Exhibit 5.1

June 14, 2021

KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc.

3040 Post Oak Boulevard, 15^th Floor

Houston, TX 77056

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with respect to certain legal matters in connection with the offer and sale from time to time (the “Offering”) by the Company of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Securities”), with an aggregate sales price of up to $50 million, which may be offered and sold from time to time pursuant to the Equity Distribution Agreement, dated as of June 14, 2021 (the “Equity Distribution Agreement”), between the Company and Piper Sandler & Co., as sales agent (the “Sales Agent”), a copy of which is being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as an exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on or about the date hereof. The Securities will be offered for sale pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated June 14, 2021 (the “Prospectus Supplement”), that will be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) on or after June 14, 2021, to a prospectus dated June 11, 2021 (as amended and supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, the “Prospectus”) that constitutes a part of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-246149), filed with the Commission on May 14, 2021 (the “Registration Statement”), which Registration Statement was declared effective by the Commission on June 11, 2021.

In rendering the opinions set forth below, we have reviewed (i) the Equity Distribution Agreement; (ii) the Registration Statement; (iii) the Prospectus Supplement; (iv) the Prospectus; (v) the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as amended; (vi) the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, as amended; (vii) resolutions (the “Resolutions”) adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company relating to the Registration Statement, the Offering, the Equity Distribution Agreement and related matters, including those resolutions authorizing each of the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, and the General Counsel of the Company and any other officer of the Company designated by any of the foregoing officers (the “Authorized Officers”) to, among other things, effect sales under the Equity Distribution Agreement; and (vii) such other certificates, statutes and other instruments and documents as we considered appropriate for purposes of the opinions hereafter expressed. In addition, we have reviewed such questions of law as we considered appropriate. As to matters of fact relevant to the opinions expressed below, and as to factual matters arising in connection with our review of corporate documents, records and other documents and writings, we have relied upon certificates and other communications of corporate officers of the Company, without further investigation as to the facts set forth therein.

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For purposes of rendering the opinions set forth below, we have made the following assumptions:

Based on the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions, qualifications, limitations and exceptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that the Securities to be issued and sold by the Company as contemplated by the Equity Distribution Agreement have been duly authorized for issuance and, upon approval of the terms of any sale of Securities pursuant to the Equity Distribution Agreement by an Authorized Officer pursuant to the Resolutions and payment and delivery in accordance with the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Prospectus Supplement and the Prospectus, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

The foregoing opinions are limited in all respects to the Delaware General Corporation Law (including the applicable provisions of the Delaware Constitution and the reported judicial decisions interpreting these laws) and the federal laws of the United States of America as in effect on the date hereof, and we undertake no duty to update or supplement the foregoing opinions to reflect any facts or circumstances that may hereafter come to our attention or to reflect any changes in any law that may hereafter occur or become effective. We express no opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, or to any matter other than as expressly set forth above, and no opinion on any other matter may be inferred or implied herefrom.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, to be filed on or about the date hereof, and to the use of our name in the Prospectus forming a part of the Registration Statement under the caption “Legal Matters.” By giving such consent, we do not admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.