Malcolm Theobald – VP IR Simon Ayat – EVP & CFO Andrew Gould - CEO

Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley Dan Pickering - Tudor, Pickering, Holt Alan Laws - BMO Capital Markets Kurt Hallead - RBC Capital Markets Bill Herbert - Simmons & Company Daniel Boyd - Goldman Sachs Geoff Kieburtz - Weeden & Co. Jim Crandell - Barclays Capital William Sanchez – Howard Weil Brad Handler - Credit Suisse Robin Shoemaker - Citigroup Pierre Conner - Capital One Southcoast Marshall Adkins – Raymond James Wagar Syed – Macquarie Capital Scott Gruber – Sanford Bernstein Kevin Simpson – Miller Tabak

Welcome to the Schlumberger Limited earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) At this time I'd like to turn the conference over to your host, Vice President Investor Relations, Mr. Malcolm Theobald; please go ahead, sir.

Good morning and welcome to the Schlumberger Limited fourth quarter and full year 2009 results conference call. Joining me for today's call are Andrew Gould, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Simon Ayat, Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Andrew's overview of the results and his comments on the outlook Simon will first review the quarter's financial results. After the prepared statements we will welcome your questions. Before we begin with the opening remarks, I'd like to remind the participants that some of the information in today's call may include forward-looking statements as well as non-GAAP financial measures. A detailed disclaimer and other important information are included in the FAQ document which is available on our website or upon request. And now, I'll turn the call over to Simon. Simon Ayat : Thanks Malcolm, ladies and gentlemen thank you for participating in this conference call. Fourth quarter income was $0.67 per share, this is up $0.02 sequentially and down $0.36 compared to the same quarter of last year, excluding the $0.08 of charges we took in Q4 of last year. Turning the business segments, Oilfield services fourth quarter revenue increased 4% sequentially, while WesternGeco revenue increased 19%. Roughly one third of the sequential increase in OFS is attributable to the additional year-end surge in product sales. Oilfield services pre-tax operating income of $1 billion decreased 3% compared to the prior quarter. Oilfield services margins declined by 157 basis points sequentially to 19.5%, as improvements in the Middle East and Asia was more than offset by declines in North America, Latin America, and Europe/CIS/Africa. Overall international margins in OFS were 23.4%. By area Oilfield services sequential pre-tax operating margins highlights were as follows. North America declined by 129 basis points to 2.1% as increased activity in the US land and Gulf of Mexico geo markets were insufficient to increase the impact of less favorable revenue mix in Canada and lower activity in the Alaska geo market. Latin America decreased by 254 basis points to 15.8% primarily as a result of the reduced activity and the less favorable revenue mix in the Mexico/Central America geo market. Europe/CIS/Africa margin was 21.6%, 208 basis points lower principally due to lower activity in Russia as a result of year end customer budget constraints. Finally Middle East/Asia margin improved by 66 basis points to 32.4% primarily due to the positive impact of the more favorable mix of deepwater and exploration related activity and year-end software sales. At WesternGeco pre-tax income of $115 million reflected an increase in pre-tax margins of 776 basis points to 20.9%. This increase was largely attributable to year-end multi client sales partially offset by the impact of the lower pricing and project delays in marine. Now turning to Schlumberger as a whole, the effective tax rate was 17.6%. This was lower than last quarter primarily due to more favorable geographic earnings mix. As we have previously mentioned and as you saw this quarter the ETR is very sensitive to the geographic earnings mix and as such we may continue to experience volatility on a quarterly basis. Net debt was $126 million at the end of the quarter as compared to $660 million at the end of Q3 and $1.1 billion at the end of last year. This improvement was driven by strong cash flows from operations. We ended the quarter with $5.4 billion of cash and investments on hand. In addition $2.8 billion of committed debt facilities with commercial banks remained unused and were available at the end of December. This compares to short-term debt of only $1.1 billion which as a reminder includes $321 million of convertible debentures which we expect to be converted to equity by the end of second quarter of 2010. Significant liquidity events during the quarter included $500 million of stock repurchases, $676 million of CapEx and $231 million of pension funding. We restarted our stock buyback program during the quarter and bought back 7.8 million shares at an average price of $63.91. Our Q4 buyback activity served to offset the vast majority of the dilution caused by our stock based compensation programs during all of 2009. Oilfield services CapEx is expected to be approximately $2.4 billion in 2010 as compared to $1.9 billion in 2009. WesternGeco CapEx is expected to approach $300 million as compared to $460 million in 2008. In summary our balance sheet remains very strong and it continues to provide us with a tremendous amount of financial flexibility. And now I will turn the conference over to Andrew. Andrew Gould : Thank you Simon, good morning everybody. Fourth quarter revenue increased sequentially in North America, Latin America, and Middle East/Asia areas as offshore revenue quality improved with increasing deepwater rig count while software and product sales saw the usual fourth quarter strength. Europe/CIS/Africa area revenue was flat with