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Top 25 Oil gas drilling companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 238 oil gas drilling companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 21,907 professional contacts across them, including 3,369 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers oil gas drilling companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 15, 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 oil gas drilling companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,679 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,211 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HUNTING is an energy services provider to the world's leading national and international oil and gas companies, manufacturing and distributing products that enable the extraction…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 933 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Excellence Logging is an established energy services provider focused on optimizing well performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 927 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cairn Energy PLC ('Cairn') is one of Europe's leading independent oil and gas exploration and production companies and is listed on the London Stock Exchange.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 694 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dolphin Drilling is the offshore drilling pioneer of the past and for the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 655 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Assala Energy is an oil exploration and production company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 587 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2007, Energean is a London-listed FTSE 250 and Tel Aviv-listed TA-90 E&P company with operations in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 314 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Northern Petroleum is an oil and gas exploration and production company quoted on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aquaterra Energy provides intelligently engineered products and services for well access and offshore developments - supporting efficient operations across the full life cycle of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RELIABLE | RESOURCEFUL | READY We continually raise the bar by challenging ourselves and our clients to enable safe and efficient performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hobark International Limited (HIL) is an Integrated Services Company whose subsidiaries: DrillPet International Limited (DIL), Uniterm Nigeria Limited (UNL), UltiProc Nigeria…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Derrick Service UK Ltd (DSL) is a diversified oil & gas construction company which provides a broad range of products and services to the market from our Worldwide locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Awilco Drilling Limited was incorporated in December 2009 in connection with the acquisition of the two semi submersible drilling rigs, WilPhoenix (previously Arctic II) and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “RDS is an engineering specialist working for oil and gas companies and major topsides and drilling contractors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Global Resources supply Drill Crew to the UK and International Oil & Gas Industry Our experience means we understand the need for QUALITY & COMPETENT crew.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1986, Saltire Energy Group supplies high-quality drilling equipment to the global oil and gas industry from its headquarters in Aberdeen and seven bases around the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Innovative and pioneering, Plexus, is an established wellhead oil and gas engineering, and service business based in Aberdeen, with a global presence, proud to provide a service…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At RigQuip, we’re not just drilling equipment experts-we’re your strategic partner in energy asset performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GoreVega supports the global oil and gas industry by providing valuable technical expertise for operators and service companies at each stage of a well’s lifecycle, from drilling…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kenera is a business unit within leading drilling, engineering and technology company KCA Deutag.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dando Drilling International has over 150 years experience of supplying drilling rigs and equipment for the water well, mineral exploration, geotechnical & geothermal sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pharos Energy is an independent energy company listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange focused on delivering sustainable growth and returns to stakeholders, with a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 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: oil gas drilling 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 oil gas drilling companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of oil gas drilling companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name oil gas drilling 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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Oil gas drilling companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 238 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 oil gas drilling 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 Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “oil gas drilling 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 oil gas drilling 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 oil gas drilling companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 3,369 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 15, 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.
Oil gas drilling companies by metro
- Oil gas drilling companies in London54
- Oil gas drilling companies in Aberdeen46
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 oil gas drilling 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 oil gas drilling companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 238 oil gas drilling companies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Ensco PLC, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most oil gas drilling companies?
London leads with 54 headquartered companies, followed by Aberdeen (46) and Westhill (4).
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 3,369 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 238 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 15, 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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