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Spes-Overseas Edition February 1972

n° 161 FEBRUQRY 1972

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Editor: nicole GQUTHIER

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REmEmßRancES OF THincs pasT -With Joyce and Dave BERGT

for three assignments

17 assam REVISITED, by Keith GIBBS

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PERSOnnEL HEWS

52 a CEnTURY anD a HQLF OF SEHIORITY ax H.q.

38 ODDS & EnDS:

news from everywhere., and beyond

49 inaUGUROTinG W.T.C. m LUanoa, by martin SCHITIELZ

Contributors to this issue:

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He-itU piwis, Jâeûe'S j e ^ d e i ,

7>am ICdi^k, fCe^ MaUin, Mala HaueUß', l/KaUin SciMnelz,

CUi'isto^tUci^ SfniiU, Sf(ie^d, ÎMi-Use- SUM, /eaf» \/isa<^,

V^te^ A. U/iUiams.

Our cover:

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Claude }iAM£AHC, Wf^C T f l ^ .

SUc witt aU an Ids advice...

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: Three assignments with

David and Joyce BERGT

Proust's title seems made to order for the pictorial report sent to us by David BERGT. But there is another tit le which would be every bit as apt, and that is: "Wife helps husband retrace his past..." David used to be one of our most faithful roving reporters, and then one day he got married. Silence. We believed that we had lost our contributor forever. But we were wrong. David's marriage actually brought us a new one. This was apparent when we received the fol lowing letter and the pictures, for Dave had tactfully and lovingly added in the margin ; " M y wife gets credit for the funny captions, blame me for the mediocre ones!" But let's read what he has to say; "Dear Nicole, . " I 've not sent you any pictures for a long time, and now I make up for it, all of a sudden, by sending you so many that you probably won't be able to, or even want to, use them all. It doesn't matter... Look through them and do what you like. (. . ) r. ^ ax • "These pictures cover several years and three assignments: South Africa (Port-Elizabeth - OSA), Australia (Dalby - DAL) and Indonesia (Lirik, Sumatra -LIK). I realize thrat might be an unwieldy article, but the reason is this : the pictures from Indonesia are fairly interesting, but we (David and Joyce) are the only Schlumberger people on them (LIK is a one-man center), which might put your readers to sleep. By inserting pictures from South Afnca and Australia, however (which 1 meant Xo send long ago), you get the added bonus of such personalities as the GEORGINS', P. RAABE, R. GASTALDY, T. KELLOCK, etc... "Good luck! We've been enjoying your Intercom as always!"

Signed : David, Joyce.

Three assignments, three different continents: Africa, Australia, Asia. And Dave himself comes from a fourth : America. Should we look upon his multi-national life as the illustration of an unusual destiny? Perhaps if he were not wi th Schlumberger... but we like to think that Dave's moves and his career are actually quite representative of the "Schlumberger Way of Life". Naturally, wherever he has gone, Dave has looked upon the world with his own eyes. His pictures reflect his and Joyce's unique and individual personalities, their qualities of observation and their attitudes toward the countries where they have lived together. Another engineer and his wi fe would have seen quite different things, or seen the same things from a different angle. Thus, Intercom may go on publishing pictures from the same country and continue to show fresh aspects of its life, people and scenery.

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Travelling hght, David BERGT begins training for Schlumberger life at age 8 (Papa moves family to Japan in 1951 ).

CHAPTER 1. SOUTH AFRICA-1970

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST

"It took 27 years to find her : now I'm going to keep her' David and Joyce BERGT, wedding day, 29-1 -1970.

"Fire! Abandon the rig I"

After 3 weeks offshore, some guys will try

anything to get back home.

Killing time on the beaches, Joyce BERGT searches the horizon, as she waits for David's return.

"If they don't come in today, let's Une up a speedboat, and we'll go out there!"

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Happy Reunion ! Peter RAABE,

Joyce and David BERGT, and Josette and

Michel GEORG IN soak up the warm Mossel Bay

sun after the boys came home.

Killing time in downtown Mossel Bay : Alexandre GEORG IN rides Josette 's shoulders, as they wait for Michel's return.

"A!EEEEEEEeeeeaeeee / / / ' Guess who just got called back to the rig? ! !

"Merde! Back to the rig! That's Sch!umberger!" moans IVIichel. (Not Lenin).


"$ 257.95. and no guarantee! You must be joking!"

!\Aichel GEORG!N looks doubtfu! about David BERGT's

sa!es pitch.

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David and Joyce BERG T, and a!! the bare essentials for a happy home.

You should have seen the place before

v\/e straightened it up !

CHAPTER 2 : AUSTRALIA-1971

Just about all of the engineers in. AUD (Australia) converge for one of Joyce's specialities, lasagne. Walt HARRIS, Noel AFFLECK, Tom KELLOCK, bashful Bruce ALLEN, René GASTALDY, and Olga Rootes (Olga RootesI Who the hell is Olga Rootes?!!)

"Look, Ma... no hands!" René GASTALDY at the player piano. (By George, there's Olga again, too!)

Not very profitable, but at least it's

an honest profession. Joyce BERGT,

caught in the act.


"Would you believe that this baby kangaroo thought / was its mother?"

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CHAPTERS; INDONESIA-1971

My o/d-buddy-from-Angola-bachelor-days. RogerDOL-LIMORE, and 2 cuties he picked up in DjaJ^arta. (the cutie on the left is Margaret DOLUMORE : the other cutie is my cutie).

"Get dressed. Mama !... White man's here tailing pictures again !"

"Step right up. folks. You've got the illness: I've got the cure!"... our local medicine man assures us, with a brilliant smile.


"What does E-Q-U-A-T-O-R spell?" David and Joyce BERGT.

'When you said '3 and 1 ' / thought you meant

3 weeks at home and 1 week on the rig!"

Schiumberger housing just ain't what it used to be!

'You're just not my type, honey!

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"It sure doesn 't look like caviar. David!"


"I'm an old man, and this is my monkey!'

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"Sure, you can take my picture, honey"

'Have Kettle.. Will Traver


Home, sweet home, in Lirik.

Lirik International Airport... There's a Boeing 747 hidden behind the terminal building.

"Let's see now... was it 125 m Uli-amps

or mi Hi- volts ?" Ricky at the controls.

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A Shy little Indenosian faces.

Our ultra-modern, open-air market-("Could somebody please direct me to Frozen Foods ?")


Progress in a picture.. The new goes up, the old comes down.

"Are you sure these things are edible ?"

A"\A/hat's white and sticky and drips out of trees?"

"If you've seen one market, you've seen them all,

stranger, " an old man tells us.

