[Bioundgrd] Industry Presentation by Schlumberger

[Janice Chang]

>
>MIT SEBC will host a talk on this Thursday given by the high level
>speakers from Schlumberger about the oil and gas industry, also many high
>tech services in Schlumberger, like smart chips and IT service.
>
>                    Industry Presentation by Schlumberger
>               Hosted by MIT Science & Engineering Business Club
>                         Co-sponsored by Schlumberger
>
>
>            "Oilfield Exploration - More high-tech than you think..."
>
>                                  by:
>
>                            Dr. Larry Schwartz
>        Manager of Schlumberger Worldwide University Relations Program
>
>                            Mr. Tom Zimmerman
>        Managing Director of Schlumberger-Doll Research
>                          Schlumberger Fellow
>
>                            Dr. Demos Pafitis
>        Director at Schlumberger-Doll Research Center of Cambridge, MA
>
>
>                       Thursday, September 18th 2003
>                              6.00 - 7.00 pm
>
>                      MIT Building 10 Room 250 (10-250)
>
>                           Reception followed
>                * Sandwiches and soft drink will be served *
>
>Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) is a global oilfield and information
>services company with major activity in the energy industry. The company
>employs people of more than 140 nationalities working in 100 countries,
>and consists of three primary business segments. Schlumberger Oilfield
>Services is the world's premier oilfield services company supplying a wide
>range of technology services and solutions to the international oil and
>gas industry. SchlumbergerSema is a leading supplier of IT consulting,
>systems integration, and network and infrastructure services to the energy
>industry, as well as to the public sector, telecommunications and finance
>markets. WesternGeco, jointly owned with Baker Hughes, is the world's
>largest and most advanced surface seismic company. In 2002, Schlumberger
>revenue was $13.2 billion.
>
>Spearkers:
>
>Larry Schwartz received his Ph.D in Physics from Harvard University in
>1971 and was a member of the Physics Department at Brandeis University
>until 1982 when he joined Schlumberger-Doll Research.  While at
>Schlumberger, Larry has held a number of scientific and management
>positions.  In 1994 he took a sabbatical at the Lawrence Livermore
>National Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and
>Technology.  He has served as a Director of the Schlumberger Foundation
>and on the Steering Committee of the American Physical Society Panel on
>Public Affairs.  He is currently the Manager of Schlumberger^Rs Worldwide
>University Relations Program.
>
>Tom Zimmerman is the Managing Director of Schlumberger-Doll Research.  He
>is a Mechanical Engineer and joined Schlumberger to work on perforating
>technology at our Houston Engineering Center in 1980.  After a two year
>assignment in Marketing (in Denver) he returned to Houston to lead a
>number of engineering groups and was most recently the Managing Director
>of Schlumberger's largest Product Center in Sugar Land Texas.  Tom is a
>Schlumberger Fellow and will be the Technical Program Chair for the 2004
>Society of Petroleum Engineers Technical Conference.
>
>Demos Pafitis joined Schlumberger's Cambridge (UK) Research Center in
>1991 after completing his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at
>the University of Cambridge.  In 1996 he moved to Schlumberger's
>Engineering Center in Houston, TX where he worked on advanced drilling
>technology as a Senior Engineer and Section Manager.  In 2000 Demos took a
>Marketing position in Houston and then moved (2002) to Paris to work as a
>Business Development Manager.  Beginning in May 2003, he is the Department
>Director at Schlumberger-Doll Research for the new Mechanical & Materials
>Science group which will be located in Cambridge, MA.
>
>For more information, please visit http://web.mit.edu/sebc/slb_info.html