Corporate Profile

We provide contract land drilling and workover services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies. As of October 31, 2008, we owned a fleet of 56 land drilling rigs, of which 45 were marketed and 11 were held in inventory. We also owned a fleet of 62 workover rigs, of which 59 were operating and three were in the process of being manufactured. As of October 31, 2008, we also owned a fleet of 66 trucks used to transport our rigs.

We commenced operations in 2001 with the purchase of one stacked 650-horsepower drilling rig that we refurbished and deployed. We subsequently made selective acquisitions of both operational and inventoried drilling rigs, as well as ancillary equipment. Our management team has significant experience not only with acquiring rigs, but also with refurbishing and deploying inventoried rigs. We have successfully refurbished and brought into operation 25 inventoried drilling rigs during the period from November 2003 through December 2007. In addition, we have a 41,000 square foot machine shop in Oklahoma City, which allows us to refurbish and repair our rigs and equipment in-house. This facility, which complements our three drilling rig refurbishment yards, significantly reduces our reliance on outside machine shops and the attendant risk of third-party delays in our rig refurbishment program.

We currently operate our drilling rigs in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, North Dakota, Louisiana and Mexico. Our workover rigs are currently operating in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, Arkansas, and New Mexico. A majority of the wells we have drilled for our customers have been drilled in search of natural gas reserves. Natural gas is often found in deep and complex geologic formations that generally require higher horsepower, premium rigs and experienced crews to reach targeted depths. Our current fleet of 56 rigs includes 36 rigs ranging from 950 to 2,500 horsepower. Accordingly, such rigs can, or in the case of inventoried rigs upon refurbishment, will be able to, reach the depths required to explore for deep natural gas reserves. Our higher horsepower land drilling rigs can also drill horizontal wells, which are increasing as a percentage of total wells drilled in North America. We believe our premium rig fleet, inventory and experienced crews position us to benefit from the natural gas drilling activity in our core operating areas.

We earn our contract drilling revenues by drilling oil and natural gas wells for our customers. We obtain our contracts for drilling oil and natural gas wells either through competitive bidding or through direct negotiations with customers. Our drilling contracts generally provide for compensation on either a daywork or footage basis. We have not historically entered into turnkey contracts and do not intend to enter into turnkey contracts, subject to changes in market conditions, although it is possible that we may acquire such contracts in connection with future acquisitions. Contract terms we offer generally depend on the complexity and risk of operations, the on-site drilling conditions, the type of equipment used and the anticipated duration of the work to be performed.

Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Bronco Drilling Company, Inc. is a publicly traded Company. Its common stock is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol BRNC.