BUSINESS SEGMENT INFORMATION

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

BUSINESS SEGMENT INFORMATION

7. BUSINESS SEGMENT INFORMATION

RPC’s service lines have been aggregated into two reportable oil and gas services segments, Technical Services and Support Services, because of the similarities between the financial performance and approach to managing the service lines within each of the segments, as well as the economic and business conditions impacting their business activity levels.  Corporate includes selected administrative costs incurred by the Company that are not allocated to business units.  Gains or losses on disposition of assets are reviewed by the Company’s chief decision maker on a consolidated basis, and accordingly the Company does not report gains or losses at the segment level.

Technical Services include RPC’s oil and gas service lines that utilize people and equipment to perform value-added completion, production and maintenance services directly to a customer’s well. These services include pressure pumping services, snubbing, coiled tubing, nitrogen pumping, well control consulting and firefighting, downhole tools, wireline, and fluid pumping services.  These Technical Services are primarily used in the completion, production and maintenance of oil and gas wells. The principal markets for this segment include the United States, including the Gulf of Mexico, the mid-continent, southwest, Rocky Mountain and Appalachian regions, and international locations including primarily Africa, Canada, China, Latin America, the Middle East and New Zealand. Customers include major multi-national and independent oil and gas producers, and selected nationally-owned oil companies.

Support Services include RPC’s oil and gas service lines that primarily provide equipment for customer use or services to assist customer operations. The equipment and services include drill pipe and related tools, pipe handling, inspection and storage services and oilfield training services. The demand for these services tends to be influenced primarily by customer drilling-related activity levels. The principal markets for this segment include the United States, including the Gulf of Mexico and the mid-continent regions, and selected international locations. Customers include domestic operations of major multi-national and independent oil and gas producers, and selected nationally-owned oil companies.

Inter-segment revenues are generally recorded in segment operating results at prices that management believes approximate prices for arm’s length transactions and are not material to operating results.

Certain information with respect to RPC’s business segments is set forth in the following tables:

	Three months ended September 30,						Nine months ended September 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
(in thousands)
Revenues
Technical Services	$	463,685		$	268,049		$	1,219,823		$	684,990
Support Services		38,550			34,151			107,202			83,250
Total revenues	$	502,235		$	302,200		$	1,327,025		$	768,240
Operating profit:
Technical Services	$	127,877		$	65,225		$	337,302		$	136,527
Support Services		14,121			12,015			37,210			20,564
Corporate		(3,365	)		(3,755	)		(11,775	)		(9,618	)
(Loss) gain on disposition of assets, net		(4,179	)		905			(2,690	)		1,574
Total operating profit	$	134,454		$	74,390		$	360,047		$	149,047
Interest expense		(887	)		(707	)		(2,964	)		(1,750	)
Interest income		9			14			16			46
Other (expense) income, net		(906	)		441			(582	)		556
Income before income taxes	$	132,670		$	74,138		$	356,517		$	147,899

Nine months ended September 30, 2011	Technical Services		Support Services		Corporate		Total
(in thousands)
Identifiable assets at September 30, 2011	$	1,001,126	$	169,453	$	43,452	$	1,214,031
Capital expenditures		273,316		30,174		2,239		305,729
Depreciation and amortization		110,218		20,546		142		130,906