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"That's all folks!, no more film".

A S S A M R E V I S I T E D - with pictures by Keith GIBBS -

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The early days of oil prospecting in Assam.

"If you ever get assigned to Assam, especially if i t ' s at Duliajan, you 'd better know how to play golf." This bit of advice, delivered by Keith GIBBS upon his return f rom Assam, is a good illustration of the persistence of British influence in this northeastern province of India. Keith is all enthusiasm when he speaks of his assignment in this region of the Far East where, except for a few details, he found himself quite at home. In addition to its British traditions, Assam has its American touches too... As far as the oil industry is concerned, all allowances made, Assam is the Texas

of India. Oil prospecting has been going on there for many years, and in the field of Digboi, which, with its forest of more than a thousand derricks (picture 1 )

reminds one of Ford City Field in Texas— there are wells which date back seventy years or more. However, it was very much later that truly scientific research got underway : geophysical prospecting began in 1935. Not surprisingly, it was pioneered by Schlumberger, and Roger JOST was sent out to supervise the first operations.

A ^ N A f f l R E V I N I T E D

I M O L D l ^ I V DAYS.. The assignment system was not all that it is today, of course, and a post could not be reached with anything like present rapidity. Thus,.when Jost's trip was planned, there was no question of hopping into the first direct Paris-Calcutta flight taking off f rom Orly Field. In the first place, there was no direct flight, and in the second, no Orly Field! With an itinerary and transportational means which remind one irresistibly of "Around

the World in Eighty Days" Jost reached his post, after a stopover in Rumania where his professional presence was required. He kept a journal, and turning the pages, we read : January 1935 :

From Paris to Rumania for a few days.

Then, via Athens, I reach Alexandria and Cairo. Down Suez to catch a boat for English India. 'February 1935' : The 'Shropshire' puts in at Colombo, Ceylon, and then sails on to Rangoon, in Burma. There, after a few days of waiting, I make my maiden flight aboard the plane f rom Rangoon to Akyab, Calcutta... F r o m there, finally, I manage to reach Digboi in Upper Assam..." As we might imagine, living conditions in Assam were not quite the same in 1935 as they are today, but even then the bungalow (picture 2) assigned to the Schlumberger engineer was a very appealing one.

TODAY FACILITIES Today, prospection is dominated by the all-powerful national company. Oil India, and its presence and activities have deeply marked the entire region. The Schlumberger folks have a tradition of friendly relations with the engineers of the client who in Assam, are especially charming, combining qualities of Oriental gentleness and subtlety with the best acquisitions of British education. The Schlumberger "nomads" in Assam, especially if they happen to be English, are delighted to find a superb 9-hole golf course, three clubs, each with its clubhouse in an area of forty kilometers (the one in Duliajan proper, the tea planters' club, and the club of the

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Digboi Assam Oil Company). Facilities include swimming pools, cricket fields, badminton and billiard rooms. With a little imagination, one might almost believe oneself back in Surrey ! The Gibbs family lived in a beautiful modern house (picture 3) in Duliajan. Entirely air-conditionned, it included three bedrooms and three bathrooms, as well as quarters for three servants. It was also equipped with a stereophonic system. In the same area, there are three other houses with identical comforts which are reserved for the Oil India engineers. All are surrounded by vast, luxuriant gardens. In the creation of a large, well-planned camp for 2,500 persons. Oil India has not forgotten the tool-pushers; their housing has been designed along more typically local lines (picture 4). Duliajan is the site of the beautiful Oil India Hospital (picture 5), and also the company's headquarters building (not shown), which could stand with pride on the Rue Saint-Dominique.

TEA FOR TWO Watered by the Brahmaputra River and drenched by the summer monsoon rains from May to October, Assam is primarily an agricultural province. Wrested f r o m the still-dense jungle, the large tea plantations are usually of English ownership. There are also vast rice paddies and fields of aromatic plants, like the citronella grass seen here (picture 6) which will find its way into the febrication of perfumes. It is not rare to see a wildcat drilled square in the middle of a tea garden, without making the slightest change in the customs of the plantation; and the oil men on the platform of their rig can look on as the tea is harvested and even photograph it as Keith Gibbs did (picture 7). A s a matter of fact, Roger Jost was there before him with his camera, way back in 1935, when he recorded for posterity these charming tea-pickers (picture 8) who are probably the grandmothers of those pictured by Keith ! The relations between the oil and agricultural factions are excellent, each taking pleasure in the other 's harvest: for instance, spudding a well may involve the participation of the owner of the surrounding tea-garden ; in picture 9 Keith Gibbs recorded a ceremony given on such an occasion when the tea-planter was symbolically requested to operate the controls...

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A S S A M R D V I S I T Ë D

D A I L Ï ' U l l E X P E C T K D ' 0€€IJRREÎVCEN

The omnipresent jungle is responsible for certain occurrences which anywhere else, might be labelled "unexpected". Here, they are expected and even routine. Keith Gibbs likes to tell how, on the road which has been slashed through the jungle between Digboi and Duliajan, he often encountered tigers and leopards. Although their intentions may have been of the most pacific, he never took time to find out, nor did he stop long enough to immortalize them on film. Again to make a comparison, we should say that Jost, in his time, made some pretty dangerous encounters in the same region: in one of his souvenir photos (picture 10) he is posing with two members of the very famous tribe of .... head-cutters! Thirty-five years later, they look no more frightening to us than the domesticated elephants which Takao ISHIYAMA occasionally meets on the road when he is on his way to work (picture I I ) . These beasts, driven by their mahouts, are also on their way to work. They are mainly employed in the region for deforestation, either to clear more cultivable land or to rid certain

15 areas of harmful wildlife. These elephants are very gentle, as proved by the following anecdote told by the Gibbs: one afternoon when their small son, Nigel, was having a party, a 'mahout ' came to knock on their door to ask for food for his elephants. Keith agreed to find something for his gargantuan guests provided the driver would bring them into the garden so that the children could enjoy their visit (picture 12). Nigel and his little friends are not apt to forget the day Babar and company came to tea! Alas, not all of the local encounters with animals are so reassuring. The family cook one day discovered in the garden, and promptly dispatched into the next world, an impressively long and slinky snake! (picture 13).

Am^ P R O F I T Not very far from the house is found the Schlumberger Shop, another facility provided by Oil India. Typically

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Schlumberger, on the contrary is "716 , " i.e. this old OSSU-C built in 1957 but still in use after being repainted and equipped with a new cable (picture 14).

