Schlumberger Limited is the leading oilfield services company supplying technology, project management and information solutions that optimise performance for customers working in the international oil and gas industry.

Founded in 1927, today the company employs over 52,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in 100 countries.
The company comprises two business segments. Schlumberger Oilfield Services supplies a wide range of products and services from formation evaluation through directional drilling, well cementing and stimulation, well completions and productivity to consulting, software, information management and IT infrastructure services that support core industry operational processes. WesternGeco, jointly owned with Baker Hughes, is the world's largest seismic company and provides advanced acquisition and data processing services.

Organisation
Schlumberger manages its business through 27 GeoMarket regions, which are grouped into three geographic areas: North and South America, Europe, CIS and Africa, and Middle East and 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 customised solutions. Working together with the company's technology segments, the GeoMarkets provide a powerful conduit through which information and know-how flow to the customers, and through which Schlumberger engineers and geoscientists maximise technological synergies over the entire life of the field.

Schlumberger Products, Services  and Solutions
Schlumberger services and solutions combine domain expertise, best practices, safe and environmentally sound well site operations, innovative technologies, and high-quality support aimed at helping its customers increase oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximise reserve recovery, and increase asset value in a safe, environmentally sound manner.
Today, Schlumberger Oilfield Services solutions include open-hole and cased-hole wireline logging; drilling services; well services, such as cementing, coiled tubing, stimulations and sand control; well completion services including well testing and artificial lift; interpretation and consulting services; and integrated project management. Strong technical and operational support to the field is vital to the success of any complex global operation that includes remote locations. The key is to provide real-time linkage with world-class experts and knowledge, delivering the latest and best problem-solving capabilities -- anywhere, anytime. The company's InTouchsupport.com knowledge management tool improves field access to Schlumberger technology centers through the most advanced IT tools, 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
Enhancing core E&P operations to improve production, increase reserves and drill better wells requires the integration of innovative information technology.
Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) offers a unique combination of people and processes, technology and infrastructure, and real-time IT enablers -- delivering key value-adding solutions to overcome a myriad of challenges confronting industry operational processes.
SIS offers information management, software technology and infrastructure services. Combined with the domain experience available through the Business Consulting group, these enable oil and gas companies to enhance their workflows and achieve their goals.
As the industry's focus is moving towards maximising post-plateau production and ultimate recovery, oil companies face more and more resource-intensive projects. Integrated Project Management (IPM) is the Schlumberger response to this challenge and a significant growth area for Schlumberger.
IPM activity is characterised by long-term relationships between the customer and Schlumberger. It offers a combination of engineering, process management and understanding of Schlumberger segment technologies.

WesternGeco
WesternGeco provides comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring, and development services, with the most extensive seismic crews and data processing centres in the industry, as well as the world's largest multiclient seismic library. Services range from 3D and time-lapse (4D) seismic surveys to multicomponent surveys for delineating prospects and reservoir management.
Seismic solutions include proprietary Q-Technology for enhanced reservoir description, characterisation, and monitoring throughout the life of the field -- from exploration through enhanced recovery. Q single-sensor hardware and software are setting a new quality and capability standard for seismic solutions.
The company's Omega Seismic Processing System encompasses the industry's most advanced and comprehensive suite of algorithms and runs on multi-platform technology, ensuring timely turnaround for even the most complex processing projects.
WesternGeco is jointly owned by Schlumberger (70 per cent) and Baker Hughes (30 per cent).