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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.
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]
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.
He has worked for Schlumberger for 32 years (as of July 2019), rising to chief operating officer (COO) in February 2019, before succeeding Paal Kibsgaard as CEO on 1 August 2019. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 4 ] In 2023, Le Peuch's total compensation from Schlumberger was $17.2 million, representing a CEO-to-median worker pay ratio of 154-to-1.
His first wife, Claire Schwob d'Héricourt, with whom he had five children, died from a stroke in 1959. [1] Pierre and São had two children, Paul-Albert, in 1962, and Victoire, in 1968. [ 1 ] They lived in Houston , Texas, until he was ousted as CEO in "a family coup" in 1965, and moved to New York City and then Paris.
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]
Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (French: [le.a sɛ.du] ⓘ; born 1 July 1985) is a French actress.Prolific in both French cinema and Hollywood, she has received various accolades including five César Award nominations, two Lumières Awards, a Palme d'Or, a BAFTA Award nomination, and the Trophée Chopard Award.
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.