the previous quarter though stronger offshore activity and year-end software and product sales in the area were not sufficient to offset the seasonal decline in Russia. Amongst the technology, sequential growth was driven by increased deepwater and exploration related activity leading to demand for wire line, testing services and drilling and measurements technologies, while growth was also recorded on land in North America primarily from increased well services activity. WesternGeco achieved highly satisfactory fourth quarter multi client revenues due largely to wide-azimuth survey sales in the Gulf of Mexico. I will now turn to the areas in more detail. In North America where revenue increased sequentially by 6%, the US land geo market grew on increased drilling activity. This however was offset by lower pricing for well services technologies. The US Gulf of Mexico geo market revenue was up marginally due to improved shelf activity and the beginning of a build up in the deepwater, but these positive effects were hampered by downtime associated with Hurricane Ida as well as some pricing pressure. Canada revenue was flat with the previous quarter but of lower quality while Alaska revenue fell sequentially due to a slowdown in activity resulting from operator budget constraints. In Latin America revenue grew 5% sequentially and in the Peru/Columbia/Ecuador geo market revenue increased primarily on greater demand for drilling and measurements, wire line and testing services, with this demand resulting from increased drilling activity. Higher SIS software sales and artificial lift products also contributed to the growth. In Brazil revenue was higher from increased offshore exploration activity as well as from the software sales and completions product sales. The Venezuela/Trinidad/Tobago geo market recorded growth primarily from integrated project management activity while activity in Argentina/Bolivia/Chili was higher due to increased activity and SIS software sales. These increases however were partially offset by a decrease in Mexico/Central America where revenue that resulted declined as a result of a reduced activity. Revenue in the Europe/CIS/Africa area was flat with the previous. In Nigeria and Gulf of Guinea revenue grew as a result of strong testing services product sales and an increase in exploration activity that led to greater demand for wire line services. In Western Southern Africa revenue increased on high demand for drilling and measurement services. The North Sea geo market also recorded growth primarily as a result of increased well services stimulation activity while the Libya geo market revenue increased due to higher deepwater testing services and wire line exploration activity. These increases were however partially offset by the lower revenue in Russia as a result of client budgeting constraints and seasonal weather effects which mainly effected IPM activity. Revenue was also lower in North Africa on reduced testing product sales and in the Caspian geo market on the completion of drilling campaigns. In the Middle East and Asia sequential revenue growth of 7% was driven by an increase in deepwater and exploration related activities that led to strong demand for wire line services. Seasonal artificial lift and SIS software product sales also contributed to growth. As I mentioned earlier sequential revenue growth at WesternGeco was led by multi client through strong year-end sales of wide-azimuth surveys in the US Gulf of Mexico. Land revenue also grew due to increased activity in the Middle East and North Africa but overall these increases were somewhat offset by a significant decrease in marine as a result of weaker pricing, project start up delays, and [vessel] transits. Our outlook for 2010 remains largely dependent on the prospects for the general economy. At the end of the third quarter we indicated that we were encouraged that signs were emerging that the demand for oil and gas would begin to increase. Consensus forecast now predict that oil demand in 2010 will increase particularly in the developing world for the first time since 2007. As a result we feel that oil prices are likely to be sustained at current levels and that as our customers’ confidence grows exploration and production budgets will increase. We feel that considerable leverage to increase investment exists in offshore markets, in Russia, as well as in certain emerging investment opportunities such as Iraq. These events will be dependent on continued increases in economic growth in the second half of the year beyond the current government stimulus packages. For natural gas activity we remain a great deal more cautious. Despite signs of some recovery in industrial demand and recent cold weather, we consider that worldwide markets remain generally over supplied. Increased flows of LNG together with additional capacity being added in 2010 as well as a general uncertainty over the decline rates of unconventional gas production have the potential to limit the current increase in North American gas drilling rig count. We anticipate that 2010 will be a better year for multi client seismic, an improved activity for land seismic particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. While marine activity will be reasonably robust pricing improvements will be limited due to continued new capacity additions. Longer-term, we remain increasingly confident that considerably increased spending will be necessary to maintain sufficient reserves in production of hydrocarbons to meet the world’s need. Our technology portfolio and worldwide infrastructure mean we are strongly positioned to capture growth opportunities as our customers begin to increase their investment. And I will now hand the call back over to Malcolm.

Thank you Andrew, we will now open the call for questions.

