from the land of slow learners http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-pdvsa-contract-idUSKCN11R1NY Venezuela PDVSA awards $3.2 billion oil service contracts, protest brews Schlumberger NV, Oklahoma-based contractor Horizontal Well Drillers and Venezuelan contractor Y&V won contracts to service three joint ventures between PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] and foreign partners, PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] said In April SLB said they were 'paring' operations in VZ due to unpaid bills (which between HAL and SLB had accrued to a tune of nearly $1B since 2006) I've never seen a SLB new ventures (NV) operation work out well for anyone other than the person running the NV.