Valaris Limited (VAL)
Offshore drilling contractor, 3,800 employees, mostly rig-based. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 20, 2026. Ranked 36 of the 38 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
15%
End of 2028
24%
Employees, annual report
3,800
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%
The filing states 3,800 persons excluding contractors, most on offshore rigs and hourly, in one drilling business, so one support activities pattern carries the workforce.
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
3,800 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; its personnel represent 78 nationalities across 25 locations.
The filing: “We had a global workforce of approximately 5,070 persons including contractors, and approximately 3,800 persons excluding contractors, as of December 31, 2025.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Support Activities for Mining | 100% | By description (c): an offshore drilling contractor whose floaters and jackups drill oil and gas wells under contract, with the majority of personnel on the rigs; no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 3,800 employees and about 1,270 contractors, 5,070 in all; the majority work on offshore rigs and are paid hourly; a portion outside the U.S. are under collective bargaining or similar agreements.
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
- Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (HP, 15,700 employees)15% now, 24% 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
What the filing says about AI
15 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says AI presents risks and challenges that can impact its business, among its risk factors.
- “Forward-looking statements include words or phrases such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "likely," "outlook," "plan," "project," "could," "may," "might," "should," "will" and similar words and specifically include statements regarding expected financial performance; expected utilization, day rates, revenues, operating expenses, cash flows, contract status, terms and...”
- “Such statements are subject to numerous risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause actual results to vary materially from those indicated, including: our ability to complete the Business Combination as timely as expected or at all, the impact of the significant management time and resources expended in an effort to complete the Business Combination, any disruptions to our relationships...”
- “AI presents risks and challenges that can impact our business.”
- “Further, the use of AI by us or by third-party service providers may create new cybersecurity vulnerabilities, including those which may not be recognized at the time, and malicious actors may employ AI to aid in launching more sophisticated and effective cyber-attacks.”
- “AI presents risks and challenges that can impact our business.”
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 20231median 1
- Fiscal 202414median 4
- Fiscal 202515median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 5,070 | 2026-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 5,642 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 5,985 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 5,450 | 2023-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 4,900 | 2022-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,500 | 2021-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 5,800 | 2020-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,400 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 5,400 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 4,900 | 2017-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 6,400 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 8,500 | 2015-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 9,000 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 9,000 | 2013-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 8,000 | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 3,725 | 2011-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 3,585 | 2010-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 3,947 | 2009-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 4,100 | 2008-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 3,900 | 2007-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 3,700 | 2006-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 3,600 | 2005-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 3,600 | 2004-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 4,300 | 2003-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 3,500 | 2002-03-01 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 3,400 | 2001-03-02 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 2,650 | 2000-03-01 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 3,100 | 1999-03-01 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 3,700 | 1998-02-26 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 3,800 | 1997-02-21 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 2,300 | 1996-02-28 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 2,300 | 1995-03-17 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector found no count; the filing states 3,800 persons excluding contractors and 5,070 including them, and rule 8 takes the 3,800 with the contractors in the notes.
- The data service's 5,070 includes contractors.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000314808-26-000029, 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 Valaris Limited'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 Valaris Limited'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 Valaris Limited employ?
- 3,800 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Valaris Limited'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 Valaris Limited's annual report say about AI?
- 15 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 14 and 15 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 20, 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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