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Top 25 Deepwater drilling contractors based in the United Arab Emirates
RevenueBase identified 139 deepwater drilling contractors headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026 and tracks 13,577 professional contacts across them, including 995 with verified work emails. Dubai is the largest hub.
This list covers deepwater drilling contractors headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, 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 16, 2026.
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 deepwater drilling contractors based in the United Arab Emirates
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,279 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “(Underwater Engineering) S.A.L was established in 1976.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 793 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar and Singapore, Allianz Middle East Ship Management LLC(Allianz-ME) is a well-established marine contractors providing modern Offshore…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 715 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1997, we operate an extensive fleet of Offshore Supply Vessels that service the Oil and Gas industry in the Middle East, South East Asia, Africa, India and the Gulf…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Viking Services is a fully integrated service company that provides services to the oil and gas and geothermal industries with the goal of becoming the most trusted and reliable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 369 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oilfields Supply Center Ltd (OSC) was founded in Dubai in the early 1960’s at the behest of His Highness Shaikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the late Vice President and Prime…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 347 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1995 in the Middle East & Gulf region has now grown to be a regional company, meeting the growing demand and challenges of oil & gas as well as marine industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OFCO - Offshore International provide specialized offshore services to the Oil & Gas and construction industry including Marine Vessels, Integrated Offshore Logistics, Subsea…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SAFEEN Survey & Subsea Services is a premier provider of integrated offshore survey, diving and subsea engineering solutions across the UAE, GCC and globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 266 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “APT Global is a leading complete technical service provider in Marine, Dredging, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Industry and Construction.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 238 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dulam International is a leading provider of subsea services to the oil and gas industry in the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Headquartered in Dubai UAE, Sakson Drilling & Oil Services is a drilling contractor dedicated to serving the oil and gas industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Seamless Integration Magnum Technology Center designs and manufactures complete equipment packages for Well Testing, Early Production Facilities, Underbalanced Drilling and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PETRODIVE is an independent diving company providing the Maritime and the International Oil and Gas industry with a complete underwater contracting service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AL MUTAWA MARINE WORKS L.L.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About : Sea Eagles provides marine engineering and offshore services to companies within the oil and gas sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VM Marine International Limited is a privately owned Company providing offshore support vessels and integrated marine solutions in the offshore oil and gas industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OGI FZC is a Global services provider in Rentals / Fishing /Casing running / Manufacture & Repair / inspection and pressure control, Lifting and rigging safety equipment’s and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VORTEX OFFSHORE strives to provide their clients with Maritime Services meeting the highest industry standards, prioritizing safety and aiming at total Client Satisfaction.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Mission “Business is not just doing deals, business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “OLYMPUS Marine Services are a specialist Integrated Crew Management Contractor providing drilling personnel to the Oil and Gas Industry worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “When you’re engaged in offshore exploration, construction and production, laying submarine pipes or cables, or operating a rig or production platform, you need a marine services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AlMansoori Specialized Engineering (MSE) was founded in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in 1977 as one of the first local companies to participate in the oilfield services sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Emirates Western Oil Well Drilling & Maint.Co.LLC Company was established to cope with tremendous development witnessed by United Arab Emirates in various fields and in particular…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 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: deepwater 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 deepwater drilling contractors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of deepwater drilling contractors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name deepwater 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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Deepwater drilling contractors based in the United Arab Emirates at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Arab Emirates, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Arab Emirates, over 139 companies.
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 deepwater 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates whose own description of what they do matches “deepwater 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 deepwater 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 deepwater drilling contractors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Arab Emirates are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 995 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 16, 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.
Deepwater drilling contractors by metro
- Deepwater drilling contractors in Dubai46
- Deepwater drilling contractors in Abu Dhabi33
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 deepwater 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 deepwater drilling contractors are there based in the United Arab Emirates?
RevenueBase identified 139 deepwater drilling contractors headquartered in the United Arab Emirates 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?
Shelf Drilling, headquartered in Dubai, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most deepwater drilling contractors?
Dubai leads with 46 headquartered companies, followed by Abu Dhabi (33) and Sharjah (11).
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 995 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 139 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 16, 2026.
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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.
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