Schlumberger Riboud Product Center—Industrial Partners

Industrial partners, particularly high-tech SMEs, are welcome to our Innovation Hub for short periods of time to incubate their ideas. We offer unique facilities for experimentation (including high pressure, high temperature, shocks, vibrations, and flow loops) relevant to conditions in oil and gas fields, and a wealth of experience in turning science into products. We are interested in innovative approaches to key issues in oil and gas fields: efficiency, recovery, cost effectiveness, unconventional resources, carbonate reservoirs, and deep water, and also in advances in sensors, electronics, and materials.

In September 2006, SRPC signed the "Pacte PME" in the presence of Mr. Caquot, head of Manufacturing Department of the Ministry of Industry. This is a strong sign of our commitment to openly collaborate with high-technology SMEs in making innovation productive for all stakeholders. Following this signature of the PME Pact, Olivier Peyret, general director of SRPC, and Yves Morel, innovation manager, were invited by the Minister of SMEs, Mr. Francois Loos, to share this experience. In front of an audience of 600 people (PME leaders, European ambassadors, CEOs, members of Parliament) Olivier Peyret summarized our strategy of Open Innovation and challenged the PMEs to collaborate at "TGV speed."

SRPC routinely participates in European projects.