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Gallery: Top 10 oil & gas service companies
A look at 10 of the most successful service companies in oil & gas.
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Weatherford International
Weatherford International provide products and services for drilling, evaluation, completion, production and intervention of oil and natural gas wells.In 2011,the company’s revenue was confirmed as $12.99 billion. Weatherford International has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but has a significant presence here in the Middle East. The company currently employs 61,000 people in the oil & gas industry.
Halliburton
With revenues of $248 billion in 2011, Halliburton are one of the largest oilfield service companies in the world. Through it’s numerous subsidiaries, Halliburton employs over 100,000 people in the oil & gas industry.
Petrofac
Petrofac have recently been awarded a $21 million FEED contract for the UAE’s Bab Field.
Whilst Petrofac’s official headquarters are in London, UK, the company also has a key regional office for the Middle East in Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.
Baker Hughes
Founded in 1907, this Texan based company now has assets totalling $24.8 billion. Amongst the companies largest contracts was awarded for work at the Karachaganak field in Kazakhstan.
National Oilwell Varco
This Houston based firm employs nearly 64,000 people across 6 continents in the oil & gas industry. With a revenue of $22.9 billion, they are certainly one of the industries key players. National Oilwell Varco specialise in mechanical components for land and offshore drilling rigs, tubular inspection and internal tubular coatings, drill string equipment, complete land drilling and well servicing rigs and a broad offering of downhole drilling motors, bits and tools.
Al Mansoori
Abu Dhabi based firm Al Mansoori was founded in 1977. The company has gone from strength to strength and now employs 2,075 people around the world. Although much of Al Mansoori’s business activities centre around the Middle East, the company is also expanding its operations into North Africa.
Fluor
Fluor pride themselves on providing technical solutions for challenges in the oil & gas industry. From carbon capture, offshore oil exploration and hydrocarbon transportation, to petroleum refining and sulphur recovery, Fluor are a key player in both the upstream and downstream industry.
Worley Parsons
Australian based company Worley Parsons employs around 40,000 people in the global oil & gas industry and have an increasing presence here in the Middle East.
Worley Parsons has designed and constructed over 400 gas processing plants throughout the world with a combined total capacity of over 50 billion square cubic feet.
Jacobs Engineering Group
With over 60,000 employees worldwide and revenues of $11.8 billion (2013), Jacobs Engineering Group are a truly massive organisation. The company was named as one of Forbes’ ‘100 most trustworthy companies’ in 2010 and since then has gone on to increase its presence here in the Middle East.