A&G DeGraaf Surveying LLC

A&G DeGraaf is a United States based multinational corporation. It specializes in surveying and acquisition of oil and rare earth minerals, and operates in 65 countries either under its main corporate umbrella or through subsidiaries and direct partners. The company employs 60,000 individuals world wide, most of whom are in the Acquisition & Downstream Services Group (ADSG). This group provides upstream oil and gas services as well as contracting for state clients. It also boasts a major construction and operation component for drilling platforms and other extraction and refinement centers.

The company has not operated without controversy, including allegations of using offshore tax havens in client nations and an insider trading scandal in 1993. The company was also implicated in a land buy scandal in Afghanistan in 2006, and then again in the 2012 purchase of a major but defunct oil field in West Texas, which led to an eventual $3 Million settlement to the city of Six Crosses, Texas, as well as a $34 Million settlement with the US Department of the Interior. Additionally, the company was implicated in the deaths of civilians in an incident with a private security contractor that it hired to protect shipping lanes in Iraq in 2007.

Business Overview

A&G DeGraaf was founded in 1923 by Gerald DeGraaf as a surveying company in the American West and parts of Latin America. After a series of remarkable oil and gas finds, the company grew to be a major supplier of oil, natural gas, and to a lesser extent, coal excavation services.