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Schlumberger. Schlumberger NV ( French: [ʃlumbɛʁʒe, ʃlœ̃b-] ), doing business as SLB, also known as Schlumberger Limited, [2] is an American oilfield services company. [3] [4] As of 2022, it is both the world's largest offshore drilling company and the world's largest offshore drilling contractor by revenue.
Geography. Tuong Duong is a highland mountainous district located in the southwest of Nghe An province, nearly 200 km from the city of Vinh and 90 km from Nam Can border gate; the district has an area more than 3 times larger than the province of Bac Ninh and nearly twice the size of Thai Binh province, passing through by National Route 7, with a total border length.
Bình Dương (Vietnamese: Bình Dương; Vietnamese pronunciation: [ʔɓïŋ˨˩ jɨəŋ˧˧] ⓘ) is a province of Vietnam.It is located in the Southeast region of the country and the Southern Key Economic Zone 2, bordering Bình Phước province to the north, Ho Chi Minh City (Sài Gòn) to the south and southwest, Tây Ninh province to the west, and Đồng Nai province to the east.
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In 2005 a 399-kilometer underwater pipeline, the world's longest, began to carry natural gas onshore from the Nam Con Son basin. The pipeline's anticipated capacity is 2 billion cubic meters per year, while the basin has an estimated 59 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves. [20]
Đại Nam Văn Hiến is a tourism complex in Bình Dương Province, Vietnam. Open on September 11, 2008, Dai Nam Tourist - Cultural - Historical Zone includes the first safari in Vietnam and the largest artificial sea in Southeast Asia [1] and is expected to be the biggest park and tourist destination in the country by 2010.
It is an important gateway to access central Vietnam. The airport was known as Da Nang Air Base during the Vietnam War , during which time it was described as the world's busiest airport. [28] During the month of May 1968, the base reached an average of 2,595 air traffic operations daily, more than any airport in the world. [29]
Việt Nam (Vietnamese pronunciation:) was the name adopted by Emperor Gia Long in 1804. It is a variation of "Nam Việt" (南 越, Southern Việt), a name used in ancient times. In 1839, Emperor Minh Mạng renamed the country Đại Nam ("Great South"). In 1945, the nation's official name was changed back to "Vietnam".