Weatherford International, Ltd. provides equipment and services for use in drilling, completion, and production of oil and natural gas wells. It operates through two segments, Drilling Services and Production Systems. The Drilling Services segment provides various drilling methods, well construction products and services, drilling tools, and intervention services. The company offers underbalanced systems used during the drilling and servicing of oil and natural gas wells through underbalanced reservoir drilling, performance drilling, and managed pressure drilling methods. Well construction products and services include tubular running, cementing products, liner systems, and solid tubular expandable technologies. Drilling tools comprise drill pipe and related drill stem tools, drill collars, heavy weight pipe, and drilling jars; fishing and downhole tools, such as milling tools, casing cutters, fishing jars, spears and overshots, stabilizers, power swivels, and bottom hole assemblies; pressure control equipment, including blow-out preventers, valves, accumulators, adapters, and choke and kill manifolds; and tubular handling equipment, including elevators, spiders, slips, tongs, and kelly spinners. Intervention products and services include fishing services, thru-tubing products and services, coiled tubing, and wireline systems and production logging. The Production Systems segment provides completion systems and artificial lift systems. Completion systems comprise cased hole completion systems, sand screens, expandable sand screens, and flow control systems. Artificial lift systems include progressing cavity pumps, reciprocating rod systems, gas lift systems, electrical submersible pumps, and hydraulic and other lift systems. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas. |