(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley: I will kick off with Iraq, you’ve been very cautious about your commentary on Iraq all along. This is the first time we hear you highlighting Iraq as a significant area of opportunity, can you discuss through what it is that’s changed with respect, I presume to timing and magnitude and relative to your previous thoughts. Andrew Gould : Well the change relative to my previous thinking is the results of the second round. And the time constraints have been put on the operators to reach the initial plateau production. If that timetable is adhered to, then it implies a huge amount of service activity over the next two or three years. Now you know I have to have my normal caveats, they are that the election takes place with a satisfactory political result and that some form of oil law is put into place because I still don’t think our customers will make major, major commitments until that happens. But currently given what they’ve signed, it would seem that there is going to be a considerable increase in activity in Iraq. I don’t think it will have a material effect on results in 2010 but we may well start to see the ramp up in the second half of the year. Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley: Can you talk a little bit about how you see Schlumberger being proficient. What are the big obstacles, competitive advantages that you would have in Iraq. Andrew Gould : Well I’m not going to do that over a phone line where all my competitors are listening, but we have a very robust plan in place. We have inherited relationships from the past in Iraq. We have everything necessary to operate legally from the past. And the signs are very encouraging that the offering we have is going to be competitive. Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley: You mentioned exploration, you mentioned development and it seems in your customer inquiry levels with the spec to kind of the next 12 to 18 months compared to the previous 12 to 18 months, are we going to have an exploration recovery or is it going to be drilling in terms of your product offering of not only seismic but everything else from open hole, wire line-- Andrew Gould : Well I think it will be both but the ratio of new deepwater rigs and the places where they’re going means there will be a lot of, quite a lot of exploration and appraisal. So beyond this year if commodity prices hold where they are I think we will see a recovery in exploration.

Your next question comes from the line of Dan Pickering - Tudor, Pickering, Holt Dan Pickering - Tudor, Pickering, Holt : Your capital spending for 2010 is fairly significant uptick, how much impact do you think that’s going to have on 2010 or is this really more of a 2011— Andrew Gould : We’re counting outside the normal replacement CapEx and some IPM projects and stuff like that, we’re counting that in 2008 we had eight deepwater new builds come into our market, 23 in 2009, and 35 in 2010. Now you know that they don’t all come on the first of January so you probably have to chop those numbers in half in any one year. But what it does mean is there is still significant deepwater CapEx that’s going to come through in 2010 and as you rightly point out a lot of that will be only revenue generating in 2011. Dan Pickering - Tudor, Pickering, Holt : If I think about, I’m just, your commentary is I guess a little bit cautious, your actions are more aggressive, I’m thinking about as we look out to 2011 and I realize that’s still a year away but I look back at 2008 and see a $27 million revenue number, we’re clearly lower than that in 2009, we’ll be lower than that in 2010, but is that in the gun sights for 2011 given everything you see and the amount of money you’re spending and the way you think the marketplace out. Andrew Gould : Well actually that depends entirely on North America. I have no doubt we will have a significant upswing overseas but don’t forget the significant drop in our revenue is in North America compared to the $27 billion you’re talking about. North America and seismic, put it that way.

Your next question comes from the line of Alan Laws - BMO Capital Markets Alan Laws - BMO Capital Markets: I have a question on the gas side actually, you definitely appear more confident in the oil fundamentals than gas and you mentioned natural gas in the note and in your comments, that’s really a challenge, but that wasn’t really clearly in North America comment was what I read into it, how important to global upstream activity do you think an uptick in gas related activity is. Andrew Gould : We’re not counting on any big uptick in gas related activity in the next couple of years outside North America. The big [Katary] projects will come on, the Yemen project has come on. There are other projects that are coming on. So yes you will see a few big gas developments in Asia probably but we’re not counting on a big increase in gas because as I said earlier, worldwide the gas market is substantially over supplied at this point in time. Can I just qualify that, there are domestic gas plays that people are doing to substitute energy sources particularly in the Middle East. So in Saudi, Kuwait, Orman, Abu Dhabi, places like that there gas activity, but it is local its not for export, its for substitute power sources within the country. Alan Laws - BMO Capital Markets: I guess does this modestly or highly contain potential upside or maybe the pace of what we looks like the beginning of another up cycle here. You had mentioned that North America was going to limit your ability to get to those numbers that Dan had laid out, is this a bigger deal or just sort of a smaller deal, the international gas activity. Andrew Gould : No I don’t think, I think it’s a smaller deal than the two factors I mentioned to Dan. Alan Laws - BMO Capital Markets: How does international gas activity rank in terms of oil service intensity versus oil or even domestic natural gas activity. Andrew Gould : The sources of gas are becoming so diverse that’s a very difficult question to qualify. For example most of the Middle East gas is highly toxic. It has very high H2S fractions, a lot of it has high C02 content and therefore these are fairly high cost operations, they’re fairly service intensive and they imply specialized equipment and a lot of measurement to establish what the gas stream consists of. And then you go to other places like the Northwest shelf in Australia where its really nice clean gas and they’re less intensive. But overall I would say in the development phase there is not a great deal of difference.

