What is the latest in Belfast?

I am hearing first rounds of IT layoffs before the end of 1st quarter in Houston? Any Idea what's happening?

Almost as sad as my future and my career,share price is up, oil price is up but yet again layoffs, every day. All of them saying they never thought it would happen to them, they had client work, just came back to office after a month in field. But... — read more 

Schlumberger destroyed Smith.

This is gonna be a long and painful road... Is peak oil just 12 years away? Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts think so and are crediting the electric car boom for reduced consumption... — read more 

Hi, I quit SLB a few months ago. Any idea where to get my W-2 for 2017? I updated my addresses in the system before I quit, and I have my car loan with their credit union. Anything helps, thanks.

Kicking SLB in the behind and they do not have a transformation - how can this be happening? No transformation? No engage to excel but still they keep winning - any jobs there? HAL says Q4 revenue rose to $5.9B, 9% better than Q3, with North American... — read more 

Paal once again brought up the transformation in the conference call today. I mean, what is he smoking to think that the Transformation has had any positive effect. SLB has been transformed into a basket case waste of money and acquisitions that the... — read more 

There will be a lot of pain at 10,001 Richmond Ave, Houston and in Gatwick UK. Schlumberger is exiting the marine and land seismic acquisition market, and will turn WesternGeco into an asset-light business focused on multiclient, data processing, and... — read more 

They are wiping the floor with us in the USA but still Our managers tell us we are the best and the elite of the industry. If you are not the number one in your geomarket the manager must be fired. Let’s hire some talent from big red and learn a... — read more 

I would really want to know how is atmosphere in slb these days! Apparently lots of employees abuse. I would like to be corrected if I am wrong.

At Smith to get hired back take a big cut in pay from previous employment amount. Mostly hiring people that came from foreign countries . Definitely Schlumberger’s Hidden agenda.

So, the oil prices are rising. Will Schlumberger start calling laid off workers to come back?

Got laid off from Bits & Drilling Tools a week before Christmas last month. 8 people laid off including me - 62, 61, 60 (that was me) the rest were in the 50’s. Had 4 more months to retirement but it’s all about business climate right? This is what... — read more 

Slb has to move business model of sis to a normal industry practice like any other oil&gas or IT service company. Instead of having over populated local offices, support and services should be centralized and sale should be regional or area offices... — read more 

Im just curious, has schlumberger given any merit or pay increase since 2014? Also when you get new assigned role, what is the pay increase look like?

Will we be able to complete with equipment that’s been mothballed for years.

Layoff expected for January in Houston Area. I hope it won't be that big. Read this in another thread, does anybody know where this information came from? I haven't heard anything about Huston layoffs, and usually there's at least some kind of rumor... — read more 

We're coming SLUM. Be ready to be taught how its done in North America!

So after schlumberger stating they had far to many machining hours world wide and therefore could not keep open multiple manufacturing centres world wide they have decided to open a brand new state of the art manufacturing centre in saudi. Say good... — read more 

Looks like OneStim is finally dead along with Transformation!

Does anyone know what slb is going to do in 2018 in Tex if so tell me it would help..

Anyone has details or heard of this ? Apparently this is new extension to transformation program for 2018. Lord help us.

A lot were already laid off this month. It is really sad what is happening. For those not familiar, SKK developed and produces tools like [WL] Sonic Scanner, VSI, EDTC, PPC, MDT modules, and [DnM] SonicScope, among other tools. The rest of the people... — read more 

I have looked at the movies, the trainings and the marketing websites and I still cannot completely figure out what is DELFI. As far as I can tell, it is a web-based portal for accessing slb legacy applications on the cloud, plus one single native... — read more 

Rumor has it,slb is going to acquire Buy us (aker) and do what they did to Smith, I am so scared ,this is how slb is, unsinkable and merciless.

Seems to have gone very quiet. I would have thought that with all their super fast computers, Gallup would have processed the results ages ago.

and we should thank our Legacy Smith team! Although they manufacture miserable bits they're doing an outstanding job decorating our campuses. Finally a job well done!

Unfortunately it's the trend now in big businesses to treat people like cattle. You are just a number, and at the mercy of superiors who care about nothing more than advancing themselves. And they in turn are at the mercy of their superiors... — read more 

We at Baker Hughes would like to thank Schlumberger for the best Christmas gift of all. Your decision to move the Ponca plant has made us the unmistakable number one bit manufacturer in the world! Thank you for eliminating our competition. We hope... — read more 

Merry Christmas and happy holidays season to all my Christian,Muslim, Jewish, Hindu,Budhist, free thinkers, infidel, g--s, le---an,black,white,Asian,... But not to the jack a-- who fires people for personal gain.

The year 2017 is coming to an end soon. How was Q4 2017? Will SLB survive in 2018? Will PK still be the CEO with his greedy friends?

I heard that international staff will be offered transfers, all local staff will be offered severance package with few exceptions. Few of the local staff in management positions will also be offered some limited relocation and some key personnel that... — read more 

How are things in Belfast,? How many transfers? What is severance pay like? Any timeline?

It seems like layoffs are finally over. What do you think?

According to the Petroleum Economist Magazine - Schlumberger are service company of the year. Clearly the selection criteria included the employee input, engagement and motivation, direction and investment in people. Or was SLB the best of the rest? — read more