SLB LIMITED/NV Business
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- 2025: Section Item 1. Business; Text All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “SLB,” “we” or “our” are to SLB N.V. (SLB Limited) and its consolidated subsidiaries.; Document 10-K.
- 2025: Section Corporate Strategy; Text With a balanced energy transition in mind, our strategy is focused on three engines of growth: Core, Digital, and New Horizons of Growth.; Document 10-K.
- 2025: Section Sustainability; Text SLB’s commitment to a sustainable future is underscored by science-backed targets aligned with the Paris Agreement. In 2021, SLB became the first company in the energy services industry to commit to a 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions target, supported by interim milestones, inclusive of all three emission scopes. By setting targets inclusive of Scope 3 emissions (which accounted for approximately 95% of SLB's baseline)—and not just its Scope 1 and 2 footprint, SLB’s emissions reduction roadmap addresses the entire energy value chain.; Document 10-K.
- 2025: Section Human Capital; Text As a leading global technology company that operates in more than 100 countries with a workforce of approximately 109,000 people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities, one of SLB’s greatest strengths is the diversity of our people. We believe that our ability to attract, develop, motivate, and retain a highly competent and diverse workforce has been paramount to our success for many decades. We recognize that cultivating diversity and promoting inclusion are essential to attracting the best talent from around the world and enabling creativity and innovation to drive business success. We believe our strong culture focused on workforce diversity, inclusivity, and learning and development results in the best possible working environment for all our people.; Document 10-K.
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| 2025 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “SLB,” “we” or “our” are to SLB N.V. (SLB Limited) and its consolidated subsidiaries. SLB is a global technology company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. With a global presence in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating energy technology, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition. The world faces the challenge of providing secure and affordable energy to meet growing demand, while rapidly decarbonizing for a sustainable future. With nearly a century of market and technology leadership, SLB is well positioned and committed to being a leader in providing solutions to address this trilemma. SLB is primarily organized under four Divisions that combine and integrate SLB’s technologies, enhancing our ability to support the emerging long-term growth opportunities in each of these market segments. The four Divisions are: • Digital • Reservoir Performance • Well Construction • Production Systems Digital – Comprised of SLB’s industry-leading digital solutions and data products that span the energy value chain from subsurface characterization through field development and hydrocarbon production to carbon management and the integration of adjacent energy systems. Revenue is generated from four key solutions — Platforms & Applications, Digital Operations, Digital Exploration and Professional Services. • Platforms & Applications: Includes SLB’s cloud technologies such as the Delfi™ and Lumi™ platforms, along with a suite of specialized, domain-focused applications such as Petrel™ and Techlog™ offered as SaaS subscription or perpetual licenses. These platforms and applications automate complex models to simulate the impact of reservoir development plans and aid in the planning of key operations such as drilling, completion, and production designs. Additionally, they unlock data and utilize artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning to reduce cycle time and improve efficiency of workflows to allow customers to make better, faster decisions to improve their project economics and reservoir performance. • Digital Operations: Combines the strengths of SLB’s oilfield services with advanced digital technologies to deliver more reliable, efficient, and autonomous field operations. By integrating connected solutions with Performance Live™ digital service delivery centers, customers gain real-time monitoring, remote decision making and automated execution across their workflows from autonomous drilling to automated well intervention, all while reducing costs and improving project economics. Revenue is generated from the same customer base as SLB’s Core divisions of Well Construction, Reservoir Performance, and Production Systems. To incentivize the Core divisions and Digital to develop and promote digital operations, the resulting revenue is recognized in both the respective Core division as well as in the Digital Division. This effect is eliminated in consolidation. • Digital Exploration: Represents SLB’s exploration data business. The exploration data library is a differentiated asset library of seismic surveys and other subsurface data that customers rely on for better exploration and development decisions. These licensed datasets also support carbon storage design and monitoring. The library covers key exploration and producing basins worldwide and datasets are refreshed and reprocessed to benefit from the latest imaging algorithms and AI technologies, enabled by high performance cloud computing. • Professional Services: Includes consulting and other services required to support customers’ digital transformations. These services include transition support from on-prem to cloud-based digital solutions, data clean-up and migration, workflow automation — including deployment of workflow solutions built within SLB’s global network of Innovation Factori workspaces — and training to further enable customers’ digital transformations. Reservoir Performance – Consists of reservoir-centric technologies and services that are critical to optimizing reservoir productivity and performance. Reservoir Performance develops and deploys innovative technologies and services to evaluate, intervene, and stimulate reservoirs providing customers with greater insights into their assets and maximizing their return on investment. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Evaluation: Provides the measurement, interpretation, and insights necessary to understand the subsurface geology and fluids through wireline logging, downhole testing, and rock and fluid analysis services. • Stimulation: Provides services to restore or enhance well productivity through hydraulic fracturing, matrix stimulation, and water treatment. • Intervention: Provides a comprehensive approach to oil and gas operators to increase their intervention success rates and maximize recovery from brownfields through cased hole wireline and perforations, coiled-tubing interventions, slickline, and reservoir monitoring. Well Construction – Combines the full portfolio of products and services to optimize well placement and performance, maximize drilling efficiency, and improve wellbore assurance. Well Construction provides operators and drilling rig manufacturers with services and products related to the design and construction of a well. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Measurements: Provides services and associated engineering support for mud logging for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling, and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles. • Drilling Fluids: Supplies individually engineered drilling fluid systems that improve drilling performance and maintain well control and wellbore stability throughout drilling operations as well as products and services that secure and protect well casings while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore activity. • Equipment: Provides drilling equipment, including pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment, and services for drilling contractors, operators, rental tool companies, and shipyards as well as land drilling rigs and related services. • Drilling: Designs, manufactures, and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all drilling environments, as well as a wide variety of bottomhole assembly and borehole enlargement technologies for drilling operations. • Integrated Well Construction: Provides integrated solutions to construct or change the architecture of wells, including well planning, well drilling (including autonomous drilling), engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement, contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. Production Systems – Develops technologies and provides expertise that enhances production and recovery of oil and gas assets from subsurface reservoirs to the surface, into pipelines, and to refineries. Production Systems provides a comprehensive portfolio of equipment and services across the entire production system that optimizes performance. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Subsea Production Systems: Through its SLB OneSubsea™ joint venture, offers integrated solutions, products, systems, and services for the subsea market, including wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds, flowline connectors, control systems to maximize reservoir recovery and extending field life. SLB owns 70% of the joint venture, while Aker Solutions ASA owns 20% and Subsea7 S.A. owns 10%. • Artificial Lift: Provides lifting solutions using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, progressing cavity pumps, rod lift pumps, plunger lift pumps, jet lift pumps, and surface horizontal pumping systems. • Completions: Supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, and sand control technology, as well as a range of intelligent systems that enable real-time visibility and performance monitoring. • Surface Production Systems: Designs and manufactures a portfolio of wellhead systems, valves, chokes, actuators, surface trees, and provides fracturing and flowback services. • Process Technologies and Solutions: Delivers processing modules covering oil and gas and treatment packages for produced water and seawater. Also provides fit-for-purpose integrated production facilities that accelerate first production, as well as a broad portfolio of emissions management solutions. • Production Chemical Technologies: Supplies chemistry technologies and solutions that optimize production and processing, support asset integrity, and extend asset life. The portfolio includes production chemicals for flow assurance and production optimization, systems for gas and liquid stream purification, chemical injection systems, and autonomous digital surveillance solutions. • Valves: Serves the upstream, midstream, and downstream markets with a broad portfolio of valves that are primarily used to control and direct the flow of hydrocarbons as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines, and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants, and industrial centers for processing. All Other – This category primarily consists of the following: • Asset Performance Solutions: Offers an integrated business model for field production projects. Combines SLB’s services and products with drilling rig management and specialized engineering and project management expertise, to provide a complete solution from well construction to production improvement. As of December 31, 2025, SLB’s Asset Performance Solutions portfolio primarily consisted of three field production projects in Ecuador. • Data Center Solutions: Designs and manufactures critical infrastructure components — such as modular data center enclosures, cooling systems, and other hardware — for hyperscalers and enterprises. By leveraging scalable, standardized production with rapid lead times, and rigorous quality assurance, Data Center Solutions provides configurable solutions that balance cost efficiency, reliability, and customization to meet accelerating data center demand. • SLB Capturi: A joint venture between SLB and Aker Carbon Capture that combines the strengths and capabilities of both companies to accelerate industrial decarbonization at a global scale. SLB Capturi, which is 80% owned by SLB, is a dedicated carbon capture company with solutions, services, and technologies servicing a range of hard-to-abate industries, including the cement, waste-to-energy, gas-to-power, and biogenic emissions segments. SLB operates through a geographical structure of five Basins that are aligned with critical concentrations of activity: North America Land; Americas; Europe and Africa; Middle East and North Africa; and Asia. The Basins are configured around common regional characteristics that enable us to deploy fit-for-purpose technologies, operating models, and skills to meet the specific customer needs in each Basin. The Basins are further organized into GeoUnits, which can be a region, a single country, or comprise several countries. With a strong focus on customers, the Basins identify opportunities for growth, and are focused on agility, responsiveness, and competitiveness. Supporting the Divisions is a global network of research and development centers. Through these centers we advance SLB’s technology programs to enhance industry efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery, and increase asset value safely, securely, and sustainably. These centers also support SLB's investments in lower carbon energy sources and carbon capture technologies. ChampionX Transaction During 2025, SLB acquired ChampionX Corporation ("ChampionX") in an all-stock transaction. ChampionX is a global leader in chemistry solutions, artificial lift systems, and highly engineered equipment and technologies that help companies drill for and produce oil and gas safely, efficiently, and sustainably around the world. The acquisition strengthens SLB's leadership in the production and recovery space. SLB issued 141 million shares of its common stock valued at $4.9 billion in connection with this transaction. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Corporate Strategy | With a balanced energy transition in mind, our strategy is focused on three engines of growth: Core, Digital, and New Horizons of Growth. Core Consisting of our Reservoir Performance, WeIl Construction and Production Systems Divisions, Core remains SLB’s largest engine of growth. Building on decades of technological advancement, we will continue innovating new products, services and technologies that make the exploration, drilling, production and recovery of oil and gas assets more cost effective and efficient, with lower carbon emissions. We continue to build on our fit-for-basin approach and technology access initiatives, developing bespoke and custom technology tailored to the regions and environments in which we operate. This strategy allows us to address the rapid evolution of our industry into more regional markets, each with distinct resource plays and economics. Digital Digital capabilities continue to grow throughout the energy industry as a key element of the complex systems required to meet current energy demand and improve efficiency. SLB is uniquely positioned to support customers on their digital journeys by providing an offering which spans planning and operational workflows, underpinned by data platforms and agentic AI orchestration which not only allow customers to realize efficiency gains but also transforms industry workflows through AI. We are also focused on using digital technology to enhance operational performance for our customers. Our software products sold directly to customers, which are agnostic to equipment provider, enable automation and autonomy to reduce costs and improve performance. We also provide digital services to enhance the equipment and service offerings in our Core Divisions. Many of these services use embedded AI to automate insights and differentiate our service delivery offering. New Horizons of Growth SLB recognizes that its future will keep expanding beyond oil and gas and is positioning for long term growth in markets that offer a significant opportunity to utilize SLB’s expertise and scale to drive innovation and performance. We are building a broad, diverse portfolio across new energy and industrial sectors, selected for their materiality and adjacency to our existing business and technical capabilities and our ability to offer differentiated technology. Within those horizons of growth, we will build upon the strengths that have made possible the century of success that SLB will celebrate in 2026: our unique subsurface domain expertise, applicable beyond oil and gas; our ability to design and deploy complex processing and production systems as an original equipment manufacturer; our differentiated track record for innovation and manufacturing of industrial solutions with rapid lead times; and our ability to deploy at scale in any region of the world with local knowledge and talent. SLB continues building businesses and forging partnerships in New Energy to harness the promise of a lower carbon future. This includes fostering industrial decarbonization, including carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and low-carbon hydrogen for hard-to-abate industries, scaling new energy systems—particularly geothermal—as well as innovating in critical minerals. New horizons of growth also include our fast-growing Data Center Solutions business. As AI-driven data demand continues to fuel rapid growth, this business is expected to be a material contributor to SLB’s portfolio in the future. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Sustainability | SLB’s commitment to a sustainable future is underscored by science-backed targets aligned with the Paris Agreement. In 2021, SLB became the first company in the energy services industry to commit to a 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions target, supported by interim milestones, inclusive of all three emission scopes. By setting targets inclusive of Scope 3 emissions (which accounted for approximately 95% of SLB's baseline)—and not just its Scope 1 and 2 footprint, SLB’s emissions reduction roadmap addresses the entire energy value chain. SLB’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions primarily come from fuel use and electricity consumption. SLB’s Scope 3 emissions are indirect, such as emissions from customers’ use of SLB technology and emissions from our use of third-party goods and services. There are three key components to SLB achieving the 2050 net-zero target: reducing operational emissions, reducing customer emissions that occur while using SLB technology, and taking carbon-negative actions of sufficient scale to offset any residual operating and technology emissions that SLB may have in 2050. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Human Capital | As a leading global technology company that operates in more than 100 countries with a workforce of approximately 109,000 people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities, one of SLB’s greatest strengths is the diversity of our people. We believe that our ability to attract, develop, motivate, and retain a highly competent and diverse workforce has been paramount to our success for many decades. We recognize that cultivating diversity and promoting inclusion are essential to attracting the best talent from around the world and enabling creativity and innovation to drive business success. We believe our strong culture focused on workforce diversity, inclusivity, and learning and development results in the best possible working environment for all our people. Workforce Diversity SLB's long-standing commitment to national and cultural diversity is reflected in our workforce composition and our philosophy to recruit and develop people from the communities in which we operate. Our workforce nationality mix generally aligns with the revenue derived from the countries in which we work, as reflected in the charts below. This fosters a culture that is global in outlook, yet local in practice. SLB recognizes the importance of accessing the best available talent and sees gender diversity as a source of creativity, innovation, and competitive advantage. In this regard, a number of years ago we established goals of having women represent 25% of our salaried workforce by 2025 and 30% of our salaried workforce by 2030. Women represented approximately 26% of our salaried workforce as of December 31, 2025. Inclusivity We are building on our diversity to foster a strong culture of inclusion, in which each person can feel accepted, respected, and empowered to perform at their best. SLB has numerous global policies and programs to support our inclusive culture, including: • a culture framework that codifies SLB's history on including diverse perspectives; • a mobility program that enables employees to gain international exposure and experience and develop cross-cultural competencies; • a Code of Conduct that outlines the standards of behavior and ethics that all employees are expected to follow, and that prohibits any form of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation; and • employee resource groups that provide peer mentoring and management feedback. Learning and Development SLB invests significantly in the learning and development of our people. We encourage a growth mindset and provide opportunities to our people for continuous learning throughout their career. This investment allows us to accelerate personal development while maximizing performance, fostering an agile workforce with the skills necessary to lead SLB today and into the future. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Competition | The principal methods of competition within the energy services industry are technological innovation, quality of service, and price differentiation. These factors vary geographically and are dependent upon the different services and products that SLB offers. SLB has numerous competitors, both large and small. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Intellectual Property | SLB owns or controls one of the industry’s leading portfolios of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information, trade secrets, and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to SLB’s business. While SLB seeks and holds a significant number of patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is material to SLB’s business. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Seasonality | Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of SLB’s products and services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and other Northern climates and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia, and China can produce severe weather conditions that can temporarily reduce levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for exploration data, software, and other products may result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of the year as clients seek to fully utilize their annual budgets. Conversely, customer budget constraints in North America may lead to lower demand for our services and products in the fourth quarter of the year. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Customers | SLB’s primary customers are national oil companies, large integrated oil companies, and independent operators. No single customer exceeded 10% of SLB's consolidated revenue during each of 2025, 2024, and 2023. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Governmental Regulations | SLB is subject to numerous environmental and other governmental and regulatory requirements related to its operations worldwide. For additional details see “Item 1(a). Risk Factors – Legal and Regulatory Risks,” which is incorporated by reference in this Item 1. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Corporate Information | SLB, formerly known as Schlumberger, was founded in 1926 and is the NYSE-listed parent of the SLB family of companies. SLB is incorporated under the laws of Curaçao with executive offices in Paris, Houston, and The Hague. The Company changed its brand name to SLB in 2022 and the legal name of its listed parent company in 2025. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Available Information | The SLB website is www.slb.com. SLB uses its Investor Relations website, https://investorcenter.slb.com/, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. SLB makes available, free of charge through its Investor Relations website at https://investorcenter.slb.com/, access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the SEC. Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from SLB Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on its website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing SLB makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Information About Our Executive Officers | The following table sets forth, as of January 23, 2026, the names and ages of SLB’s executive officers, including all offices and positions held by each executive officer during the past five years. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Section 16 Officers | Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Olivier Le Peuch 62 Chief Executive Officer and Director, since August 2019. Stephane Biguet 57 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since January 2020. Abdellah Merad 52 Executive Vice President, Core Services and Equipment, since April 2022; and Executive Vice President, Performance Management, May 2019 to March 2022. Demosthenis Pafitis 58 Chief Technology Officer, since February 2020. Dianne Ralston 59 Chief Legal Officer, since December 2020, and Secretary, since April 2021. Steve Gassen 51 Executive Vice President of Geographies, since May 2025; President, Production Systems, August 2022 to May 2025; Senior Vice President, Carbon Capture, March 2022 to August 2022; Senior Vice President, Marketing, December 2021 to March 2022; and Vice President, Marketing, July 2020 to December 2021. Agnieszka Kmieciak 52 Chief People Officer, since August 2025; Senior Vice President of People and Social Engagement, TotalEnergies, from September 2021 to March 2024; and Executive Vice President of People and Culture, TechnipFMC, from 2018 to June 2021. Howard Guild 54 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. | 10-K |
| 2025 | Other Corporate Officers | Rakesh Jaggi 56 President, Digital and Integration, since April 2023; and Senior Vice President, Sales & Commercial, May 2019 to March 2023. Gavin Rennick 51 President, New Energy, since April 2022; and Vice President, Human Resources, February 2019 to March 2022. Aparna Raman 51 Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, since March 2025; and President, Reservoir Performance, from July 2020 to February 2025. Tarek Rizk 48 Chief Performance Officer, since March 2025; and President, Middle East and North Africa, from June 2020 to February 2025. Kevin Fyfe 52 Vice President Mergers & Acquisitions, since August 2025; Vice President and Treasurer, from July 2022 to July 2025; and Vice President and Controller, October 2017 to June 2022. Ugo Prechner 48 Vice President and Treasurer, since August 2025; Vice President and Controller, from August 2022 to July 2025; and Well Construction Controller, July 2020 to July 2022. Andrea Saracco 50 Vice President and Controller, since August 2025; Production Systems Controller, from August 2023 to July 2025; and Technology Controller, from June 2020 to July 2023. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “SLB,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V.) and its consolidated subsidiaries. We are SLB, a global technology company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. With a global presence in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating energy technology, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition. Today, the world faces the challenge of providing secure and affordable energy to meet growing demand, while rapidly decarbonizing for a sustainable future. With nearly a century of market and technology leadership, SLB is well positioned and committed to being a leader in providing solutions to address this trilemma. In October 2022, we changed our brand name to SLB and unveiled a new logo that underscores our vision for a decarbonized energy future. This bold change highlighted our leadership as a global technology company focused on driving energy innovation within traditional energy sources and beyond. The SLB brand builds on nearly a century of technology innovation and industrialization. Our identity symbolizes SLB's commitment to moving farther and faster in facilitating the world's energy needs today and forging the road ahead for a sustainable future. SLB is organized under four Divisions that combine and integrate SLB’s technologies, enhancing our ability to support the emerging long-term growth opportunities in each of these market segments. The four Divisions are: • Digital & Integration • Reservoir Performance • Well Construction • Production Systems Digital & Integration – Combines SLB’s industry-leading digital solutions and data products with its integrated offering of Asset Performance Solutions (“APS”). This Division enables greater performance for our customers by reducing cycle times and risk, accelerating returns, increasing productivity, and lowering costs and carbon emissions. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Digital Solutions: Includes products, services, and solutions that span the energy value chain from subsurface characterization through field development and hydrocarbon production to carbon management and the integration of adjacent energy systems. Offerings are founded upon proprietary and open-source data platform technologies, industry-leading simulators, and workflow tools, and include domain-specific application of innovative digital capabilities, such as artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning. Solutions are deployable on traditional on-premise IT infrastructures, the cloud, and the edge, allowing for full market coverage irrespective of customer constraints. Digital Solutions also provides comprehensive reservoir interpretation and data processing services, enabled by a scientifically advanced platform and innovative subsurface imaging techniques for exploration data, and includes one of the industry’s most extensive exploration data libraries. • Asset Performance Solutions: Offers an integrated business model for field production projects. Combines SLB’s services and products with drilling rig management and specialized engineering and project management expertise, to provide a complete solution from well construction to production improvement. As of December 31, 2024, SLB’s APS portfolio primarily consisted of three field production projects in Ecuador and one in Canada. Reservoir Performance – Consists of reservoir-centric technologies and services that are critical to optimizing reservoir productivity and performance. Reservoir Performance develops and deploys innovative technologies and services to evaluate, intervene, and stimulate reservoirs providing customers with greater insights into their assets and maximizing their return on investment. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Evaluation: Provides the measurement, interpretation, and insights necessary to understand the subsurface geology and fluids through wireline logging, downhole testing and rock and fluid analysis services. • Stimulation: Provides services to restore or enhance well productivity through hydraulic fracturing, matrix stimulation, and water treatment. • Intervention: Provides a comprehensive approach to oil and gas operators to increase their intervention success rates and maximize recovery from brownfields through cased hole wireline and perforations, coiled-tubing interventions, slickline, and reservoir monitoring. Well Construction – Combines the full portfolio of products and services to optimize well placement and performance, maximize drilling efficiency, and improve wellbore assurance. Well Construction provides operators and drilling rig manufacturers with services and products related to the design and construction of a well. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Measurements: Provides services and associated engineering support for mud logging for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling, and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles. • Drilling Fluids: Supplies individually engineered drilling fluid systems that improve drilling performance and maintain well control and wellbore stability throughout drilling operations as well as products and services that secure and protect well casings while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore activity. • Equipment: Provides drilling equipment, including pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment, and services for drilling contractors, operators, and rental tool companies, and shipyards as well as land drilling rigs and related services. • Drilling: Designs, manufactures, and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all drilling environments, as well as a wide variety of bottomhole assembly and borehole enlargement technologies for drilling operations. • Integrated Well Construction: Provides integrated solutions to construct or change the architecture of wells, including well planning, well drilling (including autonomous drilling), engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. Production Systems – Develops technologies and provides expertise that enhances production and recovery from subsurface reservoirs to the surface, into pipelines, and to refineries. Production Systems provides a comprehensive portfolio of equipment and services including subsurface production systems, subsea and surface equipment and services, and midstream production systems. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Subsea Production Systems: Through its OneSubsea™ joint venture, provides integrated solutions, products, systems, and services for the subsea market, including wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds and flowline connectors, control systems, connectors and services designed to maximize reservoir recovery and extend the life of each field. • Artificial Lift: Provides lifting solutions using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, progressing cavity pumps, and surface horizontal pumping systems. • Completions: Supplies well completion services and equipment that includes packers, safety valves, and sand control technology, as well as a range of intelligent systems that enable real-time visibility and performance monitoring. • Surface Production Systems: Designs and manufactures onshore and offshore systems including wellheads, valves, chokes, actuators, and surface trees, and provides fracturing and flow back services to operators. • Midstream Production Systems: Enables efficient monetization of subsurface assets using standard and custom-designed onshore, offshore, and downstream processing and chemical treatment systems, as well as unique, reservoir-driven, fit-for-purpose integrated production systems for accelerating first production and maximizing project economics. • Valves: Serves the upstream, midstream, and downstream markets with a broad portfolio of valves that are primarily used to control and direct the flow of hydrocarbons as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines, and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants, and industrial centers for processing. SLB's four Divisions operate through a geographical structure of four Basins that are aligned with critical concentrations of activity: Americas Land, Offshore Atlantic, Middle East & North Africa, and Asia. The Basins are configured around common regional characteristics that enable us to deploy fit-for-purpose technologies, operating models, and skills to meet the specific customer needs in each Basin. The Basins are further organized into GeoUnits, which can be a region, a single country, or comprise several countries. With a strong focus on customers, the Basins identify opportunities for growth, and are focused on agility, responsiveness, and competitiveness. Supporting the Divisions is a global network of research and development centers. Through these centers we advance SLB’s technology programs to enhance industry efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery, and increase asset value safely, securely, and sustainably. These centers also support SLB's investments in lower carbon energy sources and carbon capture technologies. ChampionX Transaction On April 2, 2024, SLB announced a definitive agreement to purchase ChampionX Corporation ("ChampionX") in an all-stock transaction. ChampionX is a global leader in chemistry solutions, artificial lift systems, and highly engineered equipment and technologies that help companies drill for and produce oil and gas safely, efficiently, and sustainably around the world. Under the terms of the agreement, ChampionX shareholders will receive 0.735 shares of SLB common stock in exchange for each ChampionX share. At the closing of the transaction ChampionX shareholders will own approximately 9% of SLB's outstanding shares of common stock. ChampionX reported revenue of approximately $2.7 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, received the approval of the ChampionX stockholders at a special meeting held on June 18, 2024. It is anticipated that the transaction will close in the first quarter of 2025. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Corporate Strategy | The evolving marketplace will require bold new technologies and ideas, digital transformation and a deep commitment to sustainability. With a balanced energy transition in mind, our strategy is focused on three engines of growth: Core, Digital, and New Energy. Core Consisting of our Reservoir Performance, WeIl Construction and Production Systems Divisions, Core remains SLB’s largest engine of growth. Building on decades of technology advancement, we will continue innovating new products, services and technologies that make the exploration, development and production of oil and gas assets cleaner, more cost effective, and more efficient, with lower carbon emissions and less impact on the environment. We continue to build on our fit-for-basin approach and technology access initiatives, developing bespoke and custom technology tailored to the regions and environments in which we operate. This strategy allows us to address the rapid evolution of our industry into more regional markets, each with distinct resource plays and economics. With the continued growth of digitally enabled technologies that improve efficiency and performance, including our Transition Technologies™ portfolio and our SLB End-to-end Emissions Solutions (SEES) methane elimination business, SLB provides solutions that enable customers to increase production from their reserves at a competitive cost and at a lower carbon intensity per barrel equivalent. Digital Digital capabilities continue to grow throughout the energy industry as a key element of the complex systems required to meet current energy demand, improve efficiency and to harness the promise of a lower-carbon future. SLB is uniquely positioned to support customers on their digital journeys by providing an offering which spans planning and operational workflows, underpinned by a data platform which allows customers to realize efficiency gains through AI. SLB’s customers have access to leading digital products that help to meet their sustainability goals by driving transparency, better measurement, more effective planning, and more impactful and reliable outcomes. To continue elevating customer offerings, we are accelerating the adoption of our proprietary Delfi™ offering, an open, scalable, and secure cloud-based software environment. Our cloud-based solutions allow our customers to transition from our established software applications to our Delfi digital platform, and shift from a user-based license model to software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions. This enables customers to evolve from legacy infrastructure and deliver new levels of value creation, with access to key resources such as storage and increased computing power from our cloud partners and our industry-leading simulators. Our evolving offering of on-premises solutions allows us to support the digital transition journey of customers that prefer or are required to maintain data solutions locally. Through our LumiTM data and AI platform, we also enable data-driven decision making for our customers across the energy industry. Data from a wide variety of sources across the subsurface and operations value chain can be accessed, facilitating AI-driven decision making at scale. The platform can connect diverse industry data sources, inclusive of on-premises data platforms and customer data infrastructure. We are also focused on using digital technology to enhance operational performance for our customers. Our software products sold directly to customers, which are agnostic to equipment provider, enable automation and autonomy to reduce cost and improve performance. However, we also provide digital services to enhance the SLB equipment and service offering in our Core Divisions. Many of these services use embedded AI to automate insights and differentiate our service delivery offering. New Energy New Energy offers a significant opportunity to use SLB’s experience and scale to drive innovation for a low-carbon economy spanning industries beyond oil and gas. We are building a broad, diverse portfolio across New Energy sectors, selected for their materiality and adjacency to existing SLB strengths and our ability to offer differentiated technology. Our New Energy portfolio builds on several fundamental SLB strengths: our unique subsurface domain expertise, applicable beyond oil and gas; our ability to design and deploy complex processing and production systems as an original equipment manufacturer; our differentiated track record for innovation and industrialization; and our ability to deploy at scale in any region of the world with local knowledge and talent. SLB will continue building businesses and forging partnerships across various industries to focus on three key areas: Industrial Decarbonization, Renewables and Energy Efficiency, and Critical Minerals. Industrial Decarbonization focuses on providing technology and business solutions in the field of carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”) and low-carbon hydrogen for hard-to-abate industries. • SLB has been in the CCS business for more than three decades and is actively progressing technologies to enable widespread adoption of CCS at scale. Our expertise extends beyond subsurface characterization and well construction to include capture technology, project economics, technology selection, and permitting. This includes the recent establishment of SLB Capturi, offering a modular product platform of industrial-scale carbon capture solutions. In addition, SLB is developing digital platforms to support emissions management for carbon and methane that will allow clients to measure, monitor, and plan abatement strategies. • SLB has also invested in Genvia, a unique private-public partnership that combines SLB’s expertise and experience with that of the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission and partners. Genvia aims to deliver the most efficient and cost-effective solid oxide electrolyzer technology for producing clean hydrogen in hard-to-abate industrial settings—a key component of the energy transition. Renewables and Energy Efficiency refers to our technology and business solutions designed to enable renewable energy expansion and greater energy efficiency, with a focus on geothermal, geoenergy, and energy storage. • Geothermal power leverages the heat of the earth to generate electricity or provide heat directly, by tapping into subsurface hot water and steam zones. • Geoenergy uses the ambient temperatures beneath the earth's surface to act as a thermal battery and dramatically reduce energy consumption from heating and cooling buildings, driving both efficiency and decarbonization. • Stationary energy storage is a key enabler to make variable renewable energy sources (such as solar or wind) a larger component of the world’s electricity systems enabling power to be delivered in the right place, at the right time, to meet demand. As renewables become a greater percentage of the energy mix, the need increases for additional long-duration energy storage to ensure the efficiency of renewable assets and the reliability of electricity systems. Critical Minerals is a business area where SLB is applying its knowledge of extraction technologies and processing to the location and sourcing of critical minerals, such as lithium from brine deposits, which will be required to support the energy transition. An example of this is our demonstration plant in Clayton Valley, Nevada, which integrates direct lithium extraction, concentration and conversion technologies to more sustainably produce lithium at scale. This is achieved much faster than conventional methods, while using significantly less land, water and chemical reagents. Sustainability SLB’s emissions reduction strategy is at the center of our identity and vision, and our commitment to a sustainable future is underscored by bold science-backed targets aligned with the Paris Agreement. In 2021, SLB became the first company in the energy services industry to commit to a 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions target including all three emission scopes. By setting targets based on SLB’s total 2019 baseline GHG footprint—inclusive of Scope 3 emissions (which accounted for approximately 95% of SLB’s baseline)—and not just its Scope 1 and 2 footprint, SLB’s comprehensive emissions reduction roadmap addresses the entire energy value chain. SLB’s 2050 net-zero target is supported by the following interim milestones, using 2019 as the baseline year: - by 2025, a 30% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; - by 2030, a 50% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; and - by 2030, a 30% reduction in Scope 3 emissions. SLB’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions primarily come from fuel use and electricity consumption. SLB’s Scope 3 emissions are indirect, such as emissions from customers’ use of SLB technology and emissions from our use of third-party goods and services. There are three key components to SLB achieving the 2050 net-zero target: reducing operational emissions, reducing customer emissions that occur while using SLB technology, and taking carbon-negative actions of sufficient scale to offset any residual operating and technology emissions that SLB may have in 2050. In tandem with our 2050 net-zero commitment, SLB introduced a portfolio of Transition Technologies™ in 2021. This portfolio includes a select group of products and services that quantifiably reduce our customers’ GHG emissions footprint, while continuing to drive high performance, reliability, and efficiency. This portfolio is supported by an impact quantification framework and will continue to grow as sustainability is further embedded in SLB’s research and development process. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Human Capital | As a leading global technology company that operates in more than 100 countries with a workforce of approximately 110,000 people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities, one of SLB’s greatest strengths is the diversity of our people. We believe that our ability to attract, develop, motivate, and retain a highly competent and diverse workforce has been paramount to our success for many decades. We recognize that cultivating diversity and promoting inclusion are essential to attracting the best talent from around the world and enabling creativity and innovation to drive business success. We believe our strong culture focused on workforce diversity, inclusivity, and learning and development results in the best possible working environment for all our people. Workforce Diversity SLB's long-standing commitment to national and cultural diversity is reflected in our workforce composition and our philosophy to recruit and develop people from the communities in which we operate. Our workforce nationality mix generally aligns with the revenue derived from the countries in which we work, as reflected in the charts below. This fosters a culture that is global in outlook, yet local in practice. SLB also recognizes the importance of gender diversity as a source of creativity, innovation, and competitive advantage. We are committed to leading our industry in this area and, in this regard, a number of years ago we established goals of having women represent 25% of our salaried workforce by 2025 and 30% by 2030. We reached our first milestone ahead of schedule, as women represented 25% of our salaried workforce as of December 31, 2024. Inclusivity We are building on our diversity to foster a strong culture of inclusion, in which each person can feel accepted, respected, and empowered to perform at their best. SLB has numerous global policies and programs to support our inclusive culture, including: • a Code of Conduct that outlines the standards of behavior and ethics that all employees are expected to follow, and that prohibits any form of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation; • a diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) strategy supported by a network of inclusion champions that promote DEI awareness and best practices; and • a mobility program that enables employees to gain international exposure and experience and develop cross-cultural competencies. Learning and Development SLB invests significantly in the learning and development of our people. We encourage a growth mindset and provide opportunities to our people for continuous learning throughout their career. This investment allows us to accelerate personal development while maximizing performance, fostering an agile workforce with the skills necessary to lead SLB today and into the future. SLB believes that through diversity, inclusivity, and growth mindset, we can support our people to reach their full potential, which unlocks value for all of our stakeholders. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Competition | The principal methods of competition within the energy services industry are technological innovation, quality of service, and price differentiation. These factors vary geographically and are dependent upon the different services and products that SLB offers. SLB has numerous competitors, both large and small. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Intellectual Property | SLB owns or controls one of the industry’s leading portfolios of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information, trade secrets, and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to SLB’s business. While SLB seeks and holds a significant number of patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is material to SLB’s business. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Seasonality | Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of SLB’s products and services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and other Northern climates and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia, and China can produce severe weather conditions that can temporarily reduce levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for exploration data, software, and other products may result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of the year as clients seek to fully utilize their annual budgets. Conversely, customer budget constraints in North America may lead to lower demand for our services and products in the fourth quarter of the year. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Customers | SLB’s primary customers are national oil companies, large integrated oil companies, and independent operators. No single customer exceeded 10% of SLB's consolidated revenue during each of 2024, 2023, and 2022. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Governmental Regulations | SLB is subject to numerous environmental and other governmental and regulatory requirements related to its operations worldwide. For additional details, see “Item 1(a). Risk Factors – Legal and Regulatory Risks,” which is incorporated by reference in this Item 1. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Corporate Information | SLB was founded in 1926. Schlumberger Limited, the NYSE-listed parent of the SLB family of companies, is incorporated under the laws of Curaçao and has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London, and The Hague. The Company changed its brand name to SLB in 2022 but did not change the legal name of its listed parent company, which remains Schlumberger Limited. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Available Information | The SLB website is www.slb.com. SLB uses its Investor Relations website, https://investorcenter.slb.com/, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. SLB makes available, free of charge through its Investor Relations website at https://investorcenter.slb.com/, access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the SEC. Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from SLB Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on its website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing SLB makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2024 | Information About Our Executive Officers | The following table sets forth, as of January 22, 2025, the names and ages of SLB’s executive officers, including all offices and positions held by each executive officer during the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Olivier Le Peuch 61 Chief Executive Officer and Director, since August 2019. Khaled Al Mogharbel 54 Executive Vice President, Geographies, since July 2020; and Executive Vice President, Operations, April 2019 to June 2020. Stephane Biguet 56 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since January 2020. Abdellah Merad 51 Executive Vice President, Core Services and Equipment, since April 2022; and Executive Vice President, Performance Management, May 2019 to March 2022. Demosthenis Pafitis 57 Chief Technology Officer, since February 2020; and Senior Vice President, SLB 4.0 Platforms, December 2017 to January 2020. Dianne Ralston 58 Chief Legal Officer, since December 2020, and Secretary, since April 2021; and Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary, TechnipFMC plc (a global oilfield services company), January 2017 to September 2020. Carmen Rando Bejar 47 Chief People Officer, since April 2022; and Vice President, Global Business Services, September 2019 to March 2022. Rakesh Jaggi 55 President, Digital and Integration, since April 2023; and Senior Vice President, Sales & Commercial, May 2019 to March 2023. Gavin Rennick 50 President, New Energy, since April 2022; and Vice President, Human Resources, February 2019 to March 2022. Kevin Fyfe 51 Vice President and Treasurer, since July 2022; and Vice President and Controller, October 2017 to June 2022. Howard Guild 53 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Ugo Prechner 47 Vice President and Controller, since August 2022; Well Construction Controller, July 2020 to July 2022; and Controller Operations, August 2019 to June 2020. Vijay Kasibhatla 61 Director, Mergers and Acquisitions, since January 2013. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “SLB,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V.) and its consolidated subsidiaries. We are SLB, a global technology company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. With a global presence in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating energy technology, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition. Today, the world faces the challenge of providing secure and affordable energy to meet growing demand, while rapidly decarbonizing for a sustainable future. With nearly a century of market and technology leadership, SLB is well positioned and committed to being a leader in providing solutions to address this trilemma. In October 2022, we changed our brand name to SLB and unveiled a new logo that underscores our vision for a decarbonized energy future. This bold change highlighted our leadership as a global technology company focused on driving energy innovation within traditional energy sources and beyond. The SLB brand builds on nearly a century of technology innovation and industrialization. Our identity symbolizes SLB's commitment to moving farther and faster in facilitating the world's energy needs today and forging the road ahead for a sustainable future. SLB is organized under four Divisions that combine and integrate SLB’s technologies, enhancing our ability to support the emerging long-term growth opportunities in each of these market segments. The four Divisions are: • Digital & Integration • Reservoir Performance • Well Construction • Production Systems Digital & Integration – Combines SLB’s industry-leading digital solutions and data products with its integrated offering of Asset Performance Solutions (“APS”). This Division enables greater performance for our customers by reducing cycle times and risk, accelerating returns, increasing productivity, and lowering costs and carbon emissions. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Digital solutions: Includes products, services, and solutions that span the energy value chain from subsurface characterization through field development and hydrocarbon production to carbon management and the integration of adjacent energy systems. Offerings are founded upon proprietary and open-source data platform technologies, industry-leading simulators and workflow tools, and include domain-specific application of innovative digital capabilities, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Solutions are deployable on traditional on-premise IT infrastructures, the cloud, and the edge, allowing for full market coverage irrespective of customer constraints. • Exploration data and data processing: Provides comprehensive worldwide reservoir interpretation and data processing services, enabled by a scientifically advanced platform and innovative subsurface imaging techniques for exploration data, and includes one of the industry’s most extensive exploration data libraries. • Asset Performance Solutions: Offers an integrated business model for field production projects. Combines SLB’s services and products with drilling rig management and specialized engineering and project management expertise, to provide a complete solution from well construction to production improvement. As of December 31, 2023, SLB’s APS portfolio primarily consisted of three field production projects in Ecuador and one in Canada. Reservoir Performance – Consists of reservoir-centric technologies and services that are critical to optimizing reservoir productivity and performance. Reservoir Performance develops and deploys innovative technologies and services to evaluate, intervene, and stimulate reservoirs providing customers with greater insights into their assets and maximizing their return on investment. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Wireline: Provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface geology and fluids to plan and monitor well construction and to monitor and evaluate well production through both openhole and cased hole services, including wireline logging and perforating. • Testing: Provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole supported by a network of laboratories that facilitate rock and fluid characterization. • Stimulation and Intervention: Provides services used during well completions, as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well, including pressure pumping, well stimulation, and coiled tubing equipment for downhole mechanical well intervention and coiled-tubing drilling, reservoir monitoring, and downhole data acquisition. Well Construction – Combines the full portfolio of products and services to optimize well placement and performance, maximize drilling efficiency, and improve wellbore assurance. Well Construction provides operators and drilling rig manufacturers with services and products related to designing and constructing a well. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Drilling & Measurements: Provides mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling, and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. • Drilling Fluids: Supplies individually engineered drilling fluid systems that improve drilling performance and maintain well control and wellbore stability throughout drilling operations. • Drill Bits: Designs, manufactures, and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all drilling environments. • Drilling Tools: Includes a wide variety of bottomhole assembly and borehole enlargement technologies for drilling operations. • Well Cementing: Provides products and services that secure and protect well casings while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore activity. • Integrated Well Construction: Provides integrated solutions to construct or change the architecture (re-entry) of wells, including well planning, well drilling, engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. • Rigs and Equipment: Provides drilling equipment, including pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment, and services for shipyards, drilling contractors, operators, and rental tool companies, as well as land drilling rigs and related services. Production Systems – Develops technologies and provides expertise that enhance production and recovery from subsurface reservoirs to the surface, into pipelines, and to refineries. Production Systems provides a comprehensive portfolio of equipment and services including subsurface production systems, subsea and surface equipment and services, and midstream production systems. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Artificial Lift: Provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, progressing cavity pumps, and surface horizontal pumping systems. • Completions Equipment: Supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, and sand control technology, as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. • Surface: Designs and manufactures onshore and offshore platform wellhead systems and processing solutions, including valves, chokes, actuators, and surface trees, and provides services to operators. • Valves: Serves portions of the upstream, midstream, and downstream markets and provides valve products that are primarily used to control and direct the flow of hydrocarbons as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines, and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants, and industrial centers for processing. • Processing: Enables efficient monetization of subsurface assets using standard and custom-designed onshore, offshore, and downstream processing and treatment systems, as well as unique, reservoir-driven, fit-for-purpose integrated production systems for accelerating first production and maximizing project economics. • OneSubsea™: Provides integrated solutions, products, systems, and services for the subsea market, including integrated subsea production systems involving wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds and flowline connectors, control systems, connectors and services designed to maximize reservoir recovery and extend the life of each field. On October 2, 2023, SLB, Aker Solutions (“Aker”), and Subsea7 closed their previously announced joint venture. The new business, OneSubsea, will drive innovation and efficiency in subsea production by helping customers unlock reserves and reduce cycle time. OneSubsea now comprises SLB’s and Aker’s subsea businesses, which include an extensive complementary subsea production and processing technology portfolio, world-class manufacturing scale and capacity, access to industry-leading reservoir and digital domain expertise, unique pore-to-process integration capabilities, and strengthened research and development capabilities. SLB owns 70% of the joint venture, while Aker owns 20% and Subsea7 owns 10%. As the majority owner and controlling entity, SLB is considered the acquirer and reflects OneSubsea as a consolidated subsidiary in its Consolidated Financial Statements. SLB's four Divisions operate through a geographical structure of four Basins that are aligned with critical concentrations of activity: Americas Land, Offshore Atlantic, Middle East & North Africa, and Asia. The Basins are configured around common regional characteristics that enable us to deploy fit-for-purpose technologies, operating models, and skills to meet the specific customer needs in each Basin. The Basins are further organized into GeoUnits, which can be a region, a single country, or made up of several countries. With a strong focus on customers, the Basins identify opportunities for growth, and are focused on agility, responsiveness, and competitiveness. Supporting the Divisions is a global network of research and development centers. Through these centers we advance SLB’s technology programs to enhance industry efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery, and increase asset value safely, securely, and sustainably. These centers also support SLB's New Energy investments in lower carbon energy sources and carbon capture technologies. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Corporate Strategy | The evolving marketplace will require bold new technologies and ideas, digital transformation and a deep commitment to sustainability. With a balanced energy transition in mind, our strategy is focused on three engines of growth: Core, Digital and New Energy. Core Consisting of our Reservoir Performance, WeIl Construction and Production Systems Divisions, Core remains SLB’s largest engine of growth. Building on decades of technology advancement, we will continue innovating new products, services and technologies that make the exploration, development and production of oil and gas assets cleaner, more resilient, and more efficient, with lower carbon emissions and less impact on the environment. We continue to build on our fit-for-basin approach and technology access initiatives, developing bespoke and custom technology tailored to the regions and environments in which we operate. This strategy allows us to address the rapid evolution of our industry into more regional markets, each with distinct resource plays and economics. With the continued growth of digitally enabled technologies that improve efficiency and performance, including our Transition Technologies™ portfolio and our SLB End-to-end Emissions Solutions (SEES) methane elimination business, SLB provides solutions that enable customers to increase production from their reserves at a competitive cost and at a lower carbon intensity per barrel equivalent. Digital Digital capabilities continue to grow throughout the energy industry as a key element of the complex systems required to meet current energy demand and to harness the promise of a lower-carbon future. SLB is uniquely positioned to support customers on their digital journeys by managing data migration, workflow redesign, and transition to the cloud. SLB’s customers have access to leading digital products and services that help to meet their sustainability goals by driving transparency, better measurement, more effective planning, and more impactful and reliable outcomes. To continue elevating customer offerings, we are accelerating the adoption of our proprietary cloud offering Delfi™, enabling enterprise data management, delivering autonomous operations, and innovating through domain-driven artificial intelligence. Our cloud-based solutions allow our customers to transition from our established software applications to our Delfi digital platform, and shift from a user-based license model to software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions. This enables customers to evolve from legacy infrastructure and deliver new levels of value creation, with access to key resources such as storage and computing from our cloud partners and access to our industry-leading simulators. Our evolving offering of on-premises solutions allows us to support the digital transition journey of customers that prefer or are required to maintain data solutions locally. New Energy New Energy offers a significant opportunity to use SLB’s experience and scale to drive innovation for a low-carbon economy spanning industries beyond oil and gas. We are building a broad, diverse portfolio across New Energy sectors, selected for their materiality and adjacency to existing SLB strengths and our ability to offer differentiated technology. Our New Energy portfolio builds on several fundamental SLB strengths: our unique subsurface domain expertise, applicable beyond oil and gas; our ability to design and deploy complex processing and production systems as an original equipment manufacturer; our differentiated track record for innovation and industrialization; and our ability to deploy at scale in any region of the world with local knowledge and talent. SLB will continue building businesses and forging partnerships across various industries to focus on five key areas: carbon solutions, hydrogen, geothermal and geoenergy, stationary energy storage, and critical minerals. Our ambition is to seed technology capabilities in each of these domains, and then grow throughout the decade, ultimately scaling our New Energy offering into the Company’s fastest growing and largest division. • Carbon Solutions: Carbon capture, and sequestration (“CCS”) is critical to advancing decarbonization and achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. With industry-leading reservoir modeling capabilities, SLB has been in the CCS business for more than three decades. The Company is actively progressing CCS technologies to enable widespread adoption of CCS and is going beyond subsurface characterization and well construction to include capture technology, project economics, technology selection, and permitting. In addition, SLB is developing digital platforms to support emissions management for carbon and methane that will allow clients to measure, monitor, and plan abatement strategies. • Hydrogen: SLB is investing in low-carbon hydrogen generation technologies. One such investment is Genvia, a unique private-public partnership that combines SLB’s expertise and experience with that of the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission and partners. Genvia aims to deliver the most efficient and cost-effective solid oxide electrolyzer technology for producing clean hydrogen in hard-to-abate industrial settings—a key component of the energy transition. • Geothermal and Geoenergy: Geothermal power leverages the heat of the earth to generate electricity or provide heat directly, by tapping into subsurface hot water and steam zones that are continuously recharged, both naturally and by injection. Geoenergy uses the ambient temperatures beneath the earth's surface to act as a thermal battery and dramatically reduce energy consumption from heating and cooling buildings, electrify and, therefore, drive both efficiency and decarbonization. • Stationary Energy Storage: Stationary energy storage is a key enabler to make variable renewable energy sources (such as solar or wind) a larger component of the world’s electricity systems enabling power to be delivered in the right place, at the right time, to meet demand. As renewables become a greater percentage of the energy mix, the need increases for additional long-duration energy storage to ensure the efficiency of renewable assets and the reliability of electricity systems. • Critical Minerals: SLB is applying its knowledge of extraction technologies and processing to the location and sources of critical minerals, such as lithium from brine deposits, that will be required to support the energy transition. Sustainability SLB’s emissions reduction strategy is at the center of our identity and vision, and our commitment to a sustainable future is underscored by bold science-backed targets aligned with the Paris Agreement. In 2021, SLB became the first company in the energy services industry to commit to a 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions target including all three emission scopes. By setting targets based on SLB’s total 2019 baseline GHG footprint—inclusive of Scope 3 emissions (which accounted for approximately 95% of SLB’s baseline)—and not just its Scope 1 and 2 footprint, SLB’s comprehensive emissions reduction roadmap addresses the entire energy value chain. SLB’s 2050 net-zero target is supported by the following interim milestones, using 2019 as the baseline year: - by 2025, a 30% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; - by 2030, a 50% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; and - by 2030, a 30% reduction in Scope 3 emissions. SLB’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions primarily come from fuel use and electricity consumption. SLB’s Scope 3 emissions are indirect, such as emissions from customers’ use of SLB technology and emissions from our use of third-party goods and services. There are three key components to SLB achieving the 2050 net-zero target: reducing operational emissions, reducing customer emissions that occur while using SLB technology, and taking carbon-negative actions of sufficient scale to offset any residual operating and technology emissions that the Company may have in 2050. In tandem with our 2050 net-zero commitment, SLB introduced a portfolio of Transition Technologies™ in 2021. This portfolio includes a select group of products and services that quantifiably reduce our customers’ GHG emissions footprint, while continuing to drive high performance, reliability, and efficiency. This portfolio is supported by an industry-leading impact quantification framework and will continue to grow as sustainability is further embedded in the Company’s research and development process. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Human Capital | As a leading global technology company that operates in more than 100 countries with a workforce of approximately 111,000 people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities, one of SLB’s greatest strengths is the diversity of our people. We believe that our ability to attract, develop, motivate, and retain a highly competent and diverse workforce has been paramount to our success for many decades. We recognize that cultivating diversity and promoting inclusion are essential to attracting the best talent from around the world and enabling creativity and innovation to drive business success. We believe our strong culture focused on workforce diversity, inclusivity, and learning and development results in the best possible working environment for all our people. Workforce Diversity SLB's long-standing commitment to national and cultural diversity is reflected in our workforce composition and our philosophy to recruit and develop people from the communities in which we operate. Our workforce nationality mix generally aligns with the revenue derived from the countries in which we work, as reflected in the charts below. This fosters a culture that is global in outlook, yet local in practice. SLB also recognizes the importance of gender diversity as a source of creativity, innovation, and competitive advantage. We are committed to leading our industry in this area and, in this regard, a number of years ago we established goals of having women represent 25% of our salaried workforce by 2025 and 30% by 2030. As of December 31, 2023, women represented just under 25% of our salaried workforce. Inclusivity We are building on our diversity to foster a strong culture of inclusion, in which each person can feel accepted, respected, and empowered to perform at their best. SLB has numerous policies and programs to support our inclusive culture, including: • a global Code of Conduct that outlines the standards of behavior and ethics that all employees are expected to follow, and that prohibits any form of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation; • a global diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) strategy with a network of diversity and inclusion champions that promote DEI awareness and best practices; and • a global mobility program that enables employees to gain international exposure and experience and develop cross-cultural competencies. Learning and Development SLB invests significantly in the learning and development of our people. We strive to identify talent early, and to provide employees who demonstrate exceptional performance with opportunities to progress to higher levels within the organization. This allows us to accelerate personal development while maximizing performance, fostering an agile workforce with the skills necessary to lead SLB today and into the future. SLB believes that through diversity, inclusivity, and learning and development, we can support our people to reach their full potential which unlocks value for all of our stakeholders. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Competition | The principal methods of competition within the energy services industry are technological innovation, quality of service, and price differentiation. These factors vary geographically and are dependent upon the different services and products that SLB offers. SLB has numerous competitors, both large and small. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Intellectual Property | SLB owns or controls the industry’s leading portfolio of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information, trade secrets, and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to SLB’s business. While SLB seeks and holds a significant number of patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is material to SLB’s business. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Seasonality | Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of SLB’s products and services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and other Northern climates and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia, and China can produce severe weather conditions that can temporarily reduce levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for exploration data, software, and other products may result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of the year as clients seek to fully utilize their annual budgets. Conversely, customer budget constraints in North America may lead to lower demand for our services and products in the fourth quarter of the year. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Customers | SLB’s primary customers are national oil companies, large integrated oil companies, and independent operators. No single customer exceeded 10% of SLB’s consolidated revenue during each of 2023, 2022 and 2021. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Governmental Regulations | SLB is subject to numerous environmental and other governmental and regulatory requirements related to its operations worldwide. For additional details, see “Item 1(a). Risk Factors – Legal and Regulatory Risks,” which is incorporated by reference in this Item 1. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Corporate Information | SLB was founded in 1926. Schlumberger Limited, the NYSE-listed parent of the SLB family of companies, is incorporated under the laws of Curaçao and has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London, and The Hague. The Company changed its brand name to SLB in 2022 but did not change the legal name of its listed parent company, which remains Schlumberger Limited. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Available Information | The SLB website is www.slb.com. SLB uses its Investor Relations website, https://investorcenter.slb.com/, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. SLB makes available, free of charge through its Investor Relations website at https://investorcenter.slb.com/, access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the SEC. Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from SLB Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on its website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing SLB makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2023 | Information About Our Executive Officers | The following table sets forth, as of January 24, 2024, the names and ages of SLB’s executive officers, including all offices and positions held by each executive officer during the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Olivier Le Peuch 60 Chief Executive Officer and Director, since August 2019; Chief Operating Officer, February 2019 to July 2019; and Executive Vice President, Reservoir and Infrastructure, May 2018 to February 2019. Khaled Al Mogharbel 53 Executive Vice President, Geographies, since July 2020; Executive Vice President, Operations, April 2019 to June 2020; Executive Vice President, Eastern Hemisphere, February 2019 to March 2019; and President, Eastern Hemisphere, May 2017 to January 2019. Stephane Biguet 55 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since January 2020; and Vice President, Finance, December 2017 to January 2020. Abdellah Merad 50 Executive Vice President, Core Services and Equipment, since April 2022; Executive Vice President, Performance Management, May 2019 to March 2022; and President, Production Group, October 2017 to April 2019. Katharina Beumelburg 47 Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, since May 2021; Senior Vice President, Transmission Service, Siemens Energy, Siemens AG (a multinational industrial manufacturing company), April 2020 to May 2021; and Executive Vice President, Strategy, Siemens Gas and Power, Siemens AG, November 2016 to April 2020. Demosthenis Pafitis 56 Chief Technology Officer, since February 2020; and Senior Vice President, SLB 4.0 Platforms, from December 2017 to January 2020. Dianne Ralston 57 Chief Legal Officer, since December 2020, and Secretary, since April 2021; and Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary, TechnipFMC plc (a global oilfield services company), January 2017 to September 2020. Carmen Rando Bejar 46 Chief People Officer, since April 2022; Vice President, Global Business Services, September 2019 to March 2022; and Operational Planning and Resource Manager, Drilling and Measurements, April 2018 to August 2019. Rakesh Jaggi 54 President, Digital and Integration, since April 2023; Senior Vice President, Sales & Commercial, May 2019 to March 2023; and President, Completions, March 2017 to May 2019. Gavin Rennick 49 President, New Energy, since April 2022; Vice President, Human Resources, February 2019 to March 2022; and President, Software Integrated Solutions, January 2017 to February 2019. Kevin Fyfe 50 Vice President and Treasurer, since July 2022; and Vice President and Controller, October 2017 to June 2022. Howard Guild 52 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Ugo Prechner 46 Vice President and Controller, since August 2022; Well Construction Controller, July 2020 to July 2022; Controller Operations, August 2019 to June 2020; and M-I SWACO Controller, October 2017 to August 2019. Vijay Kasibhatla 60 Director, Mergers and Acquisitions, since January 2013. | 10-K |
