{"id":20526,"date":"2025-06-02T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/?p=20526"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:11:45","slug":"schlumbergers-acquisition-of-championx-approved-with-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/schlumbergers-acquisition-of-championx-approved-with-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Schlumberger\u2019s acquisition of ChampionX approved with conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Norwegian Competition Authority announced in February that it might intervene in Schlumberger\u2019s acquisition of ChampionX. The Authority raised concerns that this global transaction could reduce competition among suppliers of production chemicals used on oil fields in the Norwegian continental shelf \u2014 so-called horizontal effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oslo Economics has assisted Schj\u00f8dt and their client Schlumberger with various advice and analyses related to these potential horizontal effects on competition. This theory of harm has since been set aside by the Competition Authority and is not part of their final decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to possible horizontal effects, the Authority also assessed vertical effects in the form of input foreclosure. The final decision includes conditions to ensure that competitors retain access to inputs in well monitoring and directional drilling services in Norway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Norwegian Competition Authority has approved Schlumberger\u2019s acquisition of ChampionX with conditions. Oslo Economics has assisted with analyses related to potential horizontal effects on competition resulting from the acquisition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competition-market-and-regulation","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20527,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526\/revisions\/20527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}