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Schlumberger has been operating in East Asia for more than 85 years. Our operations in the region began in 1935 in Malaysia, when Schlumberger engineers and equipment arrived from France to perform measurements on Sarawak oil wells.

Schlumberger provides services in the following East Asia countries:

  • Brunei
  • Malaysia
  • Myanmar
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam.

Our regional office is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and we have operation bases and facilities across the region.

We have exceptional people from around the world working in East Asia to provide leading digital solutions and deploy ground-breaking technologies that enable sustainable performance for the energy industry. Schlumberger employees of more than 70 nationalities live and work in East Asia, demonstrating our commitment to diversity and inclusion to stimulate creativity and innovation.

Contact Information

Schlumberger Malaysia East Asia Regional Office
Ground Floor, Wisma Rohas PureCircle
No. 9 Jalan P. Ramlee
50250 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

+603-21792888

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East Asia Case Studies & Resources

Our people, technologies, and services deliver real value for operators in East Asia.

Brunei

  • Cutaway view shows the Rhino XC on-demand hydraulically actuated reamer (top) and  the Rhino XS2 full-cycle expandable reamer (bottom).
    Shell Eliminates Need for Extra Cleanout Run in MPD Well, South China Sea

    Rhino XC and Rhino XS2 reamers reduce rathole length by 83% and drill 12,000 ft in HPHT well. View

  • Piranha Mill with Mud Motor Mills 9 5/8-in Casing from 363.11 m to 819 m Offshore Brunei
    Piranha Mill with Mud Motor Mills 9 5/8-in Casing from 363.11 m to 819 m Offshore Brunei

    Using a string stabilizer above the drillpipe increases the amount of swarf to surface in deep water. View

  • Openhole Gravel Packing of Fishhook Wells with Zonal Isolation-Uphill Heel to Toe Packing
    Openhole Gravel Packing of Fishhook Wells with Zonal Isolation-Uphill Heel to Toe Packing

    The mode of gravel transportation in openhole packing is determined by the deviation angle of the interval – typically a gravity assisted (bottom up) mode occurs for deviations less than 50 degrees and alpha-beta mode for deviations exceeding 60 degrees. View

  • Fit-for-Purpose BHA Design for Drilling Complex Wells Offshore Brunei Leads to New Industry Benchmark
    Fit-for-Purpose BHA Design for Drilling Complex Wells Offshore Brunei Leads to New Industry Benchmark

    Some of the oil fields offshore Brunei are characterized by complex reservoir geology. This requires the drilling of highcomplexity, tortuous 3D horizontal wells referred to as "snake wells" for optimal reservoir drainage. View

Malaysia

  • Graph showing toolstring behavior during temperature changes.
    PTTEP Obtains Continuous, Real-Time Test Data in HPHT Well

    High-quality data enables quick interpretation, resolves testing challenges, and saves 8-h rig time. View

  • Volumetric calculations
    World Longest Single-Trip Multizone Cased Hole Gravel Packing with Alternate Path Shunt Tubes

    This paper would serve as a key case study which highlights completion technologies that can be adapted to improve operational efficiency while meeting production objectives. View

  • Inclination and azimuth for TruLink service versus static MWD.
    PETRONAS Carigali Eliminates Survey Time, Improves Drilling Efficiency, and Reduces Stuck Pipe Risks Offshore Malaysia

    TruLink™ services delivers real-time BHA location data and borehole conditions, improving directional drilling decisions and averting washouts View

  • Real-time analysis from FlairFlex service revealed an oil zone; PVT analysis showed strong agreement with the real-time fluid typing.
    Advanced Logging and Analysis Identified Thick Oil Zone Undetected by Basic LWD Measurements

    Operator pinpoints best sampling depth in complex reservoir with real-time fluid logging and analysis service. View

  • The FlairFlex service accurately identified OWC and GOC, providing critical input for reviewing sampling operations.
    Real-Time Fluid Logging and Analysis Service Reveals Unexpected Oil Layer, Offshore Malaysia

