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Schlumberger. Schlumberger NV (French: [ʃlumbɛʁʒe, ʃlœ̃b-]), doing business as SLB, also known as Schlumberger Limited, [2] is a global technology company. As of 2022, it is both the world's largest oilfield services company and the world's leader in digital solutions for subsurface and surface engineering.
Pierre Schlumberger (1914 – February 18, 1986) was an American businessman. He was the chief executive of Schlumberger , the world's largest oilfield services company. Early life
The Schlumberger brothers called this technique an "Electrical Survey", but the more common name "well log" was coined a few years later in the United States. At that time, Pechelbronn was the only oil field known in France. On 28 July 1928, the owners of the oil field signed a contract with the Schlumberger company to do
A year after Schlumberger rebranded to SLB and dropped the family name of the founding brothers, the oil-field services leader is seeing the benefits that change is having on reinventing itself as ...
Kibsgaard started his career with ExxonMobil in 1992, and joined Schlumberger in 1997. [2] He became its CEO in August 2011, [4] succeeding Andrew Gould, who retired as chairman and CEO. [5] He was replaced by Olivier Le Peuch in August 2019. [6] Under his leadership, the company laid off approximately 70,000 employees in less than three years. [7]
Dominique de Menil. Dominique de Menil (née Schlumberger; March 23, 1908 – December 31, 1997) was a French - American art collector, philanthropist, founder of the Menil Collection and an heiress to the Schlumberger Limited oil-equipment fortune. [1] She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1986. [2]
Smith International. Smith International was a Fortune 500 company headquartered in the Greenspoint district and in unincorporated Harris County, Texas. [2][3] Smith International ceased to exist as an independent company following the merger with Schlumberger. This company supplies products to gas and oil production and exploration companies.
This confusion extended to Schlumbergera, whose complicated taxonomic history has been detailed by McMillan and Horobin. [4] The modern genus Schlumbergera was created by Charles Lemaire in 1858. The name commemorates Frédéric Schlumberger, who had a collection of cacti at his chateau near Rouen.