Thread regarding Schlumberger Ltd. layoffs

SLB to divest Smith and Cameron acquisitions rose focus on core SLB technologies away from commoditised capital intensive business

Is it a surprise ?

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Too little, too late. Schlumberger has never been ahead of the game.

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Post ID: @5fsy+14sml032

WHen SLB makes an acquisition and then puts a wireline manager in charge, you know the business is on the way to destruction. Just look at the wreckage they've left behind.

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Post ID: @5cwk+14sml032

Who in their right mind would buy M-I right now?

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Post ID: @3qtu+14sml032

Let’s see now

The track record of SLB in making huge acquisitions....mmmm

$5 billion for SEMA in 2001 just before the dot.com crash and then divested for a fraction of the price with billions of dollars squandered

Multi billions $ paid for Smith and Cameron just before the 2014 oil crash and soon to be sold off for a fraction of the price with billions of dollars squandered again and 2 world leading companies decimated by SLB management incompetence

Abysmal performance but yet the CEO walks away with multi million USD payoff and an annual Retirement salary

What a dysfunctional mess of a company. SLB should be banned from acquiring any other company again. Business schools can use the SLB blunders to show student how not to run an M&A strategy and what managerial incompetence really looks like

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Post ID: @1huz+14sml032

SLB destroyed M-I SWACO. Just like we knew they would.

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Post ID: @iox+14sml032

Would have been MUCH better off without SLB. Fact!

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Post ID: @fcr+14sml032

Where is the news source?
Cameroon, Smith, M-I were bad acquisitions.
Tired of hearing these sub business employees/ex-employee.
No, you would not have been better if schlumbertron hadn't had bought those companies.

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Post ID: @ynx+14sml032

Man I hope that includes M-I. They have destroyed the Florence Ky plant.

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