    Advanced fluid typing optimizes sampling program with detection of possible zones of interest. View

  • The powerful four-drive TuffTRAC iX tractor easily tractored in the slim, highly deviated well. This performance, far from its maximum capacity, meant that a large reserve of tractor force was available in the event of sticking. The logging operation was efficiently completed without any HSE or service quality incidents.
    TuffTRAC iX Tractor Conveys Pulsar Spectroscopy Service over 9,500 m to Log Deviated 3 1/2-in Tubing, Malaysia

    Log in the challenging conditions of a complex completion profile in a well deviated 79°. View

  • Petronas Gas Plant Reduces Costs with Dual-Core Acid Gas Removal Membranes: Case Study
    Petronas Gas Plant Reduces Costs with Dual-Core Acid Gas Removal Membranes

    High-quality separation despite variable high-CO2 concentration and gas flow rate. View

  • OptiPac Openhole Screens Enable 100% Gravel Packs and Sand-Free Production in 27 Deepwater Wells - Integrated approach optimizes operations and prevents premature screenouts in long horizontal sections with reactive shale and depleted zones, offshore Malaysia
    OptiPac Openhole Screens Enable 100% Gravel Packs and Sand-Free Production in 27 Deepwater Wells

    Integrated approach optimizes operations and prevents premature screenouts in long horizontal sections with reactive shale and depleted zones, offshore Malaysia. View

  • seismicVISION Seismic-While-Drilling Service Optimizes Casing Points and Lowers Costs, Offshore Malaysia - Seismic-while-drilling service successfully performs LWD acquisition in high-pressure ramp environment with zero NPT while eliminating casing section
    seismicVISION Seismic-While-Drilling Service Optimizes Casing Points and Lowers Costs, Offshore Malaysia

    Seismic-while-drilling service successfully performs LWD acquisition in high-pressure ramp environment with zero NPT while eliminating casing section. View

  • SpectraSphere Fluid Mapping-While-Drilling Service Saves Hess 3 Days Offshore Malaysia - Hess Corporation reduces risk and optimizes logging program by analyzing fluid, gas, and pressure data in highly deviated wellbore
    SpectraSphere Fluid Mapping-While-Drilling Service Saves Hess 3 Days Offshore Malaysia

    Hess Corporation reduces risk and optimizes logging program by analyzing fluid, gas, and pressure data in highly deviated wellbore. View

Myanmar

  • DURAFLO Screens Last 3.5x Longer Compared with Conventional Screens Offshore Myanmar
    DURAFLO Screens Last 3.5x Longer Compared with Conventional Screens Offshore Myanmar

    Side-by-side testing on BRANDT VSM 300 shaker confirms lower screen consumption and longer screen life. View

  • G-SEAL PLUS Agent Helps Cut Drilling Fluid Costs and Reduce Hole Cleaning Time Offshore Myanmar
    G-SEAL PLUS Agent Helps Cut Drilling Fluid Costs and Reduce Hole Cleaning Time Offshore Myanmar

    Wellbore stabilizing agent helps decrease rig time, prevent fluid invasion, and improve wellbore stability in appraisal and development wells. View

  • TuffTRAC Tractor Conveys ReSOLVE Service's Setting Tool Across Tubing Gap to Install Plug, Myanmar - Tubing gap and restrictions successfully negotiated for the nonexplosive setting tool to install plug with real-time confirmation
    TuffTRAC Tractor Conveys ReSOLVE Service's Setting Tool Across Tubing Gap to Install Plug, Myanmar

    Tubing gap and restrictions successfully negotiated for the nonexplosive setting tool to install plug with real-time confirmation. View

  • Operator Maximizes Gas Production, Saves 6 Hours per Well with XHP-BB Big-Bore Premium Production Packer - V0-qualified, hydrostatically set big-bore production packer ideally suited  for high-rate gas and faster, interventionless installation in offshore wells
    Operator Maximizes Gas Production, Saves 6 Hours per Well with XHP-BB Big-Bore Premium Production Packer