Your next question comes from the line of Kurt Hallead - RBC Capital Markets Kurt Hallead - RBC Capital Markets: I was wondering if you would be able to give us some color on some of the pricing trends that are evolving both in North America and international and what can of an impact that would have on either margin improvement or margin degradation as we move out into 2010. Andrew Gould : As I said in my script, US land revenues were up but we did not feel any pricing traction in US land until December. So it didn’t effect the quarter really. The pricing traction we have in US land particularly in pressure pumping is in the more complex operations where frankly if we don’t get price increases we lose money because we’re tearing our equipment to pieces. And they are individual contracts and in no way could we today impose a blanket price on our pressure pumping price list. So that trend has continued through the beginning of the year that we have been able to get good price increases on specific operations. Overseas I would say that we are still feeling some effect from the pricing concessions we made in 2009 but that currently I would say prices in offshore markets are in the process of flattening and I always said, I’ve always said since the beginning of this that the overseas cycle was 18 months and it would probably bottom at the end of the second quarter of 2010 and I would still stick to that story. I think that if oil prices are maintained, if offshore activity recovers somewhat, there will be a little bit more pricing traction in the second half of this year. Kurt Hallead - RBC Capital Markets: So more a trend 2010 transition year and 2011 inflection. Andrew Gould : Exactly. Kurt Hallead - RBC Capital Markets: My follow-up for you is obviously a lot of noise coming in through Mexico toward the tail end of the year and it appears that they are now in process of signing new incentive based type of contracts, could you give us some perspective on what those new contracts may mean for opportunities for service companies in Mexico and given the production decline, what kind of mix of business do you see happening next year. Andrew Gould : So the only incentive contracts I’ve heard talked about are for production in [inaudible]. I haven’t heard of any others. The Pemex activity we think will swing back more towards the south and we think that a lot more of it will actually be directly controlled by Pemex rather than IPM. Obviously with a huge amount of equipment that flowed into Mexico when they were ramping up Chicontepec and the subsequent decrease in activity in Chicontepec which is going to happen throughout the year, it hasn’t really happened yet, there is going to be a lot of surplus equipment in Mexico, which will either hopefully I don’t know, flow back to North America or decrease pricing in Mexico and probably a bit of both.

Your next question comes from the line of Bill Herbert - Simmons & Company Bill Herbert - Simmons & Company : I’m struck by the fact that on the one hand that we are I think for good reasons relatively subdued on global gas development prospects over the next few years if I understood you correctly, and yet you juxtaposed that outlook with the Exxon purchase of XTO, increasing IOC participation in Ferber with regard to shales, how do you reconcile those two. Andrew Gould : I think that the IOCs have generally realized that there are lots of criteria to judge where you invest. One is stable political environment, large domestic market, and new resource and I think the IOCs have realized that there is a substantial new resource in North America and the technology for that resource has been developed in North America and therefore they are now investing in it. It seems very logical to me. Bill Herbert - Simmons & Company : Secondly any update with regard to your perspective on the activity outlook for Russia. Andrew Gould : I think that we would say that Russia was able to sustain its domestic production in 2009 through the addition of new fields in Eastern Siberia, notably [Rancor]. But at the same time production in Western Siberia decreased fairly dramatically and that there are going to have to spend a lot more in Russia, in Western Siberia if they want to sustain their production level in 2010. That’s why we’re feeling fairly optimistic on Russia coupled with the fact that it will be another good year for us in [Sakhalin] and there are still quite a few new projects in Eastern Siberia. Bill Herbert - Simmons & Company : And then just very quickly do you know what the sequential increase in North American land revenues was. Simon Ayat : Well most of the increase we had in North America that really came from land and most of the increase, slight increase from the, 12%. Bill Herbert - Simmons & Company : It was 12%. Andrew Gould : Yes, Q4 over Q3.

Your next question comes from the line of Daniel Boyd - Goldman Sachs Daniel Boyd - Goldman Sachs: I have a quick question on WesternGeco one of your competitors talked about not having available capacity through the first half of 2010, what are you seeing in terms of your forward visibility on the contract side and could the market get back into balance in the back half of 2010 as well. Andrew Gould : I think if we, so you have to remember that we have converted some recording boats to source boats, right, so our actual fleet size for recording is down. Total fleet size is the same but recording boats are down. We have some very large multi client programs in the Gulf of Mexico which are very well funded. And the rest of our capacity through the half year I think is largely booked up. But it is not yet, the bidding situation is not robust for us to convert those source vessels back to recording vessels. I think its highly unlikely given the manner of capacity that still has to hit the market that the supply and demand will come back into balance in 2010. Daniel Boyd - Goldman Sachs: Even towards the back end of the year— Andrew Gould : If you’re in November, December of 2010 bidding contracts which will be for 2011 then the situation may be a lot better but I don’t think we’ll reach balance in 2010. Daniel Boyd - Goldman Sachs: Would you suggest though that margins overall for Geco are up as multi client starts to come back. Andrew Gould : You know multi client is a crapshoot, we never know until the last minute. The [lead] sales this year are good but they’re not great. So we think there’ll be some improvement as I said in my commentary but how good its actually going to be I don’t know.

