Item 1. B usiness.

All references in this report to “Registrant,” “Company,” “SLB,” “we” or “our” are to Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V.) and its consolidated subsidiaries.

We are SLB, a global technology company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. With a global presence in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating energy technology, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition.

Today, the world faces the challenge of providing secure and affordable energy to meet growing demand, while rapidly decarbonizing for a sustainable future. With nearly a century of market and technology leadership, SLB is well positioned and committed to being a leader in providing solutions to address this trilemma.

In October 2022, we changed our brand name to SLB and unveiled a new logo that underscores our vision for a decarbonized energy future. This bold change highlighted our leadership as a global technology company focused on driving energy innovation within traditional energy sources and beyond. The SLB brand builds on nearly a century of technology innovation and industrialization. Our identity symbolizes SLB's commitment to moving farther and faster in facilitating the world's energy needs today and forging the road ahead for a sustainable future.

SLB is organized under four Divisions that combine and integrate SLB’s technologies, enhancing our ability to support the emerging long-term growth opportunities in each of these market segments. The four Divisions are:

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Digital & Integration

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Reservoir Performance

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Well Construction

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Production Systems

Digital & Integration – Combines SLB’s industry-leading digital solutions and data products with its integrated offering of Asset Performance Solutions (“APS”). This Division enables greater performance for our customers by reducing cycle times and risk, accelerating returns, increasing productivity, and lowering costs and carbon emissions.

The primary offerings comprising this Division are:

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Digital solutions: Includes products, services, and solutions that span the energy value chain from subsurface characterization through field development and hydrocarbon production to carbon management and the integration of adjacent energy systems. Offerings are founded upon proprietary and open-source data platform technologies, industry-leading simulators and workflow tools, and include domain-specific application of innovative digital capabilities, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Solutions are deployable on traditional on-premise IT infrastructures, the cloud, and the edge, allowing for full market coverage irrespective of customer constraints.

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Exploration data and data processing: Provides comprehensive worldwide reservoir interpretation and data processing services, enabled by a scientifically advanced platform and innovative subsurface imaging techniques for exploration data, and includes one of the industry’s most extensive exploration data libraries.

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Asset Performance Solutions: Offers an integrated business model for field production projects. Combines SLB’s services and products with drilling rig management and specialized engineering and project management expertise, to provide a complete solution from well construction to production improvement. As of December 31, 2023, SLB’s APS portfolio primarily consisted of three field production projects in Ecuador and one in Canada.

Reservoir Performance – Consists of reservoir-centric technologies and services that are critical to optimizing reservoir productivity and performance. Reservoir Performance develops and deploys innovative technologies and services to evaluate, intervene, and stimulate reservoirs providing customers with greater insights into their assets and maximizing their return on investment.

The primary offerings comprising this Division are:

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Wireline: Provides the information necessary to evaluate subsurface geology and fluids to plan and monitor well construction and to monitor and evaluate well production through both openhole and cased hole services, including wireline logging and perforating.

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Testing: Provides exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and downhole supported by a network of laboratories that facilitate rock and fluid characterization.

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Stimulation and Intervention: Provides services used during well completions, as well as those used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well, including pressure pumping, well stimulation, and coiled tubing equipment for downhole mechanical well intervention and coiled-tubing drilling, reservoir monitoring, and downhole data acquisition.

Well Construction – Combines the full portfolio of products and services to optimize well placement and performance, maximize drilling efficiency, and improve wellbore assurance. Well Construction provides operators and drilling rig manufacturers with services and products related to designing and constructing a well.

The primary offerings comprising this Division are:

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Drilling & Measurements: Provides mud logging services for geological and drilling surveillance, directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling, and logging-while-drilling services for all well profiles as well as engineering support.

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Drilling Fluids: Supplies individually engineered drilling fluid systems that improve drilling performance and maintain well control and wellbore stability throughout drilling operations.

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Drill Bits: Designs, manufactures, and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all drilling environments.

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Drilling Tools: Includes a wide variety of bottomhole assembly and borehole enlargement technologies for drilling operations.

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Well Cementing: Provides products and services that secure and protect well casings while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore activity.

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Integrated Well Construction: Provides integrated solutions to construct or change the architecture (re-entry) of wells, including well planning, well drilling, engineering, supervision, logistics, procurement and contracting of third parties, and drilling rig management.

