Schlumberger Limited - 2005 dated Specimen Stock Certificate
Inv# SE1529 Specimen Stock
New Jersey
New York
Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Incorporated in 1956. Schlumberger Limited is an oilfield services company. Schlumberger employees represent more than 140 nationalities working in more than 120 countries. Schlumberger has four principal executive offices located in Paris, Houston, London, & The Hague. Schlumberger is the world’s largest offshore drilling company. It is the biggest offshore drilling contractor (in terms of revenue) in the world.
Schlumberger is incorporated in Willemstad, Curaçao as Schlumberger N.V. & trades on the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext Paris, the London Stock Exchange & SIX Swiss Exchange. Schlumberger is a Fortune Global 500 company, ranked 287 in 2016, & also listed in Forbes Global 2000, ranked 176 in 2016.
Schlumberger was founded in 1926 by two brothers Conrad & Marcel Schlumberger from the Alsace region in France as the Electric Prospecting Company (French: Société de prospection électrique). The company recorded the first-ever electrical resistivity well log in Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, France in 1927. Today, Schlumberger supplies the petroleum industry w/ services such as seismic data processing, formation evaluation, well testing & directional drilling, well cementing & stimulation, artificial lift, well completions, flow assurance and consulting, & software & information management. The company is also involved in the groundwater extraction & carbon capture & storage industries. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumberger
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