Overview

Key Energy Services, Inc., and its wholly-owned and controlled subsidiaries (collectively, the "Company," "we," "us," "its," and "our") provide a complete range of well services to major oil companies and independent oil and natural gas production companies, including rig-based well maintenance, workover, well completion, and recompletion services, oilfield transportation services, pressure pumping services, fishing and rental services, and ancillary oilfield services. We believe that we are the leading onshore, rig-based well servicing contractor in the United States. We operate in most major oil and natural gas producing regions of the United States as well as internationally in Argentina and Mexico. We also have a technology development company based in Canada.

The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes as of September 30, 2008 and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2008 and 2007, included elsewhere herein, and the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007.

We operate in three business segments:

Our Well Servicing segment provides a broad range of services, including rig-based services, oilfield transportation services, cased-hole electric wireline services and ancillary oilfield services. Our well service rig fleet provides well maintenance, workover, completion, and plugging and abandonment services to our customers. Certain of our larger well service rigs are suitable for and used in certain drilling applications, including horizontal drilling. Our oilfield transportation fleet provides vacuum truck services, fluid transportation services, and disposal services for operators whose wells produce saltwater or other fluids and is also a supplier of frac tanks, which are used for temporary storage of fluids used in conjunction with fluid hauling operations. We conduct our well servicing operations in virtually every major onshore oil and gas producing region of the continental United States, as well as internationally in Argentina and Mexico. In addition to our onshore operations, we also operate a number of barge-based rigs that serve customers along the Gulf Coast that can conduct operations in shallow water.

Our Pressure Pumping segment provides a broad range of well stimulation and completion services, collectively known as "pressure pumping services." Our primary service offerings include well stimulation and cementing services. Well stimulation includes fracturing, nitrogen, coiled tubing, and acidizing services. These services (which may be used in completion and workover services) are used to enhance the production of oil and natural gas wells from formations that exhibit a restricted flow of oil and natural gas. In the fracturing process, we typically pump fluid and sized sand, or proppants, into a well at high pressure in order to fracture the formation and thereby increase the flow of oil and natural gas. With our cementing services, we pump cement into a well between the casing and the wellbore. We provide a full range of pressure pumping services in the Permian Basin and Barnett Shale in Texas, the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia, the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, the Michigan Basin, Illinois Basin and New Albany Shale in the four state area of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and western Ohio, the San Juan Basin in Colorado and New Mexico and the Oswego, Mississippi and Anadarko Basins in Oklahoma, and provide cementing services in the Elk Hills and Kern River Basins of California.

We provide fishing and rental services in the Gulf Coast, Permian Basin, Mid-Continent, Rocky Mountains and California. Fishing services involve recovering lost or stuck equipment in the wellbore using a "fishing tool," which is a downhole tool designed to recover any such equipment lost in the wellbore. We also offer a full line of services and rental equipment designed for use, both onshore and offshore, for drilling and workover services, and automated pipe handling solutions. Our rental tool inventory consists of tubulars, drill pipe, handling tools, pressure-controlled equipment, power swivels and foam air units.

Performance Measures

In determining the overall health of the oilfield service industry, we believe the Baker Hughes U.S. land drilling rig count is the best barometer of capital spending and activity levels, since this data is made publicly available on a weekly basis. Historically, our activity levels have correlated well with capital spending by oil and natural gas producers. When commodity prices are strong, capital spending by our customers tends to be high, as illustrated by the Baker Hughes U.S. land drilling rig count. As the following table indicates, the land drilling rig count has remained high over the past several quarters and prices for both oil and natural gas have remained strong.

                                                                   Average Baker
                               WTI             NYMEX Henry          Hughes Land
                         Cushing Oil(1)    Hub Natural Gas(1)     Drilling Rigs(2)
      2008:
        First Quarter     $        97.94     $            8.74                1,712
        Second Quarter    $       123.95     $           11.47                1,797
        Third Quarter     $       118.05     $            8.99                1,910
      2007:
        First Quarter     $        58.08     $            7.18                1,651
        Second Quarter    $        64.97     $            7.66                1,680
        Third Quarter     $        75.46     $            6.24                1,717
        Fourth Quarter    $        90.75     $            7.39                1,733


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Internally, we measure activity levels in our Well Servicing segment primarily through our rig and trucking hours. As capital spending by our customer base increases, demand for our services generally rises, resulting in increased rig and trucking services and more hours worked. Conversely, when activity levels decline due to lower spending by our customer base, we generally provide fewer services, which results in lower hours worked. The number of rig and trucking hours, as well as pricing, may also be affected by increases in industry capacity. We publicly release our monthly rig and trucking hours. The

following table presents our quarterly rig and trucking hours from the first quarter of 2007 through the third quarter of 2008:

                                        Rig Hours    Truck Hours
                    2008:
                      First Quarter        659,462        585,040
                      Second Quarter       701,286        603,632
                      Third Quarter        721,285        620,885
                    2007:
                      First Quarter        625,748        571,777
                      Second Quarter       611,890        583,074
                      Third Quarter        597,617        570,356
                      Fourth Quarter       614,444        583,191

                    Total 2007           2,449,699      2,308,398

Acquisitions

Tri-Energy. On January 17, 2008, the Company purchased the fishing and rental assets of Tri-Energy for approximately $1.9 million in cash. These assets were integrated into our Fishing and Rental segment. We acquired these assets in order to expand our fishing and rental service offerings in the Louisiana market. The purchase price was allocated to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and the purchase of the Tri-Energy assets did not result in the establishment of goodwill.

