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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.
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation ( Arabic: مؤسسة البترول الكويتية; KPC) is Kuwait 's major national oil company, headquartered in Al Kuwait. [1] The activities of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation are focused on petroleum exploration, production, petrochemicals, refining, marketing, and transportation. KPC produces about 7% of the ...
Transocean Ltd. Transocean Ltd. is an American drilling company. [2] It is the world's largest offshore drilling contractor based on revenue and is based in Vernier, Switzerland. The company has offices in 20 countries, including Canada, the United States, Norway, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Conrad Schlumberger (2 October 1878 in Gebweiler ( Alsace-Lorraine) – 9 May 1936 in Stockholm) and Emile Henry Marcel Schlumberger (21 June 1884 in Gebweiler – 9 May 1953 in Val-Richer) were brothers from the region of Alsace-Lorraine, France, then a part of the German Empire. Their inventions in the area of geophysics and well logging were ...
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company ( KUFPEC) is an international upstream company. KUFPEC is a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and was founded in April 1981. The organization is involved in the discovery, expansion, and extraction of crude oil and natural gas outside Kuwait ’s borders.
Workforce nationalization is a government initiative that can be described as the recruitment and employee development to encourage or often require the employment of native-born population in certain jobs or industry sectors, thus reducing a country‘s dependency on an expatriate workforce. [1] These efforts have been defined as a multi-level ...
Abdullah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah (father) Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah ( Arabic: أحمد العبد الله الأحمد الصباح; born 5 September 1952) is a Kuwaiti economist, politician and a member of the ruling family, Al Sabah. He served as the minister of oil between 2009 and 2011. He was appointed as the prime minister ...
The National Assembly is the legislature in Kuwait, established in 1963. [4] Its predecessor, the 1938 National Assembly, was formally dissolved in 1939 after "one member, Sulaiman al-Adasani, in possession of a letter, signed by other Assembly members, addressed to Iraq's King Ghazi, requesting Kuwait's immediate incorporation into Iraq."