Nabors

General information

Nabors provides innovative drilling rigs and equipment to transform our global industry. Every day, we are exploring new territory, digging deeper into what we can achieve. From designing rigs with the goal of automating the entire drilling process to delivering higher levels of safety, efficiency and performance, our people provide the rigtelligence to meet the world's demand for oil and gas while learning and growing to also enhance their future career development.

Since our founding in 1952, Nabors has grown from a small land drilling business in Canada to one of the world’s largest drilling contractors. At the beginning of 1990, our fleet consisted of 44 actively marketed land drilling rigs in Canada, Alaska and various international markets. Today, Nabors owns and operates the world’s largest land-based drilling rig fleet and is a leading provider of offshore platform workover and drilling rigs in the U.S. and multiple international markets. As a global provider of services for land-based and offshore oil and natural gas wells, our fleet of rigs, as of December 31, 2014, includes 466 actively marketed rigs for land-based drilling operations in the United States, Canada and more than 20 countries around the world; and 42 actively marketed rigs for offshore drilling operations in the United States and multiple international markets.

Nabors provides innovative drilling technology and equipment, directional drilling and drilling services in most of the significant oil and gas markets in the world. We also manufacture and lease or sell top drives and other rig equipment.