Industry Description
Establishments primarily engaged in performing oil and gas field services, not elsewhere classified, for others on a contract or fee basis. Services included are excavating slush pits and cellars; gradings and building of foundations at well locations; 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. Establishments which have complete responsibility for operating oil and gas wells for others on a contract or fee basis are classified according to the product extracted rather than as oil and gas field services. Establishments primarily engaged in hauling oil and gas field supplies and equipment are classified in Division E, Transportation and Public Utilities. Establishments primarily engaged in oil and gas field machine shop work are classified in Manufacturing, Industry 3599.
Business Examples
Common types of business activities within US SIC 1389 - Oil and Gas Field Services, Not Elsewhere Classified are:
- Acidizing wells on a contract basis
- Bailing wells on a contract basis
- Building oil and gas well foundations on a contract basis
- Cementing oil and gas well casings on a contract basis
- Chemically treating wells on a contract basis
- Cleaning lease tanks, oil and gas field on a contract basis
- Cleaning wells on a contract basis
- Derrick building, repairing, and dismantling oil and gas-on a contract
- Dismantling of oil well rigs (oil field service) on a contract basis
- Erecting lease tanks, oil and gas field on a contract basis
- Excavating slush pits and cellars on a contract basis
- Fishing for tools, oil and gas field on a contract basis
- Gas compressing natural gas at the field on a contract basis
- Gas well rig building, repairing, and dismantling on a contract basis
- Grading oil and gas well foundations on a contract basis
- Hard banding 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
- Impounding and storing salt water in connection with petroleum
- Lease tanks, oil and gas field: erecting, cleaning, and repairing-on a
- Logging wells on a contract basis
- Mud service, oil field drilling: on a contract basis
- Oil sampling service for oil companies on a contract basis
- Oil well logging on a contract basis
- Perforating well casings on a contract basis
- Pipe testing service, oil and gas field: on a contract basis
- Plugging and abandoning wells on a contract basis
- Pumping of oil and gas wells on a contract basis
- Removal of condensate gasoline from field gathering lines: on a
- Roustabout service: on a contract basis
- Running, cutting, and pulling casings, tubes, and rods: oil and
- Servicing oil and gas wells on a contract basis
- Shooting wells on a contract basis
- Shot-hole drilling service, oil and gas field: on a contract basis
- Surveying wells on a contract basis, except seismographic
- Swabbing wells: on a contract basis
IBISWorld Industry Research Report
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
US-SIC Hierarchy 1389 - Oil and Gas Field Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
US-SIC Code 1389 - Oil and Gas Field Services, Not Elsewhere Classified sits in the 2-digit Oil and Gas Field Services, Not Elsewhere Classified sector. US SIC codes can be 2 to 8 digits and the further along the hierarchy, the more detailed and specific the category will be.
Division: B
Division Title: Mining
2 Digits 3 Digits 4 Digits
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101 Iron Ores
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102 Copper Ores
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103 Lead and Zinc Ores
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104 Gold and Silver Ores
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106 Ferroalloy Ores, Except Vanadium
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108 Metal Mining Services
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109 Miscellaneous Metal Ores
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122 Bituminous Coal and Lignite Mining
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123 Anthracite Mining
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124 Coal Mining Services
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131 Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas
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132 Natural Gas Liquids
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138 Oil and Gas Field Services
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141 Dimension Stone
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142 Crushed and Broken Stone, Including Riprap
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144 Sand and Gravel
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145 Clay, Ceramic, and Refractory Minerals
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147 Chemical and Fertilizer Mineral Mining
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148 Nonmetallic Minerals Services, Except Fuels
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149 Miscellaneous Nonmetallic Minerals, Except
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Extended US-SIC Hierarchy for 1389 - Oil and Gas Field Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
For business marketing and targeting, US SIC Codes have been extended to provide more specific classifications within US-SIC 1389 - Oil and Gas Field Services, Not Elsewhere Classified. Extended US SIC Codes are being continuously updated to reflect the current business environment.
6 Digit SIC Codes
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138901 Oil field equipment-repairing
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138902 Mud jacking contractors
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138903 Oil field specialties
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138904 Oil inspectors
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138905 Oil field service
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138906 Oil well cementing
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138907 Oil well casing-pulling
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138908 Oil well drilling mud & additives
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138909 Oil well surveyors
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138910 Oil well logging & perforating
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138911 Oil well testing
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138912 Oil well services
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138913 Pipe inspection
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138914 Riggers
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138915 Hot shot service
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138916 Wireline service
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138918 Offshore platforms/oil
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138919 Roustabouts
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138920 Gas well cleaners
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138921 Gas well plugging
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138923 Oil well wire line service
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138924 Oil field maintenance
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138925 Oil field compressor svc
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138999 Oil & gas-field services nec
8 Digit SIC Codes
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13890000 Oil and gas field services, nec
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13890100 Construction, repair, and dismantling services
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13890101 Building oil and gas well foundations on site
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13890102 Derrick building, repairing, and dismantling
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13890103 Excavating slush pits and cellars
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13890104 Grading oil and gas well foundations
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13890105 Lease tanks, oil field: erecting, cleaning, and repairing
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13890106 Oil and gas wells: building, repairing and dismantling
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13890107 Well plugging and abandoning, oil and gas
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13890200 Testing, measuring, surveying, and analysis services
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13890201 Detection and analysis service, gas
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13890202 Measurement of well flow rates, oil and gas
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13890203 Oil sampling service for oil companies
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13890204 Pipe testing, oil field service
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13890205 Surveying wells
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13890300 Bailing, cleaning, swabbing, and treating of wells
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13890301 Acidizing wells
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13890302 Bailing wells
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13890303 Chemically treating wells
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13890304 Cleaning wells
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13890305 Swabbing wells
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13899900 Oil and gas field services, nec
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13899901 Cementing oil and gas well casings
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13899902 Fire fighting, oil and gas field
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13899903 Fishing for tools, oil and gas field
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13899904 Gas compressing (natural gas) at the fields
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13899905 Gas field services, nec
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13899906 Haulage, oil field
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13899907 Hot shot service
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13899908 Hydraulic fracturing wells
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13899909 Impounding and storing salt water, oil and gas field
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13899910 Mud service, oil field drilling
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13899911 Oil consultants
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13899912 Oil field services, nec
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13899913 Perforating well casings
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13899914 Processing service, gas
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13899915 Pumping of oil and gas wells
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13899916 Removal of condensate gasoline from field (gathering) lines
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13899917 Roustabout service
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13899918 Running, cutting, and pulling casings, tubes and rods
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13899919 Servicing oil and gas wells
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13899920 Well logging
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