Offering a variety of innovative designs, our drilling rig portfolio is focused on optimizing your drilling operations. Whether you need desert rigs or you're drilling in the Arctic, when you choose NOV you're backed by an industry leader with more than 170 years of drilling experience.

Kinds of oil rig include: Drilling rig, an apparatus for on-land oil drilling. Drillship, a floating apparatus for offshore oil drilling. Oil platform, an apparatus for offshore oil drilling.

We can categorize them by application, such as core drilling rig, petroleum drilling rig, hydrogeological survey and water well drilling rig, engineering geological survey drilling rig, tunnel drilling rig and engineering construction drilling rig.

Basically, they are tall towers that use a pulley system to hold “drill pipes” which are long drills that dig deep underground. How deep? Depends on how far down you need to go. Oil rigs come in many shapes and sizes with many different techniques.