What did the family find to do when Keith 's work was finished? They insist that there were plenty of amusements available in and around Duliajan. For instance, they enjoyed picnicking on the banks of the Buchi Dihing river, which flows through the (picture 15) Nahor Katiga Field. On one such day they witnessed the finals— no, it's not the celebrated Oxford-Cambridge competition —of the Durger Puja Festival which is the local celebration taking place in October when the monsoon has blown itself out. Then there is a highly active social life, with numerous parties among clients and friends : in fact, clients are friends. Picture 16 shows Keith and Eileen GIBBS seated beside Surajit CHALIHA (the chief geologist of Oil India Limited) and his wife Geeta. Keith particularly wants us to notice that Mrs. CHALIHA and his wife are wearing the mekla robes which are typical of the Assam region and, he says, quite different from the traditional Indian sari. Even more typical is the clothing worn here (picture 17) by a young couple being united in marriage in a Hindu ceremony performed in Duliajan. The bride is the daughter of Mr. M.M. DUTT, Labor Superintendant of O.I.L. And when there are no parties or ceremonies to attend, there is always the never-failing game of golf! There is even a Schlumberger Cup, and Keith once won it too—a fine thing when he was the only Schlumberger man on the spot! This award is the occasion for an elegant gathering Chez Pierre, (picture 18) as the bar in the clubhouse is called. In picture 19, we see Eileen and Keith standing beside Mr. K.C. ROY, the Resident Chief Executive of Oil India Limited, just outside the club-house. It was wonderful and then one day, like all good things, it had to come to an end. The Gibbs family left Assam and Duliajan. Their farewell was the occasion for another party, which was given them by the team of Schlumberger 'locals' in the electronic shop (picture 20).

Covered with blossoms, in keeping with the custom of the country, Nigel (front left), Eileen and Keith are surrounded by Rana, Dutta, Roy, Mastakim Ali, G u h a and Ali Laskar. The poor quality of the photograph does not allow us to identify them in order, but take our word for it, they were all present, and Keith, Eileen, and Nigel Gibbs had lumps in their throats at the thought of leaving them behind. _ j h e End —

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Personnel News

Schiumberger

THE FIELD O N THE MOVE

You wi l l not f i nd the tradit io-nal chapter " T h e Field on the M o v e " in th is issue. This does not mean that no-body has transferred since the l a s f S t o p Press" was publish-ed. On the cont rary , because of the increasing number of engineers w i t h i n EAS, more and more of t h e m are moving. It has also become more and more d i f f icu l t t o keep an up-to-date Personnel situation due to the long delay involv-ed in pr int ing Intercom. W e have therefore decided to t ry a new fo rmu la starting w i t h the present issue: ins-tead of pub l i sh ing only the names of people w h o have moved since the previous Per-sonnel News, w e are giving you, in the shape of an inset, the who le alphabet ical list of the internat ional and national engineers as w e l l as their res-pective current locations. As movements occur, they w i l l be po in ted ou t by print-ing that engineers name and new assignment in bold type. This method w i l l keep you cont inuous ly in formed of the locat ion of all engineers. Of course w e do not know yet how this change wi l l be received and w o u l d therefore appreciate very much your op in ion on the matter as wel l as your suggest ions for im-provement. Thanks.

I. NEWCOMERS

Tristan de COUASNON

from la Croixille, France, graduated from the Faculté

of Rennes. First assignment;

Gabon

Robert KEWLEY from Grimsby, Lines, England, graduated from the University

of Manchester. First assignment:

MTC

\ John KRUPSKI from Sydney,

Australia, graduated from the University

of Sydney. First assignment: Arabia District

I Philippe LAJONIE from La Rochelle, France, graduated

from l\l 7 of Toulouse

First assignment: WTC

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James DONEGAN from Troyswood,

Kilkenny Ireland, graduated from the University

of Dublin. First assignment;

MTC

Paul de GROOTE from Mechelen,

Belgium, graduated from the University

of Louvain. First assignment:

ATC

Michael HEDGES from Chester,

England, graduated from the University

of Newcastle. First assignment:

MTC

Mark JENNINGS from Teddington,

England, graduated from the University

of Oxford. First assignment:

ATC

Michel LEROUX from Porcheville, France, graduated

from Ecole Centrale of Paris.

First assignment: ATC

Jose LUCCIONI from Toulon,

France, graduated from the Institut

Polytechnique of Grenoble.

First assignment: Myanaung, Burma

Alain PAYEN from Orléans,

France, graduated from the Institut

Polytechnique of Grenoble.

First assignment: MTC

Olivier PETERMANN from Lausanne,

Suisse, graduated from Ecole Technique Supérieure

of Lausanne. First assignment:

MTC

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Roland PULS from Genk,


of Louvain. First assignment;

MTC

Don POLLOCK from Houston,

Texas, graduated from the University

of Texas. First assignment:

ATC

Claude RENIER from Brussels,


of Louvain. First assignment:

MTC

Daniel ROBIN from Macon,

France, graduated from INSA, Lyon. First assignment:

Biberach, Germany

Robert ROSS from Contin,

Scotland, graduated from the University

of Glasgow. First assignment:

ATC

Norman ROXBURGH from Paibley,

Scotland, graduated from the University

of Southampton. First assignment:

ATC

Daniel RUAS from Charenton,

France, graduated from Supélec.

First assignment: ATC

Keith WRIGHT from Breaston,

Nr. Derby, England, graduated from the University

of Sheffield. First assignment:

Pau, France.

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I V E S T E S l Œ f i S " The 18th of April, as every American schoolchild knows, is the date when Paul Revere made his famous ride. It is also memorable as the date when Jerry R I D G E W A Y joined Surenco, back in 1968. A true son of Idaho, Jerry was born at Twin Falls, obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Idaho, married wife Marilyn in his home state, at Cœur d'Alene. Their only child, Tracy, came into the world, like Daddy, at Twin Falls on March 25, 1964. From now on, however, the great dates in Jerry's life will be

taking place in the land of the fjords and the Vikings, for Jerry was transferred to the Norway District on No-vember 23, 1971.

When Roland GARTNER of Surenco was transferred to Offshore Holland on December 10, 1971, it must have been good news for his new wife Mariann (Bardouli) GARTNER, the Dutch girl he married in Quito, Ecuador, just a year ago on January 15. Roland is American, and, although he was born is the famous uni-versity town of Princeton, New Jersey, he lists his home city as Los Angeles and obtained his degree from the University of Geor-gia. He first joined SWS (on January 2,1969) but transferred to Surenco one year later, and worked for various periods of time since then in Putumayo, Colombia, and Ecuador, South America.

