KCA DEUTAG
| KCA Deutag Drilling Limited
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| legal form | Limited |
| founding | 1888 |
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Aberdeen United Kingdom
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| Number of employees | 8,000 |
| sales | 2,156,000,000 US dollars ( 2013 ) |
| Branch | mineral oil and natural gas |
| Website | www.kcadeutag.com |
KCA Deutag is an international service company for various services in connection with the exploration and production of crude oil , natural gas and geothermal energy , based in Aberdeen .
history
KCA was founded in 1957 as Keir & Cawder Arrow Drilling Company, changed its name to Keir & Cawder Amscot Drilling Company in 1965 and then took the name of KCA Drilling Ltd. two years later. on.
The company has always been in the land drilling business; The first areas of operation were Turkey and Libya . In 1962, KCA drilled its first UK well for BP in Whitby . From 1973 to 1974, KCA employees sank the first exploration well in the Wytch Farm field ( Dorset ).
But the main focus of the KCA's activities in recent years has been in the British North Sea . The company has had an important position there since the contract was awarded to operate the Alpha platform - the first in the Forties field.
Deutag was founded in 1888 by the drilling engineer Heinrich Lapp, who initially gave the company his name. The company was based in Aschersleben - a city in which potash and lignite mining were important.
The name Deutsche Tiefbohr-Aktiengesellschaft (Deutag) was first mentioned in 1919 after the economic crisis caused by the First World War . In 1921 the company was taken over by C. Deilmann Bergbau GmbH . Carl Deilmann, a mining and drilling engineer, owned numerous companies. Deutag remained in the possession of the Deilmann family until 1990, when it was sold to Preussag .
In the mid-1930s, Deutag first drilled near Bad Bentheim . The first Northern European gas field was discovered.
After the Second World War , Deutag and its parent company moved the company headquarters to Bad Bentheim and became the city's largest employer.
In 1963 the company helped to rescue 14 miners who had been buried in the Lengede mine disaster .
In October 2001, KCA DEUTAG was taken over by the Abbot Group. In 2008 the Abbot Group was taken over by the First Reserve Corporation .
Individual evidence
- ↑ KCA Deutag Alpha Limited Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2013. (PDF) Retrieved on April 4, 2018 (English).
- ^ C. Deilmann - Company history