Our Company

Our energy product offering is consumed throughout all sectors of the oil and gas industry – from upstream drilling and completion, exploration and production (“E&P”), midstream infrastructure development to downstream petrochemical and petroleum refining – as well as in other industries, such as chemical processing, mining, utilities and industrial manufacturing operations. The industrial distribution end markets include manufacturing, municipal water and wastewater and engineering and construction firms. We also provide supply chain and materials management solutions to the same markets where we sell products.

We offer hundreds of thousands of stocked items, including consumable maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies, pipe, valves, fittings, flanges, gaskets, fasteners, electrical, instrumentation, artificial lift, pumping solutions, valve actuation and modular process, measurement and control equipment. We also offer procurement, warehouse and inventory management solutions as part of our supply chain and materials management offering. We have developed expertise in providing application systems, work processes, parts integration, optimization solutions and after-sales support.

Utilizing our ever growing platform of digital applications and solutions, powered by DigitalNOW®, and integrated supply chain logistics that include outsourcing portions or entire functions of our customers’ procurement, inventory and warehouse management, logistics, point of issue technology, project management, business process and performance metrics reporting. These solutions allow us to leverage the infrastructure of our SAP™ Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”) system and other technologies to streamline our customers’ purchasing process, from requisition to procurement to payment, by digitally managing workflow, improving approval routing and providing robust reporting functionality.

We support land and offshore operations for the major oil and gas producing regions around the world through our network of locations. Our key markets, beyond North America, include Latin America, the North Sea, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Former Soviet Union (“FSU”). Products sold through our locations support greenfield expansion upstream capital projects, midstream infrastructure and transmission and MRO consumables used in day-to-day production. We provide downstream energy and industrial products for petroleum refining, chemical processing, LNG terminals, power generation utilities and industrial manufacturing operations and customer on-site locations.

We stock or sell more than 300,000 stock keeping units (“SKUs”) through our branch network. Our supplier network consists of thousands of vendors in approximately 40 countries. From our operations in over 20 countries, we sell to customers operating in approximately 80 countries. The supplies and equipment stocked by each of our branches are customized to meet varied and changing local customer demands. The breadth and scale of our offering enhances our value proposition to our customers, suppliers and shareholders.

DistributionNOW will be recognized as the market Leader in Supply Chain
Management through superior customer service by leveraging the strengths
of our employees, processes, suppliers, technology and information.

Integrity

We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards in all that we do.

Safety

We act with the highest priority on health and safety in our workplace and communities.

Teamwork

We collaborate with our suppliers, our customers, and one another to optimize the sum of all individual efforts, while being active participants in the communities where we live and work.

Excellence

We are passionate about being the best in the industry, making our customers priority one, and creating long-term value for our stakeholders.

We care.

We act with compassion and honesty in all that we do. We respect one another, our customers, and our communities.

We do what it takes.

We approach every task with energy and passion to make sure the job is done right. We continuously challenge ourselves to provide the highest level of service to our stakeholders.

We are accountable.

We take pride in our work and are responsible for our actions and the outcomes produced.

DistributionNOW is a global leader in sourcing energy industry products and providing total supply chain solutions. Our vast capabilities and expertise have been growing since 1862, the year our earliest legacy company was founded.

1862	Oilwell oilfield equipment business established
1878	Oilwell Supply formed
1894	National Supply formed
1921	Wilson Supply formed
1930	Oilwell Supply acquired by U.S. Steel
1958	National Supply acquired by Armco Steel
1987	National Supply and Oilwell Supply merged to form National Oilwell
1991	Wilson acquired Tyler Dawson
1993	Wilson acquired Wallace Company
1995	Continental Emsco Canada and Franklin Supply merged to form CE Franklin
1996	National Oilwell, Inc. initial public offering (NOI)
1999	Wilson acquired Continental Emsco Co.
2000	Wilson acquired Texas Mill Supply
2001	Wilson acquired Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Corp. and Mid-Valley Supply
2005	National Oilwell and Varco Int’l merged to form National Oilwell Varco (NOV)
2012	National Oilwell Varco acquired Wilson Supply and CE Franklin
2014	Distribution segment spins off from NOV to form DistributionNOW (NOW Inc.)