Until he was assigned from SWS to the North Sea Division on December 1,1971, Edward KAUFFMAN'S work expe-rience was in his native United States, mainly in the Kansas-Missouri country. Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, he also lived in Sacramento, California, but returned to his native state to get his engin-eering degree from the University of Missouri. Since the time he was a "trainee" in Elk City — in March, 1953 — Edward mainly worked in Liberal, Wichita, Wakeeney and in Perriton, where he was a Special Services F.E. His last American post (February 10, 1959) was with the Kansas Division.

" V E S I E I i f f i l t S "

The HOSEYS, too, have changed hemispheres. Mechanical engineer Earl HOSEY (B.S. f r o m the Univer-sity of Mississippi) joined S.W.S. in February, 1970. He is married, and the father of two children. Daughter Kimberley is four and son Stephen is eight months old. We are pleased to present their pictures here, along with these of Linda and Earl. At the time the family was trans-ferred to the Far East Region, Earl was working in Louisiana, at Houma.

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Out to Nigeria as well goes Edward ROGERS, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, who joined S.W.S. on September 26, 1969. A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, Edward's last assignment was at Morgan City, Louisiana. He will, of course, be accompanied by wife Carol to his new post in Warri, Nigeria.

A timely transfer to Holland Offshore will give Ronald MAUL-DIN and his wife Mary a chance to see the tulips burst into bloom this spring. Ronald whose last assignment was Corpus Christi, Texas, joined S.W.S. on October 6, 1968. A civil engineer with a degree from New Mexico-State Univer-sity, Ronald and wife Mary have two children, Michelle, age four and one-half, and Kelly, going on two.

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Third man from Surenco is Phi-lippe BROS, This Parisian, grad-uate of Supélec, went west as soon as he joined Schlumberger a decade ago. He has worked in nearly every country depending on Surenco: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. And now he has been assigned to Nigeria, where he will be Maintenance Engineer in Port-Harcourt.

Last but not least, let 's introduce a Westerner who is neither f rom nor going out into the field: Mike M E R R I L L . When he joined S.W.S. in January 1969, Mike brought along in his baggage a B.S. in busi-ness administration and an eager interest in personnel problems. His first post was that of Assistant to Person-nel Manager C.A. Rosenthal in Houston. Now, however, he has crossed the Atlantic to join the staff in Paris where he will be respon-sible for Personnel's general pohcies. Mike also helps recruit, and interviews Eng-lish-speaking candidates when they come to Paris. Often, too, he Channel-hops with Jean-Daniel Peyrat to scout for talent in British universities. Mike 's new colleagues greatly appreciate his eagerness to adopt the real French way of life, speak the language, play 421, etc. Word has it that the whole M E R R I L L family which includes Mike's wife, Ann, and daughter Rai, 3, who enjoys attending a local kindergarten is competing for the "genuine Paris ian" prize.

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A CENTURY AND A HALF OF SEMORm „TEN PEOPLE, HOWEVER, SHARE THAT RECORDÜ! ROLAND GENiN AI

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"No t in profile !" Danièle DAUBENTON (1 ) of the Personnel Department muttered between her teeth to the photographer as she received her 5-year award. And no wonder, for she was just about to go on maternity leave! Since that time she has given birth to a son, Damien, and has recovered her svelte waistline.

Michel ROLAND (2) smiles broadly as he receives his seniority pin from Roy SHOURD. Did he or did he not know then that he'd be leaving Paris just two weeks later? Michel was, indeed, ap-pointed Manager of the Equatorial District on January 1, 1972, to replace Claude Chauvet, who has been appointed NED Manager.

Pierre MASO (3) appears to be somewhat skep-tical as Roy SHOURD evokes the main lines of his career—France, Sicily, Brunei, Philippines, Australia, Nigeria, United States, West Pakistan, then back to France. "Al l this is down in black and white in your travel fees account, if you don't believe me," says Roy. With a past like that, Pierre is eminently qualified for his assignment to the International Division of Compteurs Schlumberger.

wi th the company for Massimo SPILA (4), almost all of them spent in Italy. However, he was as-signed to Indonesia in 1964/65 and to Syria, where he was Location Manager, in 1970/71. Now he seems overjoyed to have been named to Paris or, to be more exact, to the CLIC in Clamart.

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as well for Bruno MASSENTI (5). As he thanks Roy SHOURD, the two men seem to be preparing a complicated feat of acrobatics. The pin moves from one left hand to the other, right hands clasp. "Help, someone ! We're in a tangle !"

(BROUGHT FORWARD)

XLfBRATED AT HEADQUARTERS ) ROY SHOURD JOIN FORCES TO DISTRIOUTE THE AWAROS.

CARRIED FORWARD • • • 5 5

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and a kiss from the boss. It is obvious that Jean-nine BOISSONNOT (6) has nothing against this privilege which is reserved for the ladies. After a long stretch in the Financial Department—two-thirds of her Schlumberger career—Jeannine switched horses and turned to legal problems. She has been in charge of Legal Documentation, reporting to Neil SULLIVAN, for the past five years.

w i th Schlumberger! "Can it be possible?" Yvonne TACONNAT (7) seems to be asking herself as she examines the new model seniority button, a repro-duction of the new black and white logotype which has replaced the old gold and blue triangle. Yvonne is in Paris Personnel.

"Wi l l 1 get an award too?" While President Ro-land GENIN retraces his career, entirely spent in the Dipmeter department of Headquarters, Ray-mond DUSSART (8) seems to be bargaining for something—your guess is as good as ours—with Nicole Devautour, Roy Shourd's secretary.

... Already?! Bob GAYMARD (9) of Interpreta-t ion Sales looks slim and trim as a college boy on his way to the senior prom... but its a seniority pin, and a two-decade one at that, he is receiving from Roland GENIN.

as well for Denise VALLANA (10), the prima donna of the Personnel Department. Everybody in the field knows Denise, and Denise knows, really knows, everybody. And no wonder, given her position. The photographer has caught her show-ing R. GENIN how she has had her three pre-vious seniority pins turned into a seniority bra-celet. Now she can add a fourth. From her smile, we can only deduce that the Schlumberger award pins have proved to be good luck charms.

