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Schlumberger and CyrusOne Partner to Deliver Complete and Secure Petrotechnical Computing Infrastructure Services

Houston, TX, October 13, 2004 - Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) and CyrusOne announced today an agreement to provide enhanced outsourced IT infrastructure services to the upstream oil and gas industry in North America.

With this agreement, SIS extends its current petrotechnical computing infrastructure solutions to include Tier I data center space, which is the highest level of security, power, connectivity and monitoring infrastructure. The agreement also includes infrastructure and operations management, and managed computing services, including system and network operations management, backed by a 100 percent availability and security guarantee for critical client hosted applications.

"We are committed to leveraging technology to deliver IT solutions that allow our customers to enable their core operational processes. Providing managed computing infrastructure services tailored and optimized for the petrotechnical computing environment is just one example of how SIS is helping our customers meet industry challenges," said Dan Domeracki, business manager, North and South America, SIS. "As the industry's demand for secure, reliable and flexible computing increases, our partnership with CyrusOne positions SIS to provide more flexible cost- effective secure computing solutions to our customers."


Blake McLane, vice president of sales and marketing, CyrusOne, said, "The partnership with SIS is a natural fit for our industry practice. Combining the depth and breadth of services offered by both organizations, uniquely addresses the ever changing and demanding technology requirements of the oil and gas industry. We are confident that the complementary offerings from SIS and CyrusOne will allow our clients to focus on and improve their core operational processes. We look forward to being part of a winning team with SIS."

About the organizations
CyrusOne is Houston's largest full service data center providing managed hosting, co-location and enterprise management services to companies to ensure application availability, data security, and superior network performance. With a client-centric focus, CyrusOne was the first within the industry to offer a 100% availability guarantee backed by the industry's leading SLA. For more information on the company, visit http://www.cyrusone.com.

Schlumberger is the world's leading oilfield services company supplying a wide range of products and services from formation evaluation through directional drilling, well cementing and stimulation, well completions and productivity to consulting, software, information management and IT infrastructure services that support core industry operational processes. Today, the company employs more than 50,000 people of over 140 nationalities working in 100 countries. Schlumberger also manages WesternGeco, jointly owned with Baker Hughes, which is the world's largest seismic company and provides advanced acquisition and data processing services. In 2003, Schlumberger operating revenue was $10.1 billion. For more information, visit www.slb.com.


Media Contact
Susan Ganz
Media Relations Manager
Schlumberger Oilfield Services
Tel: + 281 285 8245 or + 713 513 2480
sganz1@slb.com

Josh Howard
CyrusOne
713.821.1273
jhoward@cyrusone.com