EXHIBIT 31.2

                             PARKER DRILLING COMPANY
                              OFFICER CERTIFICATION

I, James W. Whalen, certify that:

1.  I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Parker Drilling
    Company ("the Company");

2.  Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue
    statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to
    make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such
    statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by
    this quarterly report;

3.  Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
    information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all
    material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash
    flows of the Company as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly
    report;

4.  The Company's other certifying officers and I are responsible for
    establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined
    in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the Company and have:

         a)   designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
              disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
              supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the
              Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to
              us by others within those entities, particularly during the period
              in which this quarterly report is being prepared;

         b)   evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls
              and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about
              the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of
              a date, the end of the period covered by this quarterly report
              based on such evaluation; and

         c)   disclosed in this report any change in the Company's internal
              control over financial reporting that occurred during the
              Company's most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected,
              or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's
              internal control over financial reporting; and

5.  The Company's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our
    most recent evaluation of internal controls over financial reporting, to the
    Company's auditors and the audit committee of Company's board of directors
    (or persons performing the equivalent function):

         a)   all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of
              internal controls over financial reporting which are reasonably
              likely to adversely affect the Company's ability to record,
              process, summarize and report financial information; and

         b)   any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
              other employees who have a significant role in the Company's
              internal control over financial reporting.

Date: August 13, 2003

                                              /s/ James W. Whalen
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                                              James W. Whalen
                                              Senior Vice President and
                                              Chief Financial Officer

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