NBR

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.nabors.com
Employees: 26,912
Employee growth: 12.3%

Oil and gas exploration and production companies need a little help in order to ply their trade all around the globe, and like a good neighbor, Nabors Industries, one of the world's largest drilling contractors, is there. Overall, the company has 528 land-drilling rigs, and 592 US-based and 171 international land workover and well-servicing rigs. Nabors Industries operates across the US and in Africa, Canada, Central and South America, and in the Middle East. Its offshore equipment includes 37 platform rigs, 13 jack-ups, and three barge drilling rigs. Nabors also provides oil field hauling, maintenance, well logging, engineering, and construction services, and it invests in oil and gas exploration.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $5,303.8M
One year growth: 7.3%
Net income: $551.2M
Income growth: (40.8%)

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Eugene M. (Gene) Isenberg
Deputy Chairman, President, and COO: Anthony G. (Tony) Petrello
Director, Corporate Development: Dennis A. Smith

Competitors:
ENSCO
Patterson-UTI Energy
Pride International

NBR is an abbreviation with several meanings:

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (est. 1909), an American film review organization
• National Business Review, a weekly New Zealand newspaper aimed at the business sector
• New Brunswick Railway, a former Canadian railway company absorbed by the Canadian Pacific Railway
• Nightly Business Report, a program on the Public Broadcasting Service
• Nitrile butadiene rubber, a family of unsaturated copolymer rubbers
• North Bay Railway, a light railway system for tourists in Scarborough, North Yorkshire
• North British Railway (1860–1923), a former Scottish railway company abosorbed by London and North Eastern Railway
• NBR (TV channel), a Brazilian television channel run by the Radiobras
• .nbr, filename extension of Neverball replays.

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