National Oilwell Varco designs and manufactures a broad range of technologically advanced drilling equipment, AC and DC drives, pipe handling equipment, controls, and instrumentation. Our vast industry experience helps us to be a partner that understands your operations and requirements. With a commitment to improving our customers’ overall economics and HSE programs, we offer project specific solutions that create efficient, safe, and cost-effective rig systems.

National Oilwell Varco continues to meet the design challenges of offshore and onshore drilling in a wide range of climates and conditions throughout the world. We recognize and regularly employ several key project execution success factors:

- Integration of HSE during all phases of the project to avoid accidents, loss, or damages

- Early involvement of rig operations teams

- Early integration of all project team members and third parties

- Early design freeze supported by a minimum change philosophy

- Early focus on interface and main completion activities

- Integration of critical equipment packages in user- and
construction-friendly designs

- Continuity of manpower resources with an organization
located close to main project activities

National Oilwell Varco's commitment to improving our customers' ability to do business is demonstrated by our ongoing pursuit of new technology. Through our company-wide product development program, National Oilwell Varco explores the latest technologies and captures them in tools that deliver ever-increasing performance, efficiency, and safety. It is National Oilwell's goal to ensure that our customers benefit from solutions that are continuously evolving and improving.

Additionally, National Oilwell Varco employs a unique product development process to minimize our customers' exposure to the inherent risks associated with new technologies. We encourage intimate customer participation from the initial concept to exhaustive prototype testing. Combined with our long history of innovation and industry knowledge, National Oilwell Varco strives to provide new solutions that are thoroughly proven before they go to work for customers.

National Oilwell Varco places a premium on innovative design and maintains a seamless interface with its clients to maintain its leadership in advanced drilling technology. Aided by sophisticated engineering database management software and 3D computer simulation, our experienced team of project managers, engineers, and designers provide integrated solutions tailored to your most demanding requirements. National Oilwell Varco's capabilities extend beyond the design and supply of project resources, equipment, and systems. We also leverage our planning, purchasing, and project management services along with our numerous manufacturing and fabrication facilities to provide customers with turnkey solutions that improve their overall economics.

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