WesternGeco

WesternGeco

Infobox_Company
company_name = WesternGeco
company_
company_type = Owned by Schlumberger
company_slogan = None
foundation = 1933 (in 2000, company took on current name)
location = Primary offices in Gatwick, West Sussex, UK; Houston, Texas, USA; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
key_people = Dalton Boutte: President
num_employees =
products = Seismic Data Acquisition for both land and marine, Data Processing and Electromagnetics homepage = [http://www.westerngeco.com/ www.westerngeco.com]
revenue = US$2.963 billion (2007)
industry = Oilfield services

WesternGeco is the world's largest seismic contracting company. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the international oilfield services corporation Schlumberger Limited.

Business

WesternGeco provides worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring, and development services, and has the geophysical industry's most extensive survey crews and data processing centers and the world's largest multiclient data library. Its services include seismic surveys, reservoir management, and electromagnetic surveys.

Geophysicists at oil companies use seismic data to evaluate the potential for hydrocarbon production in an area, to determine new well locations, and to monitor that production from existing wells. The revenues of the company are closely tied to worldwide exploration and production activity, but the company does not itself make drilling decisions or produce hydrocarbons.

History

WesternGeco was formed by the merger in 2000 of two of the world's largest seismic contractors, Western Geophysical and Geco-Prakla. Schlumberger, owners of Geco-Prakla paid cash to Baker Hughes, which then owned Western, for a 70% stake in a joint venture of the combined companies. [http://newsroom.slb.com/press/newsroom/index.cfm?PRID=5061] . In May 2006, Schlumberger bought out Baker Hughes' 30% stake for a reported $2.4 billion, making WesternGeco one of its subsidiaries. [http://newsroom.slb.com/press/newsroom/index.cfm?PRID=20084] WesternGeco headquarters are in Gatwick, England.

See also

*List of oilfield service companies

External links

* http://www.westerngeco.com/


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