World Oil Capital City

Houston is a subsea oil and gas city in Texas in the United States, located on the Houston Ship Channel, 82 km from the Gulf of Mexico. Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the United States. The city itself has 2,312,717 inhabitants, while the Houston, The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United States with 6,892,427 inhabitants (US Census, 2017).

Over five million people live in the urban area around The City. Houston is known for being a financial center and an oil hub in the United States; The city is also known for its glass skyscrapers.

Houston, Texas, Usa
Houston, Texas, USA, Oil and Gas Capitol

Houston is the United States oil capital. Equinor has, among other things, a large office in the city. The town also has the Norwegian oil capital Stavanger as one of its friendship towns.

World Traffic Hub

The Port of Houston is Texas’ most important and the second largest in the United States by total freight, and handled almost 250 million containers in 2017. The most important exports are petroleum and petroleum products, cotton and rice.

The city is also a significant traffic hub for traffic between the New England states, the Midwest and the Pacific coast, and a gateway for shipping and air routes from Latin America and Europe. The international airport is among the busiest in the United States.

The city is located in an area with large deposits of oil, natural gas, sulfur, limestone and salt, and the city is home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of refineries and other petrochemical industries. There are also subsea engineering, shipyards, railway workshops, textile and electronics industries

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Top 10 Houston Oil and Gas Companies

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  • Multiphase Solutions, Inc.
    Multiphase Solutions, Inc. in short: is an internationally-focused provider of technical consulting services and software systems. multiphase, multiphase flow, flow assurance, deepwater, pipeline management, asset management, leak detection, multiphase metering, inference metering, Virtual Pipeline Manager, Visit our web site for vacancies, jobs and Multiphase Solutions, Inc. careers! We are located in Houston, USA, America(North) www.multiphase.com Multiphase Solutions, Inc. Products Multiphase Solutions, ...
  • CRC-Evans Pipeline International, Inc.
    CRC-Evans Pipeline International, Inc. in short: manufacture equipment, sell and rent equipment, and subcontract pipeline construction services. CRC-Evans Pipeline International, Inc. builds the most complete line of pipeline construction equipment in the world today. It ranges from pipe bending machines to ditchpadding equipment, from pipe handling and support equipment to pipe facing and ...
  • Pride International
    Pride International in short: is one of the world’s largest offshore drilling companies with an increasing focus on deepwater and other high-specification drilling services , drilling, offshore, deepwater, drilling and well services Visit our web site for vacancies, jobs and Pride International careers! We are located in Houston, USA, America(North) www.prideinternational.com Pride International Products Pride International Vacancies Top Oil and Gas Jobs ...
  • Landmark Graphics
    Landmark Graphics in short: software, consultancy and engineering for seismic and exploration In 1984, Landmark introduced the first commercial workstation for 3-D seismic interpretation. Since that time, the company has grown from a small start-up to the petroleum industry’s leading supplier of software and services for the upstream E&P industry. Landmark’s innovative, integrated technology and services ...
  • SPN Resources
    SPN Resources in short: acquire, operate and abandon mature properties in the Gulf of Mexico SPN Resources was established to acquire, operate and abandon mature properties in the Gulf of Mexico. Backed by the financial assets of Superior Energy Services (NYSE: SPN), the combined companies have nearly every service, tool and expertise in-house necessary to own, ...
  • New Continental Equipment Co., Ltd.
    New Continental Equipment Co., Ltd. in short: drilling rig packages, triplex mud pumps and expendables, traveling equipment, wellhead equipment, handling tools, spare parts, and service. New Continental Equipment Co., Ltd. specializes in the supply and distribution of land drilling rigs and components. New Continental Equipment Co are the exclusive agent and distributor in North America for ...
  • Anadarko Petroleum
    Anadarko Petroleum in short: one of the largest independent crude oil and natural gas exploration and production companies Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) is one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the world. In North America, Anadarko Petroleum have the best acreage position. Although Anadarko Petroleum main base of ...
  • Cavo Drilling Motors
    Cavo Drilling Motors in short: oil field technical professionals with extensive drilling motor knowledge and experience Cavo Drilling Motors is a company that was formed by a group of oil field technical professionals with extensive drilling motor knowledge and experience. Cavo Drilling Motors backgrounds includes: Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales and Rentals, Services, Technical Support. Visit our ...
  • Hercules Offshore
    Hercules Offshore in short: provider of offshore contract drilling, liftboat and inland barge services Hercules Offshore is a leading provider of offshore contract drilling, liftboat and inland barge services with operations in ten countries on four continents. Our fleet of jackup rigs is the fourth largest in the world and the largest in the U.S. ...
  • Exterran
    Exterran in short: Total Solution for your oil and gas production and processing facilities compressors Visit our web site for vacancies, jobs and Exterran careers! We are located in Houston, USA, America(North) www.exterran.com Exterran Products Exterran Vacancies Top Oil and Gas Jobs in USA Top Oil and Gas Jobs in Houston Top Exterran Job Positions

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