Helmerich & Payne, Inc.
A maker of high-tech land drilling rigs for oil and gas companies, H&P runs one of the largest fleets of automated "super-spec" FlexRig® rigs in the Western Hemisphere, plus offshore and Middle East operations. It was born in 1920 when a Chicago aviator and an Oklahoma microbiologist met on a Texas rig and sealed their partnership with a handshake, later basing itself in Tulsa. In 2025 it grew dramatically by buying drilling contractor KCA Deutag, whose BENTEC™ workshop builds its rigs.