Core Laboratories N.V. (CLB)

Oilfield reservoir services and completion products. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 23, 2026. Ranked 41 of the 61 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

An oilfield services company with about 3,300 employees in more than 50 countries, three quarters in services and a quarter making completion products, by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 23% now, 27% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 28% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 28% desk work, 13% people work and 60% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 64% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 29% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

3,300 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; over 70 offices in more than 50 countries, and 33% of revenue in the United States.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Company had approximately 3,300 employees, approximately 10% of which was represented under collective bargaining agreements.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 3,300 employees, about 10% under collective bargaining agreements; highly skilled professionals including engineers and geologists, other technical personnel and administrative employees.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Support Activities for Mining, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Slb N.V. (SLB, 109,000 employees)24% now, 30% by 2028
• Baker Hughes Company (BKR, 56,000 employees)25% now, 33% by 2028
• Halliburton Company (HAL, 46,000 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028
• TechnipFMC plc (FTI, 23,089 employees)24% now, 30% by 2028
• Weatherford International plc (WFRD, 16,700 employees)22% now, 26% by 2028
• Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (HP, 15,700 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028
• Nabors Industries Ltd. (NBR, 13,900 employees)22% now, 26% by 2028
• Oceaneering International, Inc. (OII, 11,100 employees)26% now, 34% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

8 sentences in the filing name AI. Eight sentences, product and risk: proprietary databases coupled with artificial intelligence and machine learning to help clients improve efficiencies, AI image recognition in its rock typing technology, and growth depending on accommodating advances including AI.

• “Core Lab's extensive, proprietary databases and analog technologies, coupled with artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning, help our clients improve efficiencies and lower operating costs throughout the upstream value chain.”
• “Core Lab's proprietary Advanced Rock Typing technology combines Core Lab's vast, comprehensive database of physical measurements and World Wide Rock Catalog™ with its proprietary image acquisition technology and innovative AI image recognition.”
• “Our future growth and financial performance will depend in part upon our ability to develop, market and integrate new products and services and to accommodate our customer's preferences along with the rapid pace of technological advancement, including artificial intelligence and machine learning.”
• “Generative artificial intelligence ("genAI") technologies are becoming increasingly available.”
• “As genAI technologies continue to improve, we may not be able to replicate or compete with potential applications relevant to our business, including, for example, enhanced computer modeling of reservoir rock and fluid properties, which could displace some of our current products or services.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20232median 1
• Fiscal 20244median 4
• Fiscal 20258median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The product share is by description from a revenue line; the filing counts no employees by segment.
• The U.S. share is not stated.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-118177, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.