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Schlumberger is the world's largest offshore drilling company and contractor by revenue, founded in 1926 by two brothers from Alsace. It provides various services and products for the petroleum industry, such as seismic data processing, well testing, artificial lift, and software and information management.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a 2010 environmental disaster caused by a blowout and explosion on an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill released 4.9 million barrels of oil and caused extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats, fishing and tourism industries, and human health.
Original Cameron Iron Works Building. On the National Register of Historic Places Park Towers South, which was the former headquarters of Cameron. Cameron International Corporation (formerly Cooper Cameron Corporation (CCC) and Cooper Oil Tool, Cameron Iron Works) though now operating under Schlumberger, is a global provider of pressure control, production, processing, and flow control systems ...
USS Thresher was a nuclear-powered attack submarine that sank with all hands in 1963 during deep-diving tests. She was the second submarine named after the thresher shark and the first nuclear submarine lost at sea.
Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will exclusively sell the power to Microsoft as the company searches for energy sources to fuel its AI ...
Fairchild Semiconductor was an American company that pioneered the manufacturing of transistors and integrated circuits. It was founded in 1957 by the "traitorous eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor and was acquired by ON Semiconductor in 2016.
Sugar Land is a suburban city in Fort Bend County, Texas, with a population of over 111,000. It was founded as a sugar plantation and company town in the 19th century and has grown rapidly since the 1980s.
Learn about the Alsatian-born inventors of geophysics and well logging, Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger. Discover their life, work, family and legacy in the oil industry and geosciences.