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| BrothersReunited Newsletter - 2014 | |||||||
Geoservices Geoservies is the latest service company to be brought into the Schlumberger family. I recently traded emails with someone interested in setting up a site like Brothers for their people - but my instinct is to bring them into the BrothersReunited family - after all we are all Schlumberger now. However this will prompt a long overdue rethinking of the segments we use to group people by discipline. This is not as simple as it sounds - different product lines have been part of different business units over the years and so a grouping that works fine for one era is innappropriate for another. Add to that the tendency for long serving employees to enjoy far more borderless careers than was common in my day and the segment concept starts to feel a bit restrictive. This is one comment I received: "I updated my contact details, as it is true I didn’t go to the site for a long time. I would recommend you update the list of Segments. The actual list is really out of dates and considering how important it is for individuals to identify themselves to the group they are working with, I think you have to updatd it asap to keep BrothersReunited relevant. For example, I moved to Completions almost 10 years ago now, and Completions is still not listed … " Jean-Michel Lae So does anyone have a master list or suggestion - how should we handle segments in a way that will please the most people (because as we all know you can't please all the people all the time :-) Missing Presidents Our summary of the presidents of Schlumberger and Dowell over the years brought some feedback: "I saw the list of names of Presidents… what about Victor Grijalva or did I miss it????" Sharon Jefferson "Hi. Wasn’t Jimmy Dale Callison president of Dowell Schlumberger at one time? 1991? He’s still interested in hearing about people he knew back then. His email is (Contact BrothersReunited) 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!) From the Friends of Irony            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... |
Old Pictures "I found these two among my fathers albums ( he was among the pioneers of oil research in Chile). They must have been taken in the early 50's in Tierra del Fuego. One looks like a Schlum truck...( could it be??)" Michel Gouilloud We have been notified of a film documenting the last years of of Michel Gouilloud's life as he battled ALS: Moving Gracefully Towards the Exit by his partner Patrice M. Regnier. Panels, CSU-D and Maxis In the last Newsletter I asked the question: "I started to work in Gretna La in 1965 and trained and logged on panels. Then in the 1970s I trained and help introduce the CSUD in the Gulf of Mexico. In the 1980s, as the technical manager for SOS-GC, I helped introduce the Maxis in the Gulf of Mexico. In those respective periods, I could run logs on each generation of acquisition equipment." Troy Crowder "Hello Ewan, I don't quite make the cut on your question, but my experience makes me think you'll get a few positive responses. If I almost did it then anyone with a long career that hired on in the late 70's and was still logging in the early 90's would fit the bill. I hired on in July 1978 and was assigned to an all CSU-D district (Victoria, Tx) and went to the learning center in Corpus Christi, which was still teaching Panels. Sometime in early 1979 after I broke out, I was drew the short straw one day and was assigned as one-job engineer relief for an out-of-district truck where the engineer was going on days off and there was nobody in the Victoria district to relieve him (actually, everyone senior to me claimed the didn't know how to run Panels anymore, but they were lying). I met the truck on the wellsite and ran an induction log on panels and got paid the bonus for that trip in the hole, so I claim Panels experience. The rest of my field engineer career was on on CSU-D, but I moved into engineering in Austin, Texas (where I met you!) and did software for CSU-D at first, and then Maxis. I made a few wellsite trips to offshore Gulf of Mexico on Maxis in the 90's, but was not the FE running the job. I am still with SLB, but in 2001 moved to WesternGeco and have been doing software for various needs of the seismic industry since then." Wayne Wright "Brothersreunited, I started on panels in 1958, but was in District management when the CSU-D was introduced. I was in marketing when the Maxis was introduced. Therefore very familiar with panels, somewhat familiar with CSU-D but only used the Maxis product from a marketing viewpoint. How many Engineers have done a job using the DSU-B unit?? What is a DSU-B unit, you may ask. It is a logging unit broken down into components that can be flown via helicopter to the well site. Attached is a series of pictures during a spring break-up logging job using the "flyable" DSU-B (Dismountable Skid Unit Type B) flown to the rig via 204B helicopter, in NW Alberta (Rainbow Lake) in 1968. During spring "break-up" it is impossible to move standard logging trucks over the muskeg terrain. The only option was a modular, flyable DSU-B unit from Rainbow Lake to the well site. All engineers were out on other jobs, so I, the district manager at the time, was the only option to get the job done. A DSU-B consists of several separate components including the base frame, a box of aluminum poles used as the frame work for the recorder cab, boxes of 4 inch thick insulated tarps to cover the framework, the engine skid, the drum skid plus other boxes of cables and panels etc. Pictures were taken with a Minox B camera, the same type used by the FBI for spy work. It measures 3 inches by 1 inch by 1/2 inch in dimension. Picture descriptions as follows; 1) Showing the helicopter pilot's leg from the seat of the 204B chopper as we approached the rig with one of the loads. 2) The 204B at the end of the pipe rack with the aluminum framework visible near the cable spool left of the chopper. 3) Setting up the aluminum frame work (the recorder cab) on the main skid. Rather cramped space inside the assembled unit as you can see. 4) Panels and cables as set up ready to log. The R9U recorder is to the right of the panels. Note the folding chair as the recorder seat. 5) The District Manager, turned logging engineer, (Garry Williams) during the logging job. Got a bit muddy during the DSU-B set up. 6) Returning to Rainbow Lake via the 204B after the job. There is always more satisfaction after the job is finished. These pictures should bring back memories to anyone who has logged from one of these units. I retired after 40 years as an employee, then another 10 years as a consultant. Enjoyed all 24 transfers during the 50 years of service to Schlumberger Clients." Note: Only 2 of the 6 pictures shown here due to limited space, please contact me or Gary if you would like to see the set.   Gary Williams "I am one… starting in the spring of 1981, I worked as a panel engineer in the Gulf of Mexico my first 2 years with Schlumberger and saw the last of the panel offshore units go to the scrap pile. That was followed by several years of CSU-D and then MAXIS dual-bay and later MAXIS mono-bay acquisition systems. I field tested MAXIS OP2 through OP9 and had an opportunity to work with Schlumberger’s next generation of logging systems and software for several years in Austin from 1999-2005. Today I am still exposed to the current system, Maxwell, though not in a revenue generating capacity." Nathan Edwards Rgds |
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