213112 Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations

Overview

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing support activities, on a contract or fee basis, for oil and gas operations (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities). Services included are exploration; 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.

Cross-References

  • Contract drilling for oil and gas--are classified in U.S. Industry 213111, Drilling Oil and Gas Wells;
  • Operating oil and gas field properties on a contract or fee basis--are classified in Industry Group 2111, Oil and Gas Extraction;
  • Performing geophysical surveying and mapping services for oil and gas on a contract or fee basis--are classified in Industry 541360, Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services;
  • Oil and gas pipeline and related structures construction and repair--are classified in Industry 237120, Oil and Gas Pipeline and Related Structures Construction;
  • Inspecting pipelines (i.e., visual)--are classified in Industry 541990, All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services;
  • Site preparation and related construction activities on a contract or fee basis--are classified in Industry 238910, Site Preparation Contractors;
  • Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance--are classified in Industry 811310, Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance;
  • Providing transportation activities on a contract or fee basis--are classified in Sector 48-49, Transportation and Warehousing, based on the primary activity; and
  • Providing landman services on a contract or fee basis--are classified in Industry 531390, Other Activities Related to Real Estate.

Index Entries

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 geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation 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 oil field services (on- and off-road) on a contract basis
Hydraulic fracturing wells on a contract basis
Impounding and storing salt water in connection with petroleum production
Installing production equipment at the oil or gas field on a contract basis
Lease tank cleaning and repairing on a contract basis
Logging wells on a contract basis
Mouse hole and rat hole drilling at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
Mud service for oil field drilling on a contract basis
Oil and gas field services on a contract basis (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities)
Oil field exploration (except surveying) on a contract basis
Oil sampling services on a contract basis
Oil well logging on a contract basis
Oil well rig building, repairing, and dismantling, on a contract basis
Operating condensate gasoline field gathering lines on a contract basis
Paraffin services, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Perforating oil and gas well casings on a contract basis
Pipe testing services, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Plugging and abandoning wells on a contract basis
Preparation of oil and gas field drilling sites (except site preparation and related construction contractor activities) on a contract basis
Pulling oil and gas field casings, tubes, or rods on a contract basis
Pumping oil and gas wells on a contract basis
Rathole and mousehole drilling at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
Rig skidding, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Roustabout mining services, on a contract basis
Salt water disposal systems, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Sandblasting pipelines on lease, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Seismograph exploration (except surveying) for oil and gas on a contract basis
Servicing oil and gas wells on a contract basis
Shot hole drilling, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Skidding of rigs, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Slush pits and cellars, excavation of, on a contract basis
Steam cleaning oil and gas wells on a contract basis
Stratigraphic drilling, oil and gas field exploration on a contract basis
Surveying (except seismographic) oil or gas wells on a contract basis
Swabbing oil or gas wells on a contract basis
Well casing running, cutting and pulling, oil and gas field on a contract basis
Well logging, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Well plugging, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Well pumping, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Well servicing, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Well surveying, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
Wireline services, oil and gas field, on a contract basis