Female oilfield worker files $100M sexual harassment suit vs. Schlumberger

• Women who work on male-dominated rigs for Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB) face systematic harassment and abuse from their male colleagues, a lawsuit filed in Houston federal court alleges.
• A woman who once worked as a field engineer for the company has filed a $100M lawsuit claiming men routinely broke into her bedroom, and that the human resources department ignored or dismisses her complaints as "oilfield talk."
• Schlumberger "knowingly permitted male workers to treat women who work on oil rigs as sex objects and second-class citizens, intentionally turning a blind eye to the harassment, the lawsuit alleges, adding that oil rig workers live onsite in remote locations and women are not able to escape the treatment.
• Schlumberger warned last week it could write off as much as $1.4B related to its ongoing restructuring and related layoffs.