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Pierre Schlumberger was born in 1914, the son of Marcel Schlumberger, a mechanical engineer, and his wife Jeanne Laurans. [1] Marcel co-founded Schlumberger in the 1920s with his brother, Conrad, a physicist. [1] Pierre was the brothers' only male heir.
Pierre Barbe (28 March 1900 – 26 April 2004) was a French architect. Barbe became the "house architect" for the Schlumberger family. He designed Pierre Schlumberger's house on Lazy Lane in Houston, Texas. For Pierre and his first wife Claire he restored a holiday house on the Normandy coast, and designed a new house at Tourettes-sur-Loup on ...
The Schlumberger company then tried to expand their activities to many other countries, but the attempts were hindered by the worldwide depression. On 15 September 1934, Schlumberger's subsidiary in the United States became Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation (SWSC) with offices in Houston, Texas. Conrad was the chairman, and Marcel was the ...
She had chosen the destination because of its fresh air and fresh fruits—both in short supply in New York during the Depression—and soon they all boarded a steamship, spending several weeks ...
Graham Wood. Updated July 14, 2016 at 6:51 PM. Though The New York Times got the first look inside New York City 's unbelievably opulent Pierre Hotel penthouse (pictured above), the $125 million ...
2. Maria " São " Schlumberger ( née da Conceição Diniz; 15 October 1929 – 15 August 2007), was a Portuguese-born American fashion and art patron and collector, and the second wife of Pierre Schlumberger .
The movie's famous house — yep, it's a real house — hit the market this week for the first time in 12 years, selling for $5.25 million. The 9,126-sq. ft. home, built in 1921 and located in the ...
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.