Select Water Solutions, Inc. (WTTR)
Oilfield water services and infrastructure. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 18, 2026. Ranked 54 of the 61 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
24%
Employees, annual report
3,300
Leading staffing pattern
Support Activities for Mining
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now21%
- End of 202724%
- 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%
An oilfield water services company with about 3,300 employees in one support-activities pattern by description.
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: 21% now, 24% 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
3,300 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes operations in communities throughout the United States and its oil and gas basins only, so the U.S. share is recorded as 1, flagged.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, approximately 3,300 employees were part of the Select team.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Support Activities for Mining | 100% | By description (c): water services (72% of revenue) and water infrastructure (28%) for oil and gas producers across the Permian, Rockies, Marcellus and other basins, oilfield services work; no count by function. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 3,300 employees; an industry-leading safety program; an online job portal for moves between locations and service lines.
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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Slb N.V. (SLB, 109,000 employees)24% now, 30% by 2028
- Baker Hughes Company (BKR, 56,000 employees)25% now, 33% by 2028
- Halliburton Company (HAL, 46,000 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028
- TechnipFMC plc (FTI, 23,089 employees)24% now, 30% by 2028
- Weatherford International plc (WFRD, 16,700 employees)22% now, 26% by 2028
- Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (HP, 15,700 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028
- Nabors Industries Ltd. (NBR, 13,900 employees)22% now, 26% by 2028
- Oceaneering International, Inc. (OII, 11,100 employees)26% now, 34% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. Two sentences: demand for natural gas power is expected to grow with data centers built for artificial intelligence, and emerging AI may expand attackers' capabilities.
- “Furthermore, demand for natural gas-powered electricity generation is expected to grow in the near-term as the growth in industrial electrification as well as the rapid buildout of data centers and other industrial capacity to support artificial intelligence drive rapidly growing power requirements and electric grid infrastructure expansion.”
- “Emerging artificial intelligence technologies may improve or expand the capabilities of malicious third parties in a way we cannot predict at this time, including being used to develop new hacking tools, exploit vulnerabilities, obscure malicious activities and increase the difficulty detecting threats.”
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 20211median 0
- Fiscal 20221median 0
- Fiscal 20233median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 3,300 | 2026-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 3,700 | 2025-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 4,200 | 2024-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 4,000 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 3,000 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 2,000 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 3,900 | 2020-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 5,300 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 5,100 | 2018-03-19 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is read from the filing's description of its basins, not stated as a share.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001104659-26-017085, 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 Select Water Solutions, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 24% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Select Water Solutions, 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 Select Water Solutions, Inc. employ?
- 3,300 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Select Water Solutions, 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 Select Water Solutions, 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 1, 1, 3, 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 November 8, 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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