Company Profile
Weatherford International, Ltd. provides equipment and services used for the drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells worldwide. The company offers artificial lift systems comprising progressing cavity and electric submersible pumps; reciprocating rod lift, gas lift, hydraulic lift, plunger lift, hybrid lift, and wellhead systems; and specific controllers, and flow measurement and field optimization tools. It also provides drilling services, including directional drilling, measurement while drilling, logging while drilling, rotary steerable systems, controlled pressure drilling and well testing, and drilling-with-casing and drilling-with-liner systems; and well construction services consisting of tubular running services, cementation tools, liner systems, and solid tubular expandable technologies. In addition, Weatherford International designs and manufactures various drilling tools, including drilling jars, rotating control devices, and other pressure-control equipment; and completion tools and sand screens, such as conventional and expandable sand screens. Further, it provides wireline and evaluation services that measure the physical properties of underground formations; re-entry, fishing, and thru-tubing services; stimulation and chemicals; integrated drilling; and pipeline and specialty services. The company was founded in 1972 and is based in Houston, Texas.