Your next question comes from the line of Geoff Kieburtz - Weeden & Co. Geoff Kieburtz - Weeden & Co.: I’d like to come back to the natural gas topic again and specifically your comment about the uncertainty surrounding decline rates, that seems to be fairly significant, could you elaborate on that a little bit. This is the topic most people I think have said these unconventional resources are steeply declining production profiles, you seem to be raising a question about that. Andrew Gould : No, I don’t disagree that there are steeply declining production profiles, but I don’t think we know yet because of the backlog of gas behind pipe that had not be stimulated and completed because of the actual huge increase in the profile of unconventional gas that we really, really know how much its going to decline in 2010. And you know I saw a very good paper from a rival firm recently, which showed actually that LNG has the potential to balance that decline. Gas consumption is Europe is way off. So a lot of that LNG becomes spot, it has the capacity to offset the decline. Now whether that will happen is another story but that’s why I’m cautious. Geoff Kieburtz - Weeden & Co.: And the related follow-up is that you mention that you’re beginning in some specific markets to see some pricing traction in the frac business, would these sort of broader trends that you’re referring to put that at risk. Andrew Gould : I think if the rig count plateaus, yet they will. Geoff Kieburtz - Weeden & Co.: Risk of reversing. Andrew Gould : Stabilizing or reversing, it depends, I think we have, it’s the usual story, we have to wait until the end of the winter, see where storage is and see what the production profile looks like and then we’ll have a much better idea whether people need to drill more or less. I think the only joker in the pack this year is that in 2009 a lot of people predicted that more LNG would come to the US and it didn’t. But with the amount of new capacity that the [Katar] was on last year and [Katar] is putting on this year, plus Yemen, plus a couple of others, it has to go somewhere. Geoff Kieburtz - Weeden & Co.: Would you mind commenting on the Venezuela devaluation and its impact on Schlumberger. Simon Ayat : So we are yet to understand the actual rate that will be applicable during Q1, however we in Schlumberger look at our currency exposures very closely and this is not going to have an impact on the reevaluation of the balance sheet. Going forward if the official rate will, the devaluation will take place, it will reduce our revenue because of the local currency portion will obviously be less in the corresponding dollars, however it has no impact on the profitability. It is slightly better as a matter of fact.

Your next question comes from the line of Jim Crandell - Barclays Capital Jim Crandell - Barclays Capital: I have sort of three part follow-up on Iraq, number one of the let’s say seven to 11 projects it seemed like they could go forward, do you see most of these going IPM. Secondly, how do you see the likely profitability of the work in Iraq versus other countries in the region, and thirdly, do you think that there’ll be issues surrounding the capacity of the oil service industry to service all these projects if they all seem to want to come in the second half of the year. Andrew Gould : So if I can answer the third part first, if they all want to come in the second part of the year, yes. And if I can answer the first one then, yes, I do think they’re largely going to be IPM type projects largely because there is very low infrastructure on the ground particularly rigs. And therefore the capacity to do IPM and to put rigs on the ground is going to be extremely, the determining factor in the first year or so. Jim Crandell - Barclays Capital: The last part is give what you said about that the industry could have trouble servicing it, it would seem that this should be given the risks and everything else highly profitable work. Andrew Gould : Well I don’t think people are going to particularly given the risks, I don't think people are going to give it away. Jim Crandell - Barclays Capital: Back to the US, what is the magnitude of the increase in the rig related recovery before you’d begin to see pricing improvement for conventional bread and butter work for pressure pumping, directional and wire lines. Andrew Gould : I think wire line is almost there. Directional has never been effected as much as wire line or pressure pumping because as you know the horizontal count has grown so much that I think there’s issues, no pricing issues with directional equipment. And pressure pumping I don’t really know but I think its considerably higher than where we are today. I think one of two things are going to happen, either all these, either the rig count will increase, or and I suspect this is more likely, all these massive fracs are going to tear up so much equipment that the market will come in to balance through equipment disappearing more rapidly than it usually does. Jim Crandell - Barclays Capital: Looking at the international land business do you see an increased amount of that business going IPM in the future and if so will there be a significant increase and what are the implications for margins and profitability if indeed that is the case. Andrew Gould : Well let me put it this way, despite the drop in Mexico, Schlumberger’s IPM revenues will increase in 2010 largely due to Russia and the Middle East. And the profitability will vary in function of the type of project that you are doing. And it will never be anything like offshore but it will be perfectly satisfactory.

