About This Report

Land rig against a blue sky

Patterson-UTI is a Houston, Texas-based oilfield services company that primarily owns and operates one of the largest fleets of land-based drilling rigs in the United States and a large fleet of pressure pumping equipment. We also have a number of “lighter-asset” businesses with a heavy technology focus and a smaller footprint. These include our Superior QC business, which provides software and services used to improve the accuracy of directional and horizontal wellbores, wellbore quality, and on-bottom ROP (rate of penetration), and our Current Power business, which provides in-house electrical engineering, control system automation and installation services to the energy and marine industries.

We had approximately 6,000 full-time employees as of December 2022.

The information throughout this report generally applies to Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. on a Company-wide basis; however, in some instances, we share details that relate to a specific business unit. In particular, the practices of our contract drilling business and/or our pressure pumping business, our two largest businesses, are highlighted where appropriate.

Unless otherwise noted or as the context otherwise requires, the quantitative disclosures presented in this report are for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, and the narrative disclosures presented in this report are current as of December 31, 2022.

Our sustainability report is intended to address what we view as our material environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. In assessing the material topics to address in our sustainability report, we considered feedback from internal and external stakeholders, including customers, investors, trade associations and industry groups, and engaged with an ESG consultancy for feedback and benchmarking purposes.

In particular, we considered recentfeedback regarding various disclosure frameworks and elected to align our disclosures following the frameworks set forth by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Mapping of these disclosures can be located beginning on page 47 of this report. We have also included disclosures on additional topics not covered by SASB and TCFD in response to stakeholder feedback.

We welcome feedback on this report. Comments may be submitted to us via email at sustainabilityreport@patenergy.com. Please see the Disclaimer section for additional important information regarding this report.