Doug Sheridan

The Top 15 Global Oilfield Services Providers

I find this list to be interesting. In looking at it more closely, it appears that the rank is based on market captialization as of the end of 2009. However, I'm not sure why some companies are included in the list and some are not. For example, smaller companies such as SBM Offshore, Oceaneering Int'l, Core Laboratories, Tidewater, Bourbon, Superior Energy, Trican Well Services and Carbo Ceramics are included while some other prominent oilfield suppliers with larger market caps such as Cameron Int'l, Diamond Offshore, ENSCO Int'l, FMC Technologies, GE Oil & Gas, Nabors Industries, National Oilwell Varco and Noble Drilling are not included in the list. Do you know what the criteria were for the development of the PFC rankings? It might be interesting to understand.

6 Oil Industry Suppliers to Consider

Jon6k, yes we do have some ratings information on Carbo Ceramics (ticker: CRR). In general, the data suggests the company rates quite high in terms of customers satisfaction. Contact me at EnergyPoint's offices in Houston if you desire additional detail.

Doug

6 Oil Industry Suppliers to Consider

jarco, thanks for the question. For EnergyPoint's oilfield products survey, we do ask land and offshore drilling contractors to rate the suppliers of rig and related equipment they use when providing their services. In fact, we posted a report to Seeking Alpha examining NOV and other such providers a few months back. Here's the link to that article: seekingalpha.com/artic...

On Dec 02 12:26 PM jarco wrote:

> Do you have thoughts on suppliers to these installers/processors?
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> Pipe suppliers such as NOV, for example.

6 Oil Industry Suppliers to Consider

<IMG class=authors_reply src="static.seekingalpha.co..."> mbkelly75, glad you found the article to be of interest. And thanks for the nice comments. Doug Sheridan

Customer Satisfaction Declined Significantly During Oilfield Up Cycle

Noble Corp (NE) is the parent of Noble Drilling. "Noble Drilling" is how the company is known to many in the marketplace. Note that Noble Corp is not the same company as Noble Energy, whose symbol is NBL.