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Schlumberger. Schlumberger NV ( French: [ʃlumbɛʁʒe, ʃlœ̃b-] ), doing business as SLB, also known as Schlumberger Limited, [2] is an American oilfield services company. [3] [4] As of 2022, it is both the world's largest offshore drilling company and the world's largest offshore drilling contractor by revenue.
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.
1474779 [4] Website. www.smithfieldva.gov. Smithfield is a town in Isle of Wight County, in the South Hampton Roads subregion of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States. The population was 8,533 at the 2020 census . The town is most famous for the curing and production of the Smithfield ham.
The Virginia Peninsula is a peninsula in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. It is sometimes known as the Lower Peninsula to distinguish it from two other peninsulas to the north, the Middle Peninsula and the Northern Neck . It is the site of historic Jamestown, founded in 1607 as the ...
Leesburg is a town in and the county seat of Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.Its is part of both the Northern Virginia region of the state and the Washington metropolitan area, including Washington, D.C., the nation's capital.Settlement in the area began around 1740 [citation needed], which is named for the Lee family, early leaders of the town.
Harrisonburg is an independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is also the county seat of the surrounding Rockingham County, [9] although the two are separate jurisdictions. At the 2020 census, the population was 51,814. [10]
Roanoke Island ( / ˈroʊənoʊk /) is an island in Dare County, bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was named after the historical Roanoke, a Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English colonization . About 8 mi (13 km) long and 2 mi (3.2 km) wide, the island lies between the ...
Lunenburg County, Virginia. / 36.95°N 78.24°W / 36.95; -78.24. Lunenburg County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,936. [1] Its county seat is Lunenburg.