Dril-Quip, Inc. designs, manufactures, fabricates, inspects, assembles, tests, and markets engineered offshore drilling and production equipment for use in deepwater, harsh environment, and severe service applications worldwide. Dril-Quip, Inc. principal products include subsea and surface wellheads, subsea and surface production trees, subsea control systems and manifolds, mudline hanger systems, specialty connectors and associated pipe, drilling and production riser systems, liner hangers, and wellhead connectors and diverters. Dril-Quip, Inc. products are used to explore for oil and gas on offshore drilling rigs, such as floating rigs and jack-ups. Dril-Quip, Inc. products are also used for drilling and production of oil and gas wells on offshore platforms; TLPs, which are floating production platforms connected to the ocean floor via vertical mooring tethers; Spars, a floating cylindrical structure; and floating production, storage, and offloading monohull moored vessels. In addition, Dril-Quip, Inc. provides services, including technical advisory services, rework and reconditioning services, and rental of running tools for use in the installation and retrieval of its products. Dril-Quip, Inc. serves integrated, independent, and foreign national oil and gas companies, as well as offshore drilling contractors, and engineering and construction companies. Dril-Quip, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in Houston, Texas.