Schlumberger
Oil and Natural Gas
PSU
Engineering
Acronyms and
Abbreviations
Schlumberger
Careers
100
The typical color of Schlumberger's coveralls when working on a rig site.
What is blue?
100
The organic compounds containing Hydrogen and Carbon that are found in crude oil.
What are Hydrocarbons?
100
Number of majors in the College of Engineering.
How many is 13?
100
The abbreviation for Schlumberger, (also used in the NYSE).
What is SLB?
100
The website where you can go to apply for a job at Schlumberger.
What is careers.slb.com?
200
The country that the Schlumberger brothers were from, also the international headquarters.
What is France?
200
The name of the natural gas reserve found in North America that stretches from New York through to Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and other southern states.
What is the Marcellus Shale?
200
The oldest engineering major on campus.
What is Chemical Engineering?
200
LNG
What is the acronym for Liquified Natural Gas?
200
A week long mini internship offered through Schlumberger to better acquaint students with the positions in field engineering.
What is Field Camp?
300
Number of countries that Schlumberger has operations in.
What is 85 countries? (answer acceptable with in +/- 5)
300
The ratio of Liquified Natural Gas to Natural Gas in the gaseous state.
What is 1/600?
300
Professor that brought the physical sciences to Penn State, leading to the start of engineering here.
Who is Professor Evan Pugh?
300
STB/D
What is the acronym Stock Tank Barrels/Day?
300
Number of full time positions Schlumberger is hiring for this year.
What is 700 positions?
400
The year that Schlumberger was first founded.
What is 1926? (answer acceptable with +/- 3 years)
400
Two of the top three leading oil producing countries in the world.
What is Russia, Saudi Arabia, United States (any one answer)
400
The Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering is lucky to have one of only 13 of these in the U.S. and the only one in Pennsylvania on campus.
What is a test Nuclear Reactor?
400
BOP Stack
What is the acronym for Blow-Out Preventer Stack?
400
Three opportunities Sclumberger offers undergraduate engineering students.
What REMS, Internships, FIELD camp? (must list three)
500
The first name of the Schlumberger brother who recorded the first wirelining data.
Who is Conrad?
500
Three of the five countries with the largest oil reserves in the world.
What is Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iraq, Iran (any two answers)
500
The year that Hammond Building was built.
What is 1958?
500
F.I.E.L.D.
What is the acronym for Focus in Engineering Leadership and Development?
500
2 of the full time positions Schlumberger offers within field engineering.
What are wireling, well services, drilling and measurement, or artificial lift?
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