YEARS 33

PROMOTIONS Promoted to Field Engineer

Harold CRAWFORD October 1,1971 Bernard SEGUINOT October 1,1971

Claude MICHEL November 1, 1971 Jean-Claude GRANIER November 24, 1971 Charles KOULOURIOTIS November 1,1971 Jean-Marie VALLET November 1,1971

Jean-Loup VITRY November 1,1971

Dona ld McBRIDE December 1,1971 H u g o SALBRECHTER December 1,1971

A n d r é DUCIMETIERE January 1,1972

Promoted to Field Engineer General Services

François DIEUDONNE November 1,1971 Jaap H O H M A N N November 1, 1971 Dan ie l LASSERRE November 1, 1971 Eckart WEISS November 1,1971

Er l ing DIETMAR January 1,1972

SENIORITY PINS 5 years

A rmand A N D R E A Z Z A (HOP) Pierre DONNEZ (WAL) Jean-Paul GIRAUD (AOH) Ade l GUINDY (RAS) Takao ISH IYAMA (DUl) Michel M O R V A N (ANC) Bartolomeo ROSSO (BRT)

10 years

Clive TATTERSALL (TAN) Jean VAUTIER (DEB) A lan Leslie VONARX (NGD) Egbert VRIESEMA (GYT)

15 years

Etienne COUVE de MURVILLE (HOP) Johann DRAXLER (MER) Jürgen H O F M A N N (DIE) A n g u s MARSHALL (CMD) Gérard METENIER (ISS)

20 years

L. Vance CARSON (MER) Mr, N A T H A N (DUl)

25 years

Claude REBOUR (HOP)

First and only Norweg ian to receive a 5 - y e a r seniori ty pin is Svein PAULSEN. It was presented to him by

Ian STRECKER w h e n Svein visited NRT in January of

th is year . Thanl<s to Christopi ier SIVIITH, the

event was recorded for our readers.

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A f e w weel<s ago Schiumberger L i m i t e d ' s IVIanagement i nv i ted some "deser ters to the other s i d e " for coclctai ls Rue Saint Domin ique . On this occas ion they were g iven the senior i ty awards they had earned before their transfers to group companies other than those of the W i r e l i n e Services. IVIichei BERTENET, n o w at Compteurs Schiumberger, thus " c a m e h o m e " long enough to rece ive th is 2G-year p in f r o m the hands of Jean RIBOUD. As for his golden w a t c h , he had already rece ived it in a quiet ceremony just before he left for Mont rouge.

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request the pleasure of the company of

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to attend the marriage o}

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to

^âtrick iStephen ^Slatter

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and o} the late

^yt}r. 3 . iSlatter oi Sydney, cÂu^tralia

at the Church a} the

' ^ a t i o i t y , H i p p er iSerangcon

^ o a d , (7k m.à.) iSingapore 19 on ^Saturday,

8tk January 1972 at 10.00 a.m.

and dinner at V-tappy *lêôtaurant—,

^ i o n ( ^ i t y Stotel, 'ânjong ^âtong ' ^ o a d ,

^Singapore,

at 7.30 p.m.

wedding bell Intercom recorded echoes of w e d d i n g bells on three dif ferent occasions dur ing the past f ew months.

They were r ing ing back in Augus t , on the 30 th to be specif ic, in fa r -o f f Semarang, Indonesia, where Raldiarto KOESTER w e d Herawat i Cecil ia SOEDARSONO.

Jus t after Christmas, on December 27, 1 971, François LEPY and M o n i q u e CHOÙX were married at Romenay, France, and left immediately after for a honeymoon and vacation.

André R O L A N D decided to w a i t unt i l 1 972 to take a bride. Her name: Edith VUILL IER. They were married on January 29, in Besançon, France. The newlyweds are n o w vacat ioning.

Pr in ted in gold and in re l ie f . Pat SLATTER's w e d d i n g announcement had a somptuous ap-pearance of w h i c h t h i s reproduct ion a c t u a l l y g i ves a very poor idea . Congratu la t ions to t he n e w l y w e d s -- and t o the p r i n t e r . !

Peter A . W I L L I A M S c rea ted new codes and sent t h i s memo to us: " S U B J E C T : A J Z a n d P A W in comb ina t i on . No doubt as In te rcom and the who le of the c i v i -l ized wor ld rea l ise a l ready , the lesser spo t t ed W i l l i a m s - B a c h e l o r M a r k I has become e x t i n c t as of 7 th September 1 9 7 1 at the Ve lsen T o w n H a l l , IJmuiden, H o l l a n d . The new model is a c o m b i n a t i o n of the o l d and A a g j e Johanna Z w a a n of IJmuiden. F i e l d tests suggest t h a t the comb ina t ion has a b r igh t future. A photograph of the c o m b i n a t i o n is e n c l o s e d . "

' T h e moon t r ies every month in vain to pa in t a p ic ture of your f a c e ; A n d , having f a i l ed to c a t c h its grace, destroys the work , and star ts a g a i n " .

C lass ica l Sanskrit- poem.

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the route of the stork That venerable bird, the stork, zigzagged tirelessly over the seven seas and two hemispheres deliver-ing precious bundles to numerous Schlumberger couples in the months just past.

He caught up with Horst and Helga GATTO in Manila in the Philippines to bring them a boy, Mario Oliver, on November 4, 1971. The GATTOs already have a daughter, Corinna, one and one-haif years old. Horst is with Offshore Cities Services.

Robert and Sharon LANGLEY were in Cairo, Egypt, for the birth of daughter Stephanie on October 27, 1971. Her. brother Rand, going on ten, was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, at the time Dad was still working in the States.

Little Anne-Sophie was delivered safe and sound in Singapore on December 3, 1971, to Jean-Paul and Monique GIRAUD. And since Monique GIRAUD is the former Monique PREVOT AL, who was the Intercom Assistant for six years, everybody in the Rue Saint-Dominique wishes to get in on the congratulations and is eagerly waiting to get acquainted with little Miss GIRAUD.

It was a boy for Louis MORIN (assigned to the Tropical Africa District) and his wife Simone: little Alban first opened his eyes in Johannesburg on December 8, 1971. He has a big sister of three, Carole.

Ivan and Alexandra SCHON were in Brunei when the stork zeroed in for a landing with Melissa on November 26, 1971. Her big brother Michael is just a year older.

More dependable in his appointed rounds than the proverbial post-man — at least in our time — the stork made a winter visit to John and Greta TALGO up in Stavanger, in the Norway District, bringing them a daughter. Trine, on November 3. 1971. Her sister May was born in 1969.

It's a boy, John dive, for dive and Jenny TATTERSALL. He ar-rived on December 30, 1971. just in time to see the old year out. and got a particularly joyous welcome for he is the tattersalls' first child, dive, the father, is a Schlumberger engineer in charge of the Tandjung center in Borneo.

