The Texas-based oilfield services company SLB is expanding its operations in Russia, filling the vacancy left by Western competitors, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Aug. 15. SLB, previously known as Schlumberger, is the world’s largest offshore drilling company. It continued to operate in Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, even as other oil giants left the country. SLB’s Russian subsidiary signed new contracts and posted over 1,000 job postings within the last year, the FT reports. The nonprofit organization Global Witness obtained documents, seen by the FT, that sh…