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The 12 best oil & gas websites in 2026 & what mid-size operators and suppliers can copy.
What good looks likeBy Whitelam Media13 min read
All insightsTwelve of the best oil and gas websites in 2026, from drilling contractors and pipeline companies to producers and the suppliers that serve them. For each one: a screenshot of the homepage, what the site does well and what a mid-size operator or supplier can copy.
An oil and gas company's website gets checked by people who rarely buy anything on it. A landowner looks for who to call about a lease. A first responder looks for the emergency number. An operator compares drilling contractors, and an engineer looks for a datasheet before a supplier makes the shortlist. Most oil and gas websites make those checks hard, with the safety pages buried, nothing written for landowners and stock photos of a pump jack at sunset.
The 12 oil and gas websites below make them easy. They belong to drilling contractors, producers, pipeline companies and the suppliers that serve them. Eight have their head office in the US, and the other four run pipelines, mills or fields there. Each does at least one thing a visitor notices in the first minute, such as an emergency link in the top bar, a door for landowners or a count of the rigs at work.
Most of the pages that rank for oil and gas web design are galleries, template stores and agencies showing their own work. None of these 12 companies is a client of ours. We opened more than 100 oil and gas websites at desktop and phone width in October 2026 and kept only the ones that look excellent on both. They are ranked by how much a mid-size operator or supplier can learn from each.
The majors have a list of their own. Shell, Equinor, BP and Chevron are among the 15 best energy and petrochemical websites, and none of those 15 is repeated here. This list leans to US drillers, pipelines, producers and suppliers, and most of what they do well a 300-person operator or a regional supplier can copy.
If you are planning a new site for your own company, see how we approach oil and gas website design for operators, pipeline companies, refiners and their suppliers.
What we were looking for.
Safety first. Emergency and pipeline safety contacts one click from the homepage. A door for landowners. Owner relations, leases, crossings and who to call. Assets you can see. Rigs, pipelines and fields, named and counted. Specs on the page. Datasheets and documents a buyer can find without asking. Real field photography. The company's own crews, rigs and plants. Phone performance. The site works on a phone at a wellsite. All 12 homepages fit a 390-pixel phone screen without sideways scrolling in our October 2026 test.
The 12 sites.
01. Helmerich & Paynehpinc.com
Helmerich & Payne is a drilling contractor, and its homepage opens on a portrait of one of its own rig hands, framed in a rounded card on a navy band. Below it, a Drilling performance band counts the total footage drilled, the connections made and the automated stands, and a note under the counters says they cover the past seven days in North America. The menu is built around the work: Drilling Expertise holds performance results, types of drilling, performance-based contracts and HSE, and Rig Fleet holds the FlexRig and T-Series fleets, rig equipment and where it drills. Find a Job and Get in touch stay in the header, and the footer keeps Supplier Information and a Customer Login.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. Put one number from this week's work on your homepage, such as feet drilled, loads hauled or days without a recordable incident, and say in one line what it covers.
02. ExxonMobilcorporate.exxonmobil.com
ExxonMobil splits its hero into tall photo panels, from a refinery technician reading a printout to a crew member in a hard hat and a drilling rig lit at dusk. A strip along the bottom runs four stories in turn, with a progress line and a pause button, so a visitor can stop the movement. The type is light and quiet for a company of this size. Lower down, the share price sits with the time it was quoted, and every news story is tagged with a subject or a region (Guyana, Carbon capture, Africa / Middle East) and a reading time. A Global switch in the header leads to the company's sites by region and country, and the footer links Owner relations.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. Tag every news story with the region or basin it is about, so a landowner in one county or a buyer in one basin finds theirs without reading the rest. If your hero moves, give it a pause button.
03. Tenaristenaris.com
Tenaris makes steel pipe for oil and gas wells and pipelines, and its header holds the two things a repeat buyer comes back for: Datasheets and the Client Hub. The Products & Services menu is sorted by application. It starts with OCTG, split into unconventional, deepwater, high pressure and high temperature, thermal and mature wells, then runs through Rig Direct, offshore and onshore line pipe, coiled tubing, artificial lift and QHSE certifications. The homepage sets very large type over mill footage, and each of its ten applications gets a short paragraph and a link. The one thing we'd change is the weight: in our desktop test in October 2026 the homepage downloaded about 47 MB in its first few seconds, which is heavy for a page most buyers pass through on the way to a datasheet.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. Put your datasheets and your customer login in the header. They are what repeat buyers come for, and they shouldn't sit three clicks down.
04. TC Energytcenergy.com
TC Energy runs natural gas pipelines, storage and power plants across North America. Its homepage sets ENERGY. CONNECTED. in wide capitals over a pipeline site, with three tilted photos joined by dotted lines: a field worker at a valve, a family cooking on a gas stove and a farmer in his field. It shows who sits at each end of the pipe without a paragraph of explanation. A figures band follows, and its homepage put its natural gas network at 94,000 km (58,000 miles) in October 2026. The site runs in English, French and Spanish. Landowners, Safe Digging and Emergency preparedness sit in the Sustainability menu, with Operations maps and Vendors under Our Business. The footer carries emergency numbers, Click or Call Before You Dig and Customer Central for shipping and storage customers.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. Put your safety and dig-safe numbers in the footer, and show the people your work serves. A neighbor, a landowner and a customer each look for themselves before they read anything.
