NOV Inc.

B USINESS General NOV Inc. ( NOV or the Company ) is a leading independent equipment and technology provider to the global energy industry. NOV and its predecessor companies have spent over 160 years helping transform oil and gas development and improving its cost-effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and environmental impact. NOV’s extensive proprietary technology portfolio supports the industry’s drilling, completion, and production needs. With unmatched cross-segment capabilities, scope, and scale, NOV continues to develop and introduce technologies that further enhance the economics and efficiencies of energy production, with a focus on digital, automation, and robotics solutions. Lower-cost, reliable sources of energy significantly contribute to raising the global standard of living by powering economic development, enabling better infrastructure and facilitating the production of goods and services that improve quality of life. Over the past few decades, the Company has pioneered and refined key technologies to improve the economic viability of frontier resources, including unconventional and deepwater oil and gas. More recently, by applying its deep expertise and technology, NOV has developed solutions to improve the economics of alternative energy sources. NOV serves major-diversified, national, and independent service companies, contractors, and energy producers in 57 countries. NOV operates under two segments, Energy Equipment and Energy Products and Services.