    V0-qualified, hydrostatically set big-bore production packer ideally suited for high-rate gas and faster, interventionless installation in offshore wells. View

Singapore

  • The increased efficiency of Maximus Eon motors translates to significant cost savings compared with previous-generation motors. Exact values depend on hp rating and price of electricity; for this illustration, we used USD 0.10 per kW.h. The Maximus Eon motor showed a 3% higher efficiency, equating to savings of 2.8 kW.h for a 100-hp motor, 10 kW.h for a 360-hp motor, and 17 kW.h for a 540-hp tandem motor
    REDA Maximus Eon Motor Saves 17 kWh, USD 15,000 per Year Over Previous Generation

    Laboratory testing confirms power and cost savings across horsepower ratings for the efficient ESP motor View

Thailand

  • Performance improvements using Performance Live service.
    PTTEP Thailand Reduces Rig-Crew Footprint to Overcome Pandemic Challenges While Maintaining Improved ROP

    Performance Live service helps improve COVID-related prevention measures by decreasing the exposure for rig personnel while maintaining exceptional performance through improved ROP. View

  • The 8 1/2-in EnduroBlade bit.
    Rolling Diamond Cutting Element Saves 2.6 Days and USD 123,000

    EnduroBlade 360 bit drills long interval with high ROP through hard, abrasive formation, onshore Thailand. View

  • The HyperBlade bit maintained steerability and drilled faster than the high-ROP benchmark bit.
    Hyperbolic Bit Enhances ROP by 17% While Maintaining Complex Well Trajectory

    Durable HyperBlade bit easily manages interbedded hard sandstone stringers and maintains steerability, Gulf of Thailand. View

  • Photo of the slickline tools used to add gas lift to the offshore well.
    PTTEP Gas Lift Straddle Conversion Restores Oil Production

    Rigless three-run slickline operation achieves production and economic goals, Gulf of Thailand. View

  • ONE-TROL Additive Saves 17.5 Hours of Rig Time in HPHT Logging Operation, Gulf of Thailand
    ONE-TROL Additive Saves 17.5 Hours of Rig Time in HPHT Logging Operation, Gulf of Thailand

    Filtration control additive eliminates mud conditioning trips between logging runs. View

  • Implementation of an Engineered, Fiber-Based Spacer Solution for Improved Mud Removal - Thailand Case History
    Implementation of an Engineered, Fiber-Based Spacer Solution for Improved Mud Removal

    Laminar spacer fluid formulation using surfactant/solvents based on engineered-chemistry approach improves cementing placement results, Gulf of Thailand. View

  • PTTEP Eliminates BHA Trip and Gyro Run, Saving 12 Rig Hours in 204-degC Well Offshore Thailand - TeleScope ICE ultraHT MWD service reduces operational cost by USD 167,000
    PTTEP Eliminates BHA Trip and Gyro Run, Saving 12 Rig Hours in 204-degC Well Offshore Thailand

    TeleScope ICE ultraHT MWD service reduces operational cost by USD 167,000. View

  • Managed Pressure Drilling Service Cuts Drilling Costs 50% in Challenging Ultrahigh-Temperature Wells
    Managed Pressure Drilling Service Cuts Drilling Costs 50% in Challenging Ultrahigh-Temperature Wells

    @balance services mitigates NPT, saves 20 days and USD 5 million in Gulf of Thailand. View

  • Technical Domain Support and ResFlow ICDs Increase Production 16% in the Gulf of Thailand
    Technical Domain Support and ResFlow ICDs Increase Production 16% in the Gulf of Thailand

    Water breakthrough delayed by 50 days and sweep efficiency improved. View

  • Efficient Drilling of Ultra-HPHT Wells in the Gulf of Thailand
    Efficient Drilling of Ultra-HPHT Wells in the Gulf of Thailand

    Development of gas fields in the Gulf of Thailand requires drilling and producing from reservoirs that are at static temperatures above 400 °F. Safe and economic production from these Ultra-HPHT fields is crucial to deliver on gas contracts that support the region’s economic activity. View

