American oil-services firm, one of the industry's leading trio alongside Baker Hughes and Halliburton. The Middle East is a big market for SLB; the Iran war disrupted regional revenues as clients scaled back operations. SLB expects a "broad-based recovery" in upstream markets driven by post-war reconstruction and diversification of oil production away from the Gulf.
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