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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.
Sugar Land (sometimes spelled as Sugarland) is the largest city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, located in the southwestern part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. Located about 19 miles (31 km) southwest of downtown Houston, Sugar Land is a populous suburban municipality centered around the junction of ...
Founder of Imperial Sugar. Mayor of Galveston (1917–1919) Spouse. Henrietta Blum. . ( m. 1902) . Children. 5. Isaac Herbert Kempner (January 14, 1873 – August 1, 1967) was the founder of the Imperial Sugar Corporation and mayor of Galveston, Texas .
Personal life. James Thompson attended Bellaire High School in Houston. He graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He has served on the Board of Regents there since 2005. He married his wife, Gay, in 1970. They have three children: Michael, Tara, and Meredith. He has lived in Sugar Land with his family since 1978.
The Schlumberger company then tried to expand their activities to many other countries, but the attempts were hindered by the worldwide depression. On 15 September 1934, Schlumberger's subsidiary in the United States became Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation (SWSC) with offices in Houston, Texas. Conrad was the chairman, and Marcel was the ...
Terry later helped organize the famed Confederate cavalry unit, Terry's Texas Rangers, and was killed in the Civil War. After the war, the operation was sold to Edward H. Cunningham, who expanded the sugar mill into a refinery. W. T. Eldridge and Galveston businessman I. H. Kempner, Sr. bought the refinery in 1907.
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 as well as project management and aftermarket services for the oil and gas and process ...
Imperial Sugar Company. Imperial Sugar is a major U.S. sugar producer and marketer based in Sugar Land, Texas, with sugar refinery operations in California, Georgia, and Louisiana. The company was established in 1843 and has undergone ownership changes multiple times. The current name, Imperial Sugar Company, was established after a change in ...