Western. On April 3, 2008, the Company purchased all of the outstanding equity interests of Western, a privately owned company based in California that operated 22 working well service rigs, three stacked well service rigs, and equipment used in the workover and rig relocation process for approximately $51.6 million. The Western acquisition was completed to increase the Company's service footprint in the California market and the assets and results of operations of Western have been integrated into our Well Servicing segment.

Hydra-Walk. On May 30, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Hydra-Walk for approximately $10.5 million in cash with a performance earn-out potential of up to $2.0 million over the two years from the aquisition date if certain performance measures are met. Hydra-Walk provided pipe handling solutions for the oil and gas industry and operated over 80 automated pipe handling units in Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. The Hydra-Walk acquisition was completed to expand our service offerings and the assets and results of operations for Hydra-Walk are now integrated into our Fishing and Rental segment.

Leader. On July 22, 2008, the Company acquired all of the United States-based assets of Leader for consideration of $34.6 million in cash, of which $1.0 million will be paid upon satisfaction of certain seller performance requirements. The acquired assets include nine coiled tubing units, seven nitrogen trucks, twelve pumping trucks and other ancillary equipment. Additionally, the Company paid approximately $0.7 million for supplies and inventory used in pressure pumping operations. We acquired these assets in order to expand our coiled tubing services. The purchase price was allocated to the tangible assets acquired and the purchase of the Leader assets did not result in the establishment of goodwill. The Leader assets were integrated into our Pressure Pumping segment.

Market Conditions-Quarter Ended September 30, 2008

Demand for our services is generally correlated to commodity prices and drilling activity. During the course of the third quarter of 2008, the overall industry demand for the services we provide remained high when compared to the comparable period for 2007 and on a sequential basis when

compared to the second quarter of 2008. The Baker Hughes U.S. land drilling rig count averaged 1,910 during the third quarter of 2008, which increased approximately 11.3% over the same period in 2007 and increased approximately 6.3% from the second quarter of 2008. The average prices of West Texas Intermediate crude oil and natural gas at the Henry Hub for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 have increased 56.4% and 44.0%, respectively, compared to the third quarter ended September 30, 2007, and remained near their 2008 second quarter averages.

Our activity levels during the third quarter of 2008 remained robust when compared to the comparable period of 2007 and sequentially when compared to the second quarter of 2008. Including the effects of the acquisitions we made during the previous twelve months, our activity levels, as measured by our rig and truck hours, have increased compared to the same period in 2007; our rig hours increased approximately 20.7% during the third quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007 and our truck hours increased approximately 8.9% during the same period. Acquisitions we made contributed approximately 93,000 rig hours and approximately 6,000 truck hours during the third quarter of 2008. Additionally, the rig hours generated from our Mexico operations increased by approximately 12,000 rig hours during the third quarter of 2008, compared to the third quarter of 2007. Excluding rig and truck hours from our international operations in Mexico and Argentina and the increases in rig and truck hours from acquisitions, our rig and truck hours per working day for the third quarter of 2008 increased slightly compared to their levels during the third quarter of 2007.

Our earnings per fully diluted share for the third quarter of 2008 was $0.39 per share compared to $0.27 per share for the same period in 2007. Weather, including Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, impacted our domestic well servicing operations in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma by significantly reducing the Company's operations in those impacted areas during the quarter ended September 30, 2008. The inclement weather also significantly impacted our fishing operations in the Gulf Coast by preventing some of our fishing crews from operating in the Gulf of Mexico. The Company believes the inclement weather reduced revenue by approximately $11 million and reduced earnings per diluted share by $0.04 per share.

Market Outlook

We believe the long-term outlook for our business is favorable. Currently, depletion rates are accelerating, reservoir complexity is increasing and the need for reserve replacement continues. Over the long-term these phenomena are positive for our outlook as the challenges faced by our customers will provide us with opportunities.

In the near-term, as a result of the recent decline in commodity prices and the credit market deterioration, we anticipate lower customer spending on capital projects both in the fourth quarter of 2008 and during the early part of 2009. We believe the lower customer spending will likely have an impact on pricing and utilization of which the magnitude cannot yet be predicted, both in terms of the services we provide and the marketplaces in which we operate. Although we anticipate lower customer spending on capital projects, we believe the high near term decline rates in natural gas production, without additional production being added through capital spending, should lead to a relatively fast reduction in natural gas supplies and a resulting fairly quick return to supply and demand balance.

While a portion of our business is driven by the exploration activity and capital spending by our customers, an equal portion of our business is focused on services that maintain or enhance existing oil and gas production. We believe that generally, the demand for and the pricing of services that support well maintenance is more stable in times of falling commodity prices and reduced capital spending than services that emphasize exploration. We also believe the anticipated reduction in capital spending by our customers and the limited financing available may also result in a reduction of discretionary capital spending by our competitors and a reduction of new equipment in the marketplace.