NAICS 213112 · Mining
Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations: Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 9,212 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing support activities on a contract or fee basis for oil and gas operations (except site preparation and related construction activities). Services included are exploration (except geophysical surveying and mapping); excavating slush pits and cellars, well surveying; running, cutting, and pulling casings, tubes, and rods; cementing wells, shooting wells; perforating well casings; acidizing and chemically treating wells; and cleaning out, bailing, and swabbing wells.
Businesses classified here include
- Acidizing oil and gas field wells on a contract basis
- Building oil and gas well foundations on a contract basis
- Building, erecting, repairing, and dismantling oil and gas field rigs and derricks on a contract basis
- Cementing oil and gas well casings on a contract basis
- Chemically treating oil and gas wells (e.g., acidizing, bailing, swabbing) on a contract basis
- Cleaning oil and gas field lease tanks on a contract basis
- Cleaning out (e.g., bailing out, steam cleaning, swabbing) wells on a contract basis
- Cleaning wells on a contract basis
- Cleaning, repairing, and dismantling oil and gas field lease tanks on a contract basis
- Contract services (except site preparation and related construction contractor activities) for oil and gas fields
- Core cutting in oil and gas wells, on a contract basis
- Core drilling, exploration services, oil and gas field
- Cutting cores in oil and gas wells on a contract basis
- Derrick building, repairing, and dismantling at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Dismantling of oil well rigs on a contract basis
- Drilling rat holes and mouse holes at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Drilling shot holes at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Drilling site preparation at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Drill-stem testing in oil, gas, dry, and service well drilling on a contract basis
- Excavating mud pits, slush pits, and cellars at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Exploration services for oil and gas (except geophysical surveying and mapping) on a contract basis
- Fishing for tools at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Gas well rig building, repairing, and dismantling on a contract basis
- Gas, compressing natural, in the field on a contract basis
- Geological exploration (except surveying) for oil and gas on a contract basis
- Geophysical exploration (except surveying) for oil and gas on a contract basis
- Hard banding oil and gas field service on a contract basis
- Hot oil treating of oil field tanks on a contract basis
- Hot shot service on a contract basis
- Hydraulic fracturing wells on a contract basis
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 213112), U.S. Census Bureau.
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U.S. business numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
Top states for support activities for oil and gas operations
- Texas 3,757 locations
- Oklahoma 1,115 locations
- Louisiana 674 locations
- Colorado 417 locations
- New Mexico 382 locations
- North Dakota 355 locations
- Kansas 347 locations
- Wyoming 321 locations
- Pennsylvania 233 locations
- Utah 195 locations
All 44 states
- Alabama (37)
- Alaska (39)
- Arizona (18)
- Arkansas (86)
- California (187)
- Colorado (417)
- Connecticut (4)
- Delaware (7)
- Florida (35)
- Georgia (11)
- Idaho (15)
- Illinois (93)
- Indiana (18)
- Kansas (347)
- Kentucky (28)
- Louisiana (674)
- Maryland (5)
- Massachusetts (8)
- Michigan (85)
- Minnesota (9)
- Mississippi (119)
- Missouri (7)
- Montana (142)
- Nebraska (26)
- Nevada (27)
- New Jersey (12)
- New Mexico (382)
- New York (23)
- North Carolina (5)
- North Dakota (355)
- Ohio (163)
- Oklahoma (1,115)
- Oregon (3)
- Pennsylvania (233)
- South Carolina (9)
- South Dakota (7)
- Tennessee (10)
- Texas (3,757)
- Utah (195)
- Virginia (15)
- Washington (13)
- West Virginia (139)
- Wisconsin (6)
- Wyoming (321)