Who owns KCA Deutag?
KCA Deutag 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
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Category
- Energy › Oil & gas › Oilfield services & drilling
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: HP
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About KCA Deutag
KCA Deutag is a global drilling company with a substantial land drilling presence in the Middle East and offshore management contracts in the North Sea, Angola, Azerbaijan and Canada. H&P completed its acquisition of KCA Deutag International Limited on 16 January 2025.
What Helmerich & Payne's annual report says about KCA Deutag
Sentences about KCA Deutag from Helmerich & Payne's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
KCA Deutag Acquisition On January 16, 2025 (the "Closing Date" or "Acquisition Date"), H&P completed its acquisition of the entire issued share capital (the "Acquisition") of KCA Deutag International Limited ("KCA Deutag") pursuant to the Sale and Purchase Agreement (the "Purchase Agreement").
H&P paid aggregate cash consideration of approximately $2.0 billion, which consisted of the share purchase price of $0.9 billion and $1.1 billion which was used to contemporaneously repay or redeem certain of KCA Deutag's existing debt, including, as applicable, the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest, premiums, and fees.
KCA Deutag's BENTEC (formally Kenera) business unit comprises manufacturing and engineering operations with four facilities serving the energy industry.
How often Helmerich & Payne names KCA Deutag 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 KCA Deutag
- 2025 – present Helmerich & Payne [1] verified
Where KCA Deutag 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.
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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 →
🇬🇧 KCA Deutag and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 543 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 282 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, KCA Deutag among them.
- British Gas — Centrica 🇬🇧
- Calor — SHV Energy 🇳🇱
- Castrol — bp 🇬🇧
- Ceres Power — Ceres Power 🇬🇧
- Certas Energy — DCC 🇮🇪
- Cruachan Power Station — Drax 🇬🇧
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of KCA Deutag?
The parent company of KCA Deutag is Helmerich & Payne, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is KCA Deutag British or American?
KCA Deutag originated in the United Kingdom, but it is owned today by Helmerich & Payne, which is headquartered in the United States. So KCA Deutag is a British-origin brand under American ownership.
Since when has Helmerich & Payne owned KCA Deutag?
Helmerich & Payne has owned KCA Deutag since 16 January 2025.
Is KCA Deutag still owned by Helmerich & Payne?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, KCA Deutag 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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