Company Brissonneau Brothers was established and later named BLM

John Eaton Company was established, known as Oil Well, as a Supply Store for oilfield equipment

Union Tool Company introduced first rotary table

Cooper introduced the Mobile Cooper Hoists workover rigs

Martin-Loomis builds first commercially successful Weight Indicator

Reed introduced the first Slush Lubricated Roller Bearings Rock Bits

Mission® developed the Rubber Piston for Mud Pumps

Bowen® designed first Overshot for fishing stuck parts

Martin-Decker® introduces Quintuplex integrated drilling instrumentation system with weight indicator, recorder, pressure, rotary rpm and torque

Ventura Tool Company, later to be named Tuboscope®, introduced Pipe Inspection for new and used pipe

Tube-Kote® was the first to apply coatings for pipe ID

Bowen introduced the first hydraulic Power Swivel

National Supply developed "Gammaloy" non-magnetic stainless steel drill collars for directional surveys

Clyde® (later to combine with American to form Amclyde®) built 150 ton Clyde Whirly Crane

National® introduced "Type A" single stage Torque Converter, designed specifically for oilfield drilling rigs

Byron Jackson (BJ Varco) designed the 3-arm derrick mounted Pipe Racking System

Baylor® introduced the Eddy Current Brakes

First Centrifugal Pump used in low pressure mud system by TRW Mission

Rock Island Fiberglass Products Co. (later to be bought by Koch) was the first to produce fiberglass downhole tubing

National patented first submarine drilling rig design (1963 Patent Awarded)

Bowen designed the first Coiled Tubing Injector

Rucker developed the Marine Riser Motion Compensator Systems

Martin-Decker deployed the Telemetric Drilloger that transmitted drilling operation data via microwave

Baylor introduced the SCR System

Bowen designed the first wireline BOP

Bowen introduced the electric Top Drive, the ES7

Varco® International introduced the Iron Roughneck named Big Foot

Brandt® introduced the Vertical Vacuum Degasser

Dreco® introduced first "Slingshot" mast and substructure allowing installation of major components and raising of mast at ground level to elevate structure

Texas Oil Tools® created first Solid Block Coiled Tubing Quad BOP

Dreco designed the "Sandmaster" self-propelled workover/drilling rig for desert applications

Grant Prideco® introduced the double-shouldered high-torque rotary-shouldered connection called HI TORQUE®

XL Systems introduced Integral Wedge-thread Connector called the XLF

Procon Engineering developed/delivered first dust free Chemical dosing for Mud Mixing

Griffith® designed proprietary downhole steerable drilling motor

Procon Introduced the first automated Containerized Mud Additive System

Soil Recovery developed the first Thermal Waste Disposal Systems, used for Oil Base Drill Cuttings

Hitec®, Dreco and Varco introduced the AC Drilling Rig

Fiber Glass Systems was first to be approved to monogram high pressure pipe to API 15HR specifications

Quality Tubing developed and patented the process for manufacturing continuously milled coiled tubing

Hitec introduced the first Cyberbase Drilling Control Chair

Hydra Rig® developed the Computer Controlled Coiled Tubing Drilling Unit

Hydra Rig created first Combination Liquid Nitrogen Gas (LNG) and Consolidated Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Station

Elmar® produced first Horizontal Tree Plug

CTES invented the Cable Injector System for Coiled Tubing

Thule Rig Tech developed the first BEM (Balanced Elliptical Motion) Shaker for separation of Drill Cuttings from mud (VSM-300)

Shaffer® introduced the first boltless ram door BOP

National Oilwell® built the first Offset Derrick for Navis Explorer

Grant Prideco first manufactured 5-7/8 inch diameter extended reach drill pipe (eXtended Reach, XR)

Hitec with National Oilwell designed and constructed the first AC driven "Active Heave Compensating Drawworks"

Hydra Rig introduced first Combination Nitrogen/Fluid Pumper

ReedHycalog® introduced Trex® deep leached thermo stable PDC Cutters

National Oilwell introduced the first Hex HP Mud Pump

Shaffer introduced the Continuous Circulation System (CCS)

National Oilwell Varco® developed the first non-bypass fully pressure balanced drilling motor

IntelliServ® commercialized the first wired drill pipe

Retsco introduced the Titan BX Relief Valve for "fail open" pneumatically actuated operation

Grant Prideco developed rotary-shouldered connection with double-start threads (TurboTorque)

NOV® Hydra Rig designed the coiled tubing control system for complete wellsite control and monitoring called the Merlin™