EXHIBIT 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below, being a director or officer of Parker Drilling Company, a Delaware corporation, hereby constitutes and appoints Gary G. Rich, Jon-Al Duplantier and Leslie K. Nagy, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, (i) to sign a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on Form S-3, any amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements thereto and any registration statement (including any amendment thereto) that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) (collectively, the “Registration Statement”) and (ii) to file the Registration Statement, with any exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, in each case, in such forms as they or any of them may approve, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has executed this instrument on this 11th day of July, 2017.

Signature
Title


/S/ GARY G. RICH
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
Gary G. Rich
 

/S/ JON-AL DUPLANTIER
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Interim Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel
Jon-Al Duplantier
(Interim Principal Financial Officer)
 
 
/S/ LESLIE K. NAGY
Controller and Principal Accounting Officer
Leslie K. Nagy
(Principal Accounting Officer)
 
 
/S/ JONATHAN M. CLARKSON
Director
Jonathan M. Clarkson
 
 
 
/S/ PETER T. FONTANA
Director
Peter T. Fontana
 
 
 
/S/ GARY R. KING
Director
Gary R. King
 
 
 
/S/ ROBERT L. PARKER JR.
Director
Robert L. Parker Jr.
 
 
 
/S/ RICHARD D. PATERSON
Director
Richard D. Paterson
 
 
 
/S/ R. RUDOLPH REINFRANK
Director
R. Rudolph Reinfrank
 
 
 
/S/ ZAKI SELIM
Director
Zaki Selim
 
 
 







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