Your next question comes from the line of William Sanchez – Howard Weil William Sanchez – Howard Weil : Question just back on international margins here specifically Middle East/Asia, we saw an improvement here versus third quarter, just curious how much confidence do you have right now given some of your prior comments that margins have troughed in your Middle East/Asian region and then as a follow-up, if we look at your CIS/West Africa down 200 bps but you talked about Russia being the culprit there, and we know weather was a problem, should we assume you recover those 200 basis points in the first quarter in that region. Andrew Gould : I don’t think we’ll recover it in the first quarter because we don’t get the [Sakhalin] activity back until the second and third quarter and the ramp up will only happen towards the end of the first quarter so I very much doubt we will get back the 200 and actually, there will be other, for example Libya is not going to be so strong because the exploration success in Libya has been very low. So we’ll see a lot of exploration programs winding down. I think you have to go back to what I said on an earlier comment, that I’ve always said that the cycle in the Eastern Hemisphere would sort of trough towards the middle of this year and our margins will be lumpy depending on our revenue mix. The improvement in MEA, this quarter was large, just as we said due to exploration, wire line testing, and very strong software sales. So I think you have to assume they’re going to be lumpy for a couple more quarters. William Sanchez – Howard Weil : One follow-up specifically the declines on Mexico, and I know it was addressed earlier kind of your broad thoughts there, but how much of that was due specifically due to Chicontepec slowdowns, or how much of that was really due to activity declines in areas like the Burgos that we know one of your competitors mentioned during the fourth quarter, or was it a bit of both. Andrew Gould : I think there’s, I think Pemex is relooking at everything. Gas prices go up to a point where its probably cheaper for Mexico to buy rather than drill in Burgos. And I think that we will, activity will be decent but its not going to, there’s so much equipment in Mexico its not going to do us a lot of good. William Sanchez – Howard Weil : Is some of the talk about dollars shifting away from Chicontepec to say Cantarell I gotta believe would be a favorable trade for you given your high market share there and what’s probably higher margin direct service work. Andrew Gould : As I said on an earlier call we feel that quite a lot of what, both onshore and offshore will shift back towards direct Pemex contracting, yes.

Your next question comes from the line of Brad Handler - Credit Suisse Brad Handler - Credit Suisse: Couple of unrelated questions please, first can you just give us a little more color on what happened in the fourth quarter in Canada, I think it was a surprise to see flat revenues, a little bit more on that mix commentary please. Andrew Gould : We had a very, very strong Q3 because we had an extremely profitable campaign for one of the operators. So we just, that was a one-time campaign and it didn’t repeat in Q4. So we probably should say that the margins in Q4 were stronger than were sustainable without that extremely profitable piece of work. Brad Handler - Credit Suisse: The margins in Q4 were higher— Andrew Gould : The reason the margins in Canada declined in Q4 was nothing to do with the level of activity, it was to do with the type of activity because in Q3 we had an extremely profitable campaign for one operator which increased the margins, which did not repeat itself in Q4. Brad Handler - Credit Suisse: So this is, let me make sure I’m clear on it, you moved a fair amount of equipment out of Canada at some point as part of cost reduction efforts, has equipment moved back in, are you equipped to take advantage of winter drilling seasons in a more general sense. Andrew Gould : We don’t have an issue of equipment in Canada. We did move some out, yes, a couple of years ago, but we don’t have an issue at the moment. Brad Handler - Credit Suisse: And the unrelated follow-up is just can you, you talked about the strength in the software sales and there were some references for artificial lift strength and year end product sales as well, I guess I’m curious what you read into that relative to customers and managing discretionary spending in 2009, if anything, was it a positive, did you take it as a positive sign that they were still going to proceed as normal. Andrew Gould : I wouldn’t read anything into artificial lift or completions except perhaps some restocking after having pared down their inventories in late 2008, early 2009. Software sales, I think the purse strings were freed up a bit so maybe particularly in software they did an excellent job and we probably had a really, really strong fourth quarter in software relative to other fourth quarters I mean. Brad Handler - Credit Suisse: But you’re taking some of the credit just for the business development. Andrew Gould : Yes.

Your next question comes from the line of Robin Shoemaker - Citigroup Robin Shoemaker - Citigroup: I wanted to ask you, going back to the deepwater theme, as more deepwater rigs come into the market and based on your experience I think you mentioned 23 that started up in 2009, are your revenues and the quality of revenues from those new deepwater rigs matching your expectations or above or below, could you characterize that broadly. Andrew Gould : Well so far they’re certainly matching our expectations. In some areas they’re better, in some areas they’re not quite as strong but overall yes, they’re matching our expectations. Robin Shoemaker - Citigroup: And then you mentioned in the Middle East to Asia region you [cited] deepwater contribution, where specifically and what makes that stand out. Andrew Gould : I would say that India, Indonesia, and Australia and a little bit of Southeast Asia as well, Malaysia, that sort of thing. Its quite scattered in fact. Robin Shoemaker - Citigroup: So what you were saying earlier, I just want to clarify, the 35 deepwater rigs that are delivered this year, they really don’t contribute until 2011 but the— Andrew Gould : Well they do but not on the basis of 35 because if we get 20 of them in Q4, if you calculate that in rig months, it doesn’t correspond to anything like 35 for a full year. So you really only get the effect in the full year which will be 2011. Robin Shoemaker - Citigroup: Right and so the 23 from last year really impact— Andrew Gould : Yes, 2010.

