Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (HP)
Drilling contractor, 15,700, 40% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 21, 2025. Ranked 29 of the 32 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
15%
End of 2028
24%
Employees, annual report
15,700
Leading staffing pattern
Support Activities for Mining
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now15%
- End of 202721%
- End of 202824%
- End of 203025%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 65%
- Becomes checking a model's work 27%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
Helmerich & Payne’s approximately 15,700 employees, 6,200 in the United States and 9,500 abroad, crew and support contract drilling rigs, read as one drilling services pattern.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 15% now, 21% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 25% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 25% desk work, 12% people work and 64% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 65% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 27% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
15,700 employees as of September 30, 2025 (sum of stated parts). Approximately 6,200 of 15,700 employees are in the United States and 9,500 in international operations, by the filing.
The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, we had approximately 6,200 employees within the United States and approximately 9,500 employees in our international operations.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Support Activities for Mining | 100% | By description (c): contract drilling rigs in North America, international markets and the Gulf of Mexico, with recruiting teams that staff rig operations, support activities for oil and gas drilling; no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 15,700 employees, 6,200 in the United States and 9,500 in international operations; rig crews in safety-sensitive roles with mentored on-the-job training; the international count grew with acquired operations in 2025.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Support Activities for Mining, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Slb N.V. (SLB, 109,000 employees)16% now, 29% by 2028
- Baker Hughes Company (BKR, 56,000 employees)17% now, 31% by 2028
- Halliburton Company (HAL, 46,000 employees)15% now, 24% by 2028
- TechnipFMC plc (FTI, 23,089 employees)17% now, 29% by 2028
- Weatherford International plc (WFRD, 16,700 employees)16% now, 25% by 2028
- Nabors Industries Ltd. (NBR, 13,900 employees)16% now, 25% by 2028
- Oceaneering International, Inc. (OII, 11,100 employees)17% now, 33% by 2028
- Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN, 7,900 employees)15% now, 25% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI twice, among cybersecurity risks.
- “The volatility in prices and production levels are impacted by many factors beyond our control, including: the domestic and foreign supply of, and demand for, oil, natural gas and related products; the cost of exploring for, developing, producing and delivering oil and natural gas; uncertainty in capital and commodities markets and the ability of oil and natural gas producers to access capital;...”
- “This risk is exacerbated with the advancement of technologies like artificial intelligence, which malicious third parties are using to create new, sophisticated and more frequent attacks.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20252median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 6,200 | 2025-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 6,200 | 2024-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 6,200 | 2023-11-08 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 7,000 | 2022-11-17 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 5,444 | 2021-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 3,634 | 2020-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 7,767 | 2019-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 8,780 | 2018-11-16 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 8,123 | 2017-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 4,116 | 2016-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 6,758 | 2015-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 11,914 | 2014-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 8,715 | 2013-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 9,429 | 2012-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 8,724 | 2011-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 7,488 | 2010-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 5,384 | 2009-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-30 | 7,370 | 2008-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 6,456 | 2007-11-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 5,705 | 2006-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-30 | 4,801 | 2005-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-30 | 4,251 | 2004-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-30 | 3,937 | 2003-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-30 | 3,675 | 2002-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-30 | 4,245 | 2001-12-27 | 10-K |
| 2000-09-30 | 3,606 | 2000-12-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-09-30 | 3,440 | 1999-12-28 | 10-K |
| 1998-09-30 | 3,340 | 1998-12-28 | 10-K |
| 1997-09-30 | 3,627 | 1997-12-23 | 10-K |
| 1996-09-30 | 3,309 | 1996-12-27 | 10-K |
| 1995-09-30 | 3,245 | 1995-12-22 | 10-K |
| 1994-09-30 | 2,787 | 1994-12-22 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector’s 9,500 was the international count alone and the Index’s 6,200 the U.S. count; the filing states both, summed (rule 2).
- No count by segment; one drilling services pattern by description.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000046765-25-000071, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Helmerich & Payne, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 15% now and 24% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Helmerich & Payne, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Helmerich & Payne, Inc. employ?
- 15,700 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states as the sum of the parts it gives. About 40% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Helmerich & Payne, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Support Activities for Mining; by those patterns the work is about 25% desk work, 12% people work and 64% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Helmerich & Payne, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 1 and 2 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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