Company data sheet · Superior Energy Services
Superior Energy Services: from profit to seven straight losses.
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Field Services
- Headquarters
- United States
- Sources
- SEC filings (1994–2025), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- From profit to seven straight losses. Superior Energy Services earned $0.3 billion in 2014–2014. Then it lost money every year from 2015 to 2021: $4.6 billion in all. 2022 was its first profit in eight years: $0.3 billion.
- Left behind by its peers. From 2016 to 2023, its revenue shrank 37% in US dollars; the median among 94 large energy and mining companies grew 92%. It outgrew only 0% of them.
- Still smaller than it was. Revenue reached $0.9 billion in 2023, 51% below its 2017 peak of $1.9 billion.
- Leaders came and went. Superior Energy Services filed 26 leadership changes since 2016, more than 86% of large energy and mining companies (the median is 10).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $1.5 billion | −$0.9 billion | |
| 2017 | $1.9 billion | −$0.2 billion | |
| 2018 | $1.5 billion | −$0.9 billion | |
| 2019 | $1 billion | −$0.3 billion | |
| 2020 | $0.7 billion | −$0.4 billion | |
| 2021 | $0.6 billion | −$0.2 billion | |
| 2022 | $0.9 billion | $0.3 billion | |
| 2023 | $0.9 billion | $0.2 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
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