BUSINESS SEGMENT INFORMATION

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

BUSINESS SEGMENT INFORMATION

6. 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 March 31,
	2012			2011
(in thousands)
Revenues
Technical Services	$	461,521		$	349,402
Support Services		41,036			32,359
Total revenues	$	502,557		$	381,761
Operating profit:
Technical Services	$	123,531		$	99,916
Support Services		13,985			9,935
Corporate		(5,255	)		(4,936	)
(Loss) gain on disposition of assets, net		(1,404	)		1,411
Total operating profit	$	130,857		$	106,326
Interest expense		(596	)		(1,079	)
Interest income		5			4
Other income, net		920			334
Income before income taxes	$	131,186		$	105,585

Three months ended March 31, 2012	Technical Services		Support Services		Corporate		Total
(in thousands)
Identifiable assets at March 31, 2012	$	1,123,791	$	195,924	$	49,292	$	1,369,007
Capital expenditures		102,737		17,639		1,032		121,408
Depreciation and amortization		45,118		6,385		67		51,570