Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | AT0000946652 |
| founding | 1988 |
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Ternitz , Austria
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| Number of employees | 1,135 |
| sales | € 313.7 million |
| Branch | Oil industry |
| Website | www.sbo.at |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
The Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG (SBO), headquartered in Ternitz is an Austrian listed manufacturer of high-precision components for the oilfield service industry. The focus is on non-magnetic drill string components for directional drilling technology . The group also produces drilling motors and drilling tools. As of December 31, 2015, SBO had 1,135 employees worldwide, 376 of them at the company's headquarters in Ternitz and 126 at various locations in the UK, as well as 399 employees in North America and Mexico. In 2015 31 apprentices were trained.
history
Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment, which was spun off from VEW ( Vereinigte Edelstahlwerke AG ) in 1988, is one of several successor companies to Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke and was taken over by Berndorf AG in 1995 . In 1997 Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment was listed on NASDAQ Europe and the Vienna Stock Exchange, on which it trades under the name Schoeller-Bleckmann AG.
Berndorf Industrieholding AG holds 33.4 percent of the company, which has been listed exclusively on the Vienna Stock Exchange since 2003. The remaining 66.6 percent of the shares are in free float. (As of December 31, 2015)
In November 2014 Schoeller-Bleckmann took over 67 percent of the Canadian oilfield service company Resource Well Completion Technologies Inc. , with an option for a full takeover in three years. The purchase price depends on the achievement of an agreed annual result through Resource. Resource is a downhole completion tools provider with 60 employees in Calgary .
In 2016, SBO acquired 68 percent of the Texan oil field service company Downhole Technology LLC for 103 million US dollars (90.5 million euros), a leading provider of patented frac plugs for completing oil and gas wells.
Products
- Non-Magnetic-Drill-Collars (NMDC) are boring bars made of non-magnetic steel that are used because they do not interfere with the sensitive electronic devices and measuring instruments that are needed to control the drill bit .
- Underground drilling motors for deep drilling
- The subsidiary Drilling Systems International produces components that control the circulation of the drilling fluid in the borehole.
Web links
- Official website - Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG (Holding)
- Official website - Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Technology GmbH (Austria subsidiary)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Annual Report 2015 retrieved from http://www.sbo.at/cms/cms.php?pageName=65
- ↑ derStandard.at - oil field supplier SBO takes over 67 percent of the Canadian "Resource" . Article dated November 25, 2014, accessed November 25, 2014.
- ↑ orf.at - SBO buys US oil company for $ 103 million . Article dated April 1, 2016, accessed April 2, 2016.
- ↑ SBO: NMDC ; Retrieved September 23, 2011
- ↑ SBO: Drilling Motor ; Retrieved September 23, 2011
- ↑ SBO: Circulation Tools ; Retrieved September 23, 2011