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Innovation comes in multiple shapes and sizes and is undoubtedly key to our success as a global technology company.
Pierre Ferron · March 1st, 2023 · 6 min read

We have entered the ‘edge’ era in the energy sector—striving for new insights and intelligent actions through automation and machine learning (ML).

Code4kids retrospective: how four guys from SLB launched an initiative to teach coding to children
Joan Abadie, Fabian Serin, Maxime Pinchon and Francois Vinyes · November 28th, 2022 · 5 min read

A brief introduction to 3D (and how to make money with it)
November 8, 2022 · 9 min read

Research is about questioning, and structuring users’ reality into knowledge, while design is about crafting information to build an intuitive and fluid experience...
Raphaël Vonthron · May 12, 2022 · 7 min Read

Schlumberger has over two decades of experience developing and implementing digital oilfield technologies and processes. Our singular goal has always been to create value b....
Colin JB Smith · Feb 15, 2022 · 7 min read

...there has been considerable interest in the application of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods. Among the EOR methods, injecting gases, primarily CO₂, N₂, and enriched natural gases can be applied in shale oil reservoirs...
Multiple Authors · Feb 09, 2022 · 6 min read

I will try to give you my approach about Artificial Intelligence in this industry. I will try to give you my approach about Artificial Intelligence...
Vyom Shrivastava · Jan 27, 2022 · 4 min read

Having been closely involved in rig operations for a large part of my career, I have spent several sleepless nights agonizing over the consequences of judgement calls I had made. I’m sure others feel the same; as ‘drillers’, us well engineers, field supervisors and drilling superintendents are required to navigate endless dilemmas daily...
Soumil Shah; Nov 29, 2021 · 5 min Read

Many clients view their production chemical program as an annoying cost, but to me it seems that this is driven by an overall level of dissatisfaction with their chemical programs...
Mike Van Spankeren  · Nov 9, 2021 · 8 min Read

With COP26 on the immediate horizon, the world is looking to governments, climate experts and industry to lay out decisive plans and commitments to keep global warming to well below 2°C...
Sam Tilley · Oct 28, 2021 · 3 min read

As ML models are increasingly finding their way across industry and society in general, there is a growing need to justify how and why these models provide specific outcomes...
Daniel Viassolo  · Aug 31, 2021 · 5 min Read

Automation, as the implementation of processes to perform activities towards a goal without human assistance, has been a key contributor to the evolution of humanity, saving us time, costs and opening playgrounds outside of human physical capabilities...
Filip Dvorak · Aug 06, 2021 · 12 min read

Enabling digitalization of the E&P workspace, providing access to AI-enhanced workflows, accessible data, and digital solutions in multi-cloud environments...
Ian Ambler · Jun 22, 2021 · 12 min Read

In the INNOVATION FACTORI we assemble new digital workflows from a rich library of emerging and available digital technology. When required, we create brand new digital technology solutions together...
Morten Jensen; Jun 21, 2021 · 9 min Read

For as far back as I can remember I have been passionate about social and environmental sustainability and the possibilities to advance this agenda within our sector...
Emer Caslin · Apr 6, 2021 · 8 min Read

More engineers are creating digital well barrier plans in one common cloud-based repository—with a two-barrier philosophy as the backbone—to plan for the safety of their wells throughout the entire life cycle...
Estelle Pettersen & Trine Bakke · Mar 4, 2021 · 3 min Read

After many years of scientific studies and through public discussions and even politically debating, it at least has become a common awareness that a sustainable society is vitally important for human-being. But how to maintain sustainability remains as divided approaches....
Wenlin Zhang · Feb 23, 2021 · 11 min Read

The oil industry is a model for all others in achievement and approach to human capital. Schlumberger, in particular, has been a guiding light even when navigating recent extremely difficult times.
Oliver C. Mullins  · Feb 08, 2021 · 7 min Read

There is no doubt in my mind that the best driller can out drill the best artificial intelligence (AI) out there. It’s not “go” that we are playing on the rig after all. If it would only be that simple!
Crispin Chatar  · Jan 15, 2021 · 9 min Read

One of the key issues in reducing emissions from large stationary sources like power plants or cement factories is the sheer cost associated with capturing the carbon dioxide and storing it underground. It is a daunting prospect even for large industrial players.
Damien Gerard  · Jan 08, 2021 · 5 min Read

Many have probably heard of quantum computing, including a lot of recent news about its promised ability to compute solutions to problems currently unachievable by even the largest supercomputer built to date.
Rodney Lessard  · Dec 16, 2020 · 10 min Read

Since the first hydraulic fracturing job in the 1940s the technology has evolved continuously. In North America, around 70 percent of the new wells drilled are horizontal wells that require hydraulic fracturing to produce at economical rates.
Raj Banerjee  · Nov 30, 2020 · 6 min Read

The world is changing rapidly, and the pandemic of 2020 has accelerated plans to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly in Europe. A growing number of governments are putting “net zero” targets into law...
David Snoswell  · Nov 17, 2020 · 7 min Read