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Rigs and Equipment: Provides drilling equipment, including pressure control equipment and rotary drilling equipment, and services for shipyards, drilling contractors, operators, and rental tool companies, as well as land drilling rigs and related services.

Production Systems – Develops technologies and provides expertise that enhance production and recovery from subsurface reservoirs to the surface, into pipelines, and to refineries. Production Systems provides a comprehensive portfolio of equipment and services including subsurface production systems, subsea and surface equipment and services, and midstream production systems.

The primary offerings comprising this Division are:

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Artificial Lift: Provides production equipment and optimization services using electrical submersible pumps, gas lift equipment, progressing cavity pumps, and surface horizontal pumping systems.

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Completions Equipment: Supplies well completion services and equipment that include packers, safety valves, and sand control technology, as well as a range of intelligent well completions technology and equipment.

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Surface: Designs and manufactures onshore and offshore platform wellhead systems and processing solutions, including valves, chokes, actuators, and surface trees, and provides services to operators.

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Valves: Serves portions of the upstream, midstream, and downstream markets and provides valve products that are primarily used to control and direct the flow of hydrocarbons as they are moved from wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines, and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants, and industrial centers for processing.

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Processing: Enables efficient monetization of subsurface assets using standard and custom-designed onshore, offshore, and downstream processing and treatment systems, as well as unique, reservoir-driven, fit-for-purpose integrated production systems for accelerating first production and maximizing project economics.

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OneSubsea™: Provides integrated solutions, products, systems, and services for the subsea market, including integrated subsea production systems involving wellheads, subsea trees, manifolds and flowline connectors, control systems, connectors and services designed to maximize reservoir recovery and extend the life of each field.

On October 2, 2023, SLB, Aker Solutions (“Aker”), and Subsea7 closed their previously announced joint venture. The new business, OneSubsea, will drive innovation and efficiency in subsea production by helping customers unlock reserves and reduce cycle time. OneSubsea now comprises SLB’s and Aker’s subsea businesses, which include an extensive complementary subsea production and processing technology portfolio, world-class manufacturing scale and capacity, access to industry-leading reservoir and digital domain expertise, unique pore-to-process integration capabilities, and strengthened research and development capabilities. SLB owns 70% of the joint venture, while Aker owns 20% and Subsea7 owns 10%. As the majority owner and controlling entity, SLB is considered the acquirer and reflects OneSubsea as a consolidated subsidiary in its Consolidated Financial Statements.

SLB's four Divisions operate through a geographical structure of four Basins that are aligned with critical concentrations of activity: Americas Land, Offshore Atlantic, Middle East & North Africa, and Asia. The Basins are configured around common regional characteristics that enable us to deploy fit-for-purpose technologies, operating models, and skills to meet the specific customer needs in each Basin. The Basins are further organized into GeoUnits, which can be a region, a single country, or made up of several countries. With a strong focus on customers, the Basins identify opportunities for growth, and are focused on agility, responsiveness, and competitiveness.

Supporting the Divisions is a global network of research and development centers. Through these centers we advance SLB’s technology programs to enhance industry efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery, and increase asset value safely, securely, and sustainably. These centers also support SLB's New Energy investments in lower carbon energy sources and carbon capture technologies.

Corporate Strategy

The evolving marketplace will require bold new technologies and ideas, digital transformation and a deep commitment to sustainability. With a balanced energy transition in mind, our strategy is focused on three engines of growth: Core, Digital and New Energy.

Core

Consisting of our Reservoir Performance, WeIl Construction and Production Systems Divisions, Core remains SLB’s largest engine of growth. Building on decades of technology advancement, we will continue innovating new products, services and technologies that make the exploration, development and production of oil and gas assets cleaner, more resilient, and more efficient, with lower carbon emissions and less impact on the environment.

We continue to build on our fit-for-basin approach and technology access initiatives, developing bespoke and custom technology tailored to the regions and environments in which we operate. This strategy allows us to address the rapid evolution of our industry into more regional markets, each with distinct resource plays and economics.

With the continued growth of digitally enabled technologies that improve efficiency and performance, including our Transition Technologies™ portfolio and our SLB End-to-end Emissions Solutions (SEES) methane elimination business, SLB provides solutions that enable customers to increase production from their reserves at a competitive cost and at a lower carbon intensity per barrel equivalent.

