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Top 25 Onshore drilling contractors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,426 onshore drilling contractors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 169,509 professional contacts across them, including 27,573 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Houston the largest hub.
This list covers onshore drilling contractors 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 17, 2026. Country and city lists for onshore drilling contractors 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 onshore drilling contractors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,865 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nabors Industries is a leading provider of advanced technology for the energy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 5,601 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Noble is a leading offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,845 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Seadrill is setting the standard in deepwater oil and gas drilling.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,285 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1890, Boart Longyear is the world’s leading innovative provider of drilling services, manufacturer of productivity-driven drilling equipment and performance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,251 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ADES is a world-leading international provider of oil and gas drilling services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We Are Valaris With decades of expertise and strategic commitment built on efficiency, capability and ingenuity, our sights are continually set toward a future built with purpose…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,755 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,689 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shelf Drilling is a wholly owned subsidiary of ADES Holding Company, a leading international oil and gas drilling services provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,643 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Heerema Marine Contractors is a world-leading marine contractor in the international offshore energy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,471 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Precision is a leading provider of safe and High Performance, High-Value services to the oil and gas industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 2,373 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Archer is a company providing drilling and well services to the global energy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2,317 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,249 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OiLSERV is a provider of an expanding range of oilfield services, including well logging, well testing, production enhancement, drilling services, surface production management…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,215 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oil States International, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ensign Energy Services Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2,064 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos la mayor prestadora de servicios de perforación de la Argentina y somos líderes en la prestación de servicios asociados al mantenimiento y optimización de los pozos de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2,042 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are the region’s trusted onshore and offshore oil & gas drilling company with an extensive track record of operational excellence and advanced capabilities that have enabled…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,938 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For oil & gas exploration and production companies worldwide, Superior Energy Services is an oilfield products and services company with global reach, financial stability and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,864 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Odfjell Drilling is an international drilling company with around 1,500 employees with operations around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,699 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Borr Drilling Limited is an offshore shallow-water drilling contractor providing worldwide offshore drilling services to the oil and gas industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,685 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Every year, drilling teams make decisions worth millions of dollars on incomplete information.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,447 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Major Drilling Group International Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,379 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,285 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cudd offers a broad range of technical and specialized oilfield services to companies engaged in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,249 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ARO is a world-class offshore drilling contractor that owns, operates, and manages a fleet of high-specification and premium jack-up rigs in Saudi Arabia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 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: onshore drilling contractors. 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 onshore drilling contractors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of onshore drilling contractors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name onshore drilling contractors. 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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Onshore drilling contractors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
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 onshore drilling contractors, 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
- 18 countries, largest first: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, India, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico and 8 more. Country and city lists for onshore drilling contractors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “onshore drilling contractors”. 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 onshore drilling contractors), 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 onshore drilling contractors, 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, 27,573 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 17, 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.
Onshore drilling contractors by location
18 lists · largest firstEvery Onshore drilling contractors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Onshore drilling contractors based in the United States970
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Canada280
- Onshore drilling contractors based in the United Kingdom160
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Australia148
- Onshore drilling contractors based in India113
- Onshore drilling contractors based in the United Arab Emirates94
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Brazil91
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Indonesia84
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Nigeria75
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Mexico71
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Argentina52
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Norway52
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Italy49
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Germany46
- Onshore drilling contractors based in the Netherlands40
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Chile37
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Peru34
- Onshore drilling contractors based in Saudi Arabia30
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 onshore drilling contractors, 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 onshore drilling contractors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,426 onshore drilling contractors 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?
Nabors Industries, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most onshore drilling contractors?
The United States leads with 970 companies, followed by Canada (280) and the United Kingdom (160). Every onshore drilling contractors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most onshore drilling contractors?
Houston leads with 164 headquartered companies, followed by Calgary (84) and Midland (44).
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 27,573 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,426 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 17, 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.