Type: Public
On the web: http://www.nabors.com
Employees: 23,412
Employee growth: 27.3%

Oil and gas exploration and production companies need a little support in order to ply their trade around the globe, and like a good neighbor, Nabors Industries, the world's largest land drilling contractor, helps them out. In 2011 the company had 491 land-drilling rigs, and 575 US-based and 174 Canada-based land workover and well-servicing rigs. Nabors operates across the US and in Africa, Canada, Latin America, East Asia, the Middle East, and Russia. Its offshore equipment includes 39 platform rigs, 12 jack-ups, and four barge drilling rigs. Nabors provides oil field hauling, maintenance, technical services, well logging, engineering, and construction services. It also has minor oil and gas holdings.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $4,215.5M
One year growth: 20.3%
Net income: $94.7M

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Eugene M. (Gene) Isenberg
Deputy Chairman, President, and COO: Anthony G. (Tony) Petrello
Principal Accounting Officer and Principal Financial Officer: R. Clark Wood

Competitors:
Ensco
Patterson-UTI Energy
Pride International

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