Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN)

Drilling and completion services, 7,900 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 10, 2026. Ranked 24 of the 26 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

An oilfield services company whose filing states 7,900 full-time employees and nothing by segment, so field services lead by revenue with the drill bit business read apart.

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, 22% at the end of 2027, 25% 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 63% 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

7,900 employees as of January 31, 2026 (stated). Not stated: operations in North America and over 30 countries, Colombian employees named, no count by country.

The filing: “Employees - We had approximately 7,900 full-time employees as of January 31, 2026.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 7,900 full-time employees as of January 31, 2026 (9,200 a year earlier); the count fluctuates with demand; no U.S. employees represented by a union; some Colombian employees may be union members with no collective bargaining arrangements.

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
• National Energy Services Reunited Corp. (NESR, 7,352 employees)15% now, 24% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says its Vertex automated completions process lays the foundation for integrating AI-driven reservoir technologies, and that threat actors' adoption of AI tools may increase the speed and sophistication of cyber threats.

• “We are also advancing our Vertex™ fully automated, closed-loop completions process, a component of our proprietary digital completions management platform, eos™, which offers our customers the opportunity for greater operational efficiency, lower costs, and improved performance, while laying the foundation for integrating AI-driven reservoir technologies.”
• “The rapid evolution and increased adoption of artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies amplifies these concerns.”
• “As threat actors adopt and deploy AI tools, the speed and sophistication of cyber threats and privacy risks may increase across our environment and those of our customers, vendors and suppliers.”
• “As we and our service providers begin to integrate AI-enabled tools, those tools may be targeted or misused in ways that compromise data or enable harmful outputs.”
• “Additionally, AI outputs may be inaccurate, biased or unreliable, which could result in legal, regulatory or reputational harm.”

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 20257median 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.

Limits of this reading

• The U.S. share is not stated.
• The count is of full-time employees as the filing states it.
• No count by segment: the drill bit business's share is by segment revenue (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000889900-26-000013, 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.