HALLIBURTON CO

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

We operate in more than 70 countries throughout the world to provide a comprehensive range of services and products to the energy industry. Our revenue is generated from the sale of services and products to major, national, and independent oil and natural gas companies worldwide. The industry we serve is highly competitive with many substantial competitors in each segment of our business. In 2024, 2023, and 2022, based on the location of services provided and products sold, 40%, 44%, and 45%, respectively, of our consolidated revenue was from the United States. No other country accounted for more than 10% of our revenue.

Activity within our business segments is significantly impacted by spending on upstream exploration, development, and production programs by our customers. Also impacting our activity is the status of the global economy, which impacts oil and natural gas consumption.

Some of the more significant determinants of current and future spending levels of our customers are oil and natural gas prices, our customers’ expectations about future prices, global oil supply and demand, the impact on natural gas supply and demand in North America of electrification and data centers power requirements, completions intensity, the world economy, the availability of capital, government regulation, and global stability, which together drive worldwide drilling and completions activity. We expect that many of our customers in North America will continue their strategy of operating within their cash flows and generating returns rather than prioritizing production growth. Lower oil and natural gas prices usually translate into lower exploration and production budgets and lower rig count, while the opposite is usually true for higher oil and natural gas prices. Our financial performance is therefore significantly affected by oil and natural gas prices and worldwide rig activity, which are summarized in the tables below.

The table below shows the average prices for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, United Kingdom Brent crude oil, and Henry Hub natural gas.

The historical average rig counts based on the weekly Baker Hughes rig count data were as follows:

Business outlook

Looking ahead to 2025 and beyond, we anticipate a rise in global oil and natural gas demand. The International Energy Agency anticipates both oil and natural gas demand to continue growing through 2030 underscoring the continued importance of both resources in the global energy mix. In addition, we believe oil supply dynamics have fundamentally changed due to investor return requirements, regulatory initiatives adverse to oil and gas exploration and production, and initiatives that favor alternative energy. We believe that despite these changes, increased investment in existing and new sources of oil and natural gas production is needed to address the increased demand. This will necessitate production from conventional and unconventional, deep-water and shallow-water, and short and long-cycle projects. We expect that increased oil and natural gas production requirements will in turn create demand for our products and services. Furthermore, easing inflationary pressures in Organization for Economic Co-operation (OECD) countries may lead to central bank rate cuts that could sustain economic growth. Additionally, we expect a growing global economy combined with rising living standards in developing nations will increase energy consumption. We expect natural gas demand should increase over time by the burgeoning number of data centers, the rise of artificial intelligence, and the electrification of transportation and other sectors of the economy.

Internationally, we expect flat revenues in 2025 as compared to 2024, with growth in most markets offset by activity reduction in Mexico. We also expect international oil and natural gas exploration and production activity to grow year over year. We expect our North America revenue to decrease in 2025 low to mid–single digits from 2024 levels which we believe will be driven in part by lower negotiated prices for a portion of our fleet.