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KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc. helps oil and gas companies drill wells, prepare them for production and keep them operating. Customers pay for field services, equipment rentals and specialized products. Completion work—preparing a drilled well to produce oil or gas—generates most revenue. This includes coiled tubing, which feeds a continuous length of pipe into a well for servicing, and PhantM dissolvable plugs. KLX supports customers’ hydraulic-fracturing work but does not perform fracturing itself.
Its other work includes steering wells during drilling, maintaining producing wells and retrieving tools or pipe stuck underground. Customers are mainly major and large independent oil and gas companies operating in U.S. onshore basins. No single customer dominates revenue, but the business is concentrated in the energy industry.
Demand depends on customers’ drilling, completion and maintenance spending, which responds strongly to current and expected oil and gas prices. Delivering the work requires skilled technicians and available, maintained equipment. Some activities require government permits, while debt agreements limit borrowing, investments and certain transactions.
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Nine Energy Service and KLX compete for producers’ spending on preparing unconventional oil and gas wells for production, supplying completion services and downhole tools. Watch Nine’s North American completion work and tool sales for signs of demand in KLX’s competing businesses, rather than its international tool sales.
RPC competes with KLX for oil and gas companies’ wellsite service and equipment-rental work, including proprietary tools used through well tubing to address downhole problems. RPC’s new downhole tools are worth watching against KLX’s own well-intervention offering.
Ranger Energy Services competes with KLX for U.S. producers’ spending on wireline, coiled tubing, equipment rentals and well maintenance. Ranger’s work supporting horizontal-well completions, complex repairs and routine maintenance offers a read on the customer activity behind KLX’s overlapping services.
Patterson-UTI and KLX compete to steer wells along planned paths and prepare them for production, selling directional-drilling and completion services to oil and gas producers. Patterson-UTI’s completion-services results are a closer comparison for KLX’s completion business than its drill-bit sales.
Halliburton competes with KLX for oil and gas producers’ drilling, completion, pressure-control and well-intervention work. Its Completion and Production segment, which includes cementing and intervention services, is the part to watch for overlap with KLX’s work preparing and servicing wells.
ProPetro competes with KLX for Permian Basin producers’ wireline, cementing and pressure-pumping work. Its wireline and cementing results offer a focused comparison for completion demand in KLX’s Southwest segment, which includes the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford.
Liberty Energy and KLX compete for onshore oil and gas producers’ wireline and pressure-pumping completion work. Watch Liberty’s North American completion-services results for demand in those shared services, while remembering that its business also includes sand, gas processing and delivery.
Drilling Tools International competes with KLX to rent tools for horizontal and directional oil and gas drilling. Its North American rental business is the relevant comparison: customers rent different tools as formations, drilling methods, depths and hole sizes change.
Oil States competes with KLX to supply equipment and crews for customers’ well-completion and production work. Watch its Completion and Production Services business, where daily charges depend on equipment type, job complexity and length, rather than its offshore manufactured products.
ProFrac competes with KLX for North American unconventional oil and gas producers’ pressure-pumping and other completion work. Its Stimulation Services results are the closest comparison, while its in-house sand, chemicals and equipment manufacturing show how it packages competing completion offerings.
Nabors competes with KLX to steer demanding oil and gas wells and take measurements while drilling. Watch those services, which producers pay for on top of Nabors’ rig charges, rather than treating its rig revenue as a direct comparison for KLX.
Innovex competes with KLX to sell engineered downhole products and rent tools deployed at producers’ well sites. Watch its product sales and tool rentals to operators; Innovex also sells to service companies to fill product gaps, so those sales are not all direct competition with KLX.
Select Water Solutions overlaps with KLX in handling fluids returning from wells, testing wells, providing accommodations and renting equipment to U.S. oil and gas operators. Its Water Services results are the relevant comparison for these activities, not its water infrastructure or chemicals businesses.
TETRA Technologies overlaps with KLX in handling fluids that return from wells during completion, serving oil and gas producers. Its Water & Flowback Services results are the closer comparison for KLX’s flowback work, rather than its completion-fluid products.
SLB competes with KLX for producers’ well-construction, reservoir-performance and production-related service spending. Its Well Construction, Reservoir Performance and Production Systems divisions are the relevant businesses to follow for that overlap, rather than its digital offerings.
Baker Hughes competes with KLX to provide oilfield customers with drilling, wireline, completion, intervention and pressure-control products and services. Watch its Oilfield Services & Equipment business for this overlap; its Industrial & Energy Technology business serves a much broader set of energy and industrial markets.
ProPetro Holding Corp. earningsPUMP
ProPetro Holding Corp.’s report will show how much Permian producers are spending on completion work such as wireline and cementing, services that also compete with KLX Energy Services’ Southwest business.
Focus on ProPetro’s wireline and cementing results, alongside any disclosed activity or pricing measures. Strong results with activity or pricing holding firm would suggest producers are still spending on this completion work, supporting demand and pricing conditions for KLX Energy Services’ Southwest business. Weaker results with activity or pricing falling would point to softer demand or tougher bids, putting pressure on KLX’s revenue and margins in that business.
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KLX Energy Services’ report will show whether customer spending on completion and other services is covering equipment and labor costs well enough to ease its losses.
Read revenue alongside cost of sales as a share of revenue, and watch how completion revenue changes. Steady or rising revenue with a falling cost share means more equipment and labor costs are being absorbed by activity, allowing the operating loss to narrow. Falling revenue with a rising cost share means activity is not covering fixed costs, deepening losses and pressure on cash for debt service.
