Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Natural gas exploration and production companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,496 natural gas exploration and production companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 252,140 professional contacts across them, including 49,326 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Houston the largest hub.
This list covers natural gas exploration and production companies worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for natural gas exploration and production companies follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest natural gas exploration and production companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53,380 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We collaborate and engineer solutions to maximize asset value for our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 28,095 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) is a leading global energy company committed to powering society’s progress in a responsible and sustainable manner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 12,478 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are the leading exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman that delivers the majority of the country's crude oil production and natural gas supply, but above…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 5,559 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We aim to thrive through the global energy transition with a low-cost, lower-carbon, profitable, resilient and diversified portfolio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 5,489 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are an independent oil and natural gas acquisition, exploitation and exploration company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 4,346 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EOG Resources, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,932 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the one and only national company that possesses combined competencies in oil & gas services: seismic, drilling and oilfield.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,514 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Murphy Oil Corporation is a global independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3,460 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Anadarko is among the world’s largest independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies, with corporate offices in The Woodlands, Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,764 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pluspetrol es una empresa privada de energía con más 45 años de experiencia en la exploración y producción de hidrocarburos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 2,755 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Key Energy Services provides a wide array of leading edge energy production solutions and services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2,450 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The pioneer of the natural gas industry in the country, Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has been a frontline player in the energy sector since the mid-1950s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,400 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Somos uma das maiores operadoras integradas de energia e atuamos da exploração e produção (E&P) do gás natural até o fornecimento de soluções em energia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,373 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Archer is a company providing drilling and well services to the global energy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,317 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Patterson-UTI is a leading provider of drilling and completion services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States and other select…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2,250 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TAQA is an international company that offers leading well solutions for the energy industry and is creating value and opportunity for all its stakeholders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2,176 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SM Energy Company is an independent energy company focused on the exploration, exploitation, development, acquisition, and production of natural gas and crude oil in the United…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2,093 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “XTO Energy Inc, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, is a leading natural gas and oil producer in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,952 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sinopec International Petroleum Service Corporation SSC” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,803 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hilcorp Energy Company was founded in 1989 with the vision of being the premier independent energy company in America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,690 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Encana is a leading North American energy producer that is focused on growing its strong portfolio of diverse resource plays producing natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,407 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Anton Oilfield Services Group (hereinafter as “Anton”) is the world's leading integrated oilfield technology service company that provides clients with a full range of products…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,396 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are energy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,388 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Continental Resources, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,262 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FET (Forum Energy Technologies, Inc.) is a global company, serving the crude oil, natural gas, and renewable energy industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: natural gas exploration and production companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names natural gas exploration and production companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of natural gas exploration and production companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name natural gas exploration and production companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Natural gas exploration and production companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among natural gas exploration and production companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for natural gas exploration and production companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “natural gas exploration and production companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names natural gas exploration and production companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among natural gas exploration and production companies, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 49,326 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Natural gas exploration and production companies by location
10 lists · largest firstEvery Natural gas exploration and production companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Natural gas exploration and production companies based in the United States633
- Natural gas exploration and production companies based in Canada74
- Natural gas exploration and production companies based in the United Kingdom45
- Natural gas exploration and production companies based in Indonesia33
- Natural gas exploration and production companies based in Brazil30
- Natural gas exploration and production companies based in India30
- Natural gas exploration and production companies based in the United Arab Emirates25
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names natural gas exploration and production companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many natural gas exploration and production companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,496 natural gas exploration and production companies worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Halliburton, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most natural gas exploration and production companies?
The United States leads with 633 companies, followed by Canada (74) and the United Kingdom (45). Every natural gas exploration and production companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most natural gas exploration and production companies?
Houston leads with 127 headquartered companies, followed by Calgary (46) and Dallas (46).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 49,326 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,496 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.