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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 Paris in 1914, the son of Marcel Schlumberger, a mechanical engineer, and his wife Jeanne Laurans. [1] Marcel co-founded Schlumberger in 1926 in Paris with his brother, Conrad, a physicist. [1] Pierre was the brothers' only male heir. Pierre and his wife Claire emigrated to America in 1946. [2]
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 ...
Original Cameron Iron Works Building. On the National Register of Historic Places Park Towers South, which was the former headquarters of Cameron. 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 ...
Schlumberger argued that the invention was not the computer program, but rather the process of "transforming measurements into useful information." Schlumberger argued that the definition of "invention" in the Patent Act did not exclude inventions involving computers and so there was no reason the process was not a patentable invention. [6]
Schlumberger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Schlumberger brothers — Conrad (1878–1936) and Marcel (1884–1953) Schlumberger — founded the Société de Prospection Electrique that later became Schlumberger Limited
Pages in category "Schlumberger" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
William Schlumberger (March 25, 1799 – February 20, 1838) [1] was an Alsatian chess master. He is known to have taught Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant to play chess and as the operator of The Turk , a chess-playing machine which was purported to be an automaton .