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Weatherford International serves national oil companies and international and independent oil and gas producers. These customers pay for equipment and services to evaluate reservoirs, drill and construct wells, bring them into production, maintain output and eventually abandon them. Well construction and completions is its largest revenue segment, helping customers install and secure the well structure and prepare it for production. Drilling and evaluation, and production and intervention, also contribute substantial revenue.
Most revenue comes from outside the United States. Demand and the prices Weatherford can charge depend on customers’ exploration, development and production activity and their capital and operating budgets, which are influenced by oil and gas prices.
Collecting payment is also important: its largest customer in Mexico accounts for a large share of outstanding receivables and has a history of late payments. That makes cash collection more concentrated than revenue.
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Weatherford depends on global oilfield spending, especially outside North America; Expro Group Holdings is another principal competitor to watch that this list does not include.
SLB competes globally with Weatherford for oil and gas producers’ spending on reservoir services, well construction, production systems and software to monitor and optimize wells. Watch its Well Construction and Production Systems results for conditions in businesses where Weatherford also sells equipment and services.
Halliburton competes with Weatherford for oil and gas producers’ work from drilling and evaluating wells through construction, completion and improving production. Its Drilling and Evaluation and Completion and Production results show conditions across that shared customer base.
Baker Hughes competes with Weatherford to supply oilfield operators with drilling, completion, well-intervention and equipment that helps bring fluids to the surface, known as artificial lift. Watch its Oilfield Services & Equipment results rather than its industrial technology business, which also serves LNG, power and other industrial markets.
Innovex International, Inc. competes with Weatherford in engineered well products sold to oil and gas operators worldwide, selling products and renting deployment tools primarily directly to producers. Its international and offshore sales are worth watching alongside Weatherford’s well-construction and completion business.
NOV overlaps with Weatherford in drilling, completion and production tools, equipment and services sold to oilfield service companies, contractors and energy producers worldwide. Its shorter-cycle Energy Products and Services sales and rentals offer a view of spending on tools and consumables rather than just large equipment projects.
Nabors and Weatherford both depend on producers’ drilling spending, and compete in services that control well pressure and steer drilling. Producers typically pay Nabors a daily rate for a rig and crew, with these services charged separately; its U.S. and International Drilling results help track the rig activity behind Weatherford’s demand.
Flowco Holdings Inc. competes with Weatherford to help oil and gas producers lift fluids from wells and improve production using equipment, services and digital tools. Watch its Production Solutions business for spending during wells’ long producing lives, rather than on drilling new wells.
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. competes with Weatherford’s manufacturing operations in drilling, completion, well-intervention and artificial-lift equipment sold to oil and gas operators and service companies. Consumables and activity-based equipment made up about 80% of Forum’s 2025 revenue, making those sales the line to watch for spending tied to ongoing oilfield work.
Drilling Tools International Corporation overlaps with Weatherford in downhole drilling tools and services that improve wellbores and completions or plug and abandon wells, with customers primarily renting its tools. Its Eastern Hemisphere business is the one to watch for the broader overlap beyond drilling, including completion enhancement and abandonment.
Patterson-UTI Energy Inc competes with Weatherford to provide oil and gas producers with directional drilling, well-completion services and drilling products, but is more concentrated in the United States. Its completion-services results offer a U.S.-focused comparison, not a substitute for tracking Weatherford’s larger international business.
TechnipFMC and Weatherford depend on spending on oil and gas field developments: TechnipFMC supplies subsea and surface production systems, while those developments also need Weatherford’s well-construction, completion and intervention services. Watch TechnipFMC’s Subsea business for spending on offshore production and transportation projects.
Weatherford International plc earningsThis company
Weatherford's report will show whether demand for its drilling, well-construction and production services is holding up the revenue and earnings of its business segments.
Read revenue for Drilling and Evaluation, Well Construction and Completions, and Production and Intervention alongside segment adjusted EBITDA, Weatherford's measure of segment earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, share-based compensation and other adjustments. If revenue holds and EBITDA holds up or rises, customer activity is supporting the business without cost pressure wiping out that support. If revenue falls and EBITDA falls further, weaker activity is outweighing cost savings and Weatherford's segment profitability remains under pressure.
Halliburton Company earningsHAL
Halliburton's report will show whether oil and gas producers are sustaining spending on drilling, completion and production services that overlap with Weatherford's business.
Compare Halliburton's Drilling and Evaluation results with its Completion and Production results; they reflect Halliburton's business mix, not Weatherford's own performance. If both hold up or grow, producers are still spending on work that overlaps with Weatherford's services, supporting its demand environment. If both weaken, shared customers may be cutting that spending, putting demand for Weatherford's services under pressure.
Nabors Industries Ltd. earningsNBR
Nabors' drilling results show whether producers are keeping rigs and crews working, an activity signal behind demand for Weatherford's drilling services.
Look at Nabors' U.S. and International Drilling results. Producers typically pay Nabors a daily rate for a rig and crew, with services charged separately. If both businesses hold up or grow, rig activity is better supported and may bring more demand for Weatherford's related drilling services. If both weaken, drilling activity is softening and Weatherford's related demand may come under pressure, but Nabors' rig revenue is not Weatherford's service revenue.
