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SLB
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SLB, the company long called Schlumberger, sells drilling, completions, and production services plus the DELFI subsurface software platform. Halliburton and Baker Hughes are the integrated rivals, and national oil companies award the big tenders.
Overview
SLB is based in Houston and works in most producing countries. An integrated project for Saudi Aramco, ADNOC, or Petrobras can bundle drilling, measurements, and completions for a field, and the winner staffs that work for years.
Halliburton is the closest US peer on pressure pumping and completions, and Baker Hughes overlaps equipment and LNG-related kit. OneSubsea, the subsea joint arrangement SLB leads, supplies equipment that stays on the seabed for the life of the well.
DELFI and related digital tools hold well data, interpretations, and workflows. An operator that has built its subsurface models there faces a migration if it wants another software standard, which is a different lock-in from the rig contract.
Competition footprint
Integrated tenders from national oil companies award multi-year, field-scale work.
Subsea equipment installed on a well is a long-lived SLB or rival system.
DELFI projects store the interpretations engineers reuse on the next well.
Consumer & business angle
A national oil company that awards SLB an integrated contract is choosing the crews and the downhole tools for that field.
Geoscientists who built models in DELFI carry that project history in SLB's environment.
What to watch
- Integrated-project awards by Aramco, ADNOC, Petrobras, and other national oil companies.
- Whether operators keep subsurface workflows in DELFI or split them to another platform.
Markets
oilfield services · well construction · subsurface software
Also known as: schlumberger, slb
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