| 2022 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “SLB,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V.) and its consolidated subsidiaries. We are SLB. In October 2022, we announced our brand which is built around a new name—SLB—and a logo that underscores our vision for a decarbonized energy future. This move affirmed our transformation from the world’s largest oilfield services company to a global technology company focused on driving energy innovation. The SLB brand builds on nearly a century of technology innovation and industrialization expertise in the energy services industry—continuing to drive innovation, decarbonization and performance for the oil and gas industry while increasing our focus on low- and zero-carbon energy technology solutions. Our new identity symbolizes SLB's commitment to moving farther and faster in facilitating the world's energy needs today and forging the road ahead for a sustainable future. SLB is a global technology company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. With a global presence in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating oil and gas, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition. SLB is organized under four Divisions that combine and integrate SLB’s technologies, enhancing our ability to support the emerging long-term growth opportunities in each of these market segments. The Divisions operate through the geographical structure of four Basins that are aligned with critical concentrations of activity: Americas Land, Offshore Atlantic, Middle East & North Africa, and Asia. The Basins are configured around common regional characteristics that enable us to deploy fit-for-purpose technologies, operating models and skills to meet the specific customer needs in each Basin and are focused on agility, responsiveness, and competitiveness. The Basins are organized into GeoUnits, which can be a single country or made up of several countries. With a strong focus on customers, the Basins identify opportunities for growth. Supporting the Divisions is a global network of research and development centers. Through these centers we advance SLB’s technology programs to enhance industry efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery, and increase asset value safely, securely, and sustainably. The four Divisions are: • Digital & Integration • Reservoir Performance • Well Construction • Production Systems Digital & Integration – Combines SLB’s industry-leading digital solutions and data products with its integrated offering of Asset Performance Solutions (“APS”). This Division enables greater performance for our customers by reducing cycle times and risk, accelerating returns, increasing productivity, and lowering costs and carbon emissions. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Digital solutions: Includes products, services, and solutions that span the energy value chain from subsurface characterization through field development and hydrocarbon production to carbon management and the integration of adjacent energy systems. Offerings are founded upon proprietary and open-source data platform technologies, industry-leading simulators and workflow tools, and include domain-specific application of innovative digital capabilities such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Solutions are deployable on traditional on-premise IT infrastructures, the cloud, and the edge, allowing for full market coverage irrespective of customer constraints. • Exploration data and data processing: Provides comprehensive worldwide reservoir interpretation and data processing services, enabled by a scientifically advanced platform and innovative subsurface imaging techniques for exploration data, also referred to as “multiclient surveys.” Offers one of the industry’s most extensive multiclient libraries. • Asset Performance Solutions: Offers an integrated business model for field production projects, by combining SLB’s services and products with drilling rig management and specialized engineering and project management expertise, to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. As of December 31, 2022, SLB’s APS portfolio primarily consisted of three field production projects in Ecuador and one in Canada. Reservoir Performance – Consists of reservoir-centric technologies and services that are critical to optimizing reservoir productivity and performance. Reservoir Performance develops and deploys innovative technologies and services to evaluate, intervene, and stimulate reservoirs that help customers understand subsurface assets and maximize their value. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Wireline: Provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface geology and fluids to plan and monitor well construction and to monitor and evaluate well production through both openhole and cased hole services, including wireline logging and perforating. • Testing: Provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole supported by a network of laboratories that facilitate rock and fluid characterization. • Stimulation and Intervention: Provides services used during well completions, as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well, including pressure pumping, well stimulation, and coiled tubing equipment for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring, and downhole data acquisition. On December 31, 2020, SLB contributed its onshore hydraulic fracturing business in the United States and Canada (“OneStim®”), including its pressure pumping, pumpdown perforating, and Permian frac sand businesses, to Liberty Energy Inc. (“Liberty”), in exchange for a 37% equity interest in Liberty. OneStim’s historical results were reported as part of the Reservoir Performance Division through the closing of the transaction. As of December 31, 2022, SLB had a 5% equity interest in Liberty. Well Construction – Combines the full portfolio of products and services to optimize well placement and performance, maximize drilling efficiency, and improve wellbore assurance. Well Construction provides operators and drilling rig manufacturers with services and products related to designing and constructing a well. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Drilling & Measurements: Provides mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling, and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. • Drilling Fluids: Supplies individually engineered drilling fluid systems that improve drilling performance and maintain well control and wellbore stability throughout drilling operations. • Drill Bits: Designs, manufactures, and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all drilling environments. • Drilling Tools: Includes a wide variety of bottom-hole-assembly and borehole enlargement technologies for drilling operations. • Well Cementing: Provides products and services that secure and protect well casings while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore activity. • Integrated Well Construction: Provides integrated solutions to construct or change the architecture (re-entry) of wells, including well planning, well drilling, engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. • Rigs and Equipment: Provides drilling equipment and services for shipyards, drilling contractors, operators, and rental tool companies, as well as land drilling rigs and related services. Drilling equipment falls into two broad categories: pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment. These products are designed for either onshore or offshore applications and include drilling equipment packages, blowout preventers, blowout preventer control systems, connectors, riser systems, valves and choke manifold systems, top drives, mud pumps, pipe handling equipment, rig designs and rig kits. Production Systems – Develops technologies and provides expertise that enhance production and recovery from subsurface reservoirs to the surface, into pipelines, and to refineries. Production Systems provides a comprehensive portfolio of equipment and services including subsurface production systems, subsea and surface equipment and services, and midstream production systems. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Artificial Lift: Provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, progressing cavity pumps and surface horizontal pumping systems. • Completions Equipment: Supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves and sand control technology, as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. • Surface: Designs and manufactures onshore and offshore platform wellhead systems and processing solutions, including valves, chokes, actuators, and surface trees, and provides services to operators. • Valves: Serves portions of the upstream, midstream, and downstream markets and provides valve products that are primarily used to control and direct the flow of hydrocarbons as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants, and industrial centers for processing. • Processing: Enables efficient monetization of subsurface assets using standard and custom-designed onshore, offshore, and downstream processing and treatment systems, as well as unique, reservoir-driven, fit-for-purpose integrated production systems for accelerating first production and maximizing project economics. • OneSubsea®: Provides integrated solutions, products, systems, and services for the subsea market, including integrated subsea production systems involving wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds and flowline connectors, control systems, connectors and services designed to maximize reservoir recovery and extend the life of each field. During the third quarter of 2022, SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea 7 announced an agreement to form a joint venture to drive innovation and efficiency in subsea production by helping customers unlock reserves and reduce cycle time. The agreement will bring together a portfolio of innovative technologies such as subsea gas compression, all-electric subsea production systems and other electrification capabilities that help customers meet their decarbonization goals. The proposed joint venture will combine SLB’s and Aker Solutions’ subsea businesses. Subsea 7 will be an equity partner in the new joint venture. In addition to contributing its subsea business to the joint venture, at closing SLB will issue to Aker Solutions shares of SLB common stock valued at $306.5 million. Concurrently, Subsea 7 will purchase its 10% interest in exchange for $306.5 million in cash to Aker Solutions. The joint venture also will issue a promissory note to Aker Solutions for $87.5 million. At closing of the joint venture, SLB will own 70%, with Aker Solutions owning 20% and Subsea 7 owning 10%. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second half of 2023. Corporate Strategy SLB is committed to addressing the most difficult challenges in the energy industry by pushing the limits of innovation while remaining the performance partner of choice for our customers across the globe. This commitment is underscored by a bold corporate vision: to drive energy innovation for a balanced planet. At the core of our vision is a returns-focused strategy designed to meet the current and future needs of customers while returning value to shareholders. Since launching the strategy in 2019, it has delivered impressive results, which include: • Strengthening our core business by high-grading the Company’s portfolio, choosing to exit certain margin-dilutive, commoditized and capital-intensive businesses and projects. • Optimizing operations by executing the largest restructuring in the Company’s history, creating a more agile, leaner organization that is better aligned with customer workflows. • Enhancing the go-to-market approach through our Basin organization and the launch of fit-for-basin and technology access initiatives. • Investing in long-term, resilient growth opportunities in gas, offshore, digital and decarbonization resulting in a stronger footing in gas and offshore development projects. • Developing an industry-leading digital platform and launching SLB’s New Energy business to grow lower-carbon or carbon-neutral technologies beyond oil and gas. Today, the world faces the trilemma of providing secure and affordable energy to meet growing demand, while rapidly decarbonizing for a sustainable future. With nearly a century of market and technology leadership, SLB is well positioned to be a leader in providing solutions to address this trilemma. The evolving marketplace will require bold new technologies and ideas, digital transformation and a deep commitment to sustainability. With a balanced transition in mind, we are focused on three engines of growth: Core, Digital and New Energy. Core Consisting of Reservoir Performance, WeIl Construction and Production Systems, Core remains the Company’s largest engine of growth. Building on decades of technology advancement, we will continue innovating new products, services and technologies that make the exploration, development and production of oil and gas assets cleaner, more resilient, and more efficient, with lower carbon and less impact on the environment. We will continue to build on our fit-for-basin approach and technology access initiatives, developing bespoke and custom technology tailored to the regions and environments in which we operate. This strategy will allow us to address the rapid evolution of our industry into more regional markets, each with distinct resource plays and economics. With the continued growth of digitally enabled technologies that improve efficiency and performance, including our Transition Technologies™ portfolio (which is further described below) and our SLB End-to-End Emissions Solution (SEES) methane elimination business, the Company will provide solutions that enable customers to increase production from their reserves at a competitive cost and low carbon intensity per barrel equivalent. Digital Digital capabilities continue to grow throughout the energy industry as a key enabler to manage the complex systems required to meet current energy demands and to harness the promise of a lower carbon future. SLB is uniquely positioned to support customers on their digital journeys by managing data migration, workflow redesign and transition to the cloud. SLB’s customers have access to leading digital products and services that help to meet their sustainability goals by driving transparency, better measurement, more effective planning and more impactful and reliable outcomes. To continue elevating customer offerings, we will accelerate the adoption of our proprietary cloud offering DELFI, enabling enterprise data management, delivering autonomous operations, and innovating through domain-driven artificial intelligence. As customers transition from our established software applications to our DELFI digital platform, they will shift from a user-based license model to software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions. This will enable them to evolve from legacy infrastructure and deliver new levels of value creation, with access to key resources such as storage and computing from our cloud partners and access to our industry-leading simulators. New Energy New Energy offers a significant opportunity to use our experience and scale to drive innovation for a low-carbon economy spanning many industries. We are building a broad, diverse portfolio across New Energy sectors, selected for their materiality and adjacency to existing SLB market strengths and our ability to offer differentiated technology. Our New Energy portfolio builds on three fundamental SLB strengths: our unique subsurface domain expertise, applicable beyond oil and gas; our differentiated track record for innovation and industrialization; and our ability to deploy at scale in any region of the world with local knowledge and talent. SLB will continue forging partnerships across various industries to focus on five emerging technologies: carbon solutions, hydrogen, geothermal and geoenergy, stationary energy storage, and critical minerals. Our ambition is to seed technology capabilities in each of these domains and grow throughout the decade, ultimately scaling our New Energy offering into the Company’s fastest growing and largest division. • Carbon Solutions: Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (“CCUS”) is critical to advancing decarbonization and achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. With industry-leading reservoir modeling capabilities, SLB has been in the CCUS business for more than three decades. The Company is actively progressing CCUS technologies and business models to enable widespread adoption and is exploring collaborations in facility design, building, and operations and going beyond subsurface characterization and well construction to include capture technology, project economics, technology selection, and permitting. • Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier: SLB is investing in hydrogen generation technologies. One such investment is Genvia, a unique private-public partnership that combines SLB’s expertise and experience with that of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (“CEA”) and partners. Genvia aims to deliver the most efficient and cost-effective technology for producing clean hydrogen—a versatile source of energy and key component of the energy transition. • Geothermal and Geoenergy: Geothermal power leverages the heat of the earth to generate electricity by tapping into hot water and steam zones that are continuously recharged, both naturally and by heat injection from sources such as power plant by-products. With decades of expertise in the sector, Geothermex, an SLB company, provides the full spectrum of deep geothermal resource development services—from exploration and drilling to analysis, resource modeling and management, financial modeling, and operational support. Celsius Energy is a New Energy venture that uses shallow geoenergy to provide heating and cooling solutions for new or existing construction and leverages SLB’s extensive knowledge of subsurface behavior, operational automation technology, and science expertise. • Stationary Energy Storage: Stationary energy storage is a key enabler to make variable renewable energy sources (solar or wind) a larger component of the world’s electricity systems, via energy shifting—enabling power to be delivered in the right place, at the right time, to meet demand. As renewables penetration increases, so does the need for additional storage to ensure the efficiency of the renewable assets and reliability of electricity systems. Large-scale, long-duration energy storage is key, and this market is growing rapidly. SLB is investing in storage technologies including EnerVenue, a start-up that delivers nickel-hydrogen, non-lithium based, economic, safe battery technology that targets the 10-hour storage market. • Critical Minerals: SLB is applying its knowledge of extraction technologies and processing to the location and sources of critical minerals that will be required to support alternative energy sources. An example of this is our NeoLith Energy technology venture, which uses a differentiated direct lithium extraction process to produce high-purity, battery-grade lithium material while reducing the production time from over a year to just weeks. This unique process is in sharp contrast to conventional evaporative methods of extracting lithium, with significantly reduced water consumption and physical footprint. Sustainability SLB’s emissions reduction strategy is at the center of our identity and vision, and our commitment to a sustainable future is underscored by bold science-backed targets aligned with the Paris Agreement. In 2021, SLB became the first company in the energy services industry to commit to a 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions target including all three emission scopes. By setting targets based on SLB’s total 2019 baseline GHG footprint—inclusive of Scope 3 emissions (which accounted for approximately 95% of SLB’s baseline)—and not just its Scope 1 and 2 footprint, SLB’s comprehensive emissions reduction roadmap addressees the entire oil and gas value chain. SLB’s 2050 net zero target is supported by the following interim milestones, using 2019 as the baseline year: - by 2025, a 30% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; - by 2030, a 50% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; and - by 2030, a 30% reduction in Scope 3 emissions. There are three key components to SLB achieving the 2050 net-zero target: reducing operational emissions, reducing customer emissions that occur while using SLB technology, and taking carbon-negative actions of sufficient scale to offset any residual operating and technology emissions that the Company may have in 2050. SLB’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions primarily come from fuel use and electricity consumption: Scope 3 emissions are indirect, such as emissions from customers’ use of SLB technology and emissions from our use of third-party goods and services. In tandem with our 2050 net-zero commitment, SLB introduced a portfolio of Transition Technologies in 2021. This portfolio includes a select group of products and services that quantifiably reduce our customers’ GHG emissions footprint, while continuing to drive high performance, reliability and efficiency. This portfolio will be supported by an industry-leading impact quantification framework and is set to grow as sustainability is further embedded in the Company’s research and development process. While there is an ambitious path ahead, we are cementing our position as a sustainability leader today. SLB continues to be one of the highest-ranked companies in the energy industry across key environmental, social, and governance ratings agencies as of December 31, 2022. This recognition confirms the strategy we have in place and our commitment to leading change in the industry. Human Capital As a leading global technology company, with a workforce consisting of approximately 99,000 people in more than 100 countries, one of SLB’s greatest strengths is the diversity of our people. We believe that our ability to attract, develop, motivate, and retain a highly competent and diverse workforce has been paramount to our success for many decades. We recognize that cultivating diversity and promoting inclusion are essential to attracting the best talent from around the world and enabling creativity and innovation to drive business success. Energy transition and changing geopolitics are increasingly impacting our people and customers. SLB is competitively well-positioned from both a people and technology perspective to manage these factors and capture the opportunity that it represents for SLB and the countries where we work. Our national and cultural diversity is based in our philosophy to recruit and develop people from the communities where we work. As a result, we maintain a workforce nationality mix aligned to the revenue derived from the countries in which we work, as reflected in the charts below. Our long-standing commitment to national and cultural diversity, which is seen throughout every layer of SLB, fosters a culture that is global in outlook, yet local in practice. In addition to national and cultural diversity, gender balance is an important part of our diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy. We are committed to leading our industry in gender diversity, and we are on track to reach our interim milestone of having women represent 25% of our salaried employees by 2025. Our next milestone is for women to comprise 30% of our salaried employees by 2030. SLB is proud to provide a career platform that enables a culture of lifelong learning for all employees and is committed to offering borderless careers and making career decisions based on merit. SLB’s borderless career philosophy is powered by its talent and mobility practices, which offer employees multiple, flexible career paths to help them acquire the required skills to reach their potential. We provide continuous growth opportunities through a combination of learning and experience. SLB strives to identify talent early and to provide opportunities for those employees who demonstrate exceptional performance and the ability to progress to higher levels within the organization. These opportunities accelerate career development while fostering an agile workforce and the next generation of business leaders. Competition The principal methods of competition within the energy services industry are technological innovation, quality of service, and price differentiation. These factors vary geographically and are dependent upon the different services and products that SLB offers. SLB has numerous competitors, both large and small. Intellectual Property SLB owns or controls the industry’s leading portfolio of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information, trade secrets, and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to SLB’s business. While SLB seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is material to SLB’s business. Seasonality Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of SLB’s products and services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and other Northern climates and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia, and China can produce severe weather conditions that can temporarily reduce levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for exploration data, software, and other products may result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of the year as clients seek to fully utilize their annual budgets. Conversely, customer budget constraints in North America may lead to lower demand for our services and products in the fourth quarter of the year. Customers SLB’s primary customers are national oil companies, large integrated oil companies and independent operators. No single customer exceeded 10% of SLB’s consolidated revenue during each of 2022, 2021 and 2020. Governmental Regulations SLB is subject to numerous environmental and other governmental and regulatory requirements related to its operations worldwide. For additional details, see “Item 1(a). Risk Factors – Legal and Regulatory Risks”, which is incorporated by reference in this Item 1. Corporate Information SLB was founded in 1926. Schlumberger Limited, the NYSE-listed parent of the SLB family of companies, is incorporated under the laws of Curaçao and has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London, and The Hague. The Company changed its brand name to SLB in 2022 but did not change the legal name of its listed parent company, which remains Schlumberger Limited. Available Information The SLB website is www.slb.com. SLB uses its Investor Relations website, https://investorcenter.slb.com/, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. SLB makes available free of charge through its Investor Relations website at https://investorcenter.slb.com/, access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the SEC. Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from SLB Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on its website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing SLB makes with the SEC. Information About Our Executive Officers The following table sets forth, as of January 25, 2023, the names and ages of SLB’s executive officers, including all offices and positions held by each executive officer during the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Olivier Le Peuch 59 Chief Executive Officer and Director, since August 2019; Chief Operating Officer, February 2019 to July 2019; Executive Vice President, Reservoir and Infrastructure, May 2018 to February 2019; and President, Cameron Group, February 2017 to May 2018. Khaled Al Mogharbel 52 Executive Vice President, Geographies, since July 2020; Executive Vice President, Operations, April 2019 to June 2020; Executive Vice President, Eastern Hemisphere, February 2019 to March 2019; and President, Eastern Hemisphere, May 2017 to January 2019. Stephane Biguet 54 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since January 2020; and Vice President, Finance, December 2017 to January 2020. Abdellah Merad 49 Executive Vice President, Core Services and Equipment, since April 2022; Executive Vice President, Performance Management, May 2019 to March 2022; and President, Production Group, October 2017 to April 2019. Katharina Beumelburg 46 Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, since May 2021; Senior Vice President, Transmission Service, Siemens Energy, Siemens AG (a multinational industrial manufacturing company), April 2020 to May 2021; and Executive Vice President, Strategy, Siemens Gas and Power, Siemens AG, November 2016 to April 2020. Demosthenis Pafitis 55 Chief Technology Officer, since February 2020; and Senior Vice President, SLB 4.0 Platforms, from December 2017 to January 2020. Dianne Ralston 56 Chief Legal Officer, since December 2020, and Secretary, since April 2021; and Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary, TechnipFMC plc (a global oilfield services company), January 2017 to September 2020. Carmen Rando Bejar 45 Chief People Officer, since April 2022; Vice President, Global Business Services, September 2019 to March 2022; Operational Planning and Resource Manager, Drilling and Measurements, April 2018 to August 2019; and Operations Systems Manager, Drilling and Measurements, August 2016 to March 2018. Gavin Rennick 48 President, New Energy, since April 2022; Vice President, Human Resources, February 2019 to March 2022; and President, Software Integrated Solutions, January 2017 to February 2019. Rajeev Sonthalia 54 President, Digital & Integration, since July 2020; President, Integrated Performance Management, October 2019 to June 2020; Vice President, Marketing, Wells, May 2018 to September 2019; and Vice President, Eastern Hemisphere, Reservoir Characterization Group, October 2017 to April 2018. Kevin Fyfe 49 Vice President and Treasurer, since July 2022; and Vice President and Controller, October 2017 to June 2022. Howard Guild 51 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Ugo Prechner 45 Vice President and Controller, since August 2022; Well Construction Controller, July 2020 to July 2022; Controller Operations, August 2019 to June 2020; and M-I Swaco Controller, October 2017 to August 2019. Vijay Kasibhatla 59 Director, Mergers and Acquisitions, since January 2013. | 10-K |
| 2021 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V.) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Schlumberger is a technology company that partners with customers to access energy by providing leading digital solutions and deploying innovative technologies to enable performance and sustainability for the global energy industry. Schlumberger collaborates to create technology that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all. Schlumberger is organized under four Divisions operating in five distinct Basins that are aligned with critical hubs of activity. These Divisions combine and integrate Schlumberger’s technologies, enhancing our ability to support the emerging long-term growth opportunities in each of these market segments. The four Divisions are: • Digital & Integration • Reservoir Performance • Well Construction • Production Systems Digital & Integration – Combines Schlumberger’s digital workflow solutions and seismic data interpretation and management businesses with its integrated offering of Asset Performance Solutions (“APS”). Through digital solutions and technologies, supported by the future of software, digital, infrastructure, connected assets, and data, this Division enhances efficiency to improve asset and enterprise-wide performance for customers. APS helps develop or redevelop fields while increasing production, improving cash flow, and extending recovery for customers by providing fit-for-purpose solutions. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Digital solutions: Includes proprietary software, an expanding digital ecosystem, consulting services, information management and IT infrastructure services to customers in the energy industry. Offers expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning and production enhancement, as well as industry-leading petrotechnical data services and training solutions. • Multiclient seismic surveys and data processing: WesternGeco® is a leading geophysical services supplier, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir interpretation and data processing services. It provides a highly efficient and scientifically advanced imaging platform and innovative and accurate subsurface imagery for multiclient surveys, also referred to as exploration data. WesternGeco offers one of the industry’s most extensive multiclient libraries. • Asset Performance Solutions: APS offers an integrated business model for field production projects. This model combines Schlumberger’s services and products with drilling rig management and specialized engineering and project management expertise, to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. APS creates alignment between Schlumberger and the asset holder and/or the operator utilizing a commercial model whereby Schlumberger receives remuneration in line with the value it creates. These projects are generally focused on developing and co-managing production of customer assets under long-term agreements. Schlumberger invests its services and products into the field development activities and operations and is compensated on a fee-per-barrel basis or based on cash flow generated. This includes certain arrangements whereby Schlumberger is only compensated based on incremental production that it helps deliver above a mutually agreed baseline. As of December 31, 2021, Schlumberger’s APS portfolio primarily consisted of three field production projects in Ecuador and one in Canada. Reservoir Performance – Consists of reservoir-centric technologies and services that are critical to optimizing reservoir productivity and performance. Reservoir Performance develops and deploys innovative technologies and services to evaluate, intervene, and stimulate reservoirs that help customers understand subsurface assets and maximize their value. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Wireline: Provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface geology and fluids to plan and monitor well construction and to monitor and evaluate well production. Offers both openhole and cased-hole services, including wireline logging and perforating. • Testing: Provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. Testing has a network of laboratories that facilitate formation and fluid characterization. • Stimulation and Intervention: Provides services used during well completions, as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. Includes pressure pumping, well stimulation, and coiled tubing equipment for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring, and downhole data acquisition. On December 31, 2020, Schlumberger contributed its onshore hydraulic fracturing business in the United States and Canada (“OneStim®”), including its pressure pumping, pumpdown perforating, and Permian frac sand businesses, to Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. (“Liberty”), in exchange for a 37% equity interest in Liberty. OneStim’s historical results were reported as part of the Reservoir Performance Division through the closing of the transaction. As of December 31, 2021, Schlumberger had a 31% equity interest in Liberty. Well Construction – Combines the full portfolio of products and services to optimize well placement and performance, maximize drilling efficiency, and improve wellbore assurance. Well Construction provides operators and drilling rig manufacturers with services and products related to designing and constructing a well. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Drilling & Measurements: Provides mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. • Drilling Fluids: Supplies individually engineered drilling fluid systems that improve drilling performance and maintain well control and wellbore stability throughout the drilling operation. • Drill Bits: Designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all drilling environments. • Drilling Tools: Includes a wide variety of bottom-hole-assembly and borehole enlargement technologies for drilling operations. • Well Cementing: Provides products and services that secure and protect well casings while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore activity. • Integrated Well Construction: Provides integrated solutions to construct or change the architecture (re-entry) of wells, including well planning, well drilling, engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. • Rigs and Equipment: Provides drilling equipment and services for shipyards, drilling contractors, energy companies and rental tool companies, as well as land drilling rigs and related services. Drilling equipment falls into two broad categories: pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment. These products are designed for either onshore or offshore applications and include drilling equipment packages, blowout preventers, blowout preventer control systems, connectors, riser systems, valves and choke manifold systems, top drives, mud pumps, pipe handling equipment, rig designs and rig kits. Production Systems – Develops technologies and provides expertise that enhance production and recovery from subsurface reservoirs to the surface, into pipelines, and to refineries. Production Systems provides a comprehensive portfolio of equipment and services including subsurface production systems, subsea and surface equipment and services, and midstream production systems. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Artificial Lift: Provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, progressing cavity pumps and surface horizontal pumping systems. • Completions Equipment: Supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves and sand control technology, as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. • OneSubsea®: Provides integrated solutions, products, systems and services for the subsea market, including integrated subsea production systems involving wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds and flowline connectors, control systems, connectors and services designed to maximize reservoir recovery and extend the life of each field. • Surface: Designs and manufactures onshore and offshore platform wellhead systems and processing solutions, including valves, chokes, actuators and surface trees, and provides services to operators. • Valves: Serves portions of the upstream, midstream and downstream markets and provides valve products that are primarily used to control and direct the flow of hydrocarbons as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants and industrial centers for processing. • Processing: Enables efficient monetization of subsurface assets using standard and custom-designed onshore, offshore and downstream processing and treatment systems, as well as unique, reservoir-driven, fit-for-purpose integrated production systems for accelerating first production and maximizing project economics. Supporting the Divisions is a global network of research and engineering centers. Through these centers Schlumberger advances its technology programs to safely and sustainably enhance industry efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value. The Divisions are deployed around a geographical structure within five Basins: Americas Land, Offshore Atlantic, Middle East & North Africa, Asia, and Russia & Central Asia. The Basins are configured around common regional characteristics to deploy fit-for-purpose technologies, operating models and skills and are focused on agility, responsiveness and competitiveness. The Basins are comprised of GeoUnits, which can be a single country or made up of several countries. With a strong focus on the customers, Basins identify opportunities for local growth. Corporate Strategy Schlumberger’s strategy is designed to adapt the Company to an evolving industry landscape shaped by emerging drivers, including capital discipline, regionalization of supply and demand, an efficiency imperative, and resilience—defined by sustainability and lower carbon footprint. This strategy is designed to magnify Schlumberger’s ability to improve customer performance, which is the differentiating factor that will help our industry meet higher stakeholder expectations. Oil and gas will remain critical to economic activity and prosperity. According to the most recent International Energy Agency Sustainable Development Scenario, oil and gas are expected to represent approximately 45% of the global energy mix through 2040. Schlumberger’s role is twofold: to enable customers to produce these resources efficiently, cost effectively and with the lowest carbon footprint and to support the world’s transition to a more diversified energy mix. Schlumberger’s strategy is structured around three major themes, all of which are focused on customer performance: (i) strengthen the core; (ii) go-to-market; and (iii) horizons of growth. Strengthen the Core The core of Schlumberger is how we work with customers and execute our business. The elements in this theme—which include customer collaboration, the integrity and efficiency of our operations, and capital stewardship—are enabled by our people and technology. As a service company, Schlumberger has always worked closely with customers. We are exploring new ways to collaborate and help them overcome their challenges and improve performance. Operations integrity and efficiency—core to Schlumberger’s culture—are enhanced by the digitization of our operations. Just as Schlumberger is delivering digital solutions to our customers, we are advancing them in our own operations to capture value from our equipment and services businesses by integrating them into our digital structure. Capital stewardship is a crucial factor for our industry. Schlumberger has implemented a capital allocation framework that governs all investments, whether related to capital expenditures, mergers and acquisitions, or research and engineering. The underlying principle behind this framework is that investment opportunities are prioritized based on returns and cash flow. Our focus on capital stewardship also includes evolving certain businesses into innovative, less capital-intensive commercial models. Go-to-Market Industry markets have evolved into multiple, diverse regional markets that are increasingly competing with each other to meet global, regional, and domestic oil and gas demand. Each of these regions has a set of resource plays—or basins—with localized economics and operational drivers. As a result, the industry is witnessing a decoupling of the activity characteristics of each major region, resulting in a unique set of dynamics for each oil and gas basin across the world. This presents Schlumberger with opportunities that can be optimally addressed with a basin-specific approach. A key differentiator for Schlumberger is its “fit-for-basin” approach and ability. Fit-for-basin describes the mindset Schlumberger has adopted toward technology development, in-country value, and market access. Schlumberger is developing and deploying basin-specific technology that helps its customers overcome the challenges of their respective regions. At the same time, in-country value enables regional efficiency and performance, while creating opportunity and aligning with the strategic priorities of our clients. In addition, technology access and performance models are highly strategic elements of our go-to-market strategy. Technology access is fundamentally about making the right decisions with respect to our technology portfolio and how we go to market. Performance models are focused on commercial and contractual innovations. The elements of our go-to-market strategy enable Schlumberger to develop deeper partnerships with customers, expanding on their needs and challenges from a basin-specific perspective to provide technology and business models tailored to regional or individual customer requirements. These elements allow us to share in the performance improvement we deliver for customers and partners. Horizons of Growth The third strategic element positions Schlumberger to increase its share in existing markets and expand into new long-term markets in digital, production and recovery, and energy transition, including Schlumberger New Energy and Transition Technologies. Digital capabilities are crucial to long-term performance and resilience. Through its industry-leading digital platform, Schlumberger will enable digital transformation at scale, unlocking significant value, and leading innovation across the digital domain in the industry. Schlumberger seeks to define the future of digital technology in the energy industry and has designed and built a secure and flexible digital industry platform centered around differentiated digital technologies. Enabled by key partnerships with companies such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, AVEVA and NOV, Schlumberger provides an open digital platform that takes advantage of on-demand, high-performance computing and makes digital capabilities such as embedded artificial intelligence or machine learning readily accessible