Having recently launched the ExplorePlan accelerated planning solution to the market as a new cloud-native planning solution in the DELFI cognitive E&P environment designed for the exploration domain...
Sofie Nollet, Claire Castagnac & Fredrik Stabell  · Oct 30, 2020 · 7 min Read

For almost a decade now I have been involved in managing innovation centers, innovation programs and a wide range of industry collaborations to envision, develop and bring new solutions based on machine learning (ML) to our customers in petroleum and renewable energy.
Morten Jensen  · Oct 30, 2020 · 9 min Read

400+ Universities worldwide, 1500+ new key profile hires, 900+ interns per year, multiple consortiums and R&D collaborations… Those were numbers I saw when I became Director University Collaborations in 2018.
Marina Bulova  · Oct 14, 2020 · 4 min Read

Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) initiatives are making international headlines this year. Many governments are setting targets for carbon neutrality to be reached in the near future...
Marie Ann Giddins  · Oct 6, 2020 · 7 min Read

I love science fiction. Historically science fiction was the entrepreneurs’ inspiration and motivation source. By chance or not, but some of the “future” stuff came from science fiction....
Andrey Konchenko · Oct 1, 2020 · 6 min Read

To manage a high-performance supply chain, it is critical to understand exactly when products will be delivered and what the lead time for their delivery is. Lead time in this context ...
Luke van der Waals, Jairaj Shetty & Raj Kumar · Sep 24, 2020 · 5 min Read

I vividly remember that first taxi ride through the canals of The Hague, cruising through the streets on a cold night ...
Berenice Aldaz · Sep 15, 2020 · 6 min Read

Today, we may consider ourselves fortunate to live in a time of dramatic, rapid change, and witness the beginnings of the Fourth Industrial Revolution...
Peadar McKevitt · Sep 9, 2020 · 8 min Read

It all starts with a female postdoc position in Norway...
Aicha Bounaim · Aug 26, 2020 · 7 min Read

The energy industry is facing a dynamic business environment with significant economic pressures over the last few years, to say the least...
Sampath Reddy - Jimmy Klinger · Aug 18, 2020 · 8 min Read

As a young student I was searching for a direction, a new branch that would make sense. A couple of branches were already broken; art—couldn’t get in, mathematics—didn’t have the brain. Geology came as a surprising option...
Tormod Slettemeas · Aug 4, 2020 · 4 min Read

Various industries have started to take advantage of advanced technologies, such as computer vision, robotics to automate operations, increase production...
Nader Salman · Jul 28, 2020 · 3 min Read

How the fledgling software, Petrel, grew into multifunctional industry-favorite, the Petrel E&P software platform...
Juliane Heiland · Jul 21, 2020 · 5 min Read

How the fledgling software, Petrel, grew into multifunctional industry-favorite, the Petrel E&P software platform...
Caroline Le Turdu · Jul 14, 2020 · 6 min Read

It was an ordinary Schlumberger, passionate, discussion about business in Q2 of 2019 with a colleague in operations that triggered events leading...
Modhar Khan · Jul 7, 2020 · 4 min Read

During daytime I develop algorithms to better represent the sub-surface and work on Petrel’s Structural Modeling development project...
Thomas Laverne · Jun 30, 2020 · 3 min Read

When I started working on meshes, my mentor once told me “if you want a brilliant career that very few will ever notice, becoming an expert in meshes is the way to go”. And indeed, it certainly does not have the wide exposure...
Thomas Viard · Jun 23, 2020 · 5 min Read

You probably saw the news on the latest digital assistant that can book your next haircut appointment over the phone. And heard about the AI algorithm that can answer eighth grade elementary science questions...
Zikri Bayraktar · Jun 16, 2020 · 4 min Read

The challenges orbiting around seismic data are probably very peculiar and unique to our industry. The sizes of such data have grown...
Victor Aarre - Jimmy Klinger · Jun 12, 2020 · 12 min read

SIS VP of technology (Meyer B) asks myself & and Rod Laver (another getting-grey-hair-guy at the time) to go find some geoscience software that will make a difference...
Alex Wilson · Jun 2, 2020 · 14 min read

In our previous blog post, we’ve explored the importance of establishing the reason (i.e. the “Why”) to rally the organization to transform...
Alvin See · May 27, 2020 · 4 min Read

Geostatistics has deep roots. Some of the technical results date back to Kolmogorov and Wiener’s independent work on time series in the 1930s and 1940s...
Colin Daly · May 19, 2020 · 6 min Read

Searching Digital Transformation on the internet returns >400mn results. Yet many organizations find it difficult to put a finger on it with senior stakeholder feedback...
Alvin See · May 15, 2020 · 3 min Read

I will try to give you my approach about Artificial Intelligence in this industry. I will try to give you my approach about Artificial Intelligence...
Laurent Butre · Apr 15, 2020 · 4 min read

I have been fully immersed in the digital transformation movement for over 6 years now, establishing and leading the Schlumberger digital innovation center...
Morten Jensen · Apr 15, 2020 · 4 min read