The company covers more than 60000 employees out over 140 countries, the Unternehmensgewinn was in the year 2005 14.3 billion US Dollar.

Since the company originally originates from France, the company name is usually French expressed: //

Firm history

• 1926: Foundation of a firm as de Prospection by the brothers Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger originating from the Elsass. The company name comes from its idea to look with methods of the Geoelektrik for hydrocarbons - for the same reason one of the electrode arrangements is designated in the Geoelektrik after them.
• 1940: Head office after Houston shifts
• 1948: Establishment of the Ridgefield research center
• 1956: Establishment of the parent company Schlumberger Limited in
• 1960: Establishment of Dowell Schlumberger by Schlumberger and Dow Chemical
• 1979: The Fairchild Camera and instrumentation company (inclusive Fairchild Semiconductor) becomes a subsidiary of Schlumberger
• 1985: Establishment of the Sedco Forex triplet company
• 1987: National Semiconductor buys Fairchild Semiconductor of Schlumberger for 122 million US Dollar
• 1992: GeoQuest of system is bought up
• 1998: Camco international is bought up
• 2000: Establishment of the seismology company WesternGeco as a Joint venture as well as Baker Hughes Incorporated
• 2000: Under the new name Schlumberger Oilfield service firmieren the former Schlumberger marks viz, Anadril, Dowell, Geoquest, GECO PRAKLA, we LINE and Testing
• 2000: Sedco Forex is sold at Transocean triplet
• 2005: Announcement that at the end of of 2006 headquarters is shifted from New York to Houston

Related links

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