Where is Schlumberger from?
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Schlumberger Limited\n153 E. 53rd St.\n57th Fl.\nNew York, NY 10022-4624\n\nPhone: 212-350-9400\nFax: 212-350-9457\nhttp://www.slb.com\n\nSchlumberger is one of the world's largest oil field services companies, along with Halliburton. The company provides a full range of oil and gas services, including seismic surveys, drilling, wireline logging, well construction and completion, and project management. Organized into 27 geographic teams, Schlumberger's Oilfield Services unit provides reservoir evaluation, reservoir development, and reservoir management services. \n\nSchlumberger is also working to develop new technologies for reservoir optimization. Through its WesternGeco business (70%-owned joint-venture with Baker Hughes), the company provides seismic services to customers worldwide. \n\nCOMPANY HISTORY\n-----------------------\n\nIn a Paris basement in 1912, physicist Conrad Schlumberger experimented with wire and a sand-filled bathtub, eventually hoping to use electric current to find ore deposits. With his father's money, Conrad and his brother Marcel began "electrical prospecting" in 1919. Société de Prospection Électrique (SPE) began using the methods for oil exploration in 1923. In 1927 Conrad asked son-in-law Henri Doll to design a tool to chart where oil lay in a well, and wireline logging was born. \n\nTo survive the Depression, SPE teamed with rival SGRM in 1931. SPE handled logging, and the two firms formed Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGG) for subsurface operations. After entering the US in 1932, the Schlumbergers formed a company in Houston in 1934 and moved headquarters there in 1940.\n\nAlso in the 1930s SPE and CGG moved into the Soviet Union, which was desperate for industry. While developing the nation's oil fields, SPE began its policy of adapting to other cultures. Stalin banished the firms in 1936. Conrad died that year, and Marcel followed in 1953.\n\nLed by chairman Doll and Marcel's son Pierre (CEO), the company went public as Schlumberger Limited in 1956. It also bought 50% of Forex, a drilling rig firm, in 1959. The next year Schlumberger sold its stake in CGG and formed an oil services venture with Dow Chemical.\n\nSchlumberger nearly doubled in size with the 1962 acquisition of electronics maker Daystrom. In 1964 the firm combined its 50% stakes in Forex and Languedocienne to create drilling company Neptune. After Jean Riboud became CEO in 1966, the company moved to New York. Doll retired the next year; by then some 40% of the firm's sales stemmed from his inventions. Schlumberger bought a utility meter manufacturer in 1970.\n\nContinuing to build its drilling operations, it bought the rest of Forex in 1972 and SEDCO in 1984 (to form Sedco Forex Drilling in 1985). In 1984 Schlumberger combined its 1977 purchase, The Analysts (computerized mud logging), with Dowell's drilling unit to form directional driller Anadrill. (Schlumberger took over Anadrill in 1993.) When oil prices crashed, Schlumberger merged its wireline logging businesses with Flopetrol (acquired 1971) in 1986. It also began seismic analysis, buying GECO (50% in 1984, the rest in 1988) and PRAKLA-SEISMOS (1991, folded into GECO).\n\nMeanwhile, the firm introduced smart cards in 1982. Schlumberger bought GeoQuest (well data management software) in 1992 and formed the Omnes communications venture with Cable & Wireless in 1995. (Schlumberger took over Omnes in 1999.)\n\nIn 1998 Schlumberger bought Camco International (drilling services and equipment). Facing the 1999 oil slump, the firm cut staff and combined four engineering and consulting units into Holditch-Reservoir Technologies. It also created a drilling fluids joint venture with Smith International's M-I. Schlumberger finished the year by spinning off Sedco Forex, which then merged with Transocean.\n\nSchlumberger boosted its utility meter business in 2000 by buying CellNet, a UK telemetry services firm, and it acquired contr
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Probably "Petrobraz" in Brazil
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Probably Exxon Mobil and Chevron.  The major foreign ones are BP and Royal Dutch.
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http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/home.asp \nIt tells you all about the company, just cut and paste onto your address bar! Good Luck!
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(m)\n\nI think germany
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China. Check out;\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilber_Pan
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The Netherlands... ofcourse  :) :)
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The only similarity is with the Murphy Oil based in Eldorado AK... \n\nGood luck!
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Bolivia\n\nCurrently residing in Anchorage, AK. 100% American
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Not really. I grew up in the U.S. and I'd never heard of him until I came to Germany.
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Send orders to: Daniel W. Bly, 403 18th Street, Grottoes, VA 24441; e-mail: dwbly@aol.com\n\nEighteenth-century Swiss and German pioneer families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and their European origins and ancestors. Families in this volume: Brambach, Coffelt, Foltz, Hockman, Hoover, Niswanger-Niswander, Stephens, Wakeman, and Zehring.
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Ich komme aus dem Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika!\nIch lebe im Bundesstaat Florida.\nWohnen tue ich in Jacksonville.
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One of the world’s largest suppliers of reliable products and services to the oil and gas industry since 1919. Vice-President Cheney is a stockholder in this company and was responsible for Halliburton obtaining contracts for 'services rendered' in Iraq from the git-go. At the time, I smelled a rat. Collusion. I still do!\n\n                                                             HANK (Josh)
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What state are you from?
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none i think. i guess you mean lead (lat. plumbum, chem. Pb)\n\ndid you ask due to the RoHS compliance?\nhttp://solutions.ihs.com/solutions/enterprise/rohs-weee.jsp?MID=W094&GCID=S14922x007-FORSITE&keyword=rohs&MATCHTYPE={OVMTC:search:search:content}
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mwahaha--> dang where did you come from??
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i live in pa and work in the energy field. i would say pittsburgh, because westinghouse is based there, many engineering firms in all sectors of energy are represented there, most firsts in energy field from oil and gas to nuclear and waste fueled plants are in the area. many new innovations always being reaearched and developed. in fact a large amount of jobs are anticipated being developed in the very near future. pittsburgh was george westinghouse's base and he was involved in all forms of energy development and equipment manufacture. we are coming back strong.