Kodiak Gas Services Inc

As used in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Annual Report”), unless the context indicates or otherwise requires, the terms listed below have the following meanings:

•“ABL Credit Agreement” means that certain Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 22, 2023, among Frontier Intermediate Holding, LLC, Kodiak Gas Services, LLC, the other obligors party thereto, the lenders party thereto, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, as amended by the First Amendment thereto, the Second Amendment thereto and the Third Amendment thereto;

•“ABL Facility” means our senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility provided under and governed by the ABL Credit Agreement;

•“Annual Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021;

•“Company,” “Kodiak,” “we,” “our,” or “us” means Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries;

•“CSI Compressco” means CSI Compressco LP, a Delaware limited partnership with which the Company entered into an agreement and plan of Merger on December 19, 2023;

•“EQT” or “EQT AB Group” means, as the context may require, EQT AB or EQT AB and its direct and indirect subsidiaries including, for the avoidance of doubt, investment vehicles managed and/or operated by affiliates of EQT AB and their respective portfolio companies;

•“EQT AB” means EQT AB (publ), a Swedish public limited liability company registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office (Reg. No. 556849-4180) and whose ordinary shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange;

•“Holdco Term Loan” means the Term Loan after the consummation of the Term Loan Transaction as described below;

•"Indenture" means Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. senior notes due 2029, pursuant to an indenture, dated February 2, 2024, by and among Kodiak Services, Kodiak, certain other subsidiary guarantors party thereto and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee;

•“IPO” means the initial public offering of Kodiak Gas Services, Inc., completed on July 3, 2023;

•“Frontier Holdings” means the limited partnership that holds the profit sharing units of common shares of Kodiak Gas Services, Inc;

•“Kodiak Common Stock” means the common stock of Kodiak Gas Services, Inc.;

•“Kodiak Holdings” means Frontier TopCo Partnership, L.P., an affiliate of EQT AB and holder of record of Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. common stock;

•“Kodiak Holdings Term Loan” means the Term Loan after the Term Loan Transaction;

•“Merger Agreement” means the agreement and plan of merger, dated as of December 19, 2023, by and among Kodiak Gas Services, Inc., Kodiak Gas Services, LLC, certain of our other indirect subsidiaries, CSI Compressco LP and CSI Compressco GP LLC;

•“Merger” means each of the merger, collectively, contemplated by the Merger Agreement;

•“Term Loan” means the term loan facility governed by the Term Loan Credit Agreement;

•“Term Loan Credit Agreement” means that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 19, 2022, as amended by that certain First Amendment, dated March 31, 2023, among Kodiak Gas Services, LLC, Frontier Intermediate Holding, LLC, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Administrative Agent, and the lenders party thereto;

•“Term Loan Derivative Settlement” means the termination of the Company’s interest rate swaps and collars attributable to the Term Loan in connection with the Term Loan Transaction;

•“Term Loan Transaction” means the assumption of all of the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ remaining obligations under the Term Loan (after the application of the proceeds of the IPO) by a parent entity of Kodiak Holdings, and pursuant to which the Company’s obligations thereunder were terminated. Following the consummation of the Term Loan Transaction, the Company is no longer a borrower or guarantor under, nor otherwise obligated with respect to the debt outstanding under the Term Loan; and

•“Third Amendment” that certain Third Amendment to the ABL Credit Agreement, dated January 22, 2024, by and among Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. (as successor borrower to Frontier Intermediate Holding, LLC), Kodiak Gas Services, LLC, the other obligors party thereto, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto.