Talk:Schlumberger

message: Pronunciation - slumber-jayJesse Harris 13:39, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not simple. The name is a Germanic one, originating in the Alsace area of France. However, the eponymous founders of the company were francophones. So the company's founders were pronouncing a German name with a French accent. Since the company's founding, however, it has gone on to have a presence in many countries, and in some of those countries, certain sounds in the name are pronounced with difficulty; specifically the IPA [y] (French "chute") and the IPA [ʒ] (last sound of "mirage"). So in the those countries, substitutions are made. Cornellier 22:05, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Very much not simple. In my experience, talking with Texas and Oklahoma oil people who are educated and trying to pronounce it correctly, it's more or less "slum-bur-ʒay", accent on the 3rd syllable; a surprising number of people just can't do "schl" even when they're adept at some other common non-English phonology...  And significant number of people pronounce the 2nd syllable like "bear". --studerby 22:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The company, as well as the stock holders, call it "shlum-bur-shay" or "shlum-bar-jay and "Schlum-burger" comes from some MSNBC stock analysit. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.114.219.196 (talk) 00:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

text: According to my experience a large number of people within Schlumberger calls it Sh-lum-be-jaayer with the "b" sound very short. --Jingshen 05:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Many French employees of Schlumberger have taken to pronouncing the "u" as "oo", thus imitating the germanic pronunciation for that part of the word, which then comes out as "shloom-bear-ZHAY". This is frowned upon by the family itself, which wanted very much to avoid confusion between Alsace and Germany, and keeps pronoucing the "um" diphthong as in the French word "un" (I don't know the IPA for this, possibly ũ or ĩ).  This makes it very distinctive, but even less pronounceable to other common mortals.  Based on this, however, "shlum-bear-zhay" is definitely the closest English approximation, as long as you barely pronounce the "m" and shorten the "bear" syllable. (Note: I am an employee of Schlumberger and I am originally French) Claude 01:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: This article reads like it was written by the company.  It'd be nice if there were other things presented in the article. --andye  — Preceding undated comment added 13:05, 13 November 2006
The article reads like a marketing brochure of the company. We want to know where and how the company evolved and not whether it is going to provide excellent and advanced services or not. Please tell us what were stumbling blocks in establishing the company in remote and hostile locations around the world and not whether these office are "looked upon for inspiration" during the life of the oil field !!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.230.248.1 (talk) 14:59, 30 November 2006
*I do not think the company is marketing anything in anyway. I believe that whoever created this article simply copied the contents of this page on the official SLB website: "Schlumberger, Backgrounder". As a result most contents on this article is still the exact same. In fact, I think this discussion should be ended and deleted. --Jingshen 06:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This discussion occurred Dec 06, when the article was largely a cut & paste of SLB's about-us page. It is typical to give annual profits for public US companies in US dollars. See Microsoft. Cheers, --guyzero | talk 15:51, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Compare some of the other company articles, e.g. Halliburton. This article needs lots of attention. LeadSongDog 03:07, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Company editors?

message: Hi! Does it benefit the reader to have the large management listing on this article? I suggest we trim off the Technologies, Areas, and EMS sections and leave just the top managers for brevity and readability. Any thoughts? cheers, --guyzero | talk 02:30, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trim org chart? 

message: The article said, "In 1987,...and the domain name www.slb.com was registered by the company" which is not possible since there was no registration of domain names in 1987, nor world wide web. The world wide web was named in May of 1990 according to the world's first web site http://info.cern.ch/ which is still in existence. 
So I don't know when slb was registered but it was not in 1987.
Nick Beeson (talk) 18:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Schlumberger had SINet running back then as a TCP/IP network. It is important to note that Internet ≠ World Wide Web - In other words, the Internet, and ARPANET before it, existed long before the first website came online. "The Web" runs as a service on top of the Internet. In any case, the actual text from Schlumberger's history page is, "Registered slb.com as an Internet domain name". That's slb.com, not www.slb.com, so I've corrected the text of the article to match the actual history. Cheers —Travistalk 02:40, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Domain Name Error 

message: As I've said before: the following is interesting and probably true; however, the citations do not directly reference Schlumberger, so we cannot say for certain that Schlumberger was committing these infractions. I'm putting it here so we can work on it. AniRaptor2001 (talk) 15:31, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sigh. Luckily it doesn't cost me anything to keep reverting. Geco, if you believe I'm trying to hide any infractions SLB has committed, please see this edit by me. My issue with your contribution is your failure to provide sources that specifically accuse SLB of committing the infractions permitted by the loopholes in the labor laws. AniRaptor2001 (talk) 16:15, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Australia corruption

message: Schlumberger has been notorious for law violations in various countries. This reflects the difference between proclaimed and real sequence of the Core Values of this company and its management.
It has been willfully bringing in illegal workforce in Kazakhstan, as well as regularly smuggling tools and equipment from tax-free projects like Tengiz (TCO) and Karachaganak (KPO) and deviating from tax payments.
:Do you have a source for this? AniRaptor2001 (talk) 14:14, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: This guy is the president of the company. This article is up for deletion currently. Editors are welcome to comment. Ikip  23:08, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dalton Boutte]]

message: BP contracted Schlumberger (SLB) to run the Cement Bond Log (CBL) test that was the final test on the plug that was skipped. The people testifying have been very coy about mentioning this, and you'll see why.
SLB is an extremely highly regarded (and incredibly expensive) service company. They place a high standard on safety and train their workers to shut down unsafe operations.
SLB gets out to the Deepwater Horizon to run the CBL, and they find the well still kicking heavily, which it should not be that late in the operation. SLB orders the "company man" (BP's man on the scene that runs the operation) to dump kill fluid down the well and shut-in the well. The company man refuses. SLB in the very next sentence asks for a helo to take all SLB personel back to shore. The company man says there are no more helo's scheduled for the rest of the week (translation: you're here to do a job, now do it). SLB gets on the horn to shore, calls SLB's corporate HQ, and gets a helo flown out there at SLB's expense and takes all SLB personel to shore.
6 hours later, the platform explodes.
Pick your jaw up off the floor now. No CBL was run after the pressure tests because the contractor high-tailed it out of there. If this story is true, the company man (who survived) should go to jail for 11 counts of negligent homicide.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.2.142.7 (talk) 13:43, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Putting it under Environmental Record might imply that Schlumberger was somehow culpable.  Plazak (talk) 02:20, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a fantastic story, and might be recounted in a book or magazine expose in the future. As of right now, it's just hearsay (though probably true), and can't be included here. Rodface (talk) 15:20, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6464#comment-623420 Schlumberger told BP to shot down the Deepwater Horizon] 

message: This source says that the first Forex was purchased in 1959 and was the company's first large drilling purchase.  This is contrary to what is in the article.Americasroof (talk) 17:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of Forex Purchase?

message: Oil Firms Face Services Hurdle December 23, 2011 by Sarah Kent, excerpt ... 
See Supermajor
99.190.85.17 (talk) 07:25, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wall Street Journal]] resource 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schlumberger&oldid=1120574757, placing the new "slb" logo in the infobox, was reverted by User:Stannerbing in their first Wikipedia edit. The rationale was that there should be a new page documenting the new entity, using HP as an example. Unlike Hewlett-Packard, Schlumberger is not defunct; the company is, as of now, still legally incorporated as Schlumberger. I note that a previous attempt to change the logo and other branding information was shot down as sockpuppetry. So, the situation is as follows:
*  Schlumberger has changed its public brand identity to SLB (rendered in the logo as "slb"). See https://www.slb.com and https://www.wsj.com/articles/schlumberger-rebrands-as-slb-dropping-family-name-11666613853
*  No source indicates that SLB has changed its legal name. For example, an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 2022-11-01 refers to the company in the header as "SCHLUMBERGER N.V. (SCHLUMBERGER LIMITED)" and in the filing text as "Schlumberger Limited('SLB')" https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87347/000119312522275055/d404523d8k.htm
Thus, the company is the same entity that has been known previously as "Schlumberger Limited", so there is no need to create a new article. I previously updated the related item on the disambiguation page SLB to say
  * SLB, the trade name and ticker symbol of Schlumberger Limited, an energy services company
I propose that Schlumberger should display the current logo of Schlumberger Limited, which is . As to how to refer to the company in the article, I would also propose that "SLB" be used to refer to the current operations of the company, while "Schlumberger" be used to refer to company history and operations before October 2022.
I am going to restore the original logo edit with a link to this discussion. Please discuss here before reverting again. (Note: I am not employed by Schlumberger Limited, SLB, or any company involved in its corporate rebranding, and I am not acting at the direction of SLB or any employee or contractor of SLB). GeoGreg (talk) 23:21, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: (Note for the fans: I first edited this article 18 years ago next week!) GeoGreg (talk) 23:26, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corporate identity 

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message: SLB has tried to rebill itself as a "tech" company for "decarbonization"—most press and even 3rd party materials now stick to this line. We shouldn't modify the page or let those sources obscure SLB's real business. DenverCoder9 (talk) 19:21, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rebranding 

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thread_title:  Problem