Digital

Digital capabilities continue to grow throughout the energy industry as a key element of the complex systems required to meet current energy demand and to harness the promise of a lower-carbon future. SLB is uniquely positioned to support customers on their digital journeys by managing data migration, workflow redesign, and transition to the cloud.

SLB’s customers have access to leading digital products and services that help to meet their sustainability goals by driving transparency, better measurement, more effective planning, and more impactful and reliable outcomes. To continue elevating customer offerings, we are accelerating the adoption of our proprietary cloud offering Delfi™, enabling enterprise data management, delivering autonomous operations, and innovating through domain-driven artificial intelligence.

Our cloud-based solutions allow our customers to transition from our established software applications to our Delfi digital platform, and shift from a user-based license model to software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions. This enables customers to evolve from legacy infrastructure and deliver new levels of value creation, with access to key resources such as storage and computing from our cloud partners and access to our industry-leading simulators. Our evolving offering of on-premises solutions allows us to support the digital transition journey of customers that prefer or are required to maintain data solutions locally.

New Energy

New Energy offers a significant opportunity to use SLB’s experience and scale to drive innovation for a low-carbon economy spanning industries beyond oil and gas. We are building a broad, diverse portfolio across New Energy sectors, selected for their materiality and adjacency to existing SLB strengths and our ability to offer differentiated technology.

Our New Energy portfolio builds on several fundamental SLB strengths: our unique subsurface domain expertise, applicable beyond oil and gas; our ability to design and deploy complex processing and production systems as an original equipment manufacturer; our differentiated track record for innovation and industrialization; and our ability to deploy at scale in any region of the world with local knowledge and talent.

SLB will continue building businesses and forging partnerships across various industries to focus on five key areas: carbon solutions, hydrogen, geothermal and geoenergy, stationary energy storage, and critical minerals. Our ambition is to seed technology capabilities in each of these domains, and then grow throughout the decade, ultimately scaling our New Energy offering into the Company’s fastest growing and largest division.

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Carbon Solutions:Carbon capture, and sequestration (“CCS”) is critical to advancing decarbonization and achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. With industry-leading reservoir modeling capabilities, SLB has been in the CCS business for more than three decades. The Company is actively progressing CCS technologies to enable widespread adoption of CCS and is going beyond subsurface characterization and well construction to include capture technology, project economics, technology selection, and permitting. In addition, SLB is developing digital platforms to support emissions management for carbon and methane that will allow clients to measure, monitor, and plan abatement strategies.

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Hydrogen: SLB is investing in low-carbon hydrogen generation technologies. One such investment is Genvia, a unique private-public partnership that combines SLB’s expertise and experience with that of the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission and partners. Genvia aims to deliver the most efficient and cost-effective solid oxide electrolyzer technology for producing clean hydrogen in hard-to-abate industrial settings—a key component of the energy transition.

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Geothermal and Geoenergy: Geothermal power leverages the heat of the earth to generate electricity or provide heat directly, by tapping into subsurface hot water and steam zones that are continuously recharged, both naturally and by injection. Geoenergy uses the ambient temperatures beneath the earth's surface to act as a thermal battery and dramatically reduce energy consumption from heating and cooling buildings, electrify and, therefore, drive both efficiency and decarbonization.

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Stationary Energy Storage: Stationary energy storage is a key enabler to make variable renewable energy sources (such as solar or wind) a larger component of the world’s electricity systems enabling power to be delivered in the right place, at the right time, to meet demand. As renewables become a greater percentage of the energy mix, the need increases for additional long-duration energy storage to ensure the efficiency of renewable assets and the reliability of electricity systems.

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Critical Minerals: SLB is applying its knowledge of extraction technologies and processing to the location and sources of critical minerals, such as lithium from brine deposits, that will be required to support the energy transition.

Sustainability

SLB’s emissions reduction strategy is at the center of our identity and vision, and our commitment to a sustainable future is underscored by bold science-backed targets aligned with the Paris Agreement. In 2021, SLB became the first company in the energy services industry to commit to a 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions target including all three emission scopes.