Your next question comes from the line of Pierre Conner - Capital One Southcoast Pierre Conner - Capital One Southcoast: WesternGeco, I don’t want to put too fine a point on this, but you mentioned that pricing improvements would be limited to incremental capacity and I just wanted to clarify that, obviously your point is you don’t see further weakness in future bidding projects. Andrew Gould : Not at this point in time, no. Pierre Conner - Capital One Southcoast: And then within the quarter some moving parts, and I’m just trying to dissect I think earlier maybe Brad was asking about margins so, with the multi client but yet some impact due to delays, absent the multi client margin impact, what was the underlying trend on the margins at WesternGeco if you can tell us that. Andrew Gould : DP was fine, land would have been up slightly and marine would have been down. Pierre Conner - Capital One Southcoast: And the marine impact really due to the delays of the project start-ups. Andrew Gould : No, well essentially in the quarter we had three vessels in transit so no revenue. Pierre Conner - Capital One Southcoast: So just timing mostly. Andrew Gould : Yes.

Your next question comes from the line of Marshall Adkins – Raymond James Marshall Adkins – Raymond James: Let’s come back to the pressure pumping just for a second, we’ve been hearing that very recently of course pricing has been improving as you mentioned, is that due to equipment wearing out, what you addressed or is it people shortages, just having trouble getting people back in the system, and how does that evolve over the next quarter or two. Andrew Gould : Well I think its both, I think actually in some of the more complex plays its availability. Its certainly the tearing up of equipment and people a little bit, yes. We are also beginning to see increases in product cost again. But I think that the underlying reason for the price increases at this point in time is the fear of how available equipment is going to be over the next three or four months. Beyond that, be it pricing traction or the state of the pressure pumping industry, beyond that really depends at what point the rig count plateaus. Marshall Adkins – Raymond James: Switch to another one, the end of year sales we talked about, software was exceptionally good, are you worried that there’s going to be a fall off here in Q1 more than we’ve seen historically. Andrew Gould : Yes I am a little bit. Marshall Adkins – Raymond James: Is that going to be made up by Canada or other areas. Andrew Gould : Very difficult to tell but we certainly, we know software is going to fall off pretty strongly in Q1.

Your next question comes from the line of Wagar Syed – Macquarie Capital Wagar Syed – Macquarie Capital : Just on the theme of pressure pumping again, what you’ve seen in the US is that not only in the, rig count has been going up but also the number of frac stages have been going up, can you see a scenario where even if you have a kind of flattish rig count but frac just continue to go up, thereby driving demand for pressure pumping equipment. Andrew Gould : No, there’s absolutely no doubt that every time they increase the size of the or the number of stages that increases the size of the frac fleet that’s necessary. Its another factor that’s going to absorb equipment but I come back to what I said on the last question, it really depends to where the horizontal rig count goes. The flipside of what you’re saying is these wells have very high PIs which means that they can turn around production quite quickly. Wagar Syed – Macquarie Capital : And then on the related question, another market there was recently a shale gas initiative signed in China, when do you see that translating into maybe activity increasing in China and do you see a role of Western service companies in that development. Andrew Gould : In China there are a number of shale gas projects that are being discussed and yes we see a role for Western service companies, in design, in the fracs, and execution of the fracs in China, yes. Wagar Syed – Macquarie Capital : What will be the timing of that. Andrew Gould : I really don’t know. I can’t tell you.

Your next question comes from the line of Scott Gruber – Sanford Bernstein Scott Gruber – Sanford Bernstein : What percentage of the growth in your oilfield CapEx is actually associated with the deepwater. Andrew Gould : We don’t disclose that but you can assume it’s a very substantial portion. Scott Gruber – Sanford Bernstein : More than half you’d say. Andrew Gould : No, less than half, more than a quarter and less than half. It’s a substantial number. Scott Gruber – Sanford Bernstein : Your peers have been spending well ahead of DD&A with significant growth investments outside of North America, is this starting to show up in any pockets where capacity growth is outpacing demand or pricing pressures starting to emerge in any product lines. Andrew Gould : Not really. In fact I’m sort of quite concerned that if the offshore activity comes back strongly in the second half of the year that in high end equipment certain shortages will start to show up. So I think a lot of it is infrastructure. Everyone seems to have built a building in the Middle East and a building in South America and in Brazil, so I think a lot of it is infrastructure.