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f i V arc happy to atlnoufu't: lU<

A busy day in EGYPT

for the young JEANDELS

1. "The Schlumberger Centre? That 's r ight. The we l l is ready? Okay, I' l l be r ight over". Engineer Phi l ippe JEANDEL, 21 months, j umps d o w n f rom his directorial chair... 2. ... and hurries over to his t ruck. The Client can ' t be kept w a i t i n g ! 3. From his c o m m a n d post, he summons his crew. In other words... 4. ... Chr istophe and Barbara JEANDEL, w h o were just get t ing ready to go for a coo l ing dip in the pool . There's a heat wave on in Cairo, where the three youngsters "direct the Ras Gharib Centre w i t h their father Jacques... 5. "A re you com in g or aren't y o u ? " Phil ippe, at the wheel, is start ing to lose patience. 6. But Chr is tophe doesn't appear to be taking the situation seriously.

7. Plump, pret ty and peaceful... here is l i tt le Anne-Soph ie G IRAUD, photographed in her cradle just six days after her bir th on December 3, 1971. A t the moment, she is w ide awake and vacat ion ing w i t h her parents, M o n i q u e and Jean-Paul , in France. 8. Also vacat ion ing is Anne ROUELLE. A t just past two , she is a seasoned traveler. Born in Koweit t o w a r d the end of 1970, she accompanied father Pierre to Egypt six months later: then she came to England and France for her hol idays; N o w she is prepar ing to head for Ahamadi whe re Pierre ROUELLE has just been named Assistant to the Manager of the Midd le East Training Centre, Louis SEVOZ. 9. Guess W h o ? Gilles VISAGE jun ior and his mother Dora, of course !

children's corner

'fisétnas ^ a

iJsar.'

m a s snd Eins/nous aid E[1[]S/[][1]S NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE...

^He always rewards good work . . .

FROM NEW YORK comes this press release: "Louis E. Magne, a vice president of Schlumberger Limited, has been elected president of S.W.S., Houston. Magne takes over the presidency of the subsidiary from M. E. Loy, who is retiring. He reports to W.J. Gillingham, executive vice president of Schlumberger Limited. "Magne has been associated with Schlumberger oilfield com-panies for 36 years. A certain number of which he spent in Paris and Clamart, first as S.P.E.S. V.P. operations, then as technical manager of the Clamart plant before it became a separate subsi-diary, E.P.S.; Magne then became president and general manager of Schlumberger Surenco in Caracas. Most recently, he was in charge of the Schlumberger group of allied oilfied companies which supply products and services used in locating and producing oil and gas."

FROM GRONINGEN—A scratchman in perforating has completed an exceptional performance in 1971- his name: Helmut HERKENDELL. V.P. Operations, Roy R. SHOURD, has written him a congratulatory memo, stating that his 531 runs with only 3 misruns must surely amount to a record in the wireline business. We asked Groningen to send along some photos so our Intercom readers could see what the perforating perfor-mance prodigies up there look like, and we received two : Helmut alone at his desk, and with his crew of two, J. Start and C. Somers.

FROM SINGAPORE comes a photo taken on a warm night in January somewhere on Boogie Street. According to the notes on the bacl<:, the joyous party includes left to right: Dave BERGT, Joyce BERGT, Pete JARVIS Satu DU A, André RILLION, Tiga EM RAT, Nino SORDINI, Lima ANAM, Jean GANIERE and Tuzou LAPAN. Inter-com's count is nine. Looks like Lima has gone into

hiding! •

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n a n s s f i i E i i s / n o n s a n d E i i i s / c a n s

AND BEYOND

: ' i ' r c . r . S

FROM TURKEY to Vance CARSON, who passed i t along t o In t e r com, comes th i s p h o t o t a k e n b y a client in Dya rbak i r , showing t h a t Schlumber-ger T r a n s p o r t has recycled and dis-covered... t h e horse ! Fu l l cycle.

/Tfi' lZ/--'' >r

1 | - | £ L 6 ^ €• C ' p

FROM THE LAST CED PROGRESS REPORT—an announcement which brought tears to the eyes of an anonymous Intercom contributor. No, no, Schiumberger does not call for the ultimate sacrifice!

FROM LUANDA, Martin SCHMELZ

contributes an action shot— elbow action, that is —taken during the second WTC school. Visiting the "NOCAL"' brewery in Luanda after a hard day's logging of their "dry" test well are, left to right:

ANG guest Manfred HRABIE, and Domi-nique BIDEGARAY, Dick PATERSON, Rich KACZYNSKI and José DREVON,

all of WTC.

cor.vc!/L

O AST» S A U 10, - c) Müvcnnnl

E. Ruc!<ii"lohaU3on to narkoting seminar in P a r i s . Ducifiiüti-'iiirß a r r i v i n g 25 Danuary 1972. P. Hutin on vncat ica t i l l 10 January IS/2. RouQt on vacation from 17 t i l l 30 January 1972.,

SAVINGS CORPORATION

November 8 1971 $ 12,00 December 8 1971 1 12,59 January 10, 1972 $ 13,25 February 11, 1972 $ 13,35

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nans and Em«/nans and Eins/mns T H E F I R S T c o m p a n y i n t o o p e r a t i o n on Far-b u r n i n d u s t r i a l e s ta te , D y c e , S c h l u m b e r g e r . a F r e n c h c o n c e r n w h o con-d u c t a w 9 r % ^ ^ d ^ t ) i l w e l l l o g g i n g bus ines s , a lso p r o v i d e a dramat i c e x a m p l e of the g r o w t h of N o r t h S e a oi l act ivity at A b e r d e e n in the pas t y e a r — and of e x p a n s i o n a n t i c i p a t e d this year.

Unt i l this year, they operated from premises at Aberdeen harbour with a staff of one engineer and four locally-recruited men. N o w their workshop em-

T H E NORTH SEA oi l boom is creating more jobs for g i r ls . . . such as Miss Edi th Ktnnaird, receptionist a t f

the new Schlumberger workshops at Dyce. |

French firm to expand

on Dyce e s t a t e ploys 22 locally-recruited men—many of them oilwell survey operators — plus about half-a-dozen Engl i sh and French engineers .

And according to their district manager in Aber-deen, Limoges-born M. Robert Maestrati ( 36 ) . a graduate of the Univers i ty

ÂRGUS d e \a PRESSE Tél. I r42-49-4â - 742-98-91

01, äontmartre - PARIS 0*

S' da

Extract from

ABERDEEN

ÎA ' Date ; y.. I.9Z2

(See information overleaf.)

FROM ABERDEEN, SCOT-L A N D , we received this article w h i c h appeared in the Aberdeen newspaper, T H E P R E S S A N D J O U R N A L o n January 5, 1972.

FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA DIS-TRICT, Manager Claude CHAUVET has been transferred—and promoted— to the position of Manager of the Near Division in Cairo, where he replaces Claude DUCOMTE, who resigned for personal reasons.

of Nancy: "In these new premises, we wil l be build-ing up to a bigger scale. We expect there will be about 13 or 15 rigs off here in 1972 and for 1973 we ex-pect about 20. W e will be expanding this workshop, most probably next winter. We expect the labour force by the beginning of next year to be someth ing like 35."

The company's activity of well logging involves measurement of what comes up from drill holes, requir-ing use of highly-sensit ive electronic equipment . "

Typical of the m e n they employ is Mr John Douglas, 7 Cairncry Road, Aberdeen, who entered the oil industry by becoming a roughneck aboard the rig Sedco 135F after 11 years as a ship's r igger with Enterprise Ship Stores, Aberdeen. He was four months aboard Sedco 135F before jo ining Schlum-berger six months ago.

RECEPTIONIST The North Sea oil de-

velopment is creat ing more jobs for girls too — such as Miss Edith Kinnaird, Schlumberger receptionist, of 121 Craigievar Crescent, Aberdeen.

They are jo in ing an in-ternational industry ex-emplified by their boss M. Maestrati. whose career with Schlumberger has taken him to Indonesia, Algeria. Morocco, Nigeria and Australia.

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DOOS aid EfllS/DCOS aid EfllS/DaOS

F R O M PAPUA, transmitted to Intercom by Australia Manager Roy CAMPBELL, this photograph which he received from Tom KELLOCK, who is working on the Santa Fe Hehrig for Australasian Petroleum Company, drilling the Mananda No. 1. "Tom says", reports Roy, " tha t in spite of the moat which separates Schlumberger from the rest of the location, things are quite fr iendly." And he closes his memo by calling attention to the corduroy sidewalk between the unit and the workshop.

- FROM BEIRUT, Roy SPEED sends this photograph,

which proves, or so he says, that: "Our leader is ( I ) a real

swinger, (2) believes practice makes perfect, and (3) needs

help in hat selection" He forgot to add a note telling what

happened to all that china on the sideboard a few seconds

after the shutter snapped!

F R O M I S T A N B U L , cour tesy of Ken M A R T I N , a t r i p t y c h of pho tos s h o w i n g tha t n igh ts are b a l m y on the Bosporus.

Lest In te rcom readers m is in te rp re t w h a t is rea l l y h a p p e n i n g here, Ken has p rov ided an e x p l a n a t i o n :

" T h e s e we re t a k e n in Is tanbul w h e n w e happened to run ac ross Dave LILLEY w h o , hav ing j u s t a r r i ved in Turkey, w a s in t o w n to r e c r u i t a n e w ma id . Cho ice of h o u s e h o l d he lp is a c r u c i a l m a t t e r , so the o ld pros of Is tanbu l se l f l e ss l y agreed t o he lp Dave make a d e c i s i o n . In the f i r s t pho to , Haluk K A B A N ' s s m i l e c l e a r l y i nd i ca tes t h a t t he cand ida te k n o w s h o w to b r e w a good cup of t e a . N e x t , Ken M A R T I N , l e f t , and Gordon S A M U E L S O N , r i g h t , *

agree t h a t the g i r l is a g i l e enough to f e a t h e r - d u s t chande l ie rs a n d the tops of t he h ighes t h i ghboys . F i n a l l y , Dave p r o n o u n c e s , " Y o u ' r e h i r e d " , and the c a n d i d a t e explodes w i t h j o y . But T i i u M A R T I N , l e f t , smi les e n i g m a t i c a l l y to h e r s e l f ; " I bet she w o n ' t be w o r t h a f a r t h i n g a t i r on ing s h i r t s ! "

* Intercom note: NO, Gordon's hand isn't where you thing it is. Look closely and you'll see that his hands are chastely clasped.

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FROM BUSHIRE, IRAN, where he was in charge, Robert CLARET de FLEURIEU moved to Paris Headquarters on January 10, 1972, to take over as Department Head for Logg ing Techniques, reporting to Ian STRECKER, Mana-ger of Technical Services.

Before heading back to Europe, he engaged in a po in t and counterpoint talk w i t h René DELHOSTAL, as w e can see f rom the enclosed photograph. Story does not say who ' s had the last word.

F R O M PARIS t o GRONINGEN -where he will b e D i s t r i c t M a n a g e r : t h i s is L o u i s L E G A Z A ' s n e w a s s i g n m e n t i n t h e field. B e f o r e l e a v i n g , Lou is t h r e w a c h a m p a g n e p a r t y fo r a l l of h i s f r i e n d s i n H e a d q u a r t e r s . H e is going t o b e miss-e d b y m a n y o n t h e R u e S a i n t - D o m i n i q u e , b u t w e all w i s h h i m luck i n h i s n e w pos t .

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m t s s n d E f V l S / D C i a S a n d E i U S / m O S -4 - FROM ALGIERS, where he was the Manager of the North Africa District, Georges OLLI ER has come up to Paris to occupy the chair formerly held by Louis LEGAZA, in the Prices and Contracts Section.

F R O M DARKEST BRITA IN , d u r i n g ttiB days of the r e c e n t power s t r i ke , and to the C i ty of L i gh t came Ray S K O G L U N D of SSL. In t h e pho tograph, he c l u t c h e s l ov ing l y a l l of the cand les p r e s e n t e d to h im by h is f r i e n d , Jacques BELLESSORT, w h e n he v i s i t e d Paris Headqua r te r s . I t ' s our bet t h a t he w a s the most p o p u l a r man m the b l o c k w h e n he r e t u r n e d home, w o r t h h i s w e i g h t in c a n d l e w a x .

P t / N C M

''And naturally, as an executive, you would be

entitled to a company car."

FROM SALE, AUSTRALIA, we received a pair of accident reports which make it dear that driving Oown Under is fraught with peculiar hazards: when a Schiumherger engineer, whose identity shall be our secret, isn 't involved in a motorized rodeo, kangaroos are leaping into his car!

The first incident occurred on a bituminous highway near Sale, when the cow's muddied child started to gallop across the road in front of his car, then changed Its mind and plowed into the front of the vehicle, causing one hundred and fifty dollar's worth of damage. (The report callously neglects to mention what happened to the calf.J

Then, less than an hour later, while the same hapless engineer was continuing his journey along the same road in a rented car - at a lowered speed - he slowed down still further to allow a kangaroo to cross the road. He did not see the second kangaroo, which bounded onto the road and into the left-hand side of the vehicle, damaging a rear door and a mudguard.

The report does not specify, but it's our guess that he hitchhiked the rest of the way home.