By setting targets based on SLB’s total 2019 baseline GHG footprint—inclusive of Scope 3 emissions (which accounted for approximately 95% of SLB’s baseline)—and not just its Scope 1 and 2 footprint, SLB’s comprehensive emissions reduction roadmap addresses the entire energy value chain.

SLB’s 2050 net-zero target is supported by the following interim milestones, using 2019 as the baseline year:

- by 2025, a 30% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions;

- by 2030, a 50% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; and

- by 2030, a 30% reduction in Scope 3 emissions.

SLB’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions primarily come from fuel use and electricity consumption. SLB’s Scope 3 emissions are indirect, such as emissions from customers’ use of SLB technology and emissions from our use of third-party goods and services.

There are three key components to SLB achieving the 2050 net-zero target: reducing operational emissions, reducing customer emissions that occur while using SLB technology, and taking carbon-negative actions of sufficient scale to offset any residual operating and technology emissions that the Company may have in 2050.

In tandem with our 2050 net-zero commitment, SLB introduced a portfolio of Transition Technologies™in 2021. This portfolio includes a select group of products and services that quantifiably reduce our customers’ GHG emissions footprint, while continuing to drive high performance, reliability, and efficiency. This portfolio is supported by an industry-leading impact quantification framework and will continue to grow as sustainability is further embedded in the Company’s research and development process.

Human Capital

As a leading global technology company that operates in more than 100 countries with a workforce of approximately 111,000 people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities, one of SLB’s greatest strengths is the diversity of our people. We believe that our ability to attract, develop, motivate, and retain a highly competent and diverse workforce has been paramount to our success for many decades. We recognize that cultivating diversity and promoting inclusion are essential to attracting the best talent from around the world and enabling creativity and innovation to drive business success. We believe our strong culture focused on workforce diversity, inclusivity, and learning and development results in the best possible working environment for all our people.

Workforce Diversity

SLB's long-standing commitment to national and cultural diversity is reflected in our workforce composition and our philosophy to recruit and develop people from the communities in which we operate. Our workforce nationality mix generally aligns with the revenue derived from the countries in which we work, as reflected in the charts below. This fosters a culture that is global in outlook, yet local in practice.

SLB also recognizes the importance of gender diversity as a source of creativity, innovation, and competitive advantage. We are committed to leading our industry in this area and, in this regard, a number of years ago we established goals of having women represent 25% of our salaried workforce by 2025 and 30% by 2030. As of December 31, 2023, women represented just under 25% of our salaried workforce.

Inclusivity

We are building on our diversity to foster a strong culture of inclusion, in which each person can feel accepted, respected, and empowered to perform at their best. SLB has numerous policies and programs to support our inclusive culture, including:

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a global Code of Conduct that outlines the standards of behavior and ethics that all employees are expected to follow, and that prohibits any form of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation;

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a global diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) strategy with a network of diversity and inclusion champions that promote DEI awareness and best practices; and

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a global mobility program that enables employees to gain international exposure and experience and develop cross-cultural competencies.

Learning and Development

SLB invests significantly in the learning and development of our people. We strive to identify talent early, and to provide employees who demonstrate exceptional performance with opportunities to progress to higher levels within the organization. This allows us to accelerate personal development while maximizing performance, fostering an agile workforce with the skills necessary to lead SLB today and into the future.

SLB believes that through diversity, inclusivity, and learning and development, we can support our people to reach their full potential which unlocks value for all of our stakeholders.

Competition

The principal methods of competition within the energy services industry are technological innovation, quality of service, and price differentiation. These factors vary geographically and are dependent upon the different services and products that SLB offers. SLB has numerous competitors, both large and small.

Intellectual Property

SLB owns or controls the industry’s leading portfolio of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, proprietary information, trade secrets, and software tools and applications that, in the aggregate, are material to SLB’s business. While SLB seeks and holds a significant number of patents covering various products and processes, no particular patent or group of patents is material to SLB’s business.

Seasonality

Seasonal changes in weather and significant weather events can temporarily affect the delivery of SLB’s products and services. For example, the spring thaw in Canada and other Northern climates and consequent road restrictions can affect activity levels, while the winter months in the North Sea, Russia, and China can produce severe weather conditions that can temporarily reduce levels of activity. In addition, hurricanes and typhoons can disrupt coastal and offshore operations. Furthermore, customer spending patterns for exploration

data, software, and other products may result in higher activity in the fourth quarter of the year as clients seek to fully utilize their annual budgets. Conversely, customer budget constraints in North America may lead to lower demand for our services and products in the fourth quarter of the year.