Your next question comes from the line of Kevin Simpson – Miller Tabak Kevin Simpson – Miller Tabak : I wanted to get into the margins in MEA were substantially greater than I thought for, it looks like some of that I guess would be the benefit of software sales, but is it fair to say at this point that based on your last commentary the pricing and margin trends are relatively stable in that part of the world for even if there’s a little bit of dip, that’s about it. Andrew Gould : It will depend greatly on how much exploration there really is in every quarter and how much testing there is in the quarter. So it will vary in function of the software sales but it will also vary in function of the revenue mix. So they will still be a little lumpy. Kevin Simpson – Miller Tabak : Lumpy but— Andrew Gould : I don’t think I’m probably going to regret this a great deal, but I don’t think we’ll see a major decline in the Middle East from this point forward. Kevin Simpson – Miller Tabak : And then one other, you were citing your offshore deepwater rigs coming on at a pretty good increase in CapEx, can you say that you already have placements at your traditional share for upper end equipment for the deepwater rigs that are coming on, particularly— Andrew Gould : I am extremely satisfied with our market share on the new build deepwater rigs.

Your next question is a follow-up from the line of Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley: Just to be clear, can you discuss the impact of international pricing versus the impact of international volume and as to when you see your margins dropping as opposed to the pricing dropping. Its two things that drive margins right, it’s the— Andrew Gould : What was the question, was it activity or pricing. Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley: It was I think you highlighted you expect pricing to trough in the second quarter internationally but pricing margins isn’t necessarily always the same thing. Andrew Gould : No, I think that we would say the same thing for margins. I’ve always said that. Middle of 2010 and when I gave the number of deepwater rigs, you know that the effect is going to be in the second half of the year not the first half of the year. Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley: And of course we now get the impact of the ones that were delivered last year, so its just quid pro quo. Andrew Gould : Yes, we get a better, its much better than in 2009, yes. Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley: And when it comes to Brazil, [pre salt] and the potential to take some of that technology across to West Africa, could you comment a little bit about how you see technology trends in West Africa particularly on some of the more complex wells that have been drilled in Brazil. Andrew Gould : I think that the plate theory that says that there should be a pre salt in West Africa as there is in Brazil is gaining popularity. I think we need a few wells and we probably need a few big exploration wells to find out whether or not people are going to consider that as a play. I’m not a geologist at that level and when you look at the suspect, the people who are going to drill those wells, you have to think they’re going to be testing that theory. Our advantage in West Africa is that we own the multi client library for Angola. Its quite old but given the different prospects that people are going to start to look at we can do a lot of reprocessing to make it attractive. Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley: So how do you view your opportunities that in West Africa with your position there relative to the competitiveness of the Brazilian market. Andrew Gould : I think its, well actually I have no complaints about our position in Brazil but I think that our overall competitive position in West Africa is probably stronger which is a matter of infrastructure, logistics, and presence and the time we’ve been there. Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley: And [inaudible] and OGX type deal where you support a smaller company and everything they do more or less in West Africa as well. Andrew Gould : In the deepwater we haven’t see that, we have seen it and we have done it in the shallower waters in Nigeria.

Your final question is a follow-up from the line of Dan Pickering - Tudor, Pickering, Holt Dan Pickering - Tudor, Pickering, Holt : Even with higher spending next year, big free cash, no net debt, talk to us about how you think about cash, your comfort levels around letting cash build, your urgency to do acquisitions, roll that all together for us. Andrew Gould : Well we still are actively pursuing opportunities and acquisitions. That’s not necessarily a reason to build cash. We will keep the share creep from happening which means that anything we issue for employees stock will get more back and we agree at a Board meeting yesterday that we would review the dividend in the second half of the year. Dan Pickering - Tudor, Pickering, Holt : I would assume a review of the dividend is not for a lower dividend but a higher dividend. Andrew Gould : We have always said that we would never lower our dividend. We never put it at a level where we’d have to cut it. Dan Pickering - Tudor, Pickering, Holt : And then when you think about dividend as generally, I assume you’re talking recurring ongoing quarterly dividends, not special or one-time dividends. Andrew Gould : No, ongoing quarterly, I’m not a great believer personally in special dividends. Dan Pickering - Tudor, Pickering, Holt : And then just to sort of put a point around the nearer term I think what I heard you saying in your discussion around seasonality etc. is that our expectation should be that Q1 earnings should be slightly lower because of the seasonality and we should see an international trough in Q2, on margins, and maybe some strength in the second half relative to the first half. Andrew Gould : I think that you should assume that in Q1 seasonality plus the absence of very strong software sales in Q4 will effect the results. And also don’t forget the absence of multi client in Q1, that will make a big difference. That Q2 will be the one where we’re all holding our breath to see what happens in the second half of the year. So I’ve been avoiding trying to say it, but it is another year in two halves. Dan Pickering - Tudor, Pickering, Holt : And then as we look to 2011, obviously the, Wall Street has a big expectations ramp in terms of estimates, care to comment on those. Andrew Gould : I think that, well its way too early to say, but I think that if oil prices remain where they are, and the economic recovery stays on track, then yes there will be a considerable increase in exploration and production spending in 2011.

So prior to closing the call I would like to mention that the Schlumberger Limited first quarter 2010 earnings conference call will be held on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 9:00 am US Eastern time. Now on behalf of the Schlumberger management team, I would like to thank you for participating in today’s call.