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Top 25 Earth exploration companies based in the United States

RevenueBase identified 407 earth exploration companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 7,509 professional contacts across them, including 1,660 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.

This list covers earth exploration companies headquartered in the United States, 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 19, 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.

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The 25 largest earth exploration companies based in the United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 407 earth exploration companies based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to earth exploration companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000834 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Geokinetics is one of the world’s largest independent land and seafloor geophysical companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000777 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 1994 and built on a strong geoscience and data management footprint, LMKR has evolved into a premier technology company expanding its reach to Clean Energy…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500583 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“ION commenced the voluntary Chapter 11 process with lender support and DIP financing in April 2022.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500521 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“SAExploration offers a full range of geophysical ground acquisition services from design, prospecting, drilling, recording and analysis of field quality, as well as mobilization…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceMissouri City, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500396 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“GGS provides an integrated suite of Geoscience solutions to the global oil and gas industry including high-resolution RG-3D Reservoir Grade® seismic data acquisition, Multi Client…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Indirect evidenceDallas, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500268 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Reserves assessments and appraisals • Prospective resources assessments • Unconventional resources assessments • Contingent resources assessments • Reservoir simulation •…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceEl Segundo, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500243 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Pixxel is a global space data company operating the world’s highest-resolution commercial hyperspectral imaging constellation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceReserve, LA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500178 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Diversified collaborates with our business partners to lower finding and development costs, decrease the risk profile, increase reserves, and to improve capital efficiencies and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200115 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Benthic is a global leader in offshore marine geotechnical investigation, survey, analysis and design.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceCollege Station, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“TDI-Brooks is a 27-year-old research and service company specializing in geotechnical and offshore survey projects; multi-disciplinary oceanographic and environmental projects…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Partial evidenceTempe, AZ, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200105 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are a United States-based minerals exploration and development company with a focus on supporting American supply chain independence by finding and delivering copper and other…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceWeatherford, OK, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20098 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Impac Exploration Services, Inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceThe Woodlands, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20091 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, Arena Energy focuses on pursuing the lower-risk prospect opportunities that remain in the Gulf after 50 years of drilling by larger oil…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Partial evidenceElko, NV, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20079 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Rangefront exists to serve your mining or exploration project in the most efficient, advanced, and forward-thinking way.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Partial evidenceTulsa, OK, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20071 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Midstates Petroleum Company LLC is an independent exploration and production company focused on the application of modern drilling and completion techniques to oil/liquids-prone…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Partial evidenceAustin, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5070 contacts →

Partial evidence

“SkyFi is an Earth intelligence company delivering satellite imagery, SAR, AIS, and AI-driven geospatial analytics through scalable data platforms.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20069 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Lumina is a leading geophysical services solutions and software provider, specializing in innovative tools for subsurface data analysis in the energy industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Indirect evidenceReno, NV, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20064 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Minerals / Geothermal / Groundwater / Petroleum / Environmental / Infrastructure Are you concerned about ensuring every opportunity for success for your project and stakeholders?”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Indirect evidenceEnglewood, CO, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20059 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Terra Guidance provides geological analysis remotely, onsite, and in-house.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Indirect evidenceWichita, KS, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20059 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, and founded in 1993, Paragon Geophysical Services, Inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Indirect evidenceNorwood, NJ, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20055 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Alpine are experts in acquiring, analyzing, and interpreting data from marine offshore, nearshore, and freshwater environments.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Indirect evidenceSan Jose, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20052 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Empowering geoscientists everywhere to explore and quantify the world since 1969.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Strong evidenceRichmond, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5052 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are a vertically-integrated ocean exploration company developing proprietary robotics and software to quickly and cheaply explore the entirety of the Earth’s oceans on a scale…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Indirect evidenceGrand Junction, CO, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20047 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5037 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Marine geoscience consulting group specializing in survey project consulting, data management, and the provision of experienced field personnel in support of offshore energy…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Earth exploration companies based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
22.1%Verified-email coverage
18.4Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
21.4%Largest-city concentration · Houston
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
236
11-50
116
51-200
37
201-500
12
501-1,000
3
1,001-5,000
2
10001+
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 407 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 earth exploration 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.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “earth exploration 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 earth exploration 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 earth exploration companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 1,660 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 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Earth exploration companies by metro

  • Earth exploration companies in Houston87

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 earth exploration 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 earth exploration companies are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 407 earth exploration companies headquartered in the United States 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?

Geokinetics INC, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most earth exploration companies?

Houston leads with 87 headquartered companies, followed by Dallas (11) and Denver (10).

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 1,660 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 407 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 19, 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.