Schlumberger WesternGeco: Wins Patent Case Against ION Geophysical covering Streamer Technologies
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed the 2014 judgment that ION Geophysical Corp. infringed four seminal WesternGeco LLP patents covering streamer steering technology for marine seismic surveys, and that WesternGeco is the rightful owner of the pioneering technology. In 2009, WesternGeco filed suit for patent …
Schlumberger Announces Agreement to Acquire SPT Group
Schlumberger announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Altor Fund II to acquire SPT Group—a privately owned software company specialized in dynamic modeling for the oil and gas industry. The company provides a combination of software and consulting services for multiphase flow and reservoir engineering applications. Closing …
Schlumberger Releases Petrel Play-to-Prospect Risk Assessment
New Petrel Capabilities Delivered to Help De-risk Exploration Prospects Schlumberger today announced the release of the Play-to-Prospect Risk plug-in for the Petrel* E&P software platform. This technology offers an integrated petroleum-system-based assessment to consistently evaluate key risk elements from play to prospect. “Statistics show that, on average, two of three …