Customers

SLB’s primary customers are national oil companies, large integrated oil companies, and independent operators. No single customer exceeded 10% of SLB’s consolidated revenue during each of 2023, 2022 and 2021.

Governmental Regulations

SLB is subject to numerous environmental and other governmental and regulatory requirements related to its operations worldwide. For additional details, see “Item 1(a). Risk Factors – Legal and Regulatory Risks,” which is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.

Corporate Information

SLB was founded in 1926. Schlumberger Limited, the NYSE-listed parent of the SLB family of companies, is incorporated under the laws of Curaçao and has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London, and The Hague. The Company changed its brand name to SLB in 2022 but did not change the legal name of its listed parent company, which remains Schlumberger Limited.

Available Information

The SLB website is www.slb.com. SLB uses its Investor Relations website, https://investorcenter.slb.com/, as a routine channel for distribution of important information, including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. SLB makes available, free of charge through its Investor Relations website at https://investorcenter.slb.com/, access to its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of directors and executive officers, and amendments to each of those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the SEC. Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available, without charge, from SLB Investor Relations, 5599 San Felipe, Houston, Texas 77056. Unless expressly noted, the information on its website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Form 10-K or any other filing SLB makes with the SEC.

Information About Our Executive Officers

The following table sets forth, as of January 24, 2024, the names and ages of SLB’s executive officers, including all offices and positions held by each executive officer during the past five years.

Name	Age	Current Position and Five-Year Business Experience

Olivier Le Peuch	60	Chief Executive Officer and Director, since August 2019; Chief Operating Officer, February 2019 to July 2019; and Executive Vice President, Reservoir and Infrastructure, May 2018 to February 2019.

Khaled Al Mogharbel	53	Executive Vice President, Geographies, since July 2020; Executive Vice President, Operations, April 2019 to June 2020; Executive Vice President, Eastern Hemisphere, February 2019 to March 2019; and President, Eastern Hemisphere, May 2017 to January 2019.

Stephane Biguet	55	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since January 2020; and Vice President, Finance, December 2017 to January 2020.

Abdellah Merad	50	Executive Vice President, Core Services and Equipment, since April 2022; Executive Vice President, Performance Management, May 2019 to March 2022; and President, Production Group, October 2017 to April 2019.

Katharina Beumelburg	47	Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, since May 2021; Senior Vice President, Transmission Service, Siemens Energy, Siemens AG (a multinational industrial manufacturing company), April 2020 to May 2021; and Executive Vice President, Strategy, Siemens Gas and Power, Siemens AG, November 2016 to April 2020.

Demosthenis Pafitis	56	Chief Technology Officer, since February 2020; and Senior Vice President, SLB 4.0 Platforms, from December 2017 to January 2020.

Dianne Ralston	57	Chief Legal Officer, since December 2020, and Secretary, since April 2021; and Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary, TechnipFMC plc (a global oilfield services company), January 2017 to September 2020.

Carmen Rando Bejar	46	Chief People Officer, since April 2022; Vice President, Global Business Services, September 2019 to March 2022; and Operational Planning and Resource Manager, Drilling and Measurements, April 2018 to August 2019.

Rakesh Jaggi	54	President, Digital and Integration, since April 2023; Senior Vice President, Sales & Commercial, May 2019 to March 2023; and President, Completions, March 2017 to May 2019.

Gavin Rennick	49	President, New Energy, since April 2022; Vice President, Human Resources, February 2019 to March 2022; and President, Software Integrated Solutions, January 2017 to February 2019.

Kevin Fyfe	50	Vice President and Treasurer, since July 2022; and Vice President and Controller, October 2017 to June 2022.

Howard Guild	52	Chief Accounting Officer, since July 2005.

Ugo Prechner	46	Vice President and Controller, since August 2022; Well Construction Controller, July 2020 to July 2022; Controller Operations, August 2019 to June 2020; and M-I SWACO Controller, October 2017 to August 2019.

Vijay Kasibhatla	60	Director, Mergers and Acquisitions, since January 2013.

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