The world’s biggest oilfield services provider, Schlumberger, is rebranding itself with a new name, logo, and color scheme that underscores its ambitions for a lower-carbon future, as mentioned by the firm on October 24.
The almost 100-year-old company, originally named after its founding family, has become a behemoth in oilfield services and equipment like drilling and subsurface analysis. However, it has already shed old-line products and recast itself as a digital services provider, and a supporter of cleaner energies.
Its rebranding is not a move away from fossil fuels as explained by Chief Executive Officer Olivier Le Peuch in an interview. However, it is a nod to how the renamed SLB can apply its extensive skills to create lower carbon businesses, most of which got a financial boost from the United States Inflation Reduction Act.
Renowned in the sector as “big blue,” SLB adopts a new light blue color and swooping logo that mainly reflects what Le Peuch stated signifies the carbon dioxide emissions abatement curve. He added:
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Le Peuch also noted that the renamed SLB can leverage its capabilities in areas like subsurface analysis to underpin budding technologies like sequestration and carbon capture. In 2020, it unveiled a New Energies business unit to explore carbon neutral and low-carbon technologies, and last year set a corporate net-zero target, which features Scope 3 emissions and those created by clients using its products.
Most of its oil-producing clients also are striving to embrace hydrogen and other renewable fuels, coupled with low-carbon production methods to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
