Schlumberger cooperates with Russian authorities on worker mobilization – Reuters

One of the world's largest oil service companies, Schlumberger, cooperates with the Russian authorities in matters of mobilization of the company's employees. This was reported by Reuters with reference to its own sources and internal documents of the company.

According to Reuters, some of the company's more than 9,000 employees in Russia have begun receiving military draft notices at their workplaces, and the company is preventing employees from telecommuting to avoid mobilization.

According to the sources, Schlumberger's cooperation with the authorities in the form of conscription and its refusal to allow Russian employees to work outside the country caused a backlash. Such actions are regarded as Schlumberger's tacit support for the war in Ukraine.

In April, Schlumberger CEO Olivier Le Peuchsaid that the company was closely following the development of events in Ukraine and at that time "hoped for a quick cessation of hostilities." Schlumberger has suspended new investments and technology deployments in Russia but, unlike some of its peers and clients, has decided to stay.

“Schlumberger has been funding war crimes and genocide by remaining in Russia. Now it cooperates with authorities in drafting employees. I have warned all Western companies of this. The only way to save remains of its reputation is to pull out of Russia now,” the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, reacted to the company's actions.