and local agencies, as well as employees. Other OSHA standards regulate specific worker safety aspects of its operations.
History
Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. was founded in 2010. The company was incorporated in 2018.