Kodiak Gas Services, LLC

Kodiak equipment is always running. Our compressors don’t quit and neither do we.  That’s why Kodiak has grown to provide over 1.5 million in revenue-generating horsepower to the nation’s most productive basins. With each installation comes dedicated mechanical and technical support that guarantees unparalleled uptime.  But it’s not the size of Kodiak that gives us strength, it’s our integrity. From the very beginning, Kodiak has dedicated ourselves to the principle that client, company, coworkers and community can all succeed together.

Not only is every job planned and executed with decades of experience, Kodiak is just as devoted to the safety, training, and development of our indispensable and diverse workforce. This positions Kodiak to magnanimously contribute to youth sports, aid military families, and even lend support to a coworker in a time of crisis.

HISTORY

Kodiak Gas Services, LLC (Kodiak) was formed in May of 2010 with the intent of becoming a provider of “true” contract compression services differentiating ourselves from other compression companies at the time. In June of 2011, Kodiak partnered with the Stephens Group, a private equity group out of Little Rock, Arkansas, to fund future growth. With our new financial backer in place, Kodiak set our first two compression units in January of 2012.  Kodiak’s service model, providing 24/7 access to technical and mechanical support, and our industry-leading runtime of >99.5% helped Kodiak garner strong relationships with customers in the upstream and midstream segments of the oil and gas market.

With these relationships in place, over the next five years Kodiak grew from those first two compression units to become the third largest contract compression services provider, and the largest privately-held compression services provider in the world.  In February of 2019, Kodiak proved again why we are “best-in-class” when we attracted the attention of an infrastructure fund managed by EQT Partners, Inc., becoming the first contract compression services provider backed by an infrastructure fund. With our new partner in place, Kodiak is poised to continue its unprecedented growth while maintaining focus on safety, customer service, and our most important resource: our employees.

Kodiak separates ourselves from rental compression by taking a partnership approach with all of our customers: 

• Full-service contract compression services
• 24 / 7 / 365 first call coverage, parts and maintenance
• Industry-preferred packages
• Fixed-fee based contracts
• 98% mechanical availability guarantee that includes scheduled maintenance

Kodiak’s Monthly Gas Compression Services Charge includes:

• Complete flange to flange responsibility of Kodiak’s equipment, reducing risk and overall capital investment
• 1st callout on every unit (no charge or extra fees for non-compressor related callouts)
• Installation and startup (no additional installation/startup charges)
• All parts failures not a result of liquid carryover, contaminated gas, or bad fuel
• All wear parts/daily consumables
• All lube oil and antifreeze

MIDSTREAM INFRASTRUCTURE

• Pad drilling allows for midstream companies to create large networks of low-pressure gathering systems that require large compressor stations.
• Compressor stations consist of one or more compressors that boost the pressure of gas coming from the location in order to move it to processing facilities.
• From processing facilities, fractionated methane is transported to end markets including gas utility lines, industrial applications, and LNG plants.
  
  

PRODUCTION INFRASTRUCTURE

• With the rise of shale oil and the proliferation of hydraulic fracking, the need for compression in oil production has risen dramatically in recent years and is required immediately after the completion of a well in certain basins.
• The proliferation of pad drilling, and the economies of scale (i.e., using a multi-stage, large-horsepower compressor versus several small horsepower compressors), has led to the growth of multi-well gas lift applications.
• Multi-well gas lift has become the preferred method of artificial lift for many producers and is an integral part of producers’ drilling and completion plans, driving demand for larger HP solutions offered by Kodiak.
• All the above has made gas-lift systems closer to the scale and scope of “traditional” midstream systems.