Acquisitions include French media conglomerate Vivendi Universal, which GE folded into its NBC Universal unit, along with diagnostic imaging company Amersham and natural gas systems supplier Vector Gray.
The company is gaining share in U.S. hydraulic fracturing markets used to produce natural gas and improving its seismic imaging, monitoring, and development business.
This is a combination of sophisticated steerable drilling technology using modern micro-seismic imaging and advanced material sciences, to create webs of minuscule cracks in shale and release abundant trapped natural gas.