Schlumberger Industries
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| Public company | |
| Traded as | : SLB S&P 100 component S&P 500 component Fortune 500 |
| Industry | Oilfield services & equipment |
| Founded | 1926 in France |
| Founder | Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger |
| Headquarters | Principal executive offices: Paris, France Houston, Texas, US London, UK The Hague, Netherlands; Legal domicile: Willemstad, Curaçao, Kingdom of the Netherlands |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Paal Kibsgaard (CEO) |
| Revenue |  US$ 27.81 billion (2016) |
| US$ 3.27 billion (2016) |
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| US$ -1.69 billion (2016) |
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| Total assets |  US$ 77.96 billion (2016) |
| Total equity | US$ 41.08 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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100,000 |
| Website | www |
Schlumberger Limited (French: [ʃlœ̃.bɛʁˈʒe]) is the world's largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs approximately 100,000 people representing more than 140 nationalities working in more than 85 countries. Schlumberger has four principal executive offices located in Paris, Houston, London, and the Hague.
Schlumberger is incorporated in Willemstad, Curaçao as Schlumberger N.V. and trades on the , Euronext Paris, the , and SIX Swiss Exchange. Schlumberger is a Fortune Global 500 company, ranked 287 in 2016, and also listed in Forbes Global 2000, ranked 176 in 2016.
Schlumberger was founded in 1926 by brothers Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger from the Alsace region in France as the Société de prospection électrique (French: Electric Prospecting Company). The company recorded the first-ever electrical resistivity well log in Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, France in 1927. Today Schlumberger supplies the petroleum industry with services such as seismic acquisition and processing, formation evaluation, well testing and directional drilling, well cementing and stimulation, artificial lift, well completions, flow assurance and consulting, and software and information management. The company is also involved in the groundwater extraction and carbon capture and storage industries.
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