(WO) – Axis Power Providers LLC and Brigade Power Providers LLC collectively introduced the closing of an settlement to merge and type the nation’s largest and most modern effectively servicing firm with the best-trained workforce.
The merger combines two high-growth organizations which have pioneered new methods to create worth for an oil and pure gasoline business in search of to turn into extra environment friendly, agile, and sustainable amidst altering market and societal situations.
The brand new group is called Axis Power Providers LLC and can stay headquartered in Dallas.
The transaction elevates Axis because the nation’s main firm for completion companies, workover options and plug and abandonment operations. Axis now boasts greater than 1,700 staff and 200 energetic and marketable workover rigs, which stands out as the largest single fleet within the business. Axis additionally maintains a market-leading support-equipment operation that features 50 cement pump vehicles, 26 wireline vehicles, 15 snubbing items, almost 200 pumps and a sizeable fleet of BOPs and pipe handlers.
The mixed firm has a powerful presence within the nation’s main oilfields – together with the Permian, Haynesville, Eagle Ford, Utica/Marcellus, Bakken and the broader Rockies — and might shortly deploy to virtually any location within the continental U.S.
“The mix of Axis and Brigade begins a brand new chapter within the historical past of effectively service,” mentioned Axis CEO Ryan Phillips. “Each corporations share an identical origin story with missions to fill essential gaps in oilfield companies. We stay up for forming a corporation that’s much more scaled, modern and workforce-ready as operator consolidation continues, main producers to demand extra from their suppliers. Our mixed firm is healthier in a position to meet these wants.”
Brigade CEO Justin Bliffen mentioned, “This merger not solely will increase scale for our more and more concentrated and bigger North American clients but additionally combines finest practices from each corporations round knowledge analytics, innovation, personnel coaching and expertise administration.”
Bliffen continued, “Collectively we’ll create a stronger firm that’s much more data-driven and disciplined in how staff and leaders are vetted, skilled and deployed for optimum efficiency and security.”
The merger comes on the heels of Axis’ profitable rollout of the business’s first totally electrical effectively service rig, which is at present engaged on wells operated by Occidental. Axis’ EPIC (Electrical-Powered Intervention & Completion) Rig ushered in new enhancements in security and effectivity, along with the power to run on grid energy for diminished emissions and elevated gasoline flexibility.
“This merger is occurring when each corporations are hitting new strides with progress and efficiency,” mentioned Phillips. “Combining our histories, our property and our visions will multiply our affect on behalf of the nation’s main operators.”