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Schlumberger maintains a 33-acre (13 ha) campus at the northeast corner of U.S. Highway 90A and Gillingham Lane in Sugar Land, Texas; as of 2017 Schlumberger is the third largest employer in the city. In 2015, Schlumberger announced that it was moving its U.S. corporate headquarters to the Sugar Land facility from its Houston office building.
Russia: 71 11.5 –US$6.9B: Steel, telecom, and investments in the privatization of Russia [11] 8: 173 Gennady Timchenko: Russia Finland Armenia: 71 11.3 –US$10.7B: Oil & gas industry and investments in the privatization of Russia [12] 9: 177 Andrey Melnichenko: Russia United Arab Emirates: 52 11.1 –US$6.8B: Coal industry and fertilizer [13 ...
Russia has given preliminary approval to a bid by U.S. oilfield services giant Schlumberger to acquire up to 49 percent of Russia's Eurasia Drilling Co (EDC), an unexpected decision given a ...
Schlumberger made a bid for EDC in 2015 but Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) repeatedly delayed approvals, due to concerns over foreign ownership of a crucial asset in the hydrocarbon industry. As a result, the deal valuing EDC at $3.5 billion fell through.
Schlumberger attempted to acquire EDC in 2015 and in 2018, but the acquisition was blocked by Russian Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS). [6] In 2022, Dzhaparidze exited all Russian assets, including OOO BKE. [7] In 2020, Forbes estimated Dzhaparidze's net worth to be US$1.2 billion and ranked him, 1730th on the list of world billionaires. [8]
Gazprom is the largest company in Russia. Russia's vast geography is an important determinant of its economic activity, with some sources estimating that Russia contains over 30 percent of the world's natural resources. [2] [3] [4] The World Bank estimates the total value of Russia's natural resources at US$75 trillion.
A UGM-96 Trident I clears the water after launch from a US Navy submarine in 1984. A submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is a ballistic missile capable of being launched from submarines. Modern variants usually deliver multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), each of which carries a nuclear warhead and allows a single ...
The petroleum or oil industry in Russia is one of the largest in the world. Russia has the largest reserves and was the largest exporter of natural gas. [1] It has the sixth largest oil reserves, and is one of the largest producers of oil. [2] It is the fourth largest energy user.