“Important partner of the PSO” joined the sanctions against Russia. Sakhalin.Info

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17:14 March 19, 2022, updated 10:14 March 20, 2022

Sergei Vasiliev

One of the largest international oilfield service companies, Schlumberger Corporation, has announced that it has joined the international sanctions against Russia. On the company’s official website reported on the suspension of new investments and the introduction of technologies in operations on the territory of the country due to the situation in Ukraine.

Schlumberger is one of the key oilfield service contractors in the Sakhalin Region. The company works both with large Russian companies (for example, Rosneft) and with international projects of Sakhalin Energy and Exxon Neftegaz Limited operating on the shelf of the island.

Since 1996, a representative office of the international oilfield services giant has been operating in the region, industrial sites have been deployed in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Kholmsk and Okha. In 2017, the company reported that it had about 800 workershalf of which are islanders.

In recent years, the company has been actively cooperating with regional authorities in projects related to the localization of the main oilfield services operations on the island, and has also been engaged in the introduction of new technologies in hydrocarbon production. In 2019, Governor Valery Limarenko named the enterprise “important partner Government of the Sakhalin Region”. In 2020, the company announced plans to create another production facility on Sakhalin with a total investment of almost 2 billion rubles and hundreds of new jobs.

Updated yesterday at 18:34

The second largest oilfield service contractor in the world, Halliburton, has also joined the anti-Russian sanctions. In a company statement talking about the suspension of activities in the country. The enterprise is one of the key contractors for oil and gas companies operating on Sakhalin.

Updated today at 10:14

On the suspension of new investments in Russian projects also declared at Baker Hughes. This company operates in more than 120 countries. It is engaged in the supply of technologies and equipment for oil and gas production, well drilling and so on.