Who owns BENTEC?
BENTEC is owned by Helmerich & Payne (the United States, NYSE: HP), which has owned the brand since 16 January 2025.[1]
Evidence: Helmerich & Payne, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-21, SEC EDGAR, 21 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Helmerich & Payne, Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Tulsa
- Origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- Category
- Energy › Oil & gas › Oilfield services & drilling
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: HP
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About BENTEC
BENTEC is the name H&P announced after 30 September 2025 for the former KCA Deutag Kenera business unit, which has manufacturing and engineering operations at four facilities serving the energy industry. Exhibit 21 lists Bentec GmbH Drilling & Oilfield Systems of Germany as a subsidiary.
What Helmerich & Payne's annual report says about BENTEC
Sentences about BENTEC from Helmerich & Payne's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
KCA Deutag's BENTEC (formally Kenera) business unit comprises manufacturing and engineering operations with four facilities serving the energy industry.
The BENTEC name, already recognized in the market, will now represent all products and services previously associated with Kenera and its sub-brands.
Accordingly, throughout this document and in future references, Kenera will be referred to as BENTEC .
How often Helmerich & Payne names BENTEC in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of BENTEC
- 2025 – present Helmerich & Payne [1] verified
Where BENTEC sits in Helmerich & Payne
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Helmerich & Payne
Helmerich & Payne controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in energy.
Also in energy
Other brands in oilfield services & drilling, and who owns them
The 17 brands in oilfield services & drilling on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is Tenaris, with 4; Helmerich & Payne has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Algoma Tubes | Tenaris | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg |
| Bently Nevada | Baker Hughes | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Pintail Completions | RPC | 🇺🇸 United States |
| ChampionX | SLB | 🇺🇸 United States |
| FlexSteel | Cactus | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Citadel Casing Solutions | Innovex | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Ulterra | Patterson-UTI | 🇺🇸 United States |
| PROPWR | ProPetro | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Helmerich & Payne
Helmerich & Payne is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tulsa, United States. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: HP.
Helmerich & Payne is a Delaware company in Tulsa that its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K says was incorporated on 3 February 1940 as successor to a business organised in 1920. On 16 January 2025 it completed the acquisition of the entire share capital of KCA Deutag International Limited for about $2.0 billion including debt repaid.
Helmerich & Payne: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇩🇪 BENTEC and other German brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 243 brands that began in Germany. 90 of them (37%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, BENTEC among them.
- ADS-TEC Energy — ADS-TEC Energy 🇮🇪
- Aral — bp 🇬🇧
- 3 Glocken — Princes Group 🇬🇧
- A. Lange & Söhne — Richemont 🇨🇭
- AEG — Electrolux 🇸🇪
- ALCINA — Dr. Wolff Group 🇩🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of BENTEC?
The parent company of BENTEC is Helmerich & Payne, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is BENTEC German or American?
BENTEC originated in Germany, but it is owned today by Helmerich & Payne, which is headquartered in the United States. So BENTEC is a German-origin brand under American ownership.
Since when has Helmerich & Payne owned BENTEC?
Helmerich & Payne has owned BENTEC since 16 January 2025.
Is BENTEC still owned by Helmerich & Payne?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, BENTEC is still owned by Helmerich & Payne. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Helmerich & Payne, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-21 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 21 November 2025; retrieved 5 October 2026.
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