to customers. The application of digital technology across the entire E&P value chain—from subsurface to drilling to production—has the potential to deliver a step-change in operational workflows that will significantly elevate our customers’ performance sustainably. Digital technology can move technical workflows from the desktop to the cloud, creating data structures that enable artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide insights at scale across our customers’ operations. Production and recovery is about positioning Schlumberger to take advantage of two key trends shaping the market. The first trend relates to accelerating gas discovery, development and production, as Schlumberger expects to see significant growth in gas demand over the next two decades as the world seeks to decarbonize its energy mix. The second trend relates to operators’ increased focus on improving recovery from their existing wells, fields and infrastructure—ultimately achieving the most capital efficient production. As a result and based on our deep domain knowledge from the subsurface to midstream production facilities, we are positioning our technology portfolio to participate and lead in these growing markets. Finally, Schlumberger recognizes that its future will expand beyond oil and gas with energy transition, and the Company is positioning itself for long-term growth opportunities. In this regard, in 2020 the Company created Schlumberger New Energy to develop businesses in low-carbon or carbon-neutral energy technologies, and in 2021 it announced its commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and launched its Transition Technologies portfolio to reduce emissions from oil and gas operations. Schlumberger New Energy is using partnership models and Schlumberger’s experience in technology industrialization to expand into energy verticals beyond oil and gas. Schlumberger’s approach is to apply its domain expertise in areas adjacent to its existing activities where it can use its global footprint and execution platform to deliver at scale. The Schlumberger New Energy portfolio consists of ventures in the domains of hydrogen, lithium, energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”), geothermal power and geoenergy for heating and cooling buildings. While many of these investments are in new energy emerging sectors, Schlumberger New Energy has leveraged Schlumberger’s extensive experience in both the CCS and geothermal sectors. For more than two decades, Schlumberger has participated in CCS projects providing consulting, technology services and project management. In geothermal, Schlumberger provides the full spectrum of geothermal resource development services through GeothermEx, a consulting and services company we acquired in 2010. Schlumberger New Energy has extended Schlumberger’s geothermal reach by exploring opportunities in the development of geothermal power projects. Schlumberger New Energy activities currently include the following ventures and strategic partnerships: • Celsius Energy is a Schlumberger start-up that combines in-house technology, proprietary design optimization and modern digital control systems to offer a fit-for-purpose solution that uses low-heat geothermal energy for heating and cooling buildings. Celsius Energy reduces overall building energy consumption from conventional sources, resulting in reduced carbon emissions. • Genvia is a clean hydrogen production technology venture with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and partners. This unique private-public partnership aims to deliver the most efficient and cost-effective technology for producing clean hydrogen, a versatile energy carrier and key component of the energy transition. • NeoLith Energy is a Schlumberger New Energy venture to enable a sustainable, efficient and flexible lithium production ecosystem using a differentiated direct lithium extraction process. NeoLith Energy has a strategic collaboration agreement with Panasonic Energy of North America for the validation and optimization of its pilot plant in Nevada. • In CCS, Schlumberger New Energy is developing capabilities and forging partnerships to provide integrated solutions and technologies to CCS projects in selected markets and geographies where existing policies and regulations can make projects attractive. Schlumberger New Energy has partnered with Chevron, Microsoft and Clean Energy Systems to utilize biomass fuel that consumes CO2 over its lifetime to produce power and then safely and permanently sequestrates the produced CO2. This process results in net-negative carbon emissions, effectively removing greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. • Schlumberger invested in EnerVenue and entered into a collaboration agreement to deploy EnerVenue’s uniquely differentiated nickel-hydrogen battery technology, which is a key enabler of stationary energy storage solutions. Schlumberger New Energy and EnerVenue will work together to progress large-scale deployment of nickel-hydrogen battery technology across selected global markets. In June 2021, Schlumberger announced its commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions by 2050. Guided by climate science and GHG Protocol, Schlumberger spent 18 months conducting extensive analysis and working with experts to produce its decarbonization plan, which is aligned with the Paris Agreement ambition of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Schlumberger was the first energy services company to set a net-zero target inclusive of all three emission scopes. By setting targets with respect to the Company’s total 2019 baseline GHG footprint of approximately 54 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (which consisted of 52 million metric tons of Scope 3 emissions and two million metric tons of Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions), and not just its Scope 1 and 2 footprint, Schlumberger’s comprehensive emissions reduction roadmap addresses the entire oil and gas value chain. Schlumberger’s 2050 net zero target is supported by the following interim milestones, using 2019 as the baseline year: • by 2025, a 30% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; • by 2030, a 50% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; and • by 2030, a 30% reduction in Scope 3 emissions. There are three key components to Schlumberger achieving its net-zero target: reducing operational emissions, reducing customer emissions that occur while using Schlumberger technology, and taking carbon-negative actions of sufficient scale to offset any residual operational and technology emissions that the Company may have in 2050. Schlumberger’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions primarily come from its fuel use and electricity consumption, whereas its Scope 3 emissions are indirect, such as customer emissions related to the use of Schlumberger technology and operational emissions related to purchased goods and services. In 2021, Schlumberger launched its Transition Technologies portfolio. This portfolio is focused on addressing fugitive emissions, flaring reduction, electrification, well construction emissions, and full field development solutions. Comprised of proprietary technologies and solutions, the Transition Technologies portfolio will help reduce direct and indirect emissions along with other environmental attributes, while simultaneously driving efficiency, reliability and performance for our customers. | 10-K |
| 2021 | Human Capital | At December 31, 2021, Schlumberger’s workforce consisted of approximately 92,000 people representing more than 160 nationalities. Schlumberger believes that the diversity of its workforce is one of its greatest strengths and its ambition is to maintain a workforce nationality mix that is aligned to its geographical revenue mix. Schlumberger recognizes that its ability to attract, develop, motivate and retain a highly competent and diverse workforce has been key to its success for many decades. As a global company focused on creating and optimizing value for its customers, Schlumberger believes it is critical for its people to communicate with customers in their native languages and to share the values of the people in the countries where it works. Furthermore, Schlumberger’s diverse workforce positions the Company to effectively deliver services and products that meet the unique expectations and requirements of, its stakeholders, including customers, suppliers and shareholders. Schlumberger’s long-standing commitment to national and cultural diversity fosters a culture that is global in outlook, yet local in practice, which permeates every layer of the Company. In addition to national and cultural diversity, gender balance is another important pillar of our diversity and inclusion strategy. Schlumberger is committed to lead our industry in gender diversity. Schlumberger has made significant progress towards achieving its gender balance goal of having women comprise 25% of the Company’s salaried workforce by 2025. In this regard, in 2021, Schlumberger set its next goal which is for women to comprise 30% of the Company’s salaried workforce by 2030. As of December 31, 2021, women made up approximately 23% of the Company’s salaried workforce. Additionally, approximately 22% of management roles were held by women in 2021 and women represented approximately 48% of our 2021 new hires of salaried employees with science, technology, engineering and mathematics backgrounds. Schlumberger is proud to provide a career platform that enables a culture of lifelong learning for all employees. Schlumberger is committed to offering borderless careers and making career decisions based on merit. Schlumberger’s borderless careers philosophy is powered by its internal mobility practices, which offer employees multiple, flexible, career paths to help them acquire the required skills to reach their ambition. We seek to provide continuous growth opportunities through a combination of training and experience. Schlumberger strives to identify talent early and to provide opportunities for those employees who demonstrate exceptional performance and potential to progress to higher levels within the organization. These opportunities accelerate career development while fostering an agile workforce and the next generation of business leaders. | 10-K |
| 2021 | Competition | The principal methods of competition within the energy services industry are technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation. These factors vary geographically and are dependent upon the different services and products that Schlumberger offers. Schlumberger has numerous competitors, both large and small. Intellectual Property Schlumberger owns and controls a variety of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information, trade secrets and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to Schlumberger’s business. While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of Schlumberger’s products and services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia and China can produce severe weather conditions that can temporarily reduce levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for multiclient data, software and other products may result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of the year as clients seek to fully utilize their annual budgets. Conversely, customer budget constraints in North America may lead to lower demand for our services and products in the fourth quarter of the year. Customers Schlumberger’s primary customers are national oil companies, large integrated oil companies and independent operators. No single customer exceeded 10% of Schlumberger’s consolidated revenue during each of 2021, 2020 and 2019. Governmental Regulations Schlumberger is subject to numerous environmental and other governmental and regulatory requirements related to its operations worldwide. For additional details, see “Item 1(a). Risk Factors – Legal and Regulatory Risks”, which is incorporated by reference in this Item 1. Corporate Information Schlumberger was founded in 1926. The Company is incorporated under the laws of Curaçao and has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague. Available Information The Schlumberger website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir, access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the SEC. Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from Schlumberger Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on its website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. Information About Our Executive Officers The following table sets forth, as of January 26, 2022, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Olivier Le Peuch 58 Chief Executive Officer and Director, since August 2019; Chief Operating Officer, February 2019 to July 2019; Executive Vice President, Reservoir and Infrastructure, May 2018 to February 2019; President, Cameron Group, February 2017 to May 2018; and President, Completions, October 2014 to January 2017. Khaled Al Mogharbel 51 Executive Vice President, Geographies, since July 2020; Executive Vice President, Operations, April 2019 to June 2020; Executive Vice President, Eastern Hemisphere, February 2019 to March 2019; President, Eastern Hemisphere, May 2017 to January 2019; and President, Drilling Group, July 2013 to April 2017. Ashok Belani 63 Executive Vice President, Schlumberger New Energy, since February 2020; and Executive Vice President, Technology, January 2011 to January 2020. Stephane Biguet 53 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since January 2020; Vice President, Finance, December 2017 to January 2020; and Vice President, Treasurer, December 2016 to November 2017. Hinda Gharbi 51 Executive Vice President, Services and Equipment, since July 2020; Executive Vice President, Reservoir and Infrastructure, February 2019 to June 2020; Vice President, Human Resources, May 2018 to January 2019; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, June 2017 to May 2018; and President, Wireline, July 2013 to May 2017. Abdellah Merad 48 Executive Vice President, Performance Management, since May 2019; President NAL Production Group, May 2018 to April 2019; President, Production Group, October 2017 to May 2018; and Vice President, Controller, Operations, December 2016 to September 2017. Katharina Beumelburg 45 Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, since May 2021; Senior Vice President, Transmission Service, Siemens Energy, Siemens AG (a multinational industrial manufacturing company), April 2020 to May 2021; Executive Vice President, Strategy, Siemens Gas and Power, Siemens AG, November 2016 to April 2020. Demosthenis Pafitis 54 Chief Technology Officer, since February 2020; Senior Vice President, Schlumberger 4.0 Platforms, from December 2017 to January 2020; and Vice President, Engineering, Manufacturing and Sustaining, September 2014 to December 2017. Dianne Ralston 55 Chief Legal Officer, since December 2020; and Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, TechnipFMC plc (a global oilfield services company), January 2017 to October 2020. Gavin Rennick 47 Vice President, Human Resources, since February 2019; and President, Software Integrated Solutions, January 2017 to February 2019. Pierre Chereque 67 Vice President and Director of Taxes, since June 2017; and Director of Taxes, Operations, July 2004 to May 2017. Kevin Fyfe 48 Vice President and Controller, since October 2017; and Controller, Cameron Group, April 2016 to October 2017. Howard Guild 50 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Claudia Jaramillo 49 Vice President and Treasurer, since December 2017; ERM and Treasury Projects Manager, July 2017 to November 2017; and Controller, North America Area, July 2014 to July 2017. Vijay Kasibhatla 58 Director, Mergers and Acquisitions, since January 2013. | 10-K |
| 2020 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V.) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Schlumberger is a technology company that partners with customers to access energy by providing leading digital solutions and deploying innovative technologies to enable performance and sustainability for the global energy industry. Schlumberger collaborates to create technology that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all. Organizational Structure During 2020, Schlumberger restructured its organization in order to prepare for a changing industry future. This new structure is aligned with customer workflows and is directly linked to Schlumberger’s corporate strategy, a key element of which is customer collaboration. The new organization consists of four Divisions that combine and integrate Schlumberger’s technologies, enhancing the portfolio of capabilities that support the emerging long-term growth opportunities in each of these market segments. The four Divisions are: • Digital & Integration • Reservoir Performance • Well Construction • Production Systems The role of the Divisions is to support Schlumberger in executing its customer-centric performance strategy and maintaining its industry leadership role in technology development and services integration. The Divisions are collectively responsible for driving performance throughout their respective business lines; overseeing operational processes, resource allocation and personnel; and delivering superior financial results. Digital & Integration – Combines Schlumberger’s software and seismic businesses with its integrated offering of Asset Performance Solutions (“APS”). APS helps develop or redevelop fields while increasing production, improving cash flow, and extending recovery for customers by providing fit-for-purpose solutions. Through digital solutions and technologies, supported by the future of software, digital, infrastructure, connected assets, and data, this Division enhances efficiency to improve asset and enterprise-wide performance for customers. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Multiclient seismic surveys and data processing: WesternGeco® is a leading geophysical services supplier, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir interpretation and data processing services. It provides a highly efficient and scientifically advanced imaging platform to its customers. Through access to the industry’s global marine fleet, it provides innovative and accurate subsurface imagery for multiclient surveys. WesternGeco offers one of the industry’s most extensive multiclient libraries. • Digital solutions: Includes proprietary software, an expanding digital ecosystem, consulting services, information management and IT infrastructure services to customers in the energy industry. Offers expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning and production enhancement, as well as industry-leading petrotechnical data services and training solutions. • Asset Performance Solutions: APS offers an integrated business model for field production projects. This model combines Schlumberger’s services and products with drilling rig management and specialized engineering and project management expertise, to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. APS creates alignment between Schlumberger and the asset holder and/or the operator by Schlumberger receiving remuneration in line with its value creation. These projects are generally focused on developing and co-managing production of customer assets under long-term agreements. Schlumberger invests its own services and products and, in certain historical cases, cash into the field development activities and operations. Although in certain arrangements Schlumberger is paid for a portion of the services or products it provides, generally Schlumberger will not be paid at the time of providing its services or upon delivery of its products. Instead, Schlumberger is generally compensated based on cash flow generated or on a fee-per-barrel basis. This includes certain arrangements whereby Schlumberger is only compensated based on incremental production that it helps deliver above a mutually agreed baseline. Reservoir Performance – Consists of reservoir-centric technologies and services that are critical to optimizing reservoir productivity and performance. Reservoir Performance develops and deploys innovative technologies and services to evaluate, intervene, and stimulate reservoirs that help customers understand subsurface assets and maximize their value. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Wireline: Provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface geology and fluids to plan and monitor well construction and to monitor and evaluate well production. Offers both openhole and cased-hole services, including wireline logging and perforating. • Testing: Provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. Testing has a network of laboratories that conduct formation and fluid characterization. • Stimulation and Intervention: Provides services used during well completions, as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. Includes pressure pumping, well stimulation, and coiled tubing equipment for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring, and downhole data acquisition. On December 31, 2020, Schlumberger contributed its onshore hydraulic fracturing business in the United States and Canada (“OneStim®”), including its pressure pumping, pumpdown perforating, and Permian frac sand businesses, to Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. (“Liberty”), in exchange for a 37% equity interest in Liberty. OneStim’s historical results were reported as part of the Reservoir Performance Division through the closing of the transaction. Well Construction – Combines the full portfolio of products and services to optimize well placement and performance, maximize drilling efficiency, and improve wellbore assurance. Well Construction provides operators and drilling rig manufacturers with services and products related to designing and constructing a well. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Drilling & Measurements: Provides mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. • Drilling Fluids: Supplies individually engineered drilling fluid systems that improve drilling performance and maintain well control and wellbore stability throughout the drilling operation. • Drill Bits: Designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. • Drilling Tools: Includes a wide variety of bottom-hole-assembly and borehole-enlargement technologies for drilling operations. • Well Cementing: Supports and protects well casings while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore activity. • Integrated Well Construction: Provides integrated solutions to construct or change the architecture (re-entry) of wells, including well planning, well drilling, engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. • Rigs and Equipment: Provides drilling equipment and services for shipyards, drilling contractors, energy companies and rental tool companies, as well as land drilling rigs and related services. Drilling equipment falls into two broad categories: pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment. These products are designed for either onshore or offshore applications and include drilling equipment packages, blowout preventers (“BOPs”), BOP control systems, connectors, riser systems, valves and choke manifold systems, top drives, mud pumps, pipe handling equipment, rig designs and rig kits. Production Systems – Develops technologies and provides expertise that enhance production and recovery from subsurface reservoirs to the surface, into pipelines, and to refineries. Production Systems provides a comprehensive portfolio of equipment and services including subsurface production systems, subsea and surface equipment and services, and midstream production systems. The primary offerings comprising this Division are: • Artificial Lift: Provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, progressing cavity pumps and surface horizontal pumping systems. • Completions Equipment: Supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves and sand control technology, as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. • OneSubsea®: Provides integrated solutions, products, systems and services for the subsea market, including integrated subsea production systems involving wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds and flowline connectors, control systems, connectors and services designed to maximize reservoir recovery and extend the life of each field. • Surface: Designs and manufactures onshore and offshore platform wellhead systems and processing solutions, including valves, chokes, actuators and Christmas trees, and provides services to operators. • Valves: Serves portions of the upstream, midstream and downstream markets and provides valve products that are primarily used to control and direct the flow of hydrocarbons as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants and industrial centers for processing. • Processing: Enables efficient monetization of subsurface assets using standard and custom-designed onshore, offshore and downstream processing and treatment systems, as well as unique, reservoir-driven, fit for purpose integrated production systems for accelerating first production and maximizing project economics. Supporting the Divisions is a global network of research and engineering centers, through which Schlumberger advances its technology programs to enhance industry efficiency and sustainability, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value, while accomplishing these goals safely. The Divisions are deployed around a geographical structure of five Basins: Americas Land, Offshore Atlantic, Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and Russia and Central Asia. The Basins are a collection of GeoUnits, which consist of a single country to several countries, that each have common themes in terms of strategy, economic and operational drivers, and technology needs. With a strong focus on the customer and growth, the Basins are responsible for defining a Basin strategy in line with Schlumberger’s corporate strategy and identifying opportunities for future growth. Corporate Strategy Schlumberger’s ambition is to be its customers’ “performance partner” of choice, by putting the customer at the center of everything it does and by being the company that defines performance in the energy services industry. Schlumberger’s strategy is structured around three major themes: (i) strengthen the core; (ii) expand the go-to-market; and (iii) next horizons of growth. Strengthen the Core Strengthening the core is focused on developing our people, collaborating with our customers and enhancing our technology performance to enable Schlumberger’s vision of customer performance. Maintaining capital discipline is also a key element of strengthening the core—such as evaluating all investment decisions through the lens of return on capital rather than growth and evolving certain businesses into innovative models that are less capital intensive. Expand the Go-to-Market Schlumberger believes that a key shift in the industry is the greater prominence and interplay of regional, or basin-specific, supply and demand. The industry is witnessing a decoupling of the activity characteristics of each major region, resulting in a unique set of dynamics for each oil and gas basin across the world. There are four main regions increasingly competing against each other for market access to meet global, regional and domestic energy demand: North America Land; Middle East; Russia and Central Asia; and offshore. These regions correspond to a different set of resource plays or basins, each facing different economic and operational drivers, which translates into different activity levels and cycles. Current geopolitical uncertainties and trade conflicts will only amplify this trend, resulting in the transition from a global market toward a more localized supply and demand dynamic. As basins around the world decouple, a key differentiator for Schlumberger will be its “fit-for-basin” approach and ability. Basins have significantly different dynamics, including technological needs, in-country value, and market or technology access. Schlumberger is developing and deploying basin-specific technology that helps its customers overcome the challenges of their respective regions. In-country value enables regional efficiency and performance, while increasing local content and aligning with the strategic priorities of our clients. Additionally, by employing different business models, Schlumberger will evolve the way it goes to market in certain regions. Schlumberger will seek to monetize its technology advantage by deploying alternative operating models such as selling or leasing selected technologies to regional service providers with a license to operate in these specific markets. Schlumberger expects this approach to expand its total addressable market. Next Horizons of Growth Schlumberger’s history and culture have been based on leadership, science and innovation since its founders invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells. Continuing this tradition, Schlumberger will focus its future growth in two areas: digital innovation and new energy. Schlumberger seeks to define the future of digital technology in the energy industry. The application of digital technology in field operations has the potential to deliver a step-change in operational workflows to significantly elevate performance. To take the next step in performance that our customers need to deliver energy in today’s competitive environment, Schlumberger is developing and using digital solutions, focused on generating richer data and better insights, that will achieve performance not previously possible across the energy industry. Schlumberger is leveraging its portfolio of proprietary digital technologies as well as technologies that have transformed other industries to enable our customers to make better and faster decisions. Integrating digital technology into exploration and production (“E&P”) workflows requires extensive domain expertise in upstream hardware and software technologies and in the management and interpretation of vast amounts of subsurface and production data. Schlumberger will continue to lead the digital transformation of the energy industry by applying its unique data and digital expertise to every facet of the E&P life cycle. Through its New Energy portfolio, Schlumberger is investing in low carbon and carbon-neutral energy technologies that will provide a platform for future sustainable growth. Schlumberger recognizes that its future will expand beyond oil and gas with the energy transition, and consequently the Company is positioning for significant growth opportunities for the long term. Schlumberger New Energy is taking a business venture approach that will focus on energy efficiency and energy storage as a priority, aimed at developing unique positions in adjacent markets and introducing breakthrough technologies in energy verticals beyond oil and gas. Schlumberger will utilize its domain expertise in areas adjacent to its existing activities where it can deliver at scale with its global footprint and execution platform. | 10-K |
| 2020 | Human Capital | At December 31, 2020, Schlumberger employed approximately 86,000 people representing more than 160 nationalities. Schlumberger believes that the diversity of its workforce is one of its greatest strengths and aims to maintain its employee population diversity in proportion to the revenue derived from the countries in which it works. Schlumberger recognizes that its ability to attract, develop, motivate and retain a highly competent and diverse workforce has been key to its success for many decades. As a service company, Schlumberger believes it is critical for its people to communicate with its customers in their native languages and to share the values of the people in the countries where it works. Furthermore, Schlumberger’s diverse workforce is better able to respond to, and deliver services and products that meet the unique expectations and requirements of, its stakeholders, including customers, suppliers and stockholders. Schlumberger’s long-standing commitment to national and cultural diversity fosters a culture that is global in outlook, yet local in practice, which permeates every layer of the Company. In addition to national and cultural diversity, achieving improved gender balance has been a focus of policy and action in Schlumberger since the late 1970s, when it began recruiting women for field operations roles. Since then, Schlumberger has continued to expand opportunities for women across its field operations, technology, business and management roles. Schlumberger believes that these gender diversity initiatives help it maintain its competitive advantage. Schlumberger set its first gender balance target in 1994, with the goal of having women comprise 15% of its salaried workforce by 2015. This goal was achieved ahead of schedule in 2011. Schlumberger’s current gender balance goal is to have women comprise 25% of the Company’s salaried workforce by 2025. In 2020, women made up approximately 23% of the Company’s salaried employee population. Additionally, approximately 21% of management roles were held by women in 2020. Schlumberger is proud of its meritocratic culture, its commitment to early responsibility and internal promotion, and its “borderless career” philosophy. Schlumberger strives to identify top talent within the Company, and to provide opportunities for employees who demonstrate exceptional competency and performance to progress to higher levels within the organization. Schlumberger seeks to nurture its talent pool to maximize each employee’s developmental potential through a combination of training and experience. Schlumberger’s “borderless career” philosophy means it supports flexible career paths, helping employees develop their skills across different functions, businesses and geographies. These opportunities accelerate career development while fostering an agile workforce and the next generation of business leaders. | 10-K |
| 2020 | Competition | The principal methods of competition within the energy services industry are technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation. These vary geographically with respect to the different services and products that Schlumberger offers. Schlumberger has numerous competitors, both large and small. Intellectual Property Schlumberger owns and controls a variety of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to Schlumberger’s business. While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of Schlumberger’s products and services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia and China can produce severe weather conditions that can temporarily reduce levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for multiclient data, software and other oilfield services and products may result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each year as clients seek to fully utilize their annual budgets. Conversely, customer budget constraints may lead to lower demand for our services and products in the fourth quarter of each year. Customers Schlumberger’s primary customers are national oil companies, large integrated oil companies and independent operators. No single customer exceeded 10% of Schlumberger’s consolidated revenue during each of 2020, 2019 and 2018. Governmental Regulations Schlumberger is subject to numerous environmental, legal and other governmental and regulatory requirements related to its operations worldwide. For additional details, see “Item 1(a). Risk Factors—Legal and Regulatory Risks”, which is incorporated by reference in this Item 1. Corporate Information Schlumberger was founded in 1926 and is incorporated under the laws of Curaçao. Schlumberger has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague. Available Information The Schlumberger website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir, access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the SEC. Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from Schlumberger Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on its website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. Information About Our Executive Officers The following table sets forth, as of January 27, 2021, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Olivier Le Peuch 57 Chief Executive Officer and Director, since August 2019; Chief Operating Officer, February 2019 to July 2019; Executive Vice President, Reservoir and Infrastructure, May 2018 to February 2019; President, Cameron Group, February 2017 to May 2018; and President, Completions, October 2014 to January 2017. Stephane Biguet 52 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since January 2020; Vice President, Finance, December 2017 to January 2020; Vice President, Treasurer, December 2016 to November 2017; Vice President, Controller, November 2013 to December 2016. Khaled Al Mogharbel 50 Executive Vice President, Geographies, since July 2020; Executive Vice President, Operations, April 2019 to June 2020; Executive Vice President, Eastern Hemisphere, February 2019 to March 2019; President, Eastern Hemisphere, May 2017 to January 2019; and President, Drilling Group, July 2013 to April 2017. Ashok Belani 62 Executive Vice President, Schlumberger New Energy, since February 2020; and Executive Vice President, Technology, January 2011 to January 2020. Hinda Gharbi 50 Executive Vice President, Services and Equipment, since July 2020; Executive Vice President, Reservoir and Infrastructure, February 2019 to June 2020; Vice President, Human Resources, May 2018 to January 2019; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, June 2017 to May 2018; and President, Wireline, July 2013 to May 2017. Abdellah Merad 47 Executive Vice President, Performance Management, since May 2019; President NAL Production Group, May 2018 to April 2019; President, Production Group, October 2017 to May 2018; Vice President, Controller, Operations, December 2016 to September 2017; and Vice President, Global Shared Services Organization, November 2013 to December 2016. Pierre Chereque 66 Vice President and Director of Taxes, since June 2017; and Director of Taxes, Operations, July 2004 to May 2017. Kevin Fyfe 47 Vice President and Controller, since October 2017; Controller, Cameron Group, April 2016 to October 2017; and Vice President, Finance, OneSubsea, July 2013 to March 2016. Howard Guild 49 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Claudia Jaramillo 48 Vice President and Treasurer, since December 2017; ERM and Treasury Projects Manager, July 2017 to November 2017; and Controller, North America Area, July 2014 to July 2017. Alexander C. Juden 60 Secretary, since April 2009; and General Counsel, April 2009 to November 2020. Vijay Kasibhatla 57 Director, Mergers and Acquisitions, since January 2013. Saul R. Laureles 55 Director, Corporate Legal Affairs, since July 2014; and Assistant Secretary, since April 2007. Demosthenis Pafitis 53 Chief Technology Officer, since February 2020; Senior Vice President, Schlumberger 4.0 Platforms, from December 2017 to January 2020; and Vice President, Engineering, Manufacturing and Sustaining, September 2014 to December 2017. Dianne Ralston 54 Chief Legal Officer, since December 2020; Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, TechnipFMC plc, January 2017 to October 2020; and Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, FMC Technologies, Inc., January 2015 to January 2017. Gavin Rennick 46 Vice President, Human Resources, since February 2019; President, Software Integrated Solutions, January 2017 to February 2019; and M&A/Integration Manager, Cameron International, September 2015 to January 2017. | 10-K |
