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In This Issue
Company Presidents I had an interesting discussion with Esmond Lange re all the Presidents of Schlumberger and Dowell over the years. Ultimately he found a reliable source and got back to me with this list. Any corrections, please let us know! Schlumberger Limited Chairmen 1966: Jean Riboud 1985: Michel Vaillaud 1986: Euan Baird 2003: Andrew Gould 2010: Paal Kibsgaard Dowell Schlumberger Presidents: 1960: Guy Baboin 1963: Marc Demoustier 1967: Roland Genin 1968: W. J. Bowen 1972: Jean-Louis Droulers 1978: Ian Strecker 1980: A. J. Salaber 1988: Heinz Denkl 1993: Roberto Monti 1995: Chad Deaton Facebook Update  Our Brothers Facebook page now has almost 1700 members!If you use Faceboo do please come and like our page - it allows much more timely updates on news of interest than the newsletter does. Testing hands might prefer the FloPetrol page here (600 members!) Holiday Essentials Spotted in a shop in Bali - a neat holiday promotion: 1 tin of (warm) Bintang beer plus one bottle of (hopefully genuine) sunscreen - everything you need for a day at the beach!  AH64 - The Background Story A bit of the backstory to the infamous "AH-64" series of newsletters has been published here together with a little updated content. As always beware - this site is probably still not safe for work - if you work at Schlumberger. Obituaries Julio Gavito (13th May, 2013)  Julio Gavito (Julio Gavito Omaña in the usual Spanish manner with matronymic) was in MTC in Kuwait in the early 1970s. His Schlumberger career was only a few years, in Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Dubai, Saudi. During his career his colleagues included Mohsen Naguib.... More... Larry K. Moran (29th April, 2013)  On Monday April 29, 2013 Larry went to meet his savior Jesus Christ. Larry was born, May 15, 1952, and raised in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Larry went to Oklahoma State University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. Larry worked for Dowell in Research and Development in Tulsa Oklahoma from 1974- 1980. More... Didier L Schott (April 13-14, 2013)  It is with deep sadness that I inform you of the passing of Didier Schott, head of HR processes and Systems, who was in a skiing accident over the weekend. Our thoughts go to his wife, Anne and his three sons.More... Pete Edmonds (28th Feb, 2013)  The news brought us much sadness. Pete was such a great guy. Our paths crossed many times and they were all memorable. Peter worked his entire career with Schlumberger Oilfield Services from 1972 thru 2009. More... Marc Dufour (19th Jan, 2013)  Marc Dufour passed away on January 19th 2013 in Marseille, France after long fight against cancer More... Lost your Password? If you have forgotten your password and are unable to access the site, there is a simple solution. Go to the home page at http://www.brothersreunited.com and click the link where it says "Click HERE to reset your password". Enter the email address we have as your private email address (the one this newsletter was addressed to) exactly as shown. Your password will be reset and the new one sent to you. However if you have changed email providers (or changed employers) drop us a line and we will update your details and reset your password for you. Of course you should not be reading this if we have an obsolete email address for you... |
BrothersReunited 10 Years On  We started playing around with ideas for a site to connect the 'lostboys' (as Anya called us) back in 2002 and were ready with the first version of BrothersReunited in early 2003. My own registration date says Feb 3rd, 2003 with Anya on Feb 4th, so Brothers recently celebrated 10 years in continuous operation! [Aside - internet years are like dog years - not many websites get to be 10!] Those were exciting times - the internet was relatively young and many of the things we now take for granted did not exist yet. Our name was partly inspired by a site that had just launched to huge success in the UK - FriendsReunited.com. However (at least then) Friends was little more than a list of people, grouped by School and year with email details, they did not have the concept of the profile page (as we did) which would become so central to all the social networks that followed. And follow they did - Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace and then the 800lb Gorilla of them all, Facebook. At the time I firmly believed that these sorts of sites needed a common interest or bond to bind members together and enable sufficient trust. I could not imagine large numbers of people blindly putting their personal and contact information on the internet for everyone to see and so saw no future in these public community sites (as we called them before the term Social Network was coined). Well I certainly called that one wrong! Initially we enjoyed explosive growth, passing 10,000 members in 12 months or so (we are only at 22,000 members now after 10 years). Of course now we all know that the internet offers explosive, viral growth for the right idea, but at the time it was a revelation.  Bouyed with that success I set out to create all sorts of similar online communities, but the majority never flourished as Brothers did, nor lasted as long. Brothers remains very dear to my heart - both in terms of it being the first, and of the wonderful people it has brought me into contact with, some of whom I had lost touch with and others for the first time. Schlumberger became aware of our existance very early on and by the time we passed 10,000 members (many of them employees) became somewhat alarmed (I am told). For reasons now lost to history it seems we were viewed as something as a threat and so the ill fated Alumni Hub was constructed. Even when that was dismantled a year or two ago, members were urged to join the new LinkedIn group or recommended to other associations but never this site. I remain perplexed as to why we are shunned - I have only ever held the fondest memories of Schlumberger and I am sure we could have cooperated to build this site for a fraction of the ultimate costs of building Alumni Hub. I realise that 10 years on the software is not looking very modern or polished compared to the wonders of the 2013 internet but I would like to make one small request of each and every one of you: Please could you log in and update your contact details? I know most of you rarely visit the site and that is fine, but it is sad to see so many of the lost boys we found, drift back into obscurity as people move and fail to update their contact details. Very sincerely, Ewan Makepeace & Anya Radeka SchlumbergerStories Website In case you were not aware there is a Wiki packed with old Schlumberger stories (mostly Wireline): Australian Heatwave Most of you will have heard that Australia had unprecedented temperatures this summer - they even had to upgrade the color scale used to map temperatures across the country as the new peaks were literally off the scale. Parking at Sugarland... Spotted on the Sugarland campus: Advertisement Rgds |
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