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Top 25 Exploration drilling contractors based in the United Arab Emirates
RevenueBase identified 91 exploration drilling contractors headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026 and tracks 11,466 professional contacts across them, including 1,489 with verified work emails. Dubai is the largest hub.
This list covers exploration 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 exploration 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 | 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 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,685 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Every year, drilling teams make decisions worth millions of dollars on incomplete information.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 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 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 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. | |||||
| 12 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NDE Offshore is a Swedish company established in 2005, specializing in subsea and topside services for the oil & gas industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arabian Rock Engineering Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 2004, Arabian Ocean has made its mark in the oil and gas industry as the preferred supplier for many major drilling contractors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NORDIC Energy FZC,(Nordic) a drilling, work-over and well intervention company, was formed in 2006 by a group with extensive experience in the techniques of work-over and well…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Deep drilling is being revolutionized.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wildcat Oilfield Services began as a subsidiary of the Wildcat Group (holding).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Diversified Drilling & Industrial Equipment F.Z.E.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Good company for professionals to work and provide excellent services to clients Serving oil and gas well drilling by providing highly professional technology consultants in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2009 Adrilltech has offered a range of sophisticated well construction services and solutions that allow operators worldwide to drill challenging wells safely, quickly…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IDEC is committed to providing “local solutions for local drilling needs” and offers solutions and services in Drilling & Completion Fluids, Solids Control & Waste Management…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EPC Groupe is a leader in the extractive industry, pioneer in explosives, drilling and blasting since 1893.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Directional Technologies Drilling and general contracting LLC is a well known leading contractor in the UAE since 2014.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 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: exploration 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 exploration drilling contractors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of exploration drilling contractors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name exploration 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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Exploration 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 91 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 exploration 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 “exploration 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 exploration 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 exploration 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, 1,489 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.
Exploration drilling contractors by metro
- Exploration drilling contractors in Dubai41
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 exploration 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 exploration drilling contractors are there based in the United Arab Emirates?
RevenueBase identified 91 exploration 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 exploration drilling contractors?
Dubai leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by Abu Dhabi (16) and Sharjah (3).
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 1,489 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 91 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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