| 2019 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V., incorporated in Curaçao) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production and processing to the oil and gas industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, today Schlumberger supplies the industry’s most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production, and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance sustainably. As of December 31, 2019, the Company employed approximately 105,000 people representing over 170 nationalities. Schlumberger, which generates revenue in more than 120 countries, has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague. Schlumberger operates in each of the major oilfield service markets through four segments: Reservoir Characterization, Drilling, Production and Cameron. Each segment consists of a number of technology-based service and product lines, or Technologies. These Technologies cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger holds leading positions. The role of the Technologies is to support Schlumberger in providing the best possible service to customers and to ensure that Schlumberger remains at the forefront of technology development and services integration. The Technologies are collectively responsible for driving performance throughout their businesses; overseeing operational processes, resource allocation and personnel; and delivering superior financial results. The segments are as follows: Reservoir Characterization – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources. These include WesternGeco®, Wireline, Testing Services, Software Integrated Solutions (“SIS”), OneSurface® and Integrated Services Management (“ISM”). • WesternGeco is a leading geophysical services supplier, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir interpretation and data processing services. It provides a highly efficient and scientifically advanced imaging platform to its customers. Through access to the industry’s global marine fleet, it provides accurate measurements and images of subsurface geology and rock properties for multiclient surveys. WesternGeco offers the industry’s most extensive multiclient library. • Wireline provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both openhole and cased-hole services including wireline perforating. Slickline services provide downhole mechanical well intervention. • Testing Services provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. Testing has a network of laboratories that conduct rock and fluid characterization. Testing also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. • Software Integrated Solutions sells proprietary software and provides consulting, information management and IT infrastructure services to customers in the oil and gas industry. SIS also offers expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning and production enhancement, as well as industry-leading petrotechnical data services and training solutions. • OneSurface provides a unique, reservoir driven, fit for purpose integrated production system for accelerating first oil and gas production and maximizing project economics. • Integrated Services Management provides coordination and management of Schlumberger services, products and third parties in projects around the world. ISM offers a certified integrated services project manager as a focal point of contact between the project owner and the various Schlumberger services, ensuring alignment of project objectives. Drilling – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells and comprises Bits & Drilling Tools, M-I SWACO, Drilling & Measurements, Land Rigs and Integrated Drilling Services (“IDS”). • Bits & Drilling Tools designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. The drill bits include designs for premium market segments where faster penetration rates and increased footage provide significant economic benefits in lowering overall well costs. Drilling Tools includes a wide variety of bottom-hole-assembly and borehole-enlargement technologies for oil and gas drilling operations. • M-I SWACO is a supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems; fluid systems and specialty equipment designed to optimize wellbore productivity; and production technology solutions formulated to maximize production rates. M-I SWACO also provides engineered managed pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling solutions, as well as environmental services and products to safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. • Drilling & Measurements provides mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. • Land Rigs provides land drilling rigs and related support services. The land drilling system of the future represents an integrated drilling platform bringing together digitally enabled surface and downhole hardware combined with a common optimization software to create a step-change in operational efficiency. • Integrated Drilling Services supplies all of the services necessary to construct or change the architecture (re-entry) of wells. IDS covers all aspects of well planning, well drilling, engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. Production – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services, OneStim®, Completions, Artificial Lift, and Asset Performance Solutions (“APS”). • Well Services provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. Such services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation, and coiled tubing equipment for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring and downhole data acquisition. • OneStim provides a low cost-to-serve and highly competitive service delivery platform in North America’s unconventional plays. The services include hydraulic fracturing, multistage completions, perforating, and a vertically integrated product and logistics organization. • Completions supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves and sand control technology as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. • Artificial Lift provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, rod lift systems, progressing cavity pumps and surface horizontal pumping systems. • Asset Performance Solutions (formerly Schlumberger Production Management) is a business model for field production projects. This model combines the required services and products of the Technologies with drilling rig management, specialized engineering and project management expertise to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. APS creates alignment between Schlumberger and the asset holder and/or the operator whereby Schlumberger receives remuneration in line with its value creation. These projects are generally focused on developing and co-managing production of customer assets under long-term agreements. Schlumberger invests its own services and products, and historically, cash in certain cases, into the field development activities and operations. Although in certain arrangements Schlumberger is paid for a portion of the services or products it provides, generally Schlumberger will not be paid at the time of providing its services or upon delivery of its products. Instead, Schlumberger is generally compensated based upon cash flow generated or on a fee-per-barrel basis. This includes certain arrangements whereby Schlumberger is only compensated based upon incremental production that it helps deliver above a mutually agreed baseline. APS represented less than 5% of Schlumberger’s consolidated revenue during each of 2019, 2018 and 2017. Cameron – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in pressure and flow control for drilling and intervention rigs, oil and gas wells and production facilities, and includes OneSubsea®, Surface Systems, Drilling Systems, and Valves & Process Systems. • OneSubsea provides integrated solutions, products, systems and services for the subsea oil and gas market, including integrated subsea production systems involving wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds and flowline connectors, control systems, connectors and services designed to maximize reservoir recovery and extend the life of each field. OneSubsea offers integration and optimization of the entire production system over the life of the field by leveraging flow control expertise and process technologies with petrotechnical expertise and reservoir and production technologies. • Surface Systems designs and manufactures onshore and offshore platform wellhead systems and processing solutions, including valves, chokes, actuators and Christmas trees, and provides services to oil and gas operators. • Drilling Systems provides drilling equipment and services to shipyards, drilling contractors, exploration and production companies and rental tool companies. The products fall into two broad categories: pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment. These products are designed for either onshore or offshore applications and include drilling equipment packages, blowout preventers (“BOPs”), BOP control systems, connectors, riser systems, valves and choke manifold systems, top drives, mud pumps, pipe handling equipment, rig designs and rig kits. • Valves & Process Systems serves portions of the upstream, midstream and downstream markets and provides valve products that are primarily used to control and direct the flow of oil and gas as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants and industrial centers for processing. Valves & Process Systems also provides efficient monetization of subsurface assets using standard and custom-designed onshore, offshore and downstream processing and treatment systems. Supporting the Technologies is a global network of research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. A network of GeoMarket* regions, within each of four major geographic areas of North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia, provides logistical, technical and commercial coordination. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. The GeoMarkets are responsible for providing the most efficient and cost-effective support possible to the operations. Schlumberger primarily uses its own personnel to market its offerings. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services and products. Manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers are shared, and the labor force, within certain limitations, is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which vary geographically with respect to the different services and products offered. While Schlumberger has numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes it is an industry leader in providing wireline logging, well production testing, exploration and production software, rig equipment, surface equipment, artificial lift, hydraulic fracturing, cementing, coiled-tubing services, drilling and completion fluids, solids control and waste management, drilling pressure control, drill bits, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling, directional-drilling services, and surface data (mud) logging. * Mark of Schlumberger GENERAL Intellectual Property Schlumberger owns and controls a variety of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to Schlumberger’s business. While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of oilfield services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia and China can produce severe weather conditions that can temporarily reduce levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for multiclient data, software and other oilfield services and products may result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each year as clients seek to fully utilize their annual budgets. Conversely, customer budget constraints may lead to lower demand for our services and products in the fourth quarter of each year. Customers and Backlog of Orders For the year ended December 31, 2019, no single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Other than the OneSubsea, Drilling Systems and WesternGeco businesses, Schlumberger has no significant backlog due to the nature of its businesses. The combined backlog of these businesses was $3.0 billion at December 31, 2019 (of which approximately 50% is expected to be recognized as revenue during 2020) and $2.7 billion at December 31, 2018. Information About Our Executive Officers The following table sets forth, as of January 21, 2020, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Olivier Le Peuch 56 Chief Executive Officer and Director, since August 2019; Chief Operating Officer, February 2019 to July 2019; Executive Vice President, Reservoir and Infrastructure, May 2018 to February 2019; President, Cameron Group, February 2017 to May 2018; and President, Completions, October 2014 to January 2017. Simon Ayat 65 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since March 2007. Alexander C. Juden 59 Secretary and General Counsel, since April 2009. Khaled Al Mogharbel 49 Executive Vice President, Operations, since April 2019; Executive Vice President, Eastern Hemisphere, February 2019 to March 2019; President, Eastern Hemisphere, May 2017 to January 2019; and President, Drilling Group, July 2013 to April 2017. Ashok Belani 61 Executive Vice President, Technology, since January 2011. Hinda Gharbi 49 Executive Vice President, Reservoir and Infrastructure, since February 2019; Vice President, Human Resources, May 2018 to January 2019; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, June 2017 to May 2018; and President, Wireline, June 2013 to May 2017. Abdellah Merad 46 Executive Vice President, Performance Management, since May 2019; President NAL Production Group, May 2018 to April 2019, President, Production Group, October 2017 to May 2018; Vice President, Controller, Operations, December 2016 to September 2017; and Vice President, Global Shared Services Organization, November 2013 to December 2016. Jean-Francois Poupeau 58 Executive Vice President, Corporate Engagement, since May 2017; and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Communications, June 2012 to April 2017. Patrick Schorn 51 Executive Vice President, Wells, since May 2018; Executive Vice President, New Ventures, May 2017 to May 2018; President, Operations, August 2015 to May 2017; and President, Operations & Integration, July 2013 to July 2015. Donald Ross 50 President, North America Land, since September 2019; President, NAL Production, May 2019 to September 2019; GeoMarket Manager, North America Offshore, August 2016 to May 2019; and Human Resources Manager, Reservoir Characterization Group, July 2013 to July 2016. Rajeev Sonthalia 51 President, Integrated Performance Management, since October 2019; Vice President, Marketing, Wells, May 2018 to September 2019; Vice President, Eastern Hemisphere, Reservoir Characterization Group, October 2017 to April 2018; President, Integrated Drilling Services, July 2015 to September 2017; President, Integrated Project Management and Schlumberger Production Management, July 2014 to June 2015. Stephane Biguet 51 Vice President, Finance, since December 2017; Vice President and Treasurer, December 2016 to November 2017; Vice President, Controller, Operations, November 2013 to December 2016. Pierre Chereque 65 Vice President and Director of Taxes, since June 2017; and Director of Taxes, Operations, July 2004 to May 2017. Simon Farrant 55 Vice President, Investor Relations, since February 2014. Kevin Fyfe 46 Vice President and Controller, since October 2017; Controller, Cameron Group, April 2016 to October 2017; and Vice President, Finance, OneSubsea, July 2013 to March 2016. Howard Guild 48 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Claudia Jaramillo 47 Vice President and Treasurer, since December 2017; ERM and Treasury Projects Manager, July 2017 to November 2017; and Controller, North America Area, July 2014 to July 2017. Vijay Kasibhatla 56 Director, Mergers and Acquisitions, since January 2013. Saul R. Laureles 54 Director, Corporate Legal Affairs, since July 2014; and Assistant Secretary, since April 2007. Gavin Rennick 45 Vice President, Human Resources, since February 2019; President, Software Integrated Solutions, January 2017 to February 2019; M&A/Integration Manager, Cameron International, September 2015 to January 2017; and Vice President, Drilling Products and Bottom-Hole-Assembly Integration, January 2014 to August 2015. Available Information The Schlumberger website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir, access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the SEC. Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from Schlumberger Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2018 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V., incorporated in Curaçao) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production and processing to the oil and gas industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, today Schlumberger supplies the industry’s most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production, and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance. As of December 31, 2018, the Company employed approximately 100,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in more than 85 countries. Schlumberger has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague. Schlumberger operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, through four segments: Reservoir Characterization, Drilling, Production and Cameron. Each segment consists of a number of technology-based service and product lines, or Technologies. These Technologies cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger holds leading positions. The role of the Technologies is to support Schlumberger in providing the best possible service to customers and to ensure that Schlumberger remains at the forefront of technology development and services integration. The Technologies are collectively responsible for driving excellence in execution throughout their businesses; overseeing operational processes, resource allocation and personnel; and delivering superior financial results. The segments are as follows: Reservoir Characterization – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources. These include WesternGeco®, Wireline, Testing Services, OneSurface®, Software Integrated Solutions (“SIS”) and Integrated Services Management (“ISM”). • WesternGeco is a leading geophysical services supplier, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir interpretation and data processing services. It provides a highly efficient and scientifically advanced imaging platform to its customers. Through access to the industry’s global marine fleet, it provides accurate measurements and images of subsurface geology and rock properties for multiclient surveys. WesternGeco offers the industry’s most extensive multiclient library. • Wireline provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both openhole and cased-hole services including wireline perforating. Slickline services provide downhole mechanical well intervention. • Testing Services provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. Testing has a network of laboratories that conduct rock and fluid characterization. Testing also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. • OneSurface provides a unique, reservoir-driven, fit-for-purpose integrated production system for accelerating first oil and gas and maximizing project economics. • Software Integrated Solutions sells proprietary software and provides consulting, information management and IT infrastructure services to customers in the oil and gas industry. SIS also offers expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning and production enhancement, as well as industry-leading petrotechnical data services and training solutions. • Integrated Services Management provides coordination and management of Schlumberger services, products and third parties in projects around the world. ISM offers a certified integrated services project manager as a focal point of contact between the project owner and the various Schlumberger services, ensuring alignment of project objectives. Drilling – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells and comprises Bits & Drilling Tools, M-I SWACO, Drilling & Measurements, Land Rigs and Integrated Drilling Services (“IDS”). • Bits & Drilling Tools designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. The drill bits include designs for premium market segments where faster penetration rates and increased footage provide significant economic benefits in lowering overall well costs. Drilling Tools includes a wide variety of bottom-hole-assembly, borehole-enlargement technologies and impact tools, as well as a comprehensive collection of tubulars and tubular services for oil and gas drilling operations. • M-I SWACO is a supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems; fluid systems and specialty equipment designed to optimize wellbore productivity; and production technology solutions formulated to maximize production rates. M-I SWACO also provides engineered managed pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling solutions, as well as environmental services and products to safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. • Drilling & Measurements provides mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. • Land Rigs provides land drilling rigs and related support services. The land drilling system of the future, currently under development, represents an integrated drilling platform bringing together digitally enabled surface and downhole hardware combined with a common optimization software to create a step-change in operational efficiency. • Integrated Drilling Services supplies all of the services necessary to construct or change the architecture (re-entry) of wells. IDS covers all aspects of well planning, well drilling, engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. Production – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services, OneStim®, Completions, Artificial Lift, and Schlumberger Production Management (“SPM”). • Well Services provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. Such services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation, and coiled tubing equipment for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring and downhole data acquisition. • OneStim provides a low cost-to-serve and highly competitive service delivery platform in North America’s unconventional plays. The services include hydraulic fracturing, multistage completions, perforating, coiled tubing equipment and services for downhole mechanical well intervention, and a vertically integrated product and logistics organization. • Completions supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, sand control technology as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. • Artificial Lift provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, rod lift systems, progressing cavity pumps and surface horizontal pumping systems. • Schlumberger Production Management is a business model for field production projects. This model combines the required services and products of the Technologies with drilling rig management, specialized engineering and project management expertise to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. SPM creates alignment between Schlumberger and the asset holder and/or the operator whereby Schlumberger receives remuneration in line with its value creation. These projects are generally focused on developing and co-managing production of customer assets under long-term agreements. Schlumberger will invest its own services and products, and in some cases cash, into the field development activities and operations. Although in certain arrangements Schlumberger is paid for a portion of the services or products it provides, generally Schlumberger will not be paid at the time of providing its services or upon delivery of its products. Instead, Schlumberger is generally compensated based upon cash flow generated or on a fee-per-barrel basis. This includes certain arrangements whereby Schlumberger is only compensated based upon incremental production that it helps deliver above a mutually agreed baseline. SPM represented less than 5% of Schlumberger’s consolidated revenue during each of 2018, 2017 and 2016. Cameron – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in pressure and flow control for drilling and intervention rigs, oil and gas wells and production facilities, and includes OneSubsea®, Surface Systems, Drilling Systems, and Valves & Measurement. • OneSubsea provides integrated solutions, products, systems and services for the subsea oil and gas market, including integrated subsea production systems involving wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds and flowline connectors, control systems, connectors and services designed to maximize reservoir recovery and extend the life of each field. OneSubsea offers integration and optimization of the entire production system over the life of the field by leveraging flow control expertise and process technologies with petrotechnical expertise and reservoir and production technologies. • Surface Systems designs and manufactures onshore and offshore platform wellhead systems and processing solutions, including valves, chokes, actuators and Christmas trees, and provides services to oil and gas operators. • Drilling Systems provides drilling equipment and services to shipyards, drilling contractors, E&P companies and rental tool companies. The products fall into two broad categories: pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment. These products are designed for either onshore or offshore applications and include drilling equipment packages, blowout preventers (BOPs), BOP control systems, connectors, riser systems, valves and choke manifold systems, top drives, mud pumps, pipe handling equipment, rig designs and rig kits. • Valves & Measurement serves portions of the upstream, midstream and downstream markets and provides valve products and measurement systems that are primarily used to control, direct and measure the flow of oil and gas as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants and industrial centers for processing. Supporting the Technologies is a global network of research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. A network of GeoMarket* regions, within each of four major geographic areas of North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia, provides logistical, technical and commercial coordination. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. The GeoMarkets are responsible for providing the most efficient and cost-effective support possible to the operations. Schlumberger primarily uses its own personnel to market its offerings. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services and products. Manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers are shared, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which vary geographically with respect to the different services and products offered. While Schlumberger has numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes it is an industry leader in providing geophysical equipment and services, wireline logging, well production testing, exploration and production software, rig equipment, surface equipment, subsea equipment, artificial lift, hydraulic fracturing, cementing, coiled-tubing services, drilling and completion fluids, solids control and waste management, drilling pressure control, drill bits, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling, directional-drilling services, and surface data (mud) logging. GENERAL Intellectual Property Schlumberger owns and controls a variety of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to Schlumberger’s business. While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of oilfield services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia and China can produce severe weather conditions that can temporarily reduce levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for multiclient data, software and other oilfield services and products generally result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each year as clients seek to fully utilize their annual budgets. Customers and Backlog of Orders For the year ended December 31, 2018, no single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Other than the OneSubsea, Drilling Systems and WesternGeco businesses, Schlumberger has no significant backlog due to the nature of its businesses. The combined backlog of these businesses was $2.7 billion at December 31, 2018 (of which approximately 50% is expected to be recognized as revenue during 2019) and $2.5 billion at December 31, 2017. Executive Officers of Schlumberger The following table sets forth, as of January 23, 2019, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Paal Kibsgaard 51 Chairman of the Board of Directors, since April 2015; Chief Executive Officer, since August 2011; Director since April 2011. Simon Ayat 64 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since March 2007. Alexander C. Juden 58 Secretary and General Counsel, since April 2009. Ashok Belani 60 Executive Vice President Technology, since January 2011. Jean-Francois Poupeau 57 Executive Vice President Corporate Engagement, since May 2017; Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Communications, June 2012 to April 2017. Patrick Schorn 50 Executive Vice President, Wells, since May 2018; Executive Vice President, New Ventures, May 2017 to May 2018; President, Operations, August 2015 to May 2017; President, Operations & Integration, July 2013 to August 2015. Khaled Al Mogharbel 48 President, Eastern Hemisphere, since May 2017; President, Drilling Group, July 2013 to April 2017; President, Middle East, August 2011 to June 2013. Aaron Gatt Floridia 50 President, Western Hemisphere, since May 2017; Chief Commercial Officer, May 2016 to May 2017; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, August 2011 to May 2016. Stephane Biguet 50 Vice President Finance, since December 2017; Vice President and Treasurer, December 2016 to November 2017; Vice President Controller, Operations, August 2015 to December 2016; Vice President Controller, Operations & Integration, November 2013 to August 2015. Pierre Chereque 64 Vice President and Director of Taxes, since June 2017; Director of Taxes, Operations July 2004 to May 2017. Stephanie Cox 50 President NAL Drilling, since May 2018; Vice President Human Resources, June 2017 to April 2018; President, North America June 2016 to May 2017; President, Asia June 2014 to May 2016; Vice President, Human Resources May 2009 to May 2014. Simon Farrant 54 Vice President Investor Relations, since February 2014; Special Projects Manager, December 2013 to January 2014. Kevin Fyfe 45 Vice President and Controller, since October 2017; Controller, Cameron Group, April 2016 to October 2017; Vice President Finance, OneSubsea July 2013 to March 2016. Hinda Gharbi 48 Vice President, Human Resources, since May 2018; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, June 2017 to May 2018; President, Wireline June 2013 to May 2017. Howard Guild 47 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Claudia Jaramillo 46 Vice President and Treasurer, since December 2017; ERM and Treasury Projects Manager, July 2017 to November 2017; Controller North America, July 2014 to July 2017; Controller, Drilling and Measurements, July 2011 to June 2014. Vijay Kasibhatla 55 Director of Mergers and Acquisitions, since January 2013. Saul R. Laureles 53 Director, Corporate Legal, since July 2014; Assistant Secretary, since April 2007; Deputy General Counsel, Governance and Securities, October 2012 to June 2014. Olivier Le Peuch 55 Executive Vice President Reservoir and Infrastructure, since May 2018; President, Cameron Group, February 2017 to May 2018; President, Completions October 2014 to January 2017; Vice President EMS, August 2010 to September 2014. Guy Arrington 55 Vice President, Operational Planning and Resource Management, since February 2018; President, M-I SWACO, February 2014 to January 2018; President, Bits and Advanced Technologies, September 2010 to January 2014. Abdellah Merad 45 President NAL Production Group, since May 2018, President, Production Group, May 2017 to May 2018; Vice President Controller, Operations, December 2016 to April 2017; Vice President, Global Shared Services Organization, November 2013 to December 2016. Available Information The Schlumberger Internet website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from Schlumberger Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2017 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V., incorporated in Curaçao) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production and processing to the oil and gas industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, today Schlumberger supplies the industry’s most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production, and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance. As of December 31, 2017, the Company employed approximately 100,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in more than 85 countries. Schlumberger has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague. Schlumberger operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, managing its business through four Groups: Reservoir Characterization, Drilling, Production and Cameron. Each Group consists of a number of technology-based service and product lines, or Technologies. These Technologies cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger holds leading positions. The role of the Groups and Technologies is to support Schlumberger in providing the best possible service to customers and to ensure that Schlumberger remains at the forefront of technology development and services integration. The Groups and Technologies are collectively responsible for driving excellence in execution throughout their businesses; overseeing operational processes, resource allocation and personnel; and delivering superior financial results. The Groups are as follows: Reservoir Characterization Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources. These include WesternGeco®, Wireline, Testing Services, OneSurfaceSM, Software Integrated Solutions (SIS) and Integrated Services Management (ISM). • WesternGeco is a leading geophysical services supplier, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir interpretation and data processing services. It provides a highly efficient and scientifically advanced imaging platform to its customers. Through access to the industry’s global marine fleet, it provides accurate measurements and images of subsurface geology and rock properties for multiclient surveys. WesternGeco offers the industry’s most extensive multiclient library. • Wireline provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both openhole and cased-hole services including wireline perforating. Slickline services provide downhole mechanical well intervention. • Testing Services provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. Testing has a network of laboratories that conduct rock and fluid characterization. Testing also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. • OneSurface provides a unique, reservoir-driven, fit-for-purpose integrated production system for accelerating first oil and gas and maximizing project economics. • Software Integrated Solutions sells proprietary software and provides consulting, information management and IT infrastructure services to customers in the oil and gas industry. SIS also offers expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning and production enhancement, as well as industry-leading petrotechnical data services and training solutions. • Integrated Services Management provides coordination and management of Schlumberger services, products, and third parties in projects around the world. ISM offers a certified integrated services project manager as a focal point of contact between the project owner and the various Schlumberger services, ensuring alignment of project objectives. Drilling Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells and comprises Bits & Drilling Tools, M-I SWACO®, Drilling & Measurements, Land Rigs and Integrated Drilling Services (“IDS”). • Bits & Drilling Tools designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. The drill bits include designs for premium market segments where faster penetration rates and increased footage provide significant economic benefits in lowering overall well costs. Drilling Tools includes a wide variety of bottom-hole-assembly, borehole-enlargement technologies and impact tools, as well as a comprehensive collection of tubulars and tubular services for oil and gas drilling operations. • M-I SWACO is a supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems; fluid systems and specialty equipment designed to optimize wellbore productivity; and production technology solutions formulated to maximize production rates. M-I SWACO also provides engineered managed pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling solutions, as well as environmental services and products to safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. • Drilling & Measurements provides mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. • Land Rigs provides land drilling rigs and related support services. The land drilling system of the future, currently under development, represents an integrated drilling platform bringing together digitally enabled surface and downhole hardware combined with a common optimization software to create a step-change in operational efficiency. • Integrated Drilling Services supplies all of the services necessary to construct or change the architecture (re-entry) of wells. IDS covers all aspects of well planning, well drilling, engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. Production Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services, OneStimSM, Completions, Artificial Lift, Integrated Production Services (“IPS”) and Schlumberger Production Management (“SPM”). • Well Services provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. Such services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation, and coiled tubing equipment for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring and downhole data acquisition. • OneStim provides a low cost-to-serve and highly competitive service delivery platform in North America’s unconventional plays. The services include hydraulic fracturing, multistage completions, perforating, coiled tubing equipment and services for downhole mechanical well intervention, and a vertically integrated product and logistics organization. • Completions supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, sand control technology as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. • Artificial Lift provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, rod lift systems, progressing cavity pumps and surface horizontal pumping systems. • Integrated Production Services offers the project scope necessary to abandon, maintain, or increase the production of single or multiple wells. All aspects of project planning are addressed and include well engineering, wellsite supervision, civil engineering, logistics, procurement, contracting of third parties, and workovers. • Schlumberger Production Management is a business model for field production projects. This model combines the required services and products of the Technologies with drilling rig management, specialized engineering and project management expertise to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. SPM creates alignment between Schlumberger and the asset holder and/or the operator whereby Schlumberger receives remuneration in line with its value creation. These projects are generally focused on developing and co-managing production of customer assets under long-term agreements. Schlumberger will invest its own services and products, and in some cases cash, into the field development activities and operations. Although in certain arrangements Schlumberger is paid for a portion of the services or products it provides, generally Schlumberger will not be paid at the time of providing its services or upon delivery of its products. Instead, Schlumberger is generally compensated based upon cash flow generated or on a fee-per-barrel basis. This includes certain arrangements whereby Schlumberger is only compensated based upon incremental production that it helps deliver above a mutually agreed baseline. SPM represented less than 5% of Schlumberger’s consolidated revenue for the year ended December 31, 2017. Cameron Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in pressure and flow control for drilling and intervention rigs, oil and gas wells and production facilities, and includes OneSubsea®, Surface Systems, Drilling Systems, and Valves & Measurement. • OneSubsea provides integrated solutions, products, systems and services for the subsea oil and gas market, including integrated subsea production systems involving wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds and flowline connectors, control systems, connectors and services designed to maximize reservoir recovery and extend the life of each field. OneSubsea offers integration and optimization of the entire production system over the life of the field by leveraging flow control expertise and process technologies with petrotechnical expertise and reservoir and production technologies. • Surface Systems designs and manufactures onshore and offshore platform wellhead systems and processing solutions, including valves, chokes, actuators and Christmas trees, and provides services to oil and gas operators. • Drilling Systems provides drilling equipment and services to shipyards, drilling contractors, E&P companies and rental tool companies. The products fall into two broad categories: pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment. These products are designed for either onshore or offshore applications and include drilling equipment packages, blowout preventers (BOPs), BOP control systems, connectors, riser systems, valves and choke manifold systems, top drives, mud pumps, pipe handling equipment, rig designs and rig kits. • Valves & Measurement serves portions of the upstream, midstream and downstream markets and provides valve products and measurement systems that are primarily used to control, direct and measure the flow of oil and gas as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants and industrial centers for processing. Supporting the Groups is a global network of research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Schlumberger’s business is also reported through four geographic areas: North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia. Within these geographic areas, a network of GeoMarket* regions provides logistical, technical and commercial coordination. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. The GeoMarkets are responsible for providing the most efficient and cost-effective support possible to the operations. Schlumberger primarily uses its own personnel to market its offerings. