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Schlumberger Limited

Schlumberger Limited
Naamloze vennootschap (Dutch 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
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Paal Kibsgaard (CEO)
Revenue IncreaseUS$ 35.47 billion (2015)
Decrease US$ 6.51 billion (2015)
Decrease US$ 4.29 billion (2015)
Total assets Decrease US$ 68.0 billion (2015)
Total equity Decrease US$ 35.9 billion (2015)
Number of employees
100,000
Website www.slb.com

Schlumberger (/ˈʃlʌmbərˌʒ/) Limited 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 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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