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Production Optimization
Published: 02/12/2025
Unlock the full production potential of your asset, across the entire lifecycle.
Challenge
Boost production performance from existing assets
Once an asset starts producing, you’re focused on maximizing value. If only it were that simple. There are the related challenges of maintaining production, keeping costs manageable, and reducing emissions. And as producing wells age, water cuts increase, and other challenges result, continued investment in a field can quickly become uneconomical. Every spend needs to see a measurable and timely return.
No matter how complicated the situation, SLB has comprehensive production solutions designed to proactively address challenges, ensure optimal output, and extend the life of your assets.
Solution
We can join you anywhere on your production journey to achieve your goals through our expertise and technologies
We’ve developed domain expertise over nearly a century of working locally with operators around the world to get the most out of their fields. And we’ve used that expertise to innovate and build the industry’s broadest suite of chemical, mechanical, and digital solutions for production and recovery.
By integrating real-time data and precise well placement to a comprehensive suite of production solutions, SLB helps unlock the full potential of reservoirs, leading to sustained and optimized production performance while reducing operational risks and costs from reservoir to point of sale.
Modular, yet holistic field management solutions from reservoir to point of sale
Connected, intelligent, and autonomous digital solutions to empower you to enhance production
Intervention at scale and integrated performance-based solutions
Emissions detection and mitigation in real time
We can help anywhere along your production lifecycle.
Dive deeper
Oil and Gas Production Chemicals and Services
Maximize production from reservoir to refinery
Improve and assure production more safely with chemistry technologies, software, and mechanical solutions.
Artificial Lift
Integrated lifting solutions for enhanced well production
Expand the operating limits of conventional systems with a range of products and services for artificially lifted wells.
Well Intervention
Extending the life of producing wells
Improve your production performance and access to stranded or additional hydrocarbon reserves.
Intelligent Completions
Real-time reservoir monitoring and production control
Optimize recovery by minimizing interventions and unwanted water and gas production.
Digital Production
Digitalize your production operations and start your automation journey
Tailored digital production optimization solutions.
FPSO Performance
Collaborate with an open coalition to accelerate your FPSO performance evolution
Digitally connect from reservoir to topside to optimize production, cut carbon, and create new FPSO value.
Electric Production Systems for Oil & Gas Fields
Reduce your infrastructure and energy requirements while maximizing recovery
Systemic electrification and digitalization enable material improvements in production and recovery efficiency.
Protect Your Production Assets
Use the right production chemistry
Oil and gas production chemicals for flow assurance and asset integrity.
Well Stimulation Performance
Innovative solutions and technologies for optimal well stimulation
Innovative well stimulation solutions that maximize operational and environmental performance
Well Construction Performance
Transcend conventional drilling for seamless, end-to-end well construction solutions that catapult super efficiency
It's not the one they promised—it's better.
Intervention Solutions for Production Enhancement
A performance-based operating model
Optimize production using unique well intervention solutions that help improve your reservoir’s performance.
Subsea Intervention
Industry-leading production systems
Increase recovery for the life of your field with integrated solutions that have reliability built in.
Benefits
Produce with agility and efficiency
We focus on your goals, using streamlined workflows and a modular approach to our expansive production and recovery portfolio. Working together, we optimize your production performance and reduce operating costs throughout the life of your assets. We’re committed to your success and continuous improvement from field development to abandonment.
Lower operating cost, lower carbon
SLB solutions both improve production and sustainably extend the life of your wells, reducing operating costs.
Expertise access worldwide
We operate locally across land, offshore, and subsea to provide availability, supply security, and an unwavering focus on safety—even in the most remote locations.
Targeted and holistic solutions
Highly effective chemical, mechanical, and digital solutions are designed to work together and are customizable over the life of your assets.
Innovations that grow with you
Because well characteristics and economics inevitably change, together with you we are always innovating to be ready for what’s next.
Capabilities
Together, we can elevate your production performance
No matter what underlying issues are affecting your asset's performance, we can work together to find the perfect solutions.
- Expertise you can trust in every field and for every challenge
- Comprehensive production portfolio that can be seamlessly integrated
- Fit-for-purpose technologies
- Innovative chemistries and engineering—we don’t follow, we lead
- Digital operations on the edge
- Advanced emissions solutions from detection to mitigation
- We partner with you to deliver results—safely, efficiently, and reliably
- As an OEM, a focus on quality from design and manufacturing to operations
- Supply reliability via our expansive global network
- Performance-based operating models
Case studies
See our solutions in action
Case Study
Production Life Cycle Management Service Eliminates 1,195 Wellsite Visits in South American Field, Saving a Total of 26,141 Miles
Case Study
Operator Minimized Deferred Production and Workover Costs with Digitally Optimized Chemical Injection
Case Study
Controlled, Scale Dissolution
Case Study
GTI's DOE-Backed Project Uses Methane Lidar Camera Technology
Let's collaborate
Through our expertise and collaboration of production we can support your recovery efforts. Learn how here.
SLB Solutions
Other solutions
Plug and Abandonment
Identify cost-saving P&A opportunities early on for achieving secure and compliant well integrity
Data and AI Platform
Unlock business performance with unmatched collection, curation, and intelligent interpretation of your data.
Accelerated Time to Market
Access more mature field reserves and bring green fields online faster and with longer sustainable performance.
Performance Assurance
Redefine what’s achievable for your system-level optimization.
Methane and Flaring Elimination
Remove methane and flaring emissions from your operations. For good.
Emissions Reduction
Reduce operational emissions and environmental impact with quantifiably proven, reliable technologies.
Geothermal
Tapping into the heat beneath our feet to generate reliable, sustainable energy.
Carbon Capture and Storage
Accelerate progress with effective solutions across the CCUS value chain.
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