The Varco companies are aligned and focused on customer needs as never before. A new era of collaboration is channeling their intellect and experience into the pursuit of five critical objectives:
- Reduce drilling time and well costs
- Enhance the value of our customers? assets
- Increase the speed and accuracy of wellsite information
- Protect people and the natural environment
- Open new frontiers to exploration.
Each company contributes to this undertaking in distinctive ways, and all work to bring continuing innovation to drilling.
Varco Systems is the industry leader in the design and manufacture of Top Drive drilling systems, with more than 600 currently in operation. The company also leads in the development of automated and semi-automated pipe handling and transfer equipment.
Varco BJ designs and manufactures a complete line of conventional and automated rotary drilling rig tools and equipment, including hoisting equipment, links and elevators, casing elevators and spiders, rotary tables, spinning wrenches and manual and power tongs.
Shaffer designs and manufactures pressure control equipment, control systems that enable their remote activation, risers and riser tensioning systems, and motion compensators.
M/D Totco is the leading supplier of drilling rig information and control equipment. Its systems collect and monitor data from around a drilling rig; analyze, interpret, display and store the data; and provide vital interfaces between the operator and the array of automated components on the rig. They also transmit information to remote locations for analysis.
Rigtech designs and manufactures solids control equipment and fluid handling systems, including today?s most advanced shale shakers. Rigtech?s newest systems automate and monitor the mixing of drilling fluids, the dispensing of chemical additives, the movement of fluids between hoppers and through the cleaning process.
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