Marcel Schlumberger

Marcel Schlumberger ( born June 21, 1884 in Guebwiller, Alsace, † August 19, 1953 at Guizot estate Val -Richer in Lisieux, Normandy ) was a French engineer.

His parents were Paul Schlumberger (entrepreneurs in the textile industry ) and Marguerite ( née de Witt, granddaughter of the Minister Guizot ). He went, like his brother Conrad to Paris to study and graduated in 1907 from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (now the École Centrale Paris ) from. During the war he served not as a soldier, but worked in various departments behind the front, was last science officer and was awarded the Legion of Honour.

With the father's financial support, he was able to work scientifically in 1919 with his brother on the use of electric current to study soil texture (logging ). This was based on their discovery of a link between the electric potential and the deposits of oil sands.

He then worked as a research engineer, appraiser or organizer in the industry. He worked for many companies in the USA and Europe. In 1925, he acted as in Houston with Royal Dutch Shell of a contract and worked for its subsidiary Roxana Petroleum.

On September 5, 1927 Conrad Merkwiller -Pechelbronn he took before the first based on electrical resistivity well logging. With a probe, the data of a 500 m deep borehole could be determined. This was a major breakthrough, since one could identify the geological formations of the drill site very accurate and without core analysis for the first time.

In 1935 the two founded in Houston " Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation ".

After the death of his brother Conrad in 1936 he took the lead on the common business and continued to work on the technology advances.

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  • (s) Schlumberger Ltd: Our History, . accessed 28 March 2012
  • IGEP, TU Braunschweig: Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger; accessed 28 March 2012
  • (s) Encyclopædia Britannica article about Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger; accessed 28 March 2012
  • Engineer
  • Member of the Legion of Honour ( Officer )
  • Person (Alsace )
  • Frenchman
  • German
  • Born in 1884
  • Died in 1953
  • Man
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