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Nature of Operations
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014
Nature of Operations  
Nature of Operations

Note 1 Nature of Operations

 

Nabors has grown from a land drilling business centered in the United States and Canada to a global business aimed at optimizing the entire well life cycle, with operations on land and offshore in most of the major oil and gas markets in the world. The majority of our business is conducted through two business lines:

 

Drilling & Rig Services

 

This business line is comprised of our global drilling rig operations and drilling-related services, which primarily consists of equipment manufacturing, instrumentation optimization software and directional drilling services.

 

Completion & Production Services

 

This business line is comprised of our operations involved in the completion, life-of-well maintenance and eventual plugging and abandonment of a well.  These services include stimulation, coiled-tubing, cementing, wireline, workover, well-servicing and fluids management.

 

As a global provider of services for land-based and offshore oil and natural gas wells, Nabors’ fleet of rigs and equipment includes:

 

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501 actively marketed land drilling rigs for oil and gas land drilling operations in the United States, Canada and over 20 other countries throughout the world.

 

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444 actively marketed rigs for land well-servicing and workover services in the United States and approximately 98 rigs for land well-servicing and workover services in Canada.

 

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37 platform and 7 jackup rigs actively marketed in the United States and multiple international markets.

 

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Approximately 805,000 hydraulic horsepower for hydraulic fracturing, cementing, nitrogen and acid pressure pumping services in key basins throughout the United States.

 

In addition:

 

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We offer a wide range of ancillary well-site services, including engineering, transportation and disposal, construction, maintenance, well logging, directional drilling, rig instrumentation, data collection and other support services in select U.S. and international markets.

 

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We manufacture and lease or sell top drives for a broad range of drilling applications, directional drilling systems, rig instrumentation and data collection equipment, pipeline handling equipment and rig reporting software.

 

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We have a 51% ownership interest in a joint venture in Saudi Arabia, which owns and actively markets 5 rigs in addition to the rigs we lease to the joint venture.

 

In June 2014, we along with certain of our subsidiaries, including Nabors Red Lion Limited (“Red Lion”), signed a definitive agreement to merge our completion and production services businesses with C&J Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE: CJES), an independent oilfield services and manufacturing company.  Following the completion of this transaction, we will own approximately 53 percent of the combined company. Our expectation is to complete the transaction in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2014, but could extend into 2015. Following completion of the transaction, we expect to account for our investment in the combined company using the equity method of accounting.

 

Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this report to “we,” “us,” “our,” “the Company,” or “Nabors” mean Nabors Industries Ltd., together with our subsidiaries where the context requires, including Nabors Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Nabors Delaware”), our wholly owned subsidiary.