Schlumberger (SLB) will hike its quarterly dividend by 28.0 percent to $0.40 per share in 2014. This follows double digit dividend hikes in each of the three previous years with a dividend hike of 13.6 percent last year.

Schlumberger NV is a provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry. The company operates worldwide and provides a range of products and services, from exploration through production, and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance sustainably. Schlumberger has paid a quarterly dividend since 1957. The original Schlumberger business was founded in 1926 by the brothers Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger, two French engineers and physicists, to provide wireline logging services (electronic measurement of underground formations) for oil drilling operations. Schlumberger incorporated was incorporated on November 6, 1956 in the Netherlands Antilles.