What is "company man"

n. 1 (context idiomatic English) A male employee who has a great—and often, in the view of others, an excessive—commitment to serve the interests of the organization which employs him. 2 (context idiomatic English) A spy or other operative of an intelligence service, especially the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency. 3 (context idiomatic English) A male homosexual.

n. an employee whose first loyalty is to the company rather than to fellow workers

A company man in the petroleum industry refers to a representative of an operating/ exploration company. Other terms that may be used are company representative, foreman, drill site supervisor (DSV), company consultant, rigsite leader or "well site manager".

In a normal scenario, gas/oil-drilling (exploration) companies rent or lease rigs from another company that owns the rig, the drilling contractor. The majority of the personnel on the drilling rig, called 'the rig crew', are employees of the drilling contractor. The company man is the on-site representative of the operating/exploration company and is in overall charge of the drilling and associated activities. Rig operations and maintenance and crew upkeep are attended to by the toolpusher, who works for the drilling contractor.

"Company Man" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes. It is the first Heroes episode that abandons the usual multi-story format and focuses solely on one storyline, a format that would not be repeated until season 3's " 1961". As such, many regular cast members do not appear in this episode.

Company man may refer to:

• Company man, an oil-related term
• Company Man (book), a 2014 book by CIA lawyer John A. Rizzo
• "Company Man" (Heroes), an episode of the NBC drama series Heroes
• Company Man (film), a 2000 film starring Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro

Company Man is a 2000 comedy film written and directed by Peter Askin and Douglas McGrath. The film stars McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Ryan Phillippe, Alan Cumming, Anthony LaPaglia, Woody Allen, and Denis Leary as "Officer Fry". Bill Murray had a cameo appearance in the film that was cut before the film's release.