
In Code We Trust: Why your computer makes mistakes
Aug 18, 2023
Are the computations performed by our computers accurate? The answer to this question is very clear: computers can "make mistakes."
Emmanuel Malvesin · August 18, 2023 · 12 min read

Future Ready Talent: Preparing Energy Experts for the AI Era
Jun 29, 2023
The digital transformation of the energy industry is lauded publicly for delivering gigantic leaps in performance across organizations.
Trygve Randen · June 29, 2023 · 5 min read

Building and Managing High-Performing AI Teams in the Energy Industry: Lessons from the Embedded AI Lab
Jun 15, 2023
Discover valuable insights on how to construct, organize, and manage AI teams for optimal performance in the energy industry. Gain expert advice and learn from the four years of success at the Embedded AI Lab. Read now!
Josselin Kherroubi · June 15, 2023 · 10 min read

Automated coffee makers, self-driving cars, and the future of production operations
Apr 17, 2023
If coffee machines can make coffee without any manual intervention, why can't oil or gas wells automatically inject inhibitors to improve uptime?
Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar: April 17, 2023 · 9 min read

Agile innovation for the Energy Transition
Mar 01, 2023
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

Seven essential elements of production domain analytics success
Feb 13, 2023
We have entered the ‘edge’ era in the energy sector—striving for new insights and intelligent actions through automation and machine learning (ML).
Yves-Marie Subervie · February 13, 2023 · 7 min read
Code4kids retrospective: how four guys from SLB launched an initiative to teach coding to children
Nov 28, 2022
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)
Nov 18, 2022
A brief introduction to 3D (and how to make money with it)
November 8, 2022 · 9 min read

User Experience Sorcery in the Realm of Energy
May 12, 2022
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

Production Operations – the imperatives to evolve, and an extraordinary new world of opportunity
Feb 15, 2022
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

The Power of CO2—Enhanced Oil Recovery for Unconventional Reservoirs
Feb 09, 2022
...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

AI—Taking the Guesswork Out of Well Engineering
Jan 27, 2022
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

How we deploy machine learning to rapidly reduce drilling times
Nov 29, 2021
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

Digital Transformation for Production Chemistry
Nov 09, 2021
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

Scaling the Mountain to Global CCS and Low Carbon Hydrogen Production
Oct 28, 2021
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

From ML to Explainable ML - How it Applies to Drilling Tools
Aug 31, 2021
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

Autonomous Operations - Age of Artificial Intelligence
Aug 17, 2021
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

Expanding DELFI Reach Portability
Jun 22, 2021
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

INNOVATION FACTORI - Innovation for business impact
Jun 21, 2021
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

The Evolving Role of the Geoscientist for a Sustainable Future
Apr 06, 2021
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

The Value of Well Barrier Schematics
Mar 04, 2021
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

Battery Technology
Feb 23, 2021
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

In the Shoes of a Schlumberger Fellow
Feb 08, 2021
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

Art vs Science - Evolution of the Digital Driller
Jan 15, 2021
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

Using Blockchain and Market Mechanism to Unlock Investment in Carbon Reduction
Jan 08, 2021
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

Quantum Computing Applications for the Energy Industry
Dec 16, 2020
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

Modeling Hydraulic Fractures
Nov 30, 2020
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

Hydrogen on the Horizon
Nov 17, 2020
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

The Birth of the ExplorePlan Accelerated Exploration Planning Solution
Oct 30, 2020
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

Top 10 Success Factors for Effective Machine Learning Projects
Oct 30, 2020
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

Academia meets Corporate
Oct 14, 2020
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

Reservoir Simulation for CO2 Studies
Oct 06, 2020
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

Virtual Twin in Oilfield
Oct 01, 2020
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

Order Leadtime - Predict the Unpredictable
Sep 24, 2020
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

The power of offset well knowledge… buried on reports?
Sep 15, 2020
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

Digital has always been in our DNA!
Sep 09, 2020
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

Applications of mathematics to real world problems: a research career from medical imaging to oil business
Aug 26, 2020
It all starts with a female postdoc position in Norway...
Aicha Bounaim · Aug 26, 2020 · 7 min Read

Data Science for All!
Aug 18, 2020
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

Analog to digital: Field geology and collaboration through the lens of a simple geologist and a 4K drone
Aug 04, 2020
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

Digitalization for Subsea Asset Integrity Inspection: Bridging the Gap between Human Operators and Intelligent Robots
Jul 28, 2020
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

A short history of geomechanics in Schlumberger
Jul 21, 2020
How the fledgling software, Petrel, grew into multifunctional industry-favorite, the Petrel E&P software platform...
Juliane Heiland · Jul 21, 2020 · 5 min Read

20 years of Petrel: From a precious dongle… to DELFI Petrotechnical Suite
Jul 14, 2020
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

Leveraging AI to support managers with Insights for improving employee performance appraisal
Jul 07, 2020
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

When mechanics meets sub-surface modeling
Jun 30, 2020
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

Towards an unstructured future
Jun 23, 2020
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

Natural Language Processing: The New Frontier in Oil and Gas
Jun 16, 2020
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

Solving the challenge of seismic data management—from compression to open-sourcing
Jun 12, 2020
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

How GPM made its way into the Petrel platform. A technical journey… or is it?
Jun 02, 2020
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

Digital Transformation - Understanding the "How"
May 27, 2020
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

A Slightly Biased Short History of Geostatistics
May 19, 2020
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

Digital Transformation—Starting with "Why"
May 15, 2020
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

AI – project initiation tips
May 11, 2020
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

Energized Collaboration
Apr 15, 2020
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