Abbot Group Limited is an oil and gas services company based in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Also in 2007, Abbot Group was the largest oil-rig contractor to companies operating in the North Sea.
[3] On 7 March 2008, Abbot Group was acquired by US private equity firm First Reserve Corporation.
[4] In 2012, Abbot was involved in a bribery settlement with the British government, paying £5.6m as penalty for bribes made to win a contract.
[6] The amount was equivalent to "advantage received by the company" from the contract it won by bribing Scottish officials.