National Oilwell Varco

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National Oilwell Varco

Type of Company	Public (NYSE: NOV)
Founded	1862, Houston, Texas
Headquarters	headquartered in Houston, Texas, operates worldwide
Key people	Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer: Pete Miller
Industry	Oil well Services & Equipment
Products	Oil field products and services
Revenue	4.64B (2005)
Employees	18,979 (2005)
Website	[1]

National Oilwell Varco (NOV) is a multinational corporation based in Houston, Texas, which manufactures land-based and offshore oil drilling rigs as well as all the major mechanical components for such rigs. The company also performs a number of services for the oil industry such as well and pipeline inspections and is one of the market leaders in supply chain management through their distribution network of over 150 locations. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol "NOV".

Products include all the heavy hardware for oil well drilling as well as drilling instrumentation and controls and drilling power generation and control. Partial list of heavy hardware includes topdrives, rotarys, drawworks, derricks, bop's, mud pumps, complete drilling rigs. Products also include all of the instruments and controls required on the rig floor for the drilling operation. This includes sophisticated electronics for precise control. Further, NOV produces control electronics for power generation and control of drilling motors, also MCC's for AC motor control. Also training in operation and maintenance.

[edit] History

NOV's two main predecessors, Oilwell Supply and National Supply, were founded in 1862 and 1894, respectively. These two companies manufactured and distributed a number of components for the oil drilling industry including drawworks, mud pumps and derricks.

In 2005, National Oilwell and Varco merged to become National Oilwell Varco.

The company now employes over 25,000 people and has over 600 facilies worldwide. As of 2006, it is the fourth largest oil drilling services company behind Schlumberger, Halliburton and Baker Hughes.