05. Patterson-UTIpatenergy.com
Patterson-UTI drills and completes wells and supplies power at the wellsite. Its homepage sets a tall condensed headline in capitals over footage of a control room full of screens, with a red Contact button in the header. The main menu is split by service line (Drilling Services, Drilling Products, Completion Services, Power Services and Performance Optimization), and every item in it carries one line on what it does, so an operator can tell directional drilling from wellbore guidance before clicking. Further down, a Rig Summary counts its active US land rigs by region. The homepage showed 104 in October 2026, 40 of them in West Texas and 17 in Appalachia.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. Write one line under each item in your services menu, and show where your crews and equipment are working now. A buyer in one basin wants to know you are already there.
06. Plains All Americanplains.com
Plains All American moves crude oil through pipelines and terminals in the US and Canada, and the first link on its site, in the top bar, is Emergency Resources. The footer repeats it with the numbers to call in the US and in Canada, and links the emergency response plans and safety data sheets. The Communities menu is written for the people who live near the pipe: pipeline safety, crossings and encroachments, what to do in an emergency and a liaison for first responders in Oklahoma. Shippers get a menu of their own, with tariffs, proration policies, nomination due dates and crude oil price bulletins. Under the hero, a numbered strip from 01 to 04 lists the current stories, from the sustainability report to the latest results.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. Put emergency information at the top of every page, and give your regular customers a menu of the documents they check every month.
07. NOVnov.com
NOV makes drilling rigs, equipment and technology for the oilfield, and with a catalog that size it puts search on the first screen. A white panel at the foot of the hero asks what you are looking for and lines up trending topics beside the box, careers, drilling, land rigs, completion tools and fiber glass systems among them. The hero itself is aerial footage shot from straight above a site. The Products and Services menu goes past the catalog to a Document Library, Tools, Training, Patents and Success Stories, and a MyNOV sign-in in the header gives customers one login for its applications.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. If you sell more than a few dozen products, put search on the first screen and seed it with what people look for most. Your own site search shows you what that is.
08. Ovintivovintiv.com
Ovintiv produces oil and natural gas, and its homepage puts two of its own crew members, in company hard hats and coveralls, behind a serif headline. Broken orange lines drawn from its logo run across the photo, a brand mark you recognize at a glance. Under the hero, a Quicklinks bar names the people who deal with a producer every week: Contacts, Land & Owner Relations, Suppliers and Marketing. The main menu stays short (About, Investors, Sustainability, News and Careers), and the sustainability section offers the full report and its data table as separate downloads.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. Add a bar of quick links under your hero for the people who come back every week, such as landowners, suppliers and buyers. Then offer your sustainability figures as a data table of their own, apart from the report.
09. Woodside Energywoodside.com
Woodside Energy produces oil, gas and LNG, from Australia to the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana. Its header gives four icon buttons their own space on the right (Fact Checker, Global Map, Contact and Search), and Suppliers has a place in the main menu. The hero is a photo of a crew member in company coveralls, with tabbed stories along its foot and a progress line under each. The operations menu names every asset, the US ones included, such as Shenzi, Mad Dog and Louisiana LNG, so an investor, a partner or a job seeker finds the field they care about by its name.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. Put a map of where you work one click from the header, and name each site, field or yard on it. People search for an asset by its name.
10. PF Holdings (ProFrac)pfholdingscorp.com
PF Holdings is the group behind ProFrac, the hydraulic fracturing company, with sand, pump and power businesses beside it. Its homepage is the most editorial on this list: a fine serif headline over drone footage of a frac unit on a truck crossing open scrubland at sunrise, under a white header with a deep green Investor Relations button. Along the foot of the hero, a row names each company in the group: ProFrac, Best Pump & Flow, Alpine Silica, IO-TEQ and Livewire Power. An Ethics Hotline for reporting an incident gets its own block on the homepage.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. If you own several businesses, show them as one family on the homepage, each with its name and its own page. A buyer who knows one of them finds the others.
11. South Bowsouthbow.com
South Bow runs crude oil pipelines from western Canada to the US Midwest and the Gulf Coast. It was spun off from TC Energy in October 2024, and the homepage tells that story in a dated timeline. The design is dark and bold, with gold rules under the headlines and a photo of two crew members at a tank terminal cut into a hexagon. Two figures carry the business, as the homepage gave them in October 2026: 1.25 million barrels of crude oil a day and about 4,900 km (3,000 miles) of pipe. The Safety & Stewardship menu holds emergency preparedness, pipeline safety, landowners and a Life Cycle of a Pipeline page, and the footer gives a separate phone line or email for emergencies, landowners, investors and the media.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. Give each kind of caller a line of their own in the footer: emergencies, landowners, investors and the media. Nobody has to guess which number to use.