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services and products. Manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers are shared, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which vary geographically with respect to the different services and products offered. While Schlumberger has numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes that it is an industry leader in providing geophysical equipment and services, wireline logging, well production testing, exploration and production software, rig equipment, surface equipment, subsea equipment, artificial lift, hydraulic fracturing, cementing, coiled-tubing services, drilling and completion fluids, solids control and waste management, drilling pressure control, drill bits, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling, directional-drilling services, and surface data (mud) logging. GENERAL Intellectual Property Schlumberger owns and controls a variety of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to Schlumberger’s business. While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of oilfield services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia and China can produce severe weather conditions that can temporarily reduce levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for multiclient data, software and other oilfield services and products generally result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each year as clients seek to utilize their annual budgets. Customers and Backlog of Orders For the year ended December 31, 2017, no single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Other than WesternGeco, OneSubsea and Drilling Systems businesses, Schlumberger has no significant backlog due to the nature of its businesses. The WesternGeco backlog was $0.4 billion at December 31, 2017 (all of which is expected to be recognized as revenue in 2018) and $0.8 billion at December 31, 2016. The combined backlog of the OneSubsea and Drilling Systems businesses was $2.5 billion at December 31, 2017 (of which approximately 50% is expected to be recognized as revenue during 2018) and $3.1 billion at December 31, 2016. Financial Information Financial information by business segment and geographic area for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015 is provided in Note 17 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. Executive Officers of Schlumberger The following table sets forth, as of January 24, 2018, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Paal Kibsgaard 50 Chairman of the Board of Directors, since April 2015; Chief Executive Officer, since August 2011; and Director since April 2011. Simon Ayat 63 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since March 2007. Alexander C. Juden 57 Secretary and General Counsel, since April 2009. Ashok Belani 59 Executive Vice President Technology, since January 2011. Jean-Francois Poupeau 56 Executive Vice President Corporate Engagement, since May 2017; and Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Communications, June 2012 to April 2017. Patrick Schorn 49 Executive Vice President, New Ventures, since May 2017; President, Operations, August 2015 to May 2017; President, Operations & Integration, July 2013 to August 2015; and President, Production Group, January 2011 to June 2013. Khaled Al Mogharbel 47 President, Eastern Hemisphere, since May 2017; President, Drilling Group, July 2013 to April 2017; and President, Middle East, August 2011 to June 2013. Aaron Gatt Floridia 49 President, Western Hemisphere, since May 2017; Chief Commercial Officer, May 2016 to May 2017; and President, Reservoir Characterization Group, August 2011 to May 2016. Stephane Biguet 49 Vice President Finance, since December 2017; Vice President and Treasurer, December 2016 to November 2017; Vice President Controller, Operations, August 2015 to December 2016; Vice President Controller, Operations & Integration, November 2013 to August 2015; and Vice President, Global Shared Services Organization, August 2011 to October 2013. Pierre Chereque 63 Vice President and Director of Taxes, since June 2017; Director of Taxes, Operations July 2004 to May 2017. Stephanie Cox 49 Vice President Human Resources, since June 2017; President, North America June 2017 to May 2017; President, Asia June 2014 to May 2016; and Vice President, Human Resources May 2009 to May 2014. Simon Farrant 53 Vice President Investor Relations, since February 2014; Special Projects Manager, December 2013 to January 2014; and Vice President and General Manager, North Sea GeoMarket, April 2012 to November 2013. Kevin Fyfe 44 Vice President and Controller, since October 2017; Controller, Cameron Group, January 2016 to September 2017; Vice President Finance, OneSubsea July 2013 to December 2015; and Finance Integration Manager, December 2012 to June 2013. Hinda Gharbi 47 President, Reservoir Characterization Group, since June 2017; President, Wireline June 2013 to May 2017; and President, Asia June 2010 to June 2013. Howard Guild 46 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Claudia Jaramillo 45 Vice President and Treasurer, since December 2017; ERM and Treasury Manager, July 2017 to November 2017; Controller North America, July 2014 to May 2017; and Controller, Drilling and Measurements, July 2011 to June 2014. Vijay Kasibhatla 54 Director of Mergers and Acquisitions, since January 2013. Imran Kizilbash 51 Vice President Schlumberger Venture Fund, since December 2016; Vice President and Treasurer, November 2013 to December 2016; Controller, Operations & Integration, July 2013 to October 2013; and Controller, Operations, January 2011 to June 2013. Saul R. Laureles 52 Director, Corporate Legal, since July 2014; Assistant Secretary, since April 2007; and Deputy General Counsel, Governance and Securities, October 2012 to June 2014. Olivier Le Peuch 54 President, Cameron Group, since February 2017; President, Completions October 2014 to January 2017; and Vice President EMS August 2010 to September 2014. Catherine MacGregor 45 President, Drilling Group, since May 2017; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, August 2016 to April 2017; President, Europe and Africa, July 2013 to July 2016; and Wireline President, May 2009 to June 2013. Abdellah Merad 44 President, Production Group, since October 2017; Vice President Controller, Operations, December 2016 to April 2017; Vice President, Global Shared Services Organization, November 2013 to December 2016; GeoMarket Cost Management Project Manager, August 2013 to November 2013; and North Africa GeoMarket Manager, June 2010 to July 2013. Available Information The Schlumberger Internet website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from Schlumberger Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2016 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V., incorporated in Curaçao) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production and processing to the oil and gas industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, today Schlumberger supplies the industry’s most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production, and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance. As of December 31, 2016, the Company employed approximately 100,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in more than 85 countries. Schlumberger has principal executive offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague. On April 1, 2016, Schlumberger acquired all of the outstanding shares of Cameron International Corporation (“Cameron”), a leading provider of flow equipment products, systems and services to the oil and gas industry worldwide. The acquisition is expected to create technology-driven growth by integrating Schlumberger reservoir and well technologies with Cameron wellhead and surface equipment, flow control and processing technology. The combination of the two complementary technology portfolios provides the industry’s most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration to production and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance. In connection with this transaction, Schlumberger issued 138 million shares of its common stock, valued at approximately $9.9 billion as of the acquisition date, and paid cash of $2.8 billion. Schlumberger operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, managing its business through four Groups: Reservoir Characterization, Drilling, Production and Cameron. Each Group consists of a number of technology-based service and product lines, or Technologies. These Technologies cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger holds leading positions. The role of the Groups and Technologies is to support Schlumberger in providing the best possible service to customers and to ensure that Schlumberger remains at the forefront of technology development and services integration. The Groups and Technologies are collectively responsible for driving excellence in execution throughout their businesses; overseeing operational processes, resource allocation and personnel; and delivering superior financial results. The Groups are as follows: Reservoir Characterization Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources. These include WesternGeco®, Wireline, Testing & Process, Software Integrated Solutions (SIS) and Integrated Services Management (ISM). • WesternGeco is a leading geophysical services supplier, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring and development services. It provides increasingly accurate measurements and images of subsurface geology and rock properties for both customer proprietary and multiclient surveys. WesternGeco offers the industry’s most extensive multi-client library. • Wireline provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both openhole and cased-hole services including wireline perforating. Slickline services provide downhole mechanical well intervention. • Testing & Process provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. Through its Process Systems offering, Testing & Process provides equipment for the upstream, midstream and downstream separation of oil, gas, and produced water and water injection systems. Testing & Process also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. • Software Integrated Solutions sells proprietary software and provides consulting, information management and IT infrastructure services to customers in the oil and gas industry. SIS also offers expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning and production enhancement, as well as industry-leading petrotechnical data services and training solutions. • Integrated Services Management provides coordination and management of Schlumberger services, products, and third parties in projects around the world. ISM offers a certified Integrated Services Project Manager as a focal point of contact between the project owner and the various Schlumberger services, ensuring alignment of project objectives. Drilling Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells and comprises Bits & Drilling Tools, M-I SWACO®, Drilling & Measurements, Land Rigs and Integrated Drilling Services (IDS). • Bits & Drilling Tools designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. The drill bits include designs for premium market segments where faster penetration rates and increased footage provide significant economic benefits in lowering overall well costs. Drilling Tools includes a wide variety of bottom-hole-assembly, borehole-enlargement technologies and impact tools, as well as a comprehensive collection of tubulars and tubular services for oil and gas drilling operations. • M-I SWACO is a supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems; fluid systems and specialty equipment designed to optimize wellbore productivity; and production technology solutions formulated to maximize production rates. M-I SWACO also provides engineered managed pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling solutions, as well as environmental services and products to safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. • Drilling & Measurements provides mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. • Land Rigs provides land drilling rigs and related support services. The land drilling system of the future, currently under development, represents an integrated drilling platform bringing together digitally enabled surface and downhole hardware combined with a common optimization software to create a step-change in operational efficiency. • Integrated Drilling Services supplies all of the services necessary to construct or change the architecture (re-entry) of wells. IDS covers all aspects of well planning, well drilling, engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. Production Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services, Completions, Artificial Lift, Integrated Production Services (IPS) and Schlumberger Production Management (SPM). • Well Services provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. Such services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation, and coiled tubing equipment for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring and downhole data acquisition. • Completions supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, sand control technology as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. • Artificial Lift provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, rod lift systems, progressing cavity pumps and surface horizontal pumping systems. • Integrated Production Services offers the project scope necessary to abandon, maintain, or increase the production of single or multiple wells. All aspects of project planning are addressed and include well engineering, wellsite supervision, civil engineering, logistics, procurement, contracting of third parties, and workovers. • Schlumberger Production Management is a business model for field production projects. This model combines the required services and products of the Technologies with drilling rig management, specialized engineering and project management expertise to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. SPM commercial arrangements create alignment between Schlumberger and the asset holder and/or the operator whereby Schlumberger receives remuneration in line with its value creation. These projects are generally focused on developing and co-managing production of customer assets under long-term agreements. Schlumberger manages approximately 235,000 barrels per day of oil equivalent on behalf of its clients. Schlumberger will invest its own services and products, and in some cases cash, into the field development activities and operations. Although in certain arrangements Schlumberger is paid for a portion of the services or products it provides, generally Schlumberger will not be paid at the time of providing its services or upon delivery of its products. Instead, Schlumberger is generally compensated based upon cash flow generated or on a fee-per-barrel basis. This may include certain arrangements whereby Schlumberger is only compensated based upon incremental production that it helps deliver above a mutually agreed baseline. Cameron Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in pressure and flow control for drilling and intervention rigs, oil and gas wells and production facilities, and includes OneSubsea®, Surface Systems, Drilling Systems, and Valves & Measurement. • OneSubsea provides integrated solutions, products, systems and services for the subsea oil and gas market, including integrated subsea production systems involving wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds and flowline connectors, control systems, connectors and services designed to maximize reservoir recovery and extend the life of each field. OneSubsea offers integration and optimization of the entire production system over the life of the field by leveraging flow control expertise and process technologies with petrotechnical expertise and reservoir and production technologies. • Surface Systems designs and manufactures onshore and offshore platform wellhead systems and processing solutions, including valves, chokes, actuators and Christmas trees, and provides services to oil and gas operators. • Drilling Systems provides drilling equipment and services to shipyards, drilling contractors, E&P companies and rental tool companies. The products fall into two broad categories: pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment. These products are designed for either onshore or offshore applications and include drilling equipment packages, blowout preventers (BOPs), BOP control systems, connectors, riser systems, valves and choke manifold systems, top drives, mud pumps, pipe handling equipment, rig designs and rig kits. • Valves & Measurement serves portions of the upstream, midstream and downstream markets and provides valve products and measurement systems that are primarily used to control, direct and measure the flow of oil and gas as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants and industrial centers for processing. Supporting the Groups is a global network of research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Schlumberger’s business is also reported through four geographic Areas: North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia. Within these Areas, a network of GeoMarket* regions provides logistical, technical and commercial coordination. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. The Areas and GeoMarkets are responsible for providing the most efficient and cost effective support possible to the operations. Schlumberger primarily uses its own personnel to market its offerings. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services. Manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers are shared, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which vary geographically with respect to the different services offered. While Schlumberger has numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes that it is an industry leader in providing geophysical equipment and services, wireline logging, well production testing, exploration and production software, surface equipment, artificial lift, coiled-tubing services, drilling and completion fluids, solids control and waste management, drilling pressure control, drill bits, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling, directional-drilling services and surface data (mud) logging. GENERAL Intellectual Property Schlumberger owns and controls a variety of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to Schlumberger’s business. While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is considered material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of oilfield services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia and China can produce severe weather conditions that typically result in temporarily reduced levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for multiclient data, software and other oilfield services and products generally result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each year as clients seek to utilize their annual budgets. Customers and Backlog of Orders For the year ended December 31, 2016, no single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Other than WesternGeco, and the OneSubsea and Drilling Systems businesses acquired in the Cameron transaction, Schlumberger has no significant backlog due to the nature of its businesses. The WesternGeco backlog was $0.8 billion at December 31, 2016 (the vast majority of which is expected to be recognized as revenue in 2017) and $1.1 billion at December 31, 2015. The combined backlog of the OneSubsea and Drilling Systems businesses was $3.1 billion at December 31, 2016, of which approximately 60% is expected to be recognized as revenue during 2017. Financial Information Financial information by business segment and geographic area for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 is provided in Note 17 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. Executive Officers of Schlumberger The following table sets forth, as of January 25, 2017, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for at least the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Paal Kibsgaard 49 Chairman of the Board of Directors, since April 2015; Chief Executive Officer, since August 2011; and Director since April 2011. Simon Ayat 62 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since March 2007. Alexander C. Juden 56 Secretary and General Counsel, since April 2009. Ashok Belani 58 Executive Vice President Technology, since January 2011. Jean-Francois Poupeau 55 Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Communications, since June 2012; and President, Drilling Group, May 2010 to June 2012. Khaled Al Mogharbel 46 President, Drilling Group, since July 2013; and President, Middle East, August 2011 to June 2013. Stephane Biguet 48 Vice President and Treasurer, since December 2016; Vice President Controller, Operations, from August 2015 to December 2016; Vice President Controller, Operations & Integration, from November 2013 to August 2015; and Vice President, Global Shared Services Organization, August 2011 to October 2013. Mark Danton 60 Vice President – Director of Taxes, since January 1999. Simon Farrant 52 Vice President Investor Relations, since February 2014; Special Projects Manager, December 2013 to January 2014; Vice President and General Manager, North Sea GeoMarket, April 2012 to November 2013; and Integration Manager, Smith Merger, April 2010 to April 2012. Aaron Gatt Floridia 48 Chief Commercial Officer, since May 2016; and President, Reservoir Characterization Group, August 2011 to May 2016. Amerino Gatti 46 President, Production Group, since May 2016; President; Well Services, July 2013 to May 2016; and Vice President Production Group North America Land, June 2010 to June 2013. Howard Guild 45 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Imran Kizilbash 50 Vice President, Schlumberger Venture Fund, since December 2016; Vice President and Treasurer, November 2013 to December 2016; Controller, Operations & Integration, July 2013 to October 2013; and Controller, Operations, January 2011 to June 2013. Saul R. Laureles 51 Director, Corporate Legal, since July 2014; Assistant Secretary, since April 2007; Deputy General Counsel, Governance and Securities, October 2012 to June 2014; and Senior Counsel, April 2007 to October 2012. Catherine MacGregor 44 President, Reservoir Characterization Group, since August 2016; President, Europe and Africa, July 2013 to July 2016; and Wireline President, May 2009 to June 2013. Gerard Martellozo 61 Vice President Human Resources, since June 2014; Senior Advisor to the CEO, August 2012 to May 2014; and Human Resources Manager, Drilling Group, May 2010 to July 2012. Abdellah Merad 43 Vice President Controller, Operations, since December 2016; Vice President, Global Shared Services Organization, from November 2013 to December 2016; GeoMarket Cost Management Project Manager, from August 2013 to November 2013; and North Africa GeoMarket Manager, from June 2010 to July 2013. R. Scott Rowe 45 President, Cameron Group, since April 2016; President and Chief Executive Officer, Cameron, October 2015 to April 2016; President and Chief Operating Officer, Cameron, October 2014 to September 2015; Chief Executive Officer, OneSubsea, March 2014 to September 2014; President, Subsea System, August 2012 to February 2014; and President, Engineered & Process Values, April 2010 to August 2012. Patrick Schorn 48 President, Operations, since August 2015; President, Operations & Integration, July 2013 to August 2015; and President, Production Group, January 2011 to June 2013. Available Information The Schlumberger Internet website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its Proxy Statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from Schlumberger Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2015 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V., incorporated in Curaçao) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to the international oil and gas exploration and production industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, Schlumberger today provides the industry’s widest range of products and services from exploration through production. As of December 31, 2015, the Company employed approximately 95,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in approximately 85 countries. Schlumberger has principal executive offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague. On August 26, 2015, Schlumberger and Cameron International Corporations (Cameron) jointly announced that they had entered into a definitive merger agreement in which Cameron will merge with an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Schlumberger in a stock and cash transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, Cameron shareholders will receive 0.716 shares of Schlumberger common stock and a cash payment of $14.44 in exchange for each Cameron share of common stock outstanding. Schlumberger estimates that it will issue approximately 137 million shares of its common stock and pay cash of approximately $2.8 billion in connection with this transaction. In November 2015, the US Department of Justice cleared the proposed merger without any conditions. On December 17, 2015, Cameron stockholders voted to adopt the proposed merger. However, the transaction remains subject to certain regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. It is anticipated that the closing of the transaction will occur in the first quarter of 2016. Cameron designs, manufactures, markets and services equipment used by the oil and gas industry and industrial manufacturing companies. Cameron is a leading international manufacturer of oil and gas pressure control and separation equipment, including valves, wellheads, controls, chokes, blowout preventers and assembled systems for oil and gas drilling, production and transmission used in onshore, offshore and subsea applications and provides oil and gas separation, metering and flow measurement equipment. Cameron reported revenue of $10.4 billion for the year ended December 31, 2014. Schlumberger operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, managing its business through three Groups: Reservoir Characterization, Drilling and Production. Each Group consists of a number of technology-based service and product lines, or Technologies. These Technologies cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger holds leading positions. The business is also reported through four geographic Areas: North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia. Within these Areas, a network of GeoMarket* regions provides logistical, technical and commercial coordination. The role of the Groups and Technologies is to support Schlumberger in providing the best possible service to customers and that it remains at the forefront of technology development. The Groups and Technologies are collectively responsible for driving excellence in execution throughout their businesses, overseeing operational processes, resource allocation, personnel and delivering superior financial results. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. The Areas and GeoMarkets are responsible for providing the most efficient and cost effective support possible to the operations. The Groups are as follows: Reservoir Characterization Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources. These include WesternGeco, Wireline, Testing Services, Software Integrated Solutions (SIS) and Integrated Services Management (ISM). · WesternGeco is a leading geophysical services supplier, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring and development services. It provides increasingly accurate measurements and images of subsurface geology and rock properties for both customer proprietary and multiclient surveys. WesternGeco offers the industry’s most extensive multiclient library. · Wireline provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both openhole and cased-hole services including wireline perforating. · Testing Services provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. The Technology also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. · Software Integrated Solutions sells proprietary software and provides consulting, information management and IT infrastructure services to customers in the oil and gas industry. SIS also offers expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning and production enhancement, as well as industry leading petrotechnical data services and training solutions. · Integrated Services Management provides coordination and management of Schlumberger services, products, and third parties in projects around the world. ISM offers a certified Integrated Services Project Manager as a focal point of contact between the project owner and the various Schlumberger services, ensuring alignment of project objectives. Drilling Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells and comprises Bits & Drilling Tools, M-I SWACO, Drilling & Measurements, Land Rigs and Integrated Drilling Services. · Bits & Drilling Tools designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. The drill bits include designs for premium market segments where faster penetration rates and increased footage provide significant economic benefits in lowering overall well costs. Drilling tools includes a wide variety of bottom-hole-assembly, borehole-enlargement technologies and impact tools, as well as a comprehensive collection of tubulars and tubular services for oil and gas drilling operations. · M-I SWACO is the leading supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems, fluid systems and specialty equipment designed to optimize wellbore productivity and production technology solutions formulated to maximize production rates. M-I SWACO also provides engineered managed pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling solutions, as well as environmental services and products to safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. · Drilling & Measurements provides mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. · Land Rigs provides land drilling rigs and related support services. · Integrated Drilling Services encompasses the services necessary to construct or change the architecture (re-entry) of wells. This service covers all aspects of well planning, well drilling, engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management. Production Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services, Completions, Artificial Lift, Well Intervention, Water Services, Integrated Production Services and Schlumberger Production Management. · Well Services provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. The services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation operations as well as intervention activities. · Completions supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, sand control technology as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. · Artificial Lift provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, rod lift systems, progressing cavity pumps and surface horizontal pumping systems. · Well Intervention develops coiled tubing equipment and services and provides slickline services for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring and downhole data acquisition. · Water Services specializes in the development, management and environmental protection of water resources. · Integrated Production Services encompasses the project scope necessary to abandon, maintain, or increase the production of single or multiple wells. All aspects of project planning addressed include well engineering, wellsite supervision, civil engineering, logistics, procurement, contracting of third parties, and workovers. · Schlumberger Production Management (SPM) is a business model for field production projects. This model combines the required services and products of the Technologies with drilling rig management, specialized engineering and project management expertise to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. SPM commercial arrangements create alignment between Schlumberger and the asset holder and/or the operator whereby Schlumberger receives remuneration in line with its value creation. These projects are generally focused on developing and co-managing production of Schlumberger’s customers’ assets under long-term agreements. Schlumberger will invest its own services and products, and in some cases cash, into the field development activities and operations. Although in certain arrangements Schlumberger is paid for a portion of the services or products it provides, generally Schlumberger will not be paid at the time of providing its services or upon delivery of its products. Instead, Schlumberger is generally compensated based upon cash flow generated or on a fee-per-barrel basis. This may include certain arrangements whereby Schlumberger is only compensated based upon incremental production that it helps deliver above a mutually agreed baseline. Schlumberger also has a 40% equity ownership interest in OneSubseaTM, a joint venture with Cameron. The joint venture manufactures and develops products, systems and services for the subsea oil and gas market. Schlumberger’s 40% share of the net income of the joint venture is reflected in the results of the Production Group. Supporting the Technologies is a global network of research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Schlumberger primarily uses its own personnel to market its offerings. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services. There is a sharing of manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which vary geographically with respect to the different services offered. While there are numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes that it is an industry leader in providing geophysical services, wireline logging, well testing, exploration and production software, drilling and completion fluids, solids and waste management, coiled-tubing, drill bits, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling, directional drilling services and mud logging. A large proportion of Schlumberger offerings is non-rig related; consequently, revenue does not necessarily correlate to the rig count. GENERAL Intellectual Property Schlumberger owns and controls a variety of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to Schlumberger’s business. While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is considered material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of oilfield services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia and China can produce severe weather conditions that typically result in temporarily reduced levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for multiclient data, software and other oilfield services and products generally result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each year as clients seek to utilize their annual budgets. Customers and Backlog of Orders For the year ended December 31, 2015, no single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Other than WesternGeco, Schlumberger has no significant backlog due to the nature of its businesses. The WesternGeco backlog, which is based on signed contracts with customers, was $1.1 billion at December 31, 2015 ($0.7 billion at December 31, 2014). Financial Information Financial information by business segment and geographic area for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 is provided in Note 17 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. Executive Officers of Schlumberger The following table sets forth, as of January 27, 2016, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for at least the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Paal Kibsgaard 48 Chairman of the Board of Directors, since April 2015; Chief Executive Officer, since August 2011; Director since April 2011; Chief Operating Officer, February 2010 to July 2011. Simon Ayat 61 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since March 2007. Alexander Juden 55 Secretary and General Counsel, since April 2009. Ashok Belani 57 Executive Vice President, Technology, since January 2011; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, February 2010 to August 2011. Jean-Francois Poupeau 54 Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Communications, since June 2012; President, Drilling Group, May 2010 to June 2012. Khaled Al Mogharbel 45 President, Drilling Group, since July 2013; President, Middle East, August 2011 to June 2013; Project – Gulfsands Petroleum – Syria, July 2009 to July 2011. Stephane Biguet 47 Vice President Controller, Operations, since August 2015; Vice President Controller, Operations & Integration, from November 2013 to August 2015; Vice President, Global Shared Services Organization, August 2011 to October 2013; Mergers and Acquisitions Director, February 2011 to July 2011; Controller, Reservoir Characterization Group, October 2008 to July 2011. Mark Danton 59 Vice President – Director of Taxes, since January 1999. Simon Farrant 51 Vice President, Investor Relations, since February 2014; Special Projects Manager, December 2013 to January 2014; GeoMarket Manager, North Sea, April 2012 to November 2013; Integration Manager, Smith Merger, April 2010 to April 2012. Sherif Foda 46 President, Production Group, since July 2013; President, Europe and Africa, June 2011 to June 2013; Saudi Arabia and Bahrain GeoMarket Manager, June 2009 to June 2011. Aaron Gatt Floridia 47 President, Reservoir Characterization Group, since August 2011; President Middle East, May 2009 to July 2011. Howard Guild 44 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Imran Kizilbash 49 Vice President and Treasurer, since November 2013; Controller, Operations & Integration, July 2013 to October 2013; Controller, Operations, January 2011 to June 2013; Controller, Schlumberger Limited, May 2009 to January 2011. Gerard Martellozo 60 Vice President Human Resources, since June 2014; Senior Advisor to the CEO, August 2012 to May 2014; Human Resources Manager, Drilling Group, May 2010 to July 2012. Patrick Schorn 47 President, Operations, since August 2015; President, Operations & Integration, July 2013 to August 2015; President, Production Group, January 2011 to June 2013; President Well Services, May 2008 to January 2011. Available Information The Schlumberger Internet website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge on or through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its Proxy Statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from Schlumberger Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2014 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V., incorporated in Curaçao) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to the international oil and gas exploration and production industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, Schlumberger today provides the industry’s widest range of products and services from exploration through production. As of December 31, 2014, the Company employed approximately 120,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in approximately 85 countries. Schlumberger has principal executive offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague. Schlumberger operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, managing its business through three Groups: Reservoir Characterization, Drilling and Production. Each Group consists of a number of technology-based service and product lines, or Technologies. These Technologies cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger holds leading positions. The business is also reported through four geographic Areas: North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia. Within these Areas, a network of GeoMarket* regions provides logistical, technical and commercial coordination. The role of the Groups and Technologies is to ensure that Schlumberger provides the best possible service to customers and that it remains at the forefront of technology development. The Groups and Technologies are collectively responsible for driving excellence in execution throughout their businesses, overseeing operational processes, resource allocation, personnel and delivering superior financial results. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. The Areas and GeoMarkets are responsible for providing the most efficient and cost effective support possible to the operations. The Groups are as follows: Reservoir Characterization Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources. These include WesternGeco, Wireline, Testing Services, Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) and PetroTechnical Services. WesternGeco seismic acquisition services and PetroTechnical Services interpretation solutions combine to provide the industry’s most extensive multiclient library. · WesternGeco is a leading geophysical services supplier, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring and development services. WesternGeco provides increasingly accurate measurements and images of subsurface geology and rock properties for both customer proprietary and multiclient surveys. · Wireline provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both openhole and cased-hole services including wireline perforating. · Testing Services provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. The Technology also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. · Schlumberger Information Solutions sells proprietary software and provides consulting, information management and IT infrastructure services that support core oil and gas industry operational processes. · PetroTechnical Services supplies interpretation and integration of all exploration and production data types, as well as expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning production enhancement and multi-disciplinary reservoir and production solutions. PetroTechnical Services offers the industry’s most extensive multiclient data library and provides industry petrotechnical training solutions. Drilling Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells and comprises Bits & Advanced Technologies, M-I SWACO, Geoservices, Drilling & Measurements, Drilling Tools & Remedial, Saxon Rig Services and Integrated Project Management well construction projects. · Bits & Advanced Technologies designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. The drill bits include designs for premium market segments where faster penetration rates and increased footage provide significant economic benefits in lowering overall well costs. The technologies leverage proprietary modeling and simulation software for the design of application-specific bits and cutting structures. · M-I SWACO is the leading supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems, fluid systems and specialty equipment designed to optimize wellbore productivity and production technology solutions formulated to maximize production rates. M-I SWACO also provides engineered managed pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling solutions, as well as environmental services and products to safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. · Geoservices supplies mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance. · Drilling & Measurements provides directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. · Drilling Tools & Remedial provides a wide variety of bottom hole assembly drilling tools, borehole enlargement technologies and impact tools, as well as a comprehensive collection of tubulars and tubular services for oil and gas drilling operations. · Saxon Rig Services provides land drilling and related support services. Production Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services, Completions, Artificial Lift, Well Intervention, Water Services and Schlumberger Production Management field production projects. · Well Services provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. The services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation operations as well as intervention activities. · Completions supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, sand control technology as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. · Artificial Lift provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, rod lift systems, progressing cavity pumps and surface horizontal pumping systems. · Well Intervention develops coiled tubing equipment and services and provides slickline services for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring and downhole data acquisition. · Water Services specializes in the development, management and environmental protection of water resources. Schlumberger has a 40% equity ownership interest in OneSubseaTM, a joint venture with Cameron International Corporation (“Cameron”). The joint venture manufactures and develops products, systems and services for the subsea oil and gas market. Schlumberger’s 40% share of the net income of the joint venture is reflected in the results of the Production Group. Schlumberger also offers customers its services through business models known as Integrated Project Management (IPM), for well construction projects, and Schlumberger Production Management (SPM), for field production projects. These models combine the required services and products of the Technologies with drilling rig management, specialized engineering and project management expertise to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. IPM projects are typically of multiyear duration and include start-up costs and significant third-party components that cover services Schlumberger does not provide directly. Projects may be fixed price in nature and may contain penalties for non-performance. SPM commercial arrangements create alignment between Schlumberger and the asset holder and/or the operator whereby Schlumberger receives remuneration in line with its value creation. These projects are generally focused on developing and co-managing production of Schlumberger’s customers’ assets under long-term agreements. Schlumberger will invest its own services and products, and in some cases cash, into the field development activities and operations. Although in certain arrangements Schlumberger is paid for a portion of the services or products it provides, generally Schlumberger will not be paid at the time of providing its services or upon delivery of its products. Instead, Schlumberger is generally compensated based upon cash flow generated or on a fee-per-barrel basis for any incremental production Schlumberger helps deliver above a mutually agreed baseline. Supporting the Technologies is a global network of research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Managed outside the Group structure is Schlumberger Business Consulting, which helps oil and gas companies achieve fast and sustainable performance improvements. Schlumberger primarily uses its own personnel to market its offerings. