---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-083508"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KGS"
cik: "0001767042"
company_name: "Kodiak Gas Services, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T04:47:32.469516+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kodiak Gas completes acquisition of CSI Compressco, forming largest contract compression fleet

## Summary
- Kodiak acquired CSI Compressco LP on April 1, 2024; CSI unitholders received 0.086 Kodiak shares per common unit.
- Certain CSI unitholders elected to receive OpCo units and Series A preferred stock; 64,003,027 units elected that option.
- Kodiak issued ~5.56M shares of Series A preferred stock; OpCo units redeemable for common stock after 6-month lock-up.
- CEO Mickey McKee says deal creates industry's largest contract compression fleet, expanding in Permian and Eagle Ford.
- CSI Compressco units cease trading on NASDAQ; Kodiak shares continue on NYSE.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-083508
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KGS
- cik: 0001767042
- company_name: Kodiak Gas Services, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 5.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767042/000119312524083508/0001193125-24-083508-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767042/000119312524083508/d795281d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Kodiak Gas Services, Inc.: Filing of Certificate of Designation of Series A Preferred Stock with the Delaware Secretary of State establishing the rights, preferences, and limitations of the Series A Preferred Stock (effective 2024-03-28).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2024-03-28
  source text: On March 28, 2024, Kodiak filed the Certificate of Designation of Series A Preferred Stock (the “Certificate of Designation”) with the Delaware Secretary of State.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767042/000119312524083508/0001193125-24-083508-index.htm
- M&A Transactions
  Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. completed an acquisition involving CSI Compressco LP (closed 2024-04-01).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: CSI Compressco LP
  - Closing: 2024-04-01
  source text: On April 1, 2024 (the “Closing Date”), Kodiak Gas Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Kodiak”), completed the transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 19, 2023 (the “Merger Agreement”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767042/000119312524083508/0001193125-24-083508-index.htm

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