KCA Deutag Drilling Ltd

KCA DEUTAG is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Abbot Group. In March 2008, Abbot Group plc was acquired by First Reserve Corporation, a US-based private equity firm. As a consequence, Abbot Group plc was re-registered as a private company and changed its name to Abbot Group Limited. KCA DEUTAG’s headquarters are in Aberdeen, Scotland. KCA has a major hub office in Bad Bentheim, Germany, where its central technical support function is located, and regional offices in all of its key operational areas - Russia, the Middle East, the Caspian region and Norway.

KCA DEUTAG is one of the few contractors with its own facilities and engineering services group, RDS, which has a workforce of 500 with a track record spanning 30 years, making it one of the leading providers of greenfield and brownfield rig design engineering for platforms and mobile units. Currently KCA DEUTAG is responsible for over 30 managed offshore platforms in the North Sea, Caspian, Angola, and Sakhalin. KCA DEUTAG also own and operate the North Sea’s only modular drilling and well workover rig, and have 10 mobile offshore drilling units (MODU) under management, including three wholly-owned jack-up rigs, and four part-owned and three managed self-erect tender assist rigs.