^ - F R O M T H E VERY H A N D S of Roy SHOURD, himself, Vance C A R S O N recently received his 20 year seniority watch on the occasion of a short trip he made to Paris. Not pictured here along with Vance Carson, Roy Shourd and Roland Génin, other attendants to the homely cele-bration were Bill Gillingham and Pierre Enselme. Asked for his impressions about his first assignment with EAS, M E R Mgr enthusiastically answered he was "having the time of his life".

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has become i prophetess in her own country .

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When the fourth Schiumberger Training Centre, W.T.C.. was organized in Angola. Luanda—the first three being M.T.C.. A.T.C. and F.T.C.— it was a perfect excuse to celebrate.

D. H. REED'S invitation brought in not ùnly our own engineers and their wives, but also many clients who were interested in the way our men are trained. and V.LP.s and L.I.P.s (Less Important Persons) clinked glasses in friendly bonhomie.

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inaugurating w.t.c.

in luanda 1. Classroom tables became

buffets, laden with bottles and trays of canapés, for

the occasion, so it was a bit difficult to visualize the room

filled with trainees concentrating on their course, in our picture:

B. VIEIRA, Chief of Petrangoh, Dudley REED, André BAUDOT, Manfred

HR ABIE and Jean ROQUES. 2 and 3. 'And a good time

was had by all... " (Well, just take a look at the smiles and animation and see if you

can improve on that time-honored phrase ! ) Among the party guests, we cite:

Dr and Mrs. SCHNEIDER and Mr. and Mrs. LADEBECK of

Texaco. AH sorts of Schlumberger people are in

the pictures too: look closely and you'll recognize Dudley

REED, Martin and Almut SCHMELZ. Vincent DEN I AU, Robert CAR AVON, Monique

PAR NET, Simone MORIN and Manfred HRABIE.

4. Off to one side and sharing the latest good story—anyway,

let's hope they're not talking business—are Mr. BON JUT of

Total, Lulu PARNET, Michel MORVAN and Louis MO RAN.

5. Well, it's a "train"-ing centre, isn't it? Guests

gleefully revert to their nursery days and let themselves be

pulled along in a train of office chairs on casters. Louis

cheerfully takes on the role of locomotive, with pipesmoke

to lend that final touch of authenticity.

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inaugurating w.t.c.

in luanda 6. The last one he opened

must have erupted like Old Faithful in his face, judging from Martin's expression as

he uncorks another bottle of champagne.

7. This is what the training centre looks like on an

ordinary working day. Outside view from AN G 's yard.

8. As graceful as a corps de ballet, trainees and helpers

execute a particularly difficult figure.

9. Still another figure in the "Radioactive Ballet", with the

principal dancer about to deliver a death blow to... a

wheelbarrow! 10. AH seriousness and

concentration, they now dismember a "victim". On the left, Jean-Marie VALLET; on

the right, Vincent DENIAL!. The third actor in our little

drama, the young man in the center, has not been

identified. 17. "Guess why all

Schiumberger engineers love Angola ?" These words were

scrawled by Martin SCHMELZ on the back of the postcard

reproduced here. Unfortunately, he neglected to include the answer to his

riddle. Your readers are waiting with bated breath,

Martin...

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You HÄVeTO Kt£P eOPY ArJD 50UL -roOETMEf?... l97Ä

DEPOT LEGAL 1«" TRIMESTRE 1972 IMP. R. ROYER — PARIS (3«)

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INTERCOM INDEX

A

ALI, 27

ALLEN, 8

B

BAUDOT, 48

BELLESSORT, 45

BERG, 7

BERGER, 42

BERGT, 2-7, 9, 11, 40

BERNARD, 36

BERTENET, 36

BRUCE, 8

C

CARSON, 36, 41, 45

CHAUVET, 34, 42

CLARET, 44

COOK, 25

COUVE DE MURVILLE, 36

D

DANIEL, 33

DAUBENTON, 34

DAVID, 3-7, 11, 13

DAY, 3, 5, 25, 27, 39, 41, 50

DE FLEURIEU, 44

DELHOSTAL, 44

DONEGAN, 29

DONNEZ, 36

DRAXLER, 36

DREVON, 41

DUCOMTE, 42

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INTERCOM INDEX

E

ENSELME, 45

F

FORD, 19

G

GARTNER, 31

GAYMARD, 35

GENIN, 34-35

GEORGE, 8

GIBBS, 2, 19, 23, 25, 27

GILLINGHAM, 40, 45

GIRAUD, 36, 38

GOOD, 3, 19, 27, 31, 35, 40, 48

GRANIER, 36

GUEST, 41

H

HARRIS, 8

HEAD, 25, 39, 44

HEDGES, 29

HERKENDELL, 40

HOUSTON, 33, 40

HRABIE, 41, 48

HUSBAND, 3

J

JAMES, 29

JARVIS, 40, 46

JEANDEL, 39

JENNINGS, 29

JOSEPH, 31

JOST, 19, 21, 23, 25

K

KAUFFMAN, 31

KELLOCK, 3, 8

KELLY, 33

L

LASSERRE, 36

LEGAZA, 45

LIMA, 40

LONG, 3, 25, 28, 35-36

M

MAESTRATI, 42

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MAGNE, 40

MARSHALL, 36

MARTIN, 2, 41, 47-48, 50

MASO, 34

MASSENTI, 34

MCBRIDE, 36

MICHEL, 6, 29, 34, 36, 48

MORGAN, 32

MORIN, 38, 48

MORVAN, 48

N

NOEL, 8

NORTH, 31, 42, 45

P

PAGES, 21

PARNET, 48

PAUL, 29, 31, 36, 38-39

PEYRAT, 33

R

RAT, 40

REA, 37

REBOUR, 36

REED, 47-48

RIBOUD, 36

ROGER, 19, 23

ROLAND, 31, 34-35, 45

ROQUES, 48

ROSSO, 36

ROUELLE, 39

ROUNDS, 38

ROY, 27, 34-35, 40, 45

S

SALE, 45

SCHMELZ, 41, 47-48, 50

SCHNEIDER, 48

SCHON, 38

SHOURD, 34-35, 40, 45

SLATTER, 37

SPEED, 45

SPILA, 34

STRECKER, 36, 44

SULLIVAN, 35

T

TALGO, 38

TAN, 36

TATTERSALL, 36, 38

TRUE, 31

V

VANCE, 36, 41, 45

VAUTIER, 36

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INTERCOM INDEX

VISAGE, 39

VITRY, 36

VONARX, 36

W

WAY, 3, 23, 25, 33, 35, 45, 47

WEISS, 36

WHITE, 10, 17, 34-35

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