Schlumberger
Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest companies for petroleum exploration and oilfield services. The company is registered in Willemstad at the Dutch island of Curacao, has its headquarters in Houston but in the United States. Other main offices are in Paris and The Hague.
The company employs approximately 118,000 employees in 85 countries, with sales in 2012 amounted to 42.149 billion U.S. dollars. In 2007, Schlumberger has invested approximately $ 728 million in the development of new technologies. Around the world, people in 23 research institutions.
As the company founder Conrad Schlumberger and Marcel Schlumberger from France came (then National Rural Alsace- Lorraine), the Company will, except in German-speaking countries usually pronounced in the French: [ ʃlumbɛʀʒe ] or [ ʃlœbɛʀʒe ]
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Company History
In 1926 the company was founded as Société de Prospection ƒlectrique by originating from the Alsace brothers Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger. The company stems from its idea to look at methods of geoelectric for hydrocarbons - for the same reason is one of the electrode arrays in the geoelectric named after them.
1940, the headquarters relocated to Houston in 1948 he co-founded the Ridgefield Research Center, 1956, the parent company Schlumberger Limited in Willemstad, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles and then in 1960 by Dowell Schlumberger Schlumberger and Dow Chemical. From 1968, the company participated in the founded in France in 1942 Forex ( complete takeover completed in 1971 ). 1979, the Fairchild Camera and Instrumentation Company ( including Fairchild Semiconductor) a subsidiary of Schlumberger. In 1984 the acquisition, which was founded in Texas in 1947 Southeastern Drilling Company ( Sedco ) and 1985, the merger of Southeastern Drilling Company ( Sedco ) and Forex for Sedco Forex Drilling Company. 1987 buys National Semiconductor Fairchild Semiconductor from Schlumberger for 122 million U.S. dollars.
1989 opened an operation by Schlumberger in the city Rungis, which is to develop test systems for passenger baggage. In 1994 this area was sold to the Rheinmetall and there integrated the subsidiary Heimann.
1991 Prakla seismos, 1992 GeoQuest system and 1998 Camco International is bought. In 1998 the company founded the Education Initiative SEED, which has so far linked more than 225 schools in 39 countries. 1999, the spin-off forms of Sedco Forex and sale to Transocean. In 2000, the founding of the company WesternGeco seismic carried out as a joint venture with Baker Hughes and under the new name Schlumberger Oilfield Services operate the former Schlumberger brands viz, Anadril, Dowell, Geoquest, Wireline and Testing. 2007 Schlumberger Baker Hughes buys the remaining portion of WesternGeco and the U.S. headquarters moved from New York to Houston.