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| Item 5.07 | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. |
The 2024 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger N.V.), a Curaçao corporation (“SLB”), was held on April 3, 2024. All director nominees were elected and all other proposals passed at the Annual Meeting. The results are summarized below, with detailed voting results following.
At the Annual Meeting, the shareholders of SLB:
| • | Item 1—elected all eleven director nominees; |
| • | Item 2—approved, on an advisory basis, SLB’s executive compensation, with approximately 97.3% of the votes cast voting for this proposal; |
| • | Item 3—approved SLB’s consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2023, its consolidated statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2023, and the declarations of dividends by SLB’s Board of Directors in 2023 as reflected in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, with approximately 99.9% of the votes cast voting for this proposal; and |
| • | Item 4—ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent auditors of SLB for 2024, with approximately 93.0% of the votes cast voting for this proposal. |
The proposals are described in detail in SLB’s definitive proxy statement for the Annual Meeting, which was filed with the SEC on February 22, 2024 (the “Definitive Proxy Statement”).
Item 1—Election of Directors
All director nominees were elected at the Annual Meeting.
| For | Against | Abstain | Broker Non-votes |
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| Peter Coleman |
1,014,817,161 | 62,138,559 | 709,305 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
| Patrick de La Chevardière |
1,062,570,978 | 14,357,327 | 736,720 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
| Miguel Galuccio |
1,012,577,734 | 64,304,411 | 782,880 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
| Jim Hackett |
1,007,387,133 | 69,048,667 | 1,229,225 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
| Olivier Le Peuch |
1,074,052,731 | 3,001,536 | 610,758 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
| Samuel Leupold |
1,073,991,735 | 2,896,566 | 776,724 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
| Tatiana Mitrova |
1,073,347,200 | 3,124,551 | 1,193,274 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
| Maria Moræus Hanssen |
1,033,092,370 | 43,846,145 | 726,510 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
| Vanitha Narayanan |
947,786,313 | 128,393,804 | 1,484,908 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
| Jeff Sheets |
1,061,561,712 | 15,234,354 | 868,959 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
| Ulrich Spiesshofer |
1,073,718,739 | 3,210,409 | 735,877 | 126,183,880 | ||||||||||||
Item 2—Advisory Approval of Executive Compensation
The advisory resolution to approve SLB’s executive compensation, as described in the Definitive Proxy Statement, was approved with approximately 97.3% of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting voting for the proposal.
| For |
Against |
Abstain |
Broker Non-votes | |||
| 1,042,753,005 | 28,606,338 | 6,305,682 | 126,183,880 |
Item 3—Financial Statements and Dividends
The proposal to approve SLB’s consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2023, its consolidated statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2023, and the declarations of dividends by SLB’s Board of Directors in 2023 as reflected in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, as described in the Definitive Proxy Statement, was approved with approximately 99.9% of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting voting for the proposal.
| For |
Against |
Abstain |
Broker Non-votes | |||
| 1,073,792,269 | 433,161 | 3,439,595 | 126,183,880 |
Item 4—Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The proposal to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent auditors of SLB for 2024, as described in the Definitive Proxy Statement, was approved with approximately 93.0% of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting voting for the proposal.
| For |
Against |
Abstain |
Broker Non-votes | |||
| 1,118,542,634 | 83,939,218 | 1,367,053 | — |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| SCHLUMBERGER LIMITED |
| /s/ Dianne B. Ralston |
| Dianne B. Ralston |
| Chief Legal Officer and Secretary |
| Date: April 3, 2024 |