Vietnam

  • Vietgazprom Reduces Tripping and On-Slip Time with OptiWell Well Construction Performance Service, Vietnam - Service improves drilling efficiency in deepwater exploration wells, Nam Con Son basin
    Vietgazprom Reduces Tripping and On-Slip Time with OptiWell Well Construction Performance Service, Vietnam

    Service improves drilling efficiency in deepwater exploration wells, Nam Con Son basin. View

  • Vietgazprom Reduces Severe Mud Loss by 50% in Exploration Well Using OptiWell Service - Well construction performance service helps deliver an effective LCM strategy for loss mitigation, Nam Con Son basin
    Vietgazprom Reduces Severe Mud Loss by 50% in Exploration Well Using OptiWell Service

    Well construction performance service helps deliver an effective LCM strategy for loss mitigation, Nam Con Son basin. View

  • Flare Redesign Enables Continuously Flowing High CO2 Concentrations in Heavy Oil Well Offshore Vietnam - Optimized injection and flowback operation achieved reliable measurements without burner interruption or spillage
    Flare Redesign Enables Continuously Flowing High CO2 Concentrations in Heavy Oil Well Offshore Vietnam

    Optimized injection and flowback operation achieved reliable measurements without burner interruption or spillage. View

  • Precise Placement of Lateral Maximizes Reservoir Exposure and Production Rates in Vietnam -  Distance-to-boundary data from PeriScope service guides geosteering to develop new oil prospects for Cuu Long Joint Operating Company
    Precise Placement of Lateral Maximizes Reservoir Exposure and Production Rates

    Distance-to-boundary data from PeriScope service guides geosteering to develop new oil prospects for Cuu Long Joint Operating Company. View

  • Resistivity-at-the-Bit Measurements Guide Geostopping 0.2-m TVD Below Top of Reservoir - geoVISION service helps CLJOC with precise well placement  and eliminates pilot hole, reducing well costs offshore Vietnam
    Resistivity-at-the-Bit Measurements Guide Geostopping 0.2-m TVD Below Top of Reservoir

    geoVISION service helps CLJOC with precise well placement and eliminates pilot hole, reducing well costs offshore Vietnam. View

  • Accurate Pore Pressure Prediction in HPHT Well Reduces Risk, Saves Rig Time
    Seismic Reservoir Reevaluation Helps Vietgazprom Identify Seven New Prospects Offshore Vietnam

    Multidisciplinary petrotechnical experts reinterpret available data to advance gas-condensate reservoir operations. View

  • Reservoir Characterization for Fracture Distribution Prediction and New Well Target Identification
    Reservoir Characterization for Fracture Distribution Prediction and New Well Target Identification

    Interpreting borehole images, identifying open fractures, computing fracture aperture, and generating a DFN. View

  • The Natural Fracture Evaluation in the Unconventional Tight Oligocene Reservoirs - Case Studies from CuuLong Basin, Southern Offshore Vietnam
    The Natural Fracture Evaluation in the Unconventional Tight Oligocene Reservoirs - Case Studies from CuuLong Basin, Southern Offshore Vietnam

    The Oligocene Formation in CuuLong Basin, Southern offshore Vietnam, is predominantly fluvial-lacustrine sand and shale sequences deposited above the pre-Tertiary granite basement. The reservoir sands are usually tight with average porosity about 10%, and variable but mostly low permeability. View

  • GLYDRIL-IDCAP D System Successfully Drills Reservoir, Offshore Vietnam
    GLYDRIL-IDCAP D System Successfully Drills Reservoir, Offshore Vietnam

    Wells in the Rang Dong Field have produced a significant amount of sand during the last few years from a reservoir of interbedded sandsilt-shale. View

  • Troublesome Formation Offshore Vietnam is No Match for ULTRADRIL Mud System
    Troublesome Formation Offshore Vietnam is No Match for ULTRADRIL Mud System

    A joint operating company was looking for a high-performance water-base mud system to replace the silicate mud that has been used for a few wells. View