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Energy
Knowledge, technical innovation and teamwork are
Schlumberger’s key success factors. For more than
80 years, they have focused on leveraging these
assets to deliver solutions that improve customer
performance.
Today, their real-time technology services and solu-
tions enable customers to translate acquired data
into useful information and then transform this infor-
mation into the knowledge necessary for improved
decision making. Harnessing information technol-
ogy in this way offers enormous opportunities to
enhance efficiency and productivity. This is a quan-
tum leap from providing traditional ‘just-in-case’ in-
formation to delivering ‘just-in-time’ knowledge that
meets the changing needs of their customers.
The company is also well known for its business
consultancy expertise. Schlumberger Business
Consulting (SBC) is all about transforming the
world’s energy business for the 21st century. This
management consulting firm focuses on the energy
industry, for which efficient and sustainable solu-
tions are vital to social well-being and economic
growth across the globe. They are the only man-
agement consultancy with the strategic and oper-
ational insight, the global reach and the practical
experience capable of providing a material impact
on the oil and gas sector.
In 2004, Schlumberger Business Consulting (SBC)
was established under the sponsorship of Schlum-
berger Chairman and Chief Executive Officer An-
drew Gould to help oil and gas companies realize
dramatic performance improvements and sustained
growth. SBC combines true management consult-
ing expertise with an unrivalled knowledge of oil
and gas operations and technologies.
SBC has rapidly become a global management
consulting firm and a leader in the oil and gas sec-
tor. The company is comprised of almost 200 con-
sultants recruited from the best consulting firms,
energy companies and institutions. SBC operates
from 13 offices around the world, SBC engages cli-
ents on a wide spectrum of management issues,
ranging from strategy and organization to opera-
tional effectiveness.
To date, they have delivered more than 550 projects
in over 30 countries for some of the world’s largest
energy companies. These include over 60% of the
major international oil companies and over 70% of
the major state-owned oil companies. In 2009, the
combined production from their clients accounted
for more than 40% of total world oil production.
ANDES PETROLEUM / PETRO ORIENTAL /
SINOPEC / CNPC
Zhang Xing Ph. D
Executive President
Av. Naciones Unidas E10-44 and República de El
Salvador Quito
Telephone: +593 2 2988 500
Fax: +593 2 2970 271
www.andespetro.com
Area of activity: Oil
Date of creation: 2006
Annual turnover: Sinopec $85 million USD and
CNPC $56 million USD
Andes Petroleum Ecuador Ltd. operates in the
Tarapoa Block and the Lago Agrio Storage and
Transfer Station in the province of Sucumbios.
PetroOriental S.A. operates in Blocks 14 and 17 in
the province of Orellana.
The hydrocarbons exploited by these companies
are found in the “Ecuadorian Oriental Basin”, an
area depicting the complex history of Ecuador’s
geological evolution in the structural traps of the
Tena, Napo and Hollin formations. Since 2006,
the drilling and workover operations performed
have successfully maintained the production in the
blocks. The fields inside the Tarapoa block are de-
veloped in compliance with international standards.
The crude oil produced is transported to Lago Agrio
and then shipped through the OCP and/or SOTE to
the Coast of Esmeraldas.
These companies were set up with shareholder
capital from state-run corporations of the People’s
Republic of China: China National Petroleum Cor-
poration (CNPC), with a 55% of shares, and China
Petrochemical Corporation (SINOPEC), with a 45%.
They have been in Ecuador since 2006 and have
consolidated a multicultural, efficient, talented and
highly-professional team, responsible for meeting
the high production and quality standards the com-
pany have demonstrated throughout this period.
The company has received numerousacknowledg-
ments, such as the ISO 14001 certification from
Det Norske Veritas of Norway for the Storage and
Transfer Station (LTF). Similarly, its Community
Health Initiative in Sucumbios won the “Canadian
Prize for International Cooperation” and the “World
Oil Prize” from World Oil magazine. Furthermore,
a 3D seismic acquisition program in Block 14 was
conferred the “Environmental World Award” from the
Great Britain Institute of Energy.