12. EQTeqt.com
EQT produces natural gas in Appalachia, and it has the boldest look on this list: aerial video of autumn forest behind the headline, a navy ground and story cards edged with neon pink and green light. Under the hero, a row of doors sends Landowners, Investors, Careers and Community Resources each their own way. Land Resources has a place in the main menu, with owner relations, lease information and forms, which is where a producer's landowners go first. A block called EQT FAQTS puts plain facts on the homepage, such as the share of US natural gas EQT produces, 6% on the homepage in October 2026.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can copy. Give landowners a section of their own in the main menu, with leases, payments and forms. For a producer they are some of the most frequent visitors, and the most likely to call when they can't find an answer.
The 12 sites side by side.
One line per site: the path we would copy first, who it serves and where it sits. We found each one on the live site in October 2026.
| Site | The path to copy | Who it serves | Where it sits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helmerich & Payne | Footage drilled, connections and automated stands in the past seven days | Operators choosing a rig | Homepage |
| ExxonMobil | News tagged by subject or region, with a reading time | Readers in every market | Homepage |
| Tenaris | Datasheets and the Client Hub | Engineers and repeat buyers | Header |
| TC Energy | Emergency numbers, Click or Call Before You Dig and Customer Central | Neighbors, excavators and shippers | Footer |
| Patterson-UTI | Active US land rigs counted by region | Operators | Homepage |
| Plains All American | Emergency Resources, plus tariffs, due dates and price bulletins for shippers | First responders, neighbors and shippers | Top bar and Customers menu |
| NOV | Search with trending topics, and a Document Library | Engineers and buyers | Under the hero and in the products menu |
| Ovintiv | Quick links to Land & Owner Relations, Suppliers and Marketing | Landowners, suppliers and buyers | Bar under the hero |
| Woodside Energy | A Global Map, and every asset named | Investors, partners and job seekers | Header and operations menu |
| PF Holdings | Every company in the group, by name | Buyers who know one of them | Foot of the hero |
| South Bow | A separate line for emergencies, landowners, investors and media | Anyone who needs to call | Footer |
| EQT | Owner relations, leases and forms | Landowners and royalty owners | Main menu and the row under the hero |
What the best oil and gas websites have in common.
01. Safety is one click from the homepage. Plains puts Emergency Resources in its top bar, and TC Energy, Plains and South Bow put emergency numbers in the footer. Their pipeline safety pages are written for the people who live near the pipe.
02. Landowners get a door of their own. EQT gives Land Resources a place in the main menu, Ovintiv lists Land & Owner Relations under its hero, TC Energy has a Landowners page and South Bow gives landowners their own phone line.
03. The crews are in the pictures. A rig hand at Helmerich & Payne, two of Ovintiv's crew, a Woodside crew member, two crew members at a South Bow terminal and ExxonMobil's own staff in its hero panels. Stock photography is rare on this list.
04. The assets are named and counted. Patterson-UTI counts its rigs by region and Helmerich & Payne its week of drilling. TC Energy and South Bow give the length of their pipe, and Woodside names every field.
05. Repeat visitors get their tools up front. Tenaris puts Datasheets and its Client Hub in the header, and Plains lists tariffs and nomination due dates for shippers. NOV offers one sign-in for its customer applications, and TC Energy and South Bow point customers to Customer Central.
What's mostly absent.
Safety figures, for the most part. Every company here writes about safety, but almost none puts a safety figure, such as an incident rate, on its homepage. Prices are absent too, as you'd expect, with one exception: Plains publishes its tariffs and crude oil price bulletins for shippers. Spec tables rarely reach the homepage, and Tenaris and NOV keep theirs a click away in datasheets and a document library. Few homepages show a result in numbers. Helmerich & Payne's seven-day drilling counts and Patterson-UTI's rig count are the closest.
What a mid-size operator or supplier can take from this.
You don't need ExxonMobil's budget for most of this. Three changes do the most: an emergency and safety path one click from every page, a door for each group that deals with you every week (landowners, suppliers, customers and crews) and real photos of your own people and sites. Add one number from your operations that you keep up to date, such as rigs working, miles of pipe or loads delivered. If you sell equipment, put a datasheet on each product page. That is most of what puts these 12 ahead.
If your company is planning a redesign.
The most common mistake we see is benchmarking against the companies you compete with. Many of them run sites as old as yours, so matching them gets you a slightly newer old site. The 12 above are the better comparison.
Start with four checks. Can a landowner find who to call about a lease or a payment? Can a first responder find your emergency number in one click? Can an engineer find a datasheet without filling in a form? Can a crew member apply for a job on a phone? If any answer is no, start there.
If your site is slow, hard to update or running on old plugins, our website rebuilds move it to a fast modern setup and keep the pages that already bring in work. If the site is sound but buyers and landowners don't find you, our SEO Growth Program adds service, asset and area pages every month. Or book a call and we'll go through your site with you.
More on how we approach the category: oil and gas website design for operators, pipeline companies, refiners and their suppliers. The same kind of list for nearby sectors: the best energy and petrochemical websites, with Shell, Equinor and the other majors, and the best manufacturing websites, for the companies that make the equipment.
What does a website like this cost?
The sites above were built to win work and trust, and their budgets reflect that. What a company website costs in 2026 breaks down design, build, copy and ongoing care, with our own published prices.