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services. There is a sharing of manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which varies geographically with respect to the different services offered. While there are numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes that it is an industry leader in providing geophysical services, wireline logging, well testing, drilling and completion fluids, solids and waste management, coiled-tubing, drill bits, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling, directional drilling services and mud logging. A large proportion of Schlumberger offerings is non-rig related; consequently, revenue does not necessarily correlate to the rig count. GENERAL Intellectual Property Schlumberger owns and controls a variety of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to Schlumberger’s business. While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is considered material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of oilfield services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia and China can produce severe weather conditions which typically result in temporarily reduced levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for multiclient data, software and other oilfield services and products generally result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each year as clients seek to utilize their annual budgets. Customers and Backlog of Orders For the year ended December 31, 2014, no single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Other than WesternGeco, Schlumberger has no significant backlog due to the nature of its businesses. The WesternGeco backlog, which is based on signed contracts with customers, was $0.7 billion at December 31, 2014 ($0.9 billion at December 31, 2013). Financial Information Financial information by business segment and geographic area for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012 is provided in Note 17 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. Executive Officers of Schlumberger The following table sets forth, as of January 29, 2015, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for at least the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Paal Kibsgaard 47 Chief Executive Officer, since August 2011; Director since April 2011; Chief Operating Officer, February 2010 to July 2011; President Reservoir Characterization Group, May 2009 to February 2010. Simon Ayat 60 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since March 2007. Alexander Juden 54 Secretary and General Counsel, since April 2009. Ashok Belani 56 Executive Vice President, Technology, since January 2011; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, February 2010 to August 2011; Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, April 2006 to February 2010. Jean-Francois Poupeau 53 Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Communications, since June 2012; President, Drilling Group, May 2010 to June 2012; President, Drilling & Measurements, July 2007 to April 2010. Khaled Al Mogharbel 44 President, Drilling Group, since July 2013; President, Middle East, August 2011 to June 2013; Project – Gulfsands Petroleum – Syria, July 2009 to July 2011. Stephane Biguet 46 Vice President Controller, Operations & Integration, since November 2013; Vice President, Global Shared Services Organization, August 2011 to October 2013; Mergers and Acquisitions Director, February 2011 to July 2011; Controller, Reservoir Characterization Group, October 2008 to July 2011. Mark Danton 58 Vice President – Director of Taxes, since January 1999. Simon Farrant 50 Vice President, Investor Relations, since February 2014; Special Projects Manager, October 2013 to January 2014; GeoMarket Manager, North Sea, April 2012 to September 2013; Integration Manager, Smith Merger, April 2010 to April 2012; Portfolio Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions, July 2004 to March 2010. Sherif Foda 45 President, Production Group, since July 2013; President, Europe and Africa, June 2011 to June 2013; Saudi Arabia and Bahrain GeoMarket Manager, June 2009 to June 2011. Aaron Gatt Floridia 46 President, Reservoir Characterization Group, since August 2011; President Middle East, May 2009 to July 2011. Howard Guild 43 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Imran Kizilbash 48 Vice President and Treasurer, since November 2013; Controller, Operations & Integration, July 2013 to October 2013; Controller, Operations, January 2011 to June 2013; Controller, Schlumberger Limited, May 2009 to January 2011. Gerard Martellozo 59 Vice President Human Resources, since June 2014; Senior Advisor to the CEO, August 2012 to May 2014; Human Resources Manager, Drilling Group, May 2010 to July 2012; Human Resources Manager, Reservoir Characterization Group, May 2009 to April 2010. Patrick Schorn 46 President, Operations and Integration, since July 2013; President, Production Group, January 2011 to June 2013; President Well Services, May 2008 to January 2011. Available Information The Schlumberger Internet website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge on or through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its Proxy Statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from Schlumberger Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2013 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V., incorporated in Curaçao) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to the international oil and gas exploration and production industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, Schlumberger today provides the industry’s widest range of products and services from exploration through production. As of December 31, 2013, the Company employed approximately 123,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in approximately 85 countries. Schlumberger has principal executive offices in Paris, Houston and The Hague. Schlumberger operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, managing its business through three Groups: Reservoir Characterization, Drilling and Production. Each Group consists of a number of technology-based service and product lines, or Technologies. These Technologies cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger holds leading positions. The business is also reported through four geographic Areas: North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia. Within these Areas, a network of GeoMarket* regions provides logistical, technical and commercial coordination. The role of the Groups and Technologies is to ensure that Schlumberger provides the best possible service to customers and that it remains at the forefront of technology development. The Groups and Technologies are collectively responsible for driving excellence in execution throughout their businesses, overseeing operational processes, resource allocation, personnel and delivering superior financial results. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. The Areas and GeoMarkets are responsible for providing the most efficient and cost effective support possible to the operations. The Groups are as follows: Reservoir Characterization Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources. These include WesternGeco, Wireline, Testing Services, Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) and PetroTechnical Services. WesternGeco seismic acquisition services and PetroTechnical Services interpretation solutions combine to provide the industry’s most extensive multiclient library. · WesternGeco is a leading geophysical services supplier, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring and development services. WesternGeco provides increasingly accurate measurements and images of subsurface geology and rock properties for both customer proprietary and multiclient surveys. · Wireline provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both openhole and cased-hole services including wireline perforating. · Testing Services provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. The Technology also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. · Schlumberger Information Solutions provides software, consulting, information management and IT infrastructure services that support core oil and gas industry operational processes. · PetroTechnical Services supplies interpretation and integration of all exploration and production data types, as well as expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning production enhancement and multi-disciplinary reservoir and production solutions. PetroTechnical Services offers the industry’s most extensive multiclient data library and provides industry petrotechnical training solutions. Drilling Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells and comprises Bits & Advanced Technologies, M-I SWACO, Geoservices, Drilling & Measurements, Drilling Tools & Remedial and Integrated Project Management well construction projects. · Bits & Advanced Technologies designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. The drill bits include designs for premium market segments where faster penetration rates and increased footage provide significant economic benefits in lowering overall well costs. The technologies leverage proprietary modeling and simulation software for the design of application-specific bits and cutting structures. · M-I SWACO is the leading supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems, fluid systems and specialty equipment designed to optimize wellbore productivity and production technology solutions formulated to maximize production rates. M-I SWACO also provides engineered managed pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling solutions, as well as environmental services and products to safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. · Geoservices supplies mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance. · Drilling & Measurements provides directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. · Drilling Tools & Remedial provides a wide variety of bottom hole assembly drilling tools, borehole enlargement technologies and impact tools, as well as a comprehensive collection of tubulars and tubular services for oil and gas drilling operations. Production Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services, Completions, Artificial Lift, Well Intervention, Water Services, Carbon Services and Schlumberger Production Management field production projects. · Well Services provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. The services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation operations as well as intervention activities. · Completions supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, sand control technology as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. · Artificial Lift provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps and gas lift equipment, as well as surface horizontal pumping systems. · Well Intervention develops coiled tubing equipment and services and provides slickline services for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring and downhole data acquisition. · Water Services specializes in the development, management and environmental protection of water resources. · Carbon Services provides comprehensive geological storage solutions including storage site characterization for carbon dioxide. Schlumberger has a 40% equity ownership interest in OneSubseaTM, a joint venture with Cameron International Corporation (“Cameron”). The joint venture manufactures and develops products, systems and services for the subsea oil and gas market. Schlumberger’s 40% share of the net income of the joint venture is reflected in the results of the Production Group. Schlumberger also offers customers its services through business models known as Integrated Project Management (IPM), for well construction projects, and Schlumberger Production Management (SPM), for field production projects. These models combine the required services and products of the Technologies with drilling rig management, specialized engineering and project management expertise to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. IPM projects are typically of multiyear duration and include start-up costs and significant third-party components that cover services that Schlumberger does not provide directly. Projects may be fixed price in nature and may contain penalties for non-performance. SPM commercial arrangements create alignment between Schlumberger and the asset holder and/or the operator whereby Schlumberger receives remuneration in line with its value creation. These projects are generally focused on developing and co-managing production of Schlumberger’s customers’ mature assets under long-term agreements. Schlumberger will invest its own services and products, and in some cases cash into the asset. Schlumberger is generally not paid for services and products at the time of providing the services or upon delivery of the products. Instead, Schlumberger is generally compensated on a fee-per-barrel basis for any incremental production Schlumberger helps deliver above a mutually agreed baseline. Supporting the Technologies is a global network of research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Managed outside the Group structure is Schlumberger Business Consulting, which helps oil and gas companies achieve fast and sustainable performance improvements. Schlumberger primarily uses its own personnel to market its offerings. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services. There is a sharing of manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which varies geographically with respect to the different services offered. While there are numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes that it is an industry leader in providing wireline logging, well testing, drilling and completion fluids, coiled-tubing, drill bits, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling and directional drilling services, mud logging, as well as fully computerized logging and geoscience software and computing services. A large proportion of Schlumberger offerings is non-rig related; consequently, revenue does not necessarily correlate to rig count fluctuations. | 10-K |
| 2013 | Intellectual Property | Schlumberger and its affiliates own and control a variety of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to Schlumberger’s business. While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is considered material to Schlumberger’s business. | 10-K |
| 2013 | Seasonality | Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of oilfield services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia and China can produce severe weather conditions which typically result in reduced levels of activity. Hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Additionally, customer spending patterns for multiclient data, software and other oilfield services and products generally result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each year as clients seek to utilize their annual budgets. | 10-K |
| 2013 | Customers and Backlog of Orders | For the year ended December 31, 2013, no single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Other than WesternGeco, Schlumberger has no significant backlog due to the nature of its businesses. The WesternGeco backlog, which is based on signed contracts with customers, was $0.9 billion at December 31, 2013 ($1.0 billion at December 31, 2012). | 10-K |
| 2013 | Financial Information | Financial information by business segment and geographic area for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 is provided in Note 17 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. | 10-K |
| 2013 | Executive Officers of Schlumberger | The following table sets forth, as of January 31, 2014, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for at least the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Paal Kibsgaard 46 Chief Executive Officer, since August 2011; Director since April 2011; Chief Operating Officer, February 2010 to July 2011; President Reservoir Characterization Group, May 2009 to February 2010; Vice President Engineering, Manufacturing and Sustaining, November 2007 to May 2009. Simon Ayat 59 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since March 2007. Alexander Juden 53 Secretary and General Counsel, since April 2009; Director of Compliance, February 2005 to April 2009. Ashok Belani 55 Executive Vice President, Technology, since January 2011; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, February 2010 to August 2011; Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, April 2006 to February 2010. Jean-Francois Poupeau 52 Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Communications, since June 2012; President, Drilling Group, May 2010 to June 2012; President, Drilling & Measurements, July 2007 to April 2010. Khaled Al Mogharbel 43 President, Drilling Group, since July 2013; President, Middle East, August 2011 to June 2013; Project – Gulfsands Petroleum – Syria, July 2009 to July 2011; Saudi Arabia and Bahrain GeoMarket Manager, May 2008 to June 2009. Stephane Biguet 45 Vice President Controller, Operations & Integration, since November 2013; Vice President, Global Shared Services Organization, August 2011 to October 2013; Mergers and Acquisitions Director, February 2011 to July 2011; Controller, Reservoir Characterization Group, October 2008 to July 2011. Stephanie Cox 45 Vice President Human Resources, since May 2009; North Gulf Coast GeoMarket Manager, April 2006 to May 2009. Mark Danton 57 Vice President – Director of Taxes, since January 1999. Sherif Foda 44 President, Production Group, since July 2013; President, Europe and Africa, June 2011 to June 2013; Saudi Arabia and Bahrain GeoMarket Manager, June 2009 to June 2011; Vice President, Coiled Tubing Services, August 2007 to May 2009. Aaron Gatt Floridia 45 President, Reservoir Characterization Group, since August 2011; President Middle East, May 2009 to July 2011; General Manager – AGO, January 2007 to April 2009. Howard Guild 42 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Imran Kizilbash 47 Vice President and Treasurer, since November 2013; Controller, Operations & Integration, July 2013 to October 2013; Controller, Operations, January 2011 to June 2013; Controller, Schlumberger Limited, May 2009 to January 2011; President Reservoir Characterization Group, April 2006 to April 2009. Patrick Schorn 45 President, Operations and Integration, since July 2013; President, Production Group, January 2011 to June 2013; President Well Services, May 2008 to January 2011. Malcolm Theobald 52 Vice President Investor Relations, since June 2007. | 10-K |
| 2013 | Available Information | The Schlumberger Internet website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge on or through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from Schlumberger Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2012 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V., incorporated in Curaçao) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to the international oil and gas exploration and production industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, Schlumberger today provides the industry’s widest range of products and services from exploration through production. As of December 31, 2012, the Company employed approximately 118,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in approximately 85 countries. Schlumberger has principal executive offices in Paris, Houston and The Hague. Schlumberger operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, managing its business through three Groups: Reservoir Characterization, Drilling and Production. Each Group consists of a number of technology-based service and product lines, or Technologies. These Technologies cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger holds leading positions. The business is also reported through four geographic Areas: North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia. Within these Areas, a network of GeoMarket* regions provides logistical, technical and commercial coordination. The role of the Groups and Technologies is to ensure that Schlumberger provides the best possible service to customers and that it remains at the forefront of technology development. The Groups and Technologies are collectively responsible for driving excellence in execution throughout their businesses, overseeing operational processes, resource allocation, personnel and delivering superior financial results. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. The Areas and GeoMarkets are responsible for providing the most efficient and cost effective support possible to the operations. The Groups are as follows: Reservoir Characterization Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources. These include WesternGeco, Wireline, Testing Services, Schlumberger Information Solutions and PetroTechnical Services. — WesternGeco is the world’s leading geophysical services company, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring and development services. WesternGeco offers the industry’s most extensive multiclient data library. — Wireline provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both openhole and cased-hole services including wireline perforating. — Testing Services provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. The Technology also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. — Schlumberger Information Solutions provides software, consulting, information management and IT infrastructure services that support core oil and gas industry operational processes. — PetroTechnical Services supplies interpretation and integration of all exploration and production data types, as well as expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning production enhancement and multi-disciplinary reservoir and production solutions. PetroTechnical Services also provides industry petrotechnical training solutions. Drilling Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells and comprises Bits & Advanced Technologies, M-I SWACO, Geoservices, Drilling & Measurements, PathFinder, Drilling Tools & Remedial Services, Dynamic Pressure Management and Integrated Project Management well construction projects. — Bits & Advanced Technologies designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. The drill bits include designs for premium market segments where faster penetration rates and increased footage provide significant economic benefits in lowering overall well costs. The technologies leverage proprietary modeling and simulation software for the design of application-specific bits and cutting structures. — M-I SWACO is the leading supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems, fluid systems and specialty equipment designed to optimize wellbore productivity and production technology solutions formulated to maximize production rates. The Technology also includes environmental solutions that safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. — Geoservices supplies mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance. — Drilling & Measurements and PathFinder provide directional-drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support. — Drilling Tools & Remedial provides a wide variety of bottom hole assembly drilling tools, borehole enlargement technologies and impact tools, as well as a comprehensive collection of tubulars and tubular services for oil and gas drilling operations. — Dynamic Pressure Management consolidates managed pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling into a single provider of engineered solutions for pressure drilling services. Production Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services, Completions, Artificial Lift, Well Intervention, Subsea, Water Services, Carbon Services and Schlumberger Production Management field production projects. — Well Services provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. The services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation operations as well as intervention activities. — Completions supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, sand control technology as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. — Artificial Lift provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps and gas lift equipment, as well as surface horizontal pumping systems. — Well Intervention develops coiled tubing equipment and services and provides slickline services for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring and downhole data acquisition. — Subsea offers solutions that are designed to improve reservoir recovery, optimize production and maximize production uptime of subsea assets. — Water Services specializes in the development, management and environmental protection of water resources. — Carbon Services provides comprehensive geological storage solutions including storage site characterization for carbon dioxide. Schlumberger also offers customers its services through business models known as Integrated Project Management (for well construction projects) and Schlumberger Production Management (for field production projects). These models combine the required services and products of the Technologies with both drilling rig management expertise and project management skills to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. Projects are typically of multiyear duration and include start-up costs and significant third-party components that cover services that Schlumberger does not provide directly. Projects may be fixed price in nature, contain penalties for non-performance and may also offer opportunities for bonus payments where performance exceeds agreed targets. Integrated Project Management and Schlumberger Production Management also provide specialized engineering and project management expertise when Schlumberger is requested to include these capabilities with services and products across the Technologies in a single contract. In no circumstances does Schlumberger take any stake in the ownership of oil or gas reserves. Supporting the Technologies is a global network of research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Managed outside the Group structure is Schlumberger Business Consulting, which helps oil and gas companies achieve fast and sustainable performance improvements. Schlumberger primarily uses its own personnel to market its offerings. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services. There is a sharing of manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which varies geographically with respect to the different services offered. While there are numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes that it is an industry leader in providing wireline logging, well testing, drilling and completion fluids, coiled-tubing, drill bits, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling and directional-drilling services, mud logging, as well as fully computerized logging and geoscience software and computing services. A large proportion of Schlumberger offerings is non-rig related; consequently, revenue does not necessarily correlate to rig count fluctuations. Acquisitions Schlumberger completed a number of acquisitions during 2012, none of which were significant. Information about acquisitions made by Schlumberger appears in Note 4 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. GENERAL Intellectual Property Schlumberger and its affiliates own and control a variety of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to Schlumberger’s business. While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is considered material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of oilfield services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia and China can produce severe weather conditions which typically result in reduced levels of activity. Hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Additionally, customer spending patterns for multiclient data, software and other oilfield services and products generally result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of each year as clients seek to utilize their annual budgets. Customers and Backlog of Orders For the year ended December 31, 2012, no single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Other than WesternGeco, Schlumberger has no significant backlog due to the nature of its businesses. The WesternGeco backlog, which is based on signed contracts with customers, was $1.0 billion at December 31, 2012 ($1.0 billion at December 31, 2011). Financial Information Financial information by business segment and geographic area for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 is provided in Note 17 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. Executive Officers of Schlumberger The following table sets forth, as of January 31, 2013, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for at least the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Paal Kibsgaard 45 Chief Executive Officer, since August 2011; Director since April 2011; Chief Operating Officer, February 2010 to July 2011; President Reservoir Characterization Group, May 2009 to February 2010; and Vice President Engineering, Manufacturing and Sustaining, November 2007 to May 2009. Simon Ayat 58 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since March 2007; and Vice President Treasurer, February 2005 to March 2007. Alexander Juden 52 Secretary and General Counsel, since April 2009; Director of Compliance, February 2005 to April 2009. Satish Pai 51 Executive Vice President Operations, since April 2009; Vice President Operations, Oilfield Services, May 2008 to April 2009; and President Europe Africa & Caspian, March 2006 to May 2008. Ashok Belani 54 Executive Vice President, Technology, since January 2011; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, February 2010 to August 2011; Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, April 2006 to February 2010; and Senior Advisor, Technology, January 2006 to April 2006. Kjell-Erik Oestdahl 48 Executive Vice President Shared Services, Infrastructure and Distribution, since March 2012; Executive Vice President Operations, January 2011 to March 2012; Vice President Supply Chain Services, May 2009 to December 2010; Vice President Operations WesternGeco, January 2008 to April 2009; and Chief Procurement Officer at StatoilHydro ASA, March 2006 to November 2007. Jean-Francois Poupeau 51 Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Communications, since June 2012; President Drilling Group, May 2010 to June 2012; President Drilling & Measurements, July 2007 to April 2010; and Vice President Communications and Investor Relations, April 2006 to June 2007. Stephanie Cox 44 Vice President Human Resources, since May 2009; and North Gulf Coast GeoMarket Manager, April 2006 to May 2009. Mark Danton 56 Vice President – Director of Taxes, since January 1999. Aaron Gatt Floridia 44 President, Reservoir Characterization Group, since August 2011; President Middle East, May 2009 to July 2011; and General Manager – AOG, January 2007 to April 2009. Howard Guild 41 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Rodney Nelson 54 Vice President Government & Community Relations, since August 2011; and Vice President Communications Innovation and Collaboration, October 2007 to July 2011. Stephen Orr 49 President Drilling Group, since June 2012; President M-I SWACO, September 2010 to June 2012; President – Artificial Lift, July 2008 to August 2010; and Marketing and Technology Manager, July 2006 to June 2008. Patrick Schorn 44 President Reservoir Production Group, since January 2011; President Well Services, May 2008 to January 2011; and President Completions, April 2006 to April 2008. Krishna Shivram 50 Vice President Treasurer, since January 2011; Controller Drilling Group, May 2010 to January 2011; Manager Mergers & Acquisitions, May 2009 to April 2010; and Controller Oilfield Services, August 2006 to April 2009. Malcolm Theobald 51 Vice President Investor Relations, since June 2007. Available Information The Schlumberger Internet website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a channel for routine distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge on or through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Schlumberger’s corporate governance materials, including Board Committee Charters, Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of Ethics, may also be found at www.slb.com/ir. From time to time, corporate governance materials on our website may be updated to comply with rules issued by the SEC and the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) or as desirable to promote the effective governance of Schlumberger. Any stockholder wishing to receive, without charge, a copy of any of Schlumberger’s SEC filings should write to the Secretary, Schlumberger Limited, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056, USA. Schlumberger has filed the required certifications under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 to this Form 10-K. The information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2011 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V., incorporated in Curaçao) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to the international oil and gas exploration and production industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, Schlumberger today provides the industry’s widest range of products and services from exploration through production. As of December 31, 2011, the Company employed approximately 113,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in approximately 85 countries. Schlumberger has principal executive offices in Paris, Houston and The Hague. As a result of its acquisitions of Smith International, Inc. (“Smith”) and Geoservices in 2010, the range of Schlumberger’s activities comprising exploration and production services became so broad that Schlumberger changed the primary way in which it allocates resources and assesses performance. Consequently, effective with the first quarter of 2011, Schlumberger changed its primary reporting to the product group segments (the “Groups”) comprising Schlumberger Oilfield Services. Additionally, Schlumberger also reports the Distribution business, acquired in the Smith transaction, as a separate segment. Schlumberger Oilfield Services operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, managing its business through three Groups: Reservoir Characterization, Drilling and Reservoir Production. Each Group consists of a number of technology-based service and product lines, or Technologies. These Technologies cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger holds leading positions. The business is also managed through four geographic Areas: North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia. Within these Areas, a network of GeoMarket* regions provides logistical, technical and commercial coordination. The role of the Groups and Technologies is to ensure that Schlumberger provides the best possible service delivery to customers and that it remains at the forefront of technology development. The Groups and Technologies are collectively responsible for driving excellence in execution throughout their businesses, overseeing operational processes, resource allocation, personnel and delivering superior financial results. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. The Areas and GeoMarkets are responsible for providing the most efficient and cost effective support possible to the operations. The Groups are as follows: Reservoir Characterization Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon deposits. These include WesternGeco, Wireline, Testing Services, Schlumberger Information Solutions and Data & Consulting Services. — WesternGeco is the world’s leading geophysical services company, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring and development services. WesternGeco offers the industry’s most extensive multiclient data library. — Wireline provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both open hole and cased hole services including wireline perforating. — Testing Services provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. The Technology also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. — Schlumberger Information Solutions provides software, consulting, information management and IT infrastructure services that support core oil and gas industry operational processes. — Data & Consulting Services supplies interpretation and integration of all exploration and production data types, as well as expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, production enhancement, field development planning and multi-disciplinary reservoir and production solutions. Data and Consulting Services also provides industry petrotechnical training solutions. Drilling Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells and comprises Bits & Advanced Technologies, M-I SWACO, Geoservices, Drilling & Measurements, PathFinder, Drilling Table of Contents Tools & Remedial, Dynamic Pressure Management and Integrated Project Management well construction projects. — Bits & Advanced Technologies designs, manufactures and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. The drill bits include designs for premium market segments where faster penetration rates and increased footage provide significant economic benefits in lowering overall well costs. The technologies leverage proprietary modeling and simulation software for the design of application-specific bits and cutting structures. — M-I SWACO is the leading supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems, fluid systems and specialty equipment designed to optimize wellbore productivity and production technology solutions formulated to maximize production rates. The Technology also includes environmental solutions that safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. — Geoservices supplies mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance. — Drilling & Measurements and PathFinder supply engineering support, directional-drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles. — Drilling Tools & Remedial provides a wide variety of bottom hole assembly drilling tools, borehole enlargement technologies and impact tools, as well as a comprehensive collection of tubulars and tubular services for oil and gas drilling operations. — Dynamic Pressure Management consolidates managed pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling into a single provider of engineered solutions for pressure drilling services. Reservoir Production Group – Consists of the principal Technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services, Completions, Artificial Lift and Well Intervention, Subsea, Water Services, Carbon Services and Schlumberger Production Management field production projects. — Well Services provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. The services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation operations as well as intervention activities. — Completions supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, sand control technology as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. — Artificial Lift provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps and gas lift equipment, as well as surface horizontal pumping systems. — Well Intervention develops coiled tubing equipment and services and provides slickline services for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring and downhole data acquisition. — Subsea offers solutions that are designed to improve reservoir recovery, optimize production and maximize production uptime of subsea assets. — Water Services specializes in the development, management and environmental protection of water resources. — Carbon Services provides comprehensive geological storage solutions including storage site characterization for carbon dioxide. Schlumberger Oilfield Services also offers customers its services through business models known as Integrated Project Management (for well construction projects) and Schlumberger Production Management (for field production projects). These models combine the required services and products of the Technologies with both drilling rig management expertise and project management skills to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. Projects are typically of multi-year duration and include start-up costs and significant third-party components which cover services that Schlumberger does not provide directly. Projects may be fixed price in nature, contain penalties for non-performance and may also offer opportunities for bonus payments where performance exceeds agreed targets. Integrated Project Management and Schlumberger Production Management also Table of Contents provide specialized engineering and project management expertise when Schlumberger is requested to include these capabilities with services and products across the Technologies in a single contract. In no circumstances does Schlumberger take any stake in the ownership of oil or gas reserves. Also included in Schlumberger Oilfield Services is Schlumberger Business Consulting, which helps oil and gas companies achieve fast and sustainable performance improvements. Schlumberger Business Consulting includes IndigoPool, an independent business that provides divestiture advisory and marketing services to the international oil and gas community. Supporting the Technologies is a global network of research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Schlumberger Oilfield Services primarily uses its own personnel to market its offerings. