---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-159859"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SLB"
cik: "0000087347"
company_name: "SLB LIMITED/NV"
filed_at: "2025-07-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T06:23:29.972878+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SLB closes ChampionX acquisition; expects $400M annual pretax synergies

## Summary
- ChampionX shareholders received 0.735 SLB shares per share; former shareholders now own ~9% of SLB.
- Annual pretax synergies of ~$400M expected within three years through revenue growth and cost savings.
- SLB reaffirms $4B shareholder return target for 2025.
- Acquisition adds ChampionX's production chemicals, artificial lift, digital, and emissions technologies.
- SLB CEO says acquisition aligns with returns-focused, capital-light strategy and expands presence in less-cyclical market.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-159859
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SLB
- cik: 0000087347
- company_name: SLB LIMITED/NV
- filed_at: 2025-07-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87347/000119312525159859/0001193125-25-159859-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87347/000119312525159859/d907006d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-159859.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  SLB LIMITED/NV completed an acquisition involving ChampionX Corporation (closed 2025-07-16).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: ChampionX Corporation
  - Closing: 2025-07-16
  source text: On July 16, 2025, under the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of April 2, 2024, by and among Schlumberger Limited, a Curaçao corporation (“SLB”), and its indirect, wholly owned subsidiaries, Sodium Holdco, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Holdco”), and Sodium Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub” and, together with SLB and Holdco, the “SLB Parties”), and ChampionX Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“ChampionX”), SLB acquired ChampionX in an all-stock transaction.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87347/000119312525159859/0001193125-25-159859-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.