Industry Description
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.
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Business Examples
Common types of business activities within NAICS 213112 - Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations are:
- Salt water disposal systems, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Wireline services, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Paraffin services, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Shot hole drilling, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Roustabout mining services, on a contract basis
- Oil field exploration (except surveying) on a contract basis
- Slush pits and cellars, excavation of, on a contract basis
- Hard banding oil and gas field service on a contract basis
- Well surveying, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Chemically treating oil and gas wells (e.g., acidizing, bailing, swabbing) on a contract basis
- Gas well rig building, repairing, and dismantling on a contract basis
- Mouse hole and rat hole drilling at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Cleaning, repairing, and dismantling oil and gas field lease tanks on a contract basis
- Excavating mud pits, slush pits, and cellars at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Mud service for oil field drilling on a contract basis
- Derrick building, repairing, and dismantling at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Oil sampling services on a contract basis
- Stratigraphic drilling, oil and gas field exploration on a contract basis
- Cleaning oil and gas field lease tanks on a contract basis
- Drilling rat holes and mouse holes at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Rathole and mousehole drilling at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Perforating oil and gas well casings on a contract basis
- Contract services (except site preparation and related construction contractor activities) for oil and gas fields
- Surveying (except seismographic) oil or gas wells on a contract basis
- Geological exploration (except surveying) for oil and gas on a contract basis
- Swabbing oil or gas wells on a contract basis
- Seismograph exploration (except surveying) for oil and gas on a contract basis
- Geophysical exploration (except surveying) for oil and gas on a contract basis
- Pumping oil and gas 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
- Servicing oil and gas wells on a contract basis
- Installing production equipment at the oil or gas field on a contract basis
- Well servicing, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Exploration services for oil and gas (except geophysical surveying and mapping) on a contract basis
- Pipe testing services, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Operating condensate gasoline field gathering lines on a contract basis
- Dismantling of oil well rigs on a contract basis
- Fishing for tools at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Gas, compressing natural, in the field on a contract basis
- Core cutting in oil and gas wells, on a contract basis
- Core drilling, exploration services, oil and gas field
- Drill-stem testing in oil, gas, dry, and service well drilling on a contract basis
- Plugging and abandoning wells on a contract basis
- Hot shot service on a contract basis
- Well pumping, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Rig skidding, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Impounding and storing salt water in connection with petroleum production
- Acidizing oil and gas field wells on a contract basis
- Drilling site preparation at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Well casing running, cutting and pulling, oil and gas field on a contract basis
- Drilling shot holes at oil and gas fields on a contract basis
- Cutting cores in oil and gas wells on a contract basis
- Cleaning wells on a contract basis
- Oil well logging on a contract basis
- Oil well rig building, repairing, and dismantling, on a contract basis
- Logging wells on a contract basis
- Pulling oil and gas field casings, tubes, or rods on a contract basis
- Building oil and gas well foundations on a contract basis
- Hydraulic fracturing wells on a contract basis
- Oil and gas field services (except contract drilling, site preparation and related construction contractor activities) on a contract basis
- Lease tank cleaning and repairing on a contract basis
- Hot oil treating of oil field tanks on a contract basis
- Cleaning out (e.g., bailing out, steam cleaning, swabbing) wells on a contract basis
- Cementing oil and gas well casings on a contract basis
- Steam cleaning oil and gas wells on a contract basis
- Well logging, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Well plugging, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
- Building, erecting, repairing, and dismantling oil and gas field rigs and derricks on a contract basis
- Sandblasting pipelines on lease, oil and gas field on a contract basis
- Skidding of rigs, oil and gas field, on a contract basis
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Oil & Gas Field Services in the US (21311)
Revenue 2025
$109.8bn
Growth 2025
-5.14%
Key Trends
Profit has benefited from increased demand for drilling and support services
Unstable commodity prices have led upstream oil and gas producers to constantly reevaluate demand for outsourced services
IBISWorld anticipates tighter regulations to emerge concerning unconventional oil and gas extraction techniques
Products and Services
Similar Industries
For some business types, there may be a similar industry to 213112 - Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations that is a better classification match. Establishments primarily engaged in:
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NAICS Cross Reference
Operating oil and gas field properties on a contract or fee basis--are classified in Industry Group 2111, Oil and Gas Extraction;
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NAICS Cross Reference
Contract drilling for oil and gas--are classified in U.S. Industry 213111, Drilling Oil and Gas Wells;
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Oil and gas pipeline and related structures construction and repair--are classified in Industry 237120, Oil and Gas Pipeline and Related Structures Construction;
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Site preparation and related construction activities on a contract or fee basis--are classified in Industry 238910, Site Preparation Contractors; and
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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;
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Inspecting pipelines--are classified in Industry 541990, All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services;
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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.
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NAICS Hierarchy 213112 - Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations
NAICS Code 213112 - Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations sits in the 2-digit Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations sector. NAICS codes can be 2- to 6-digits and the further along the hierarchy, the more detailed and specific the category will be. Learn more about the structure of NAICS codes
2 Digits: 21
Sector Title: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
3 Digits 4 Digits 5 Digits 6 Digits
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2111 Oil and Gas Extraction
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21112 Crude Petroleum Extraction
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21113 Natural Gas Extraction
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2121 Coal Mining
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2122 Metal Ore Mining
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21221 Iron Ore Mining
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21222 Gold Ore and Silver Ore Mining
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21223 Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining
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21229 Other Metal Ore Mining
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2123 Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
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21231 Stone Mining and Quarrying
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21232 Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying
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21239 Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
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2131 Support Activities for Mining
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