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services. There is a sharing of manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which varies geographically with respect to the different services offered. While there are numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes that it is an industry leader in providing wireline logging, well testing, drilling and completion fluids, coiled tubing, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling and directional-drilling services, mud logging, as well as fully computerized logging and geoscience software and computing services. A large proportion of Schlumberger offerings is non-rig related; consequently, revenue does not necessarily correlate to rig count fluctuations. Distribution is an industry leading provider of pipes, valves and valve automation, fittings, mill and tool supplies, safety products and artificial lift systems to the energy and industrial markets. Additionally, Distribution provides warehouse management, vendor integration and various inventory management services. The segment comprises the operations of Wilson International, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, and a majority owned interest in C.E. Franklin Ltd., a publicly traded Canadian distribution company. Acquisitions Information about acquisitions made by Schlumberger appears in Note 4 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. GENERAL Patents While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is considered material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Although weather and natural phenomena can temporarily affect delivery of oilfield services, the widespread geographic location of such services precludes the overall business from being characterized as seasonal. Customers and Backlog of Orders For the year ended December 31, 2011, no single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Other than WesternGeco, we have no significant backlog due to the nature of our businesses. The WesternGeco backlog, which is based on signed contracts with customers, was $1.0 billion at December 31, 2011 ($0.9 billion at December 31, 2010). Employees As of December 31, 2011, Schlumberger had approximately 113,000 employees. Financial Information Financial information by business segment for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 is provided in Note 17 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. Table of Contents Executive Officers of Schlumberger The following table sets forth, as of January 31, 2012, the names and ages of the executive officers of Schlumberger, including all offices and positions held by each for at least the past five years. Name Age Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience Andrew Gould 65 Chairman since February 2003; Executive Officer since August 2011; and Chief Executive Officer, February 2003 to July 2011. Paal Kibsgaard 44 Chief Executive Officer, since August 2011; Director since April 2011; Chief Operating Officer, February 2010 to July 2011; President Reservoir Characterization Group, May 2009 to February 2010; Vice President Engineering, Manufacturing and Sustaining, November 2007 to May 2009; Vice President Personnel, April 2006 to November 2007; and President, Drilling and Measurements, January 2003 to April 2006. Simon Ayat 57 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since March 2007; Vice President Treasurer, February 2005 to March 2007; and Vice President, Controller and Business Processes, December 2002 to February 2005. Alexander Juden 51 Secretary and General Counsel, since April 2009; and Director of Compliance, February 2005 to April 2009. Satish Pai 50 Executive Vice President Operations, since May 2008; President Europe Africa & Caspian, March 2006 to May 2008; and Vice President Oilfield Technologies, March 2002 to March 2006. Kjell-Erik Oestdahl 47 Executive Vice President Operations, since January 2011; Vice President Supply Chain Services, May 2009 to January 2011; Vice President Operations WesternGeco, January 2008 to April 2009; Chief Procurement Officer at StatoilHydro ASA, March 2006 to November 2007; and North Sea GeoMarket Manager, January 2005 to February 2006. Ashok Belani 53 Executive Vice President Technology, since January 2011; President, Reservoir Characterization Group, February 2010 to August 2011; Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, April 2006 to February 2010; and Senior Advisor, Technology, January 2006 to April 2006. Douglas Pferdehirt 47 Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Communication, since January 2011; and President Reservoir Production Group, April 2006 to January 2011. Stephanie Cox 43 Vice President Personnel, since May 2009; North Gulf Coast GeoMarket Manager, April 2006 to May 2009; and North & South America Personnel Manager, May 2004 to April 2006. Mark Danton 55 Vice President - Director of Taxes, since January 1999. Aaron Gatt Floridia 43 President Reservoir Characterization Group, since August 2011; President Middle East, May 2009 to July 2011; and General Manager – AGO, January 2007 to April 2009. Howard Guild 40 Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005. Rodney Nelson 53 Vice President Government & Community Relations, since August 2011; Vice President Communications, Innovation and Collaboration, October 2007 to July 2011; Vice President Innovation and Collaboration, July 2006 to October 2007; and Vice President Strategic Marketing, July 2004 to July 2006. Jean-Francois Poupeau 50 President Drilling Group, since May 2010; President Drilling & Measurements, July 2007 to April 2010; and Vice President Communications and Investor Relations, April 2006 to June 2007. Patrick Schorn 43 President Reservoir Production Group, since January 2011; President Well Services, May 2008 to January 2011; and President Completions, April 2006 to April 2008. Krishna Shivram 49 Vice President Treasurer, since January 2011; Controller Drilling Group, May 2010 to January 2011; Manager Mergers & Acquisitions, May 2009 to April 2010; Controller Oilfield Services, August 2006 to April 2009; and Vice President Finance WesternGeco, March 2004 to July 2006. Malcolm Theobald 50 Vice President Investor Relations, since June 2007; and Global Account Director, September 2001 to June 2007. Table of Contents Available Information The Schlumberger Internet website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a channel for routine distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge on or through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Schlumberger’s corporate governance materials, including Board Committee Charters, Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of Ethics, may also be found at www.slb.com/ir. From time to time, corporate governance materials on our website may be updated to comply with rules issued by the SEC and the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) or as desirable to promote the effective governance of Schlumberger. Any stockholder wishing to receive, without charge, a copy of any of Schlumberger’s SEC filings should write to the Secretary, Schlumberger Limited, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056, USA. Schlumberger has filed the required certifications under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 to this Form 10-K. The information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Report and should not be considered part of this Report or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2010 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V., incorporated in Curaçao) and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to the international oil and gas exploration and production industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, the Company today provides the industry’s widest range of products and services from exploration through production. As of December 31, 2010, the Company employed approximately 108,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in approximately 80 countries. Schlumberger has principal executive offices in Paris, Houston and The Hague. On August 27, 2010, Schlumberger acquired all of the outstanding shares of Smith International, Inc. (“Smith”), a leading supplier of premium products and services to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. In connection with this transaction, Schlumberger issued 176 million shares of its common stock, valued at approximately $9.8 billion as of the acquisition date. As a result of this transaction, Schlumberger consists of five business segments as of December 31, 2010 – Schlumberger Oilfield Services, WesternGeco, M-I SWACO, Smith Oilfield and Distribution. Schlumberger Oilfield Services operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, managing its business through its GeoMarket* regions, which are grouped into four geographic areas: North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. Within this business structure, Schlumberger Oilfield Services products and services are developed by a number of technology-based product lines, or Technologies, to capitalize on technical synergies. These products and services cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger Oilfield Services holds leading positions. The Technologies are also responsible for overseeing operational processes, resource allocation, personnel and quality in the GeoMarkets. The Technologies are: • Wireline – provides the information necessary to evaluate the subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both open-hole and cased-hole services as well as a range of well remediation services. • Drilling & Measurements – supplies engineering support, directional-drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles. • Testing Services – provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. The Technology also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. • Well Services – provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. The services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation operations as well as intervention activities. The Technology also develops coiled-tubing equipment and services. • Completions – supplies well completion services and equipment that includes upper and lower completion systems, sand management systems and permanently installed instrumentation for all types of well completion. • Artificial Lift – provides electrical submersible pumps and gas lift equipment together with associated instrumentation, engineering and production optimization services. • Data & Consulting Services – supplies interpretation and integration of all exploration and production data types, as well as expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, production enhancement, field development planning and multi-disciplinary reservoir and production solutions. Table of Contents Part I, Item 1 • Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) – provides consulting, software, information management and IT infrastructure services that support core oil and gas industry operational processes. • Geoservices – supplies mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance. Geological surveillance includes formation evaluation to provide information on lithology and hydrocarbons encountered while drilling. Drilling surveillance enhances safety and optimizes drilling efficiency using a range of drilling parameter measurements. Geoservices also supplies slickline services for downhole mechanical well intervention and reservoir monitoring and downhole data acquisition. Supporting the Technologies are various research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Schlumberger Oilfield Services also offers customers its services through a business model known as Integrated Project Management (IPM). IPM combines the required services and products of the Technologies with drilling rig management expertise and project management skills to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. IPM projects are typically of multi-year duration and include start-up costs and significant third-party components which cover services that Schlumberger does not provide directly. Projects may be fixed price in nature, contain penalties for non-performance and may also offer opportunities for bonus payments where performance exceeds agreed targets. IPM also provides specialized engineering and project management expertise when Schlumberger is requested to include these capabilities with services and products across the Technologies in a single contract. In no circumstances do IPM projects fail to respect the Schlumberger business profile that precludes any stake in the ownership of oil or gas reserves. Schlumberger Oilfield Services uses its own personnel to market its offerings. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services. There is a sharing of manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service, and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which varies geographically with respect to the different services offered. While there are numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes that it is an industry leader in providing wireline logging, well testing, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling and directional-drilling services, as well as fully computerized logging and geoscience software and computing services. A large proportion of Schlumberger offerings is non-rig related; consequently, revenue does not necessarily correlate to rig count fluctuations. WesternGeco, the world’s most technologically advanced surface seismic company, provides comprehensive reservoir imaging, monitoring and development services with the most extensive seismic crews and data processing centers in the industry as well as a leading multiclient seismic library. Services range from 3D and time-lapse (4D) seismic surveys to multi-component surveys for delineating prospects and reservoir management. WesternGeco benefits from full access to the Schlumberger research, development and technology organization and shares similar business risks, opportunities for growth, principal methods of competition and means of marketing as Schlumberger Oilfield Services. Seismic solutions include proprietary single-sensor technologies for enhanced reservoir description, characterization and monitoring throughout the life of the field – from exploration through enhanced recovery. Other WesternGeco solutions include development of controlled-source electromagnetic and magneto-telluric surveys and their integration with seismic data. Positioned for meeting a full range of customer needs in land, marine and shallow-water transition-zone services, WesternGeco offers a wide scope of technologies and services: • Land Seismic – provides comprehensive resources for seismic data acquisition on land and across shallow-water transition zones. • Marine Seismic – provides industry-standard marine seismic acquisition and processing systems as well as a unique industry-leading, fully calibrated single-sensor marine seismic system that delivers the seismic technology needed for new-generation reservoir management. Table of Contents Part I, Item 1 • Multiclient Services – supplies high-quality seismic data from the multiclient library, including industry-leading Q technology data. • Reservoir Services – provides people, tools and technology to help customers capture the benefits of a completely integrated approach to locating, defining and monitoring the reservoir. • Data Processing – offers extensive seismic data processing centers for complex data processing projects. • Electromagnetics – provides controlled-source electromagnetic and magneto-telluric data processing and interpretation. M-I SWACO is the leading supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems, fluid systems and specialty tools designed to optimize wellbore productivity, production technology solution to maximize production rates, and environmental solutions that safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. The M-I SWACO solutions offering blends an understanding of technology, application and service to enable its clients to achieve their project-specific goals. Operationally, these solutions are delivered through its GeoMarket regions, which are grouped into geographic areas, similar to Schlumberger Oilfield Services. M-I SWACO’s business is organized into four core solutions offerings: Drilling Solutions, Wellbore Productivity, Production Technologies and Environmental Solutions. These core offerings are organized around the operator’s exploration and production activities – drilling, completion and production. Environmental Solutions are designed to include all three of these activities, allowing M-I SWACO to leverage its environmental technologies across all three of the operator’s exploration and production activities. • Drilling Solutions – provides a complete offering of oil-, water- and synthetic-based drilling fluids and additives as well as engineering services that include proprietary software systems, knowledge databases and laboratory capabilities. • Wellbore Productivity – consists of a suite of services, products and technical support that focus on safeguarding well completions and formation stability by assuring the optimal quality of the wellbore and fluid systems. • Production Technologies – provides a line of oilfield specialty chemical, equipment and related technical services that are used to enhance the flow of hydrocarbons from the wellbore. • Environmental Solutions – focuses on the best approach to safely managing waste volumes produced during the drilling, completion and production operations in a way that allows clients to achieve their environmental performance standards. Prior to its acquisition of Smith, Schlumberger held a 40% interest in M-I SWACO through a joint venture with Smith. Smith Oilfield provides a comprehensive suite of technologically advanced products, services and engineering used in oil and natural gas development activities. Smith Oilfield is a global leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of drill bits and borehole enlargement tools and is also a leading supplier of drilling tools and services, tubular, completion services and other related downhole solutions. Smith Oilfield also leverages its proprietary suite of modeling and design software and application data together with its comprehensive product and service offerings to optimize the creation of the wellbore. Distribution operations provide products and services to the energy refining, petrochemical, power generation and mining industries. The segment consists of the operations of Wilson International, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, and a majority owned interest in C.E. Franklin Ltd., a publicly owned Canadian distribution company. Distribution operates an extensive network of supply branches, service centers and sales offices through which it markets pipes, valves and fittings as well as mill, safety and other maintenance products, predominantly in the United States and Canada. Additionally, the Distribution segment provides warehouse management, vendor integration and various inventory management services. Table of Contents Part I, Item 1 | 10-K |
| 2010 | Acquisitions | Information about acquisitions made by Schlumberger appears in Note 4 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. | 10-K |
| 2010 | Patents | While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is considered material to Schlumberger’s business. | 10-K |
| 2010 | Seasonality | Although weather and natural phenomena can temporarily affect delivery of oilfield services, the widespread geographic location of such services precludes the overall business from being characterized as seasonal. | 10-K |
| 2010 | Customers and Backlog of Orders | For the year ended December 31, 2010, no single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Other than WesternGeco, we have no significant backlog due to the nature of our businesses. The WesternGeco backlog, which is based on signed contracts with customers, was $0.9 billion at December 31, 2010 ($1.0 billion at December 31, 2009). | 10-K |
| 2010 | Employees | As of December 31, 2010, Schlumberger had approximately 108,000 employees. | 10-K |
| 2010 | Financial Information | Financial information by business segment for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 is provided in Note 17 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. | 10-K |
| 2010 | Available Information | The Schlumberger Internet website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses its Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a channel for routine distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge on or through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Schlumberger’s corporate governance materials, including Board Committee Charters, Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of Ethics, may also be found at www.slb.com/ir. From time to time, corporate governance materials on our website may be updated to comply with rules issued by the SEC and the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) or as desirable to promote the effective governance of Schlumberger. Any stockholder wishing to receive, without charge, a copy of any of Schlumberger’s SEC filings should write to the Secretary, Schlumberger Limited, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056, USA. Schlumberger has filed the required certifications under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 to this Form 10-K. The information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Report and should not be considered part of this Report or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. Table of Contents Part I, Item 1A | 10-K |
| 2009 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “Schlumberger,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to the international oil and gas exploration and production industry. Having invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells, the company today provides the industry’s widest range of products and services from exploration through production. As of December 31, 2009, the Company employed approximately 77,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in approximately 80 countries. Schlumberger has principal executive offices in Paris, Houston and The Hague, and consists of two business segments – Schlumberger Oilfield Services and WesternGeco. Schlumberger Oilfield Services provides the industry’s widest range of products and services from exploration to production, while WesternGeco is the world’s most technologically advanced surface seismic acquisition and processing company. Schlumberger Oilfield Services operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, managing its business through its GeoMarket* regions, which are grouped into four geographic areas: North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. Within this business structure, Schlumberger Oilfield Services products and services are developed by a number of technology-based product lines, or Technologies, to capitalize on technical synergies. These products and services cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir and correspond to a number of markets in which Schlumberger Oilfield Services holds leading positions. The Technologies are also responsible for overseeing operational processes, resource allocation, personnel, and quality, health, safety and environmental matters in the GeoMarkets. The Technologies are: · Wireline – provides the information necessary to evaluate the subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both open-hole and cased-hole services. · Drilling & Measurements – supplies directional-drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles. · Testing Services – provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. The Technology also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. · Well Services – provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. The services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation operations as well as intervention activities. The Technology also develops coiled-tubing equipment and services. · Completions – supplies well completion services and equipment that include gas-lift and safety valves as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. · Artificial Lift – provides production optimization services using electrical submersible pumps and associated equipment. Table of Contents Part 1, Item 1 · Data & Consulting Services – supplies interpretation and integration of all exploration and production data types, as well as expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, production enhancement, field development planning and multi-disciplinary reservoir and production solutions. · Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) – provides consulting, software, information management and IT infrastructure services that support core oil and gas industry operational processes. Supporting the Technologies are 22 research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Schlumberger Oilfield Services also offers customers its services through a business model known as Integrated Project Management (IPM). IPM combines the required services and products of the Technologies with drilling rig management expertise and project management skills to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. IPM projects are typically of multi-year duration and include start-up costs and significant third-party components that cover services that Schlumberger does not provide directly. Some projects may be fixed price in nature and may contain penalties for non-performance. Schlumberger Oilfield Services uses its own personnel to market its services and products. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services. There is a sharing of manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service, and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which varies geographically with respect to the different services offered. While there are numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes that it is an industry leader in providing wireline logging, well testing, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling and directional-drilling services, as well as fully computerized logging and geoscience software and computing services. A large proportion of Schlumberger offerings are non-rig related; consequently, revenue does not necessarily correlate to rig count fluctuations. Schlumberger is a 40% owner in M-I SWACO – a joint venture with Smith International, Inc. – which offers the drilling and completion fluids used to stabilize subsurface rock strata during the drilling process and minimize formation damage during completion and workover operations. WesternGeco, the world’s most technologically advanced surface seismic company, provides comprehensive reservoir imaging, monitoring and development services with the most extensive seismic crews and data processing centers in the industry as well as a leading multiclient seismic library. Services range from 3D and time-lapse (4D) seismic surveys to multi-component surveys for delineating prospects and reservoir management. WesternGeco benefits from full access to the Schlumberger research, development and technology organization and shares similar business risks, opportunities for growth, principal methods of competition and means of marketing as Schlumberger Oilfield Services. Seismic solutions include proprietary Q* technology for enhanced reservoir description, characterization and monitoring throughout the life of the field – from exploration through enhanced recovery. Other WesternGeco solutions include development of controlled-source electromagnetic and magneto-telluric surveys and their integration with seismic data. Positioned for meeting a full range of customer needs in land, marine and shallow-water transition-zone services, WesternGeco offers a wide scope of technologies and services: · Land Seismic – provides comprehensive resources for seismic data acquisition on land and across shallow-water transition zones. · Marine Seismic – provides industry-standard marine seismic acquisition and processing systems as well as a unique industry-leading, fully calibrated single-sensor marine seismic system that delivers the seismic technology needed for new-generation reservoir management. Table of Contents Part 1, Item 1 · Multiclient Services – supplies high-quality seismic data from the multiclient library, including industry-leading Q technology data. · Reservoir Services – provides people, tools and technology to help customers capture the benefits of a completely integrated approach to locating, defining and monitoring the reservoir. · Data Processing – offers extensive seismic data processing centers for complex data processing projects. · Electromagnetics – provides controlled-source electromagnetic and magneto-telluric data acquisition and processing. Acquisitions Information about acquisitions made by Schlumberger appears in Note 4 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. GENERAL Research Centers Research to support the engineering and development efforts of Schlumberger activities is principally conducted at Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; Cambridge, England; Stavanger, Norway; Moscow, Russia; and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Patents While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is considered material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Although weather and natural phenomena can temporarily affect delivery of oilfield services, the widespread geographic location of such services precludes the overall business from being characterized as seasonal. Customers and Backlog of Orders No single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Oilfield Services has no significant backlog due to the nature of its business. The WesternGeco backlog, which is based on signed contracts with customers, was $1.0 billion at December 31, 2009 ($1.8 billion at December 31, 2008). Employees As of December 31, 2009, Schlumberger had approximately 77,000 employees. Financial Information Financial information by business segment for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 is provided in Note 18 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. Available Information The Schlumberger Internet website is www.slb.com. Schlumberger uses it’s Investor Relations website, www.slb.com/ir, as a channel for routine distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. Schlumberger makes available free of charge on or through its Investor Relations website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports Table of Contents Part 1, Item 1, 1A on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Schlumberger’s corporate governance materials, including Board Committee Charters, Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of Ethics, may also be found at www.slb.com/ir. From time to time, corporate governance materials on our website may be updated to comply with rules issued by the SEC and the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) or as desirable to promote the effective governance of Schlumberger. Any stockholder wishing to receive, without charge, a copy of any of Schlumberger’s SEC filings should write to the Secretary, Schlumberger Limited, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056, USA. Schlumberger has filed the required certifications under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 to this Form 10-K. The information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Report and should not be considered part of this Report or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
| 2008 | Item 1. Business | All references in this report to “Registrant”, “Company”, “Schlumberger”, “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited and its consolidated subsidiaries. Founded in 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to customers working in the oil and gas industry worldwide. As of December 31, 2008, the Company employed approximately 87,000 people of over 140 nationalities operating in approximately 80 countries. Schlumberger has principal executive offices in Paris, Houston, and The Hague and consists of two business segments – Schlumberger Oilfield Services and WesternGeco. Schlumberger Oilfield Services provides the industry’s widest range of products and services from exploration to production, while WesternGeco is the world’s most technologically advanced surface seismic company. Schlumberger Oilfield Services is the world’s leading provider of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to the international oil and gas exploration and production industry. Schlumberger Oilfield Services manages its business through GeoMarket* regions, which are grouped into four geographic areas: North America, Latin America, Europe/CIS/Africa and Middle East & Asia. The GeoMarket structure offers customers a single point of contact at the local level for field operations and brings together geographically focused teams to meet local needs and deliver customized solutions. Schlumberger invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells. Today, Schlumberger Oilfield Services operates in each of the major oilfield service markets, providing services that cover the entire life cycle of the reservoir. These services, in which Schlumberger holds a number of market leading positions, are organized into a number of technology-based product and service lines, or Technologies, to capitalize on technical synergies and introduce innovative solutions within the GeoMarket regions. The Technologies are also responsible for overseeing operational processes, resource allocation, personnel and quality, health, safety and environmental matters in the GeoMarket. The Technologies are: · Wireline – provides the information necessary to evaluate the subsurface formation rocks and fluids to plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate well production. Wireline offers both open-hole and cased-hole services. · Drilling & Measurements – supplies directional-drilling, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles. · Well Testing – provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole. The Technology also provides tubing-conveyed perforating services. · Well Services – provides services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. The services include pressure pumping, well cementing and stimulation operations as well as intervention activities. The Technology also develops coiled-tubing equipment and services. · Completions – supplies well completion services and equipment that include gas-lift and safety valves as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment. · Artificial Lift – provides production optimization services using electrical submersible pumps and associated equipment. Table of Contents Part 1, Item 1 · Data & Consulting Services – supplies interpretation and integration of all exploration and production data types, as well as expert consulting services for reservoir characterization, production enhancement, field development planning and multi-disciplinary reservoir and production solutions. · Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) – provides consulting, software, information management and IT infrastructure products and services that support core oil and gas industry operational processes. Supporting the Technologies are 20 research and engineering centers. Through this organization, Schlumberger is committed to advanced technology programs that enhance oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery and increase asset value while accomplishing these goals in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Schlumberger Oilfield Services also offers customers its services through a business model known as Integrated Project Management (IPM). IPM combines the required products and services of the Schlumberger Technologies with drilling rig management expertise and project management skills to provide a complete solution to well construction and production improvement. IPM projects are typically of multi-year duration and include start-up costs and significant third-party components that cover services that Schlumberger does not provide directly. Some projects may be fixed price in nature and may contain penalties for non-performance. Schlumberger Oilfield Services uses its own personnel to market its products and services. The customer base, business risks and opportunities for growth are essentially uniform across all services. There is a sharing of manufacturing and engineering facilities as well as research centers, and the labor force is interchangeable. Technological innovation, quality of service, and price differentiation are the principal methods of competition, which varies geographically with respect to the different services offered. While there are numerous competitors, both large and small, Schlumberger believes that it is an industry leader in providing wireline logging, well testing, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling and directional-drilling services, as well as fully computerized logging and geoscience software and computing services. A large proportion of Schlumberger offerings are non-rig related; consequently, revenue does not necessarily correlate to rig count fluctuations. Schlumberger is a 40% owner in M-I SWACO – a joint venture with Smith International – which offers the drilling and completion fluids used to stabilize subsurface rock strata during the drilling process and minimize formation damage during completion and workover operations. WesternGeco, the world’s most technologically advanced seismic company, provides comprehensive reservoir imaging, monitoring and development services with the most extensive seismic crews and data processing centers in the industry as well as a leading multiclient seismic library. Services range from 3D and time-lapse (4D) seismic surveys to multi-component surveys for delineating prospects and reservoir management. WesternGeco benefits from full access to the Schlumberger research, development and technology organization and shares similar business risks, opportunities for growth, principal methods of competition and means of marketing as Schlumberger Oilfield Services. Seismic solutions include proprietary Q* technology for enhanced reservoir description, characterization and monitoring throughout the life of the field—from exploration through enhanced recovery. Other WesternGeco solutions include development of controlled-source electromagnetic and magneto-telluric surveys and their integration with seismic data. Positioned for meeting a full range of customer needs in land, marine and shallow-water transition-zone services, WesternGeco offers a wide scope of technologies and services: · Land Seismic – provides comprehensive resources for seismic data acquisition on land and across shallow-water transition zones. Table of Contents Part 1, Item 1 · Marine Seismic – provides industry-standard marine seismic acquisition and processing systems as well as a unique industry-leading, fully calibrated single-sensor marine seismic system that delivers the seismic technology needed for new-generation reservoir management. · Multiclient Services – supplies high-quality seismic data from the multiclient library, including industry-leading Q technology data. · Reservoir Services – provides people, tools and technology to help customers capture the benefits of a completely integrated approach to locating, defining and monitoring the reservoir. · Data Processing – offers extensive seismic data processing centers for complex data processing projects. · Electromagnetics – provides controlled-source electromagnetic and magneto-telluric data acquisition and processing. Acquisitions Information about acquisitions made by Schlumberger appears in Note 4 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. GENERAL Research Centers Research to support the engineering and development efforts of Schlumberger activities is principally conducted at Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; Cambridge, England; Stavanger, Norway; Moscow, Russia; and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Patents While Schlumberger seeks and holds numerous patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is considered material to Schlumberger’s business. Seasonality Although weather and natural phenomena can temporarily affect delivery of oilfield services, the widespread geographic location of such services precludes the overall business from being characterized as seasonal. Customers and Backlog of Orders No single customer exceeded 10% of consolidated revenue. Oilfield Services has no significant backlog due to the nature of its business. The WesternGeco backlog at December 31, 2008 was $1.8 billion (2007: $1.2 billion), of which an estimated $1.3 billion is expected to be realized in 2009. Government Contracts No material portion of Schlumberger’s business is subject to renegotiation of profits or termination of contracts by the United States or other governments. Employees As of December 31, 2008, Schlumberger had approximately 87,000 employees. Table of Contents Part 1, Item 1, 1A Financial Information Financial information by business segment for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006 is provided in Note 18 of the Consolidated Financial Statements. Available Information The Schlumberger Internet website can be found at www.slb.com. Schlumberger makes available free of charge on or through its Internet website at www.slb.com/ir access to its Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, its proxy statement and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Internet website at www.sec.gov. Schlumberger’s corporate governance materials, including Board Committee Charters, Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of Ethics, may also be found at www.slb.com/ir. From time to time, corporate governance materials on our website may be updated to comply with rules issued by the SEC and the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) or as desirable to promote the effective governance of Schlumberger. In addition, amendments to the Code of Ethics and any grant of a waiver from a provision of the Code of Ethics requiring disclosure under applicable SEC or NYSE rules will be disclosed on our website. Any stockholder wishing to receive, without charge, a copy of any of the SEC filings or corporate governance materials should write to the Secretary, Schlumberger Limited, 5599 San Felipe, 17th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056, USA. Schlumberger has filed the required certifications under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 to this Report. In 2008, Schlumberger submitted to the NYSE the CEO certification required by Section 303A.12(a) of the NYSE’s Listed Company Manual. The information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Report and should not be considered part of this Report or any other filing Schlumberger makes with the SEC. | 10-K |
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