houstonsemipro Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 (edited) Oct. 25, 2005, 9:57PMServices company bound for HoustonSchlumberger moving base closer to oil-field clientsSchlumberger will move its U.S. headquarters from New York City to Houston in an effort to unite its corporate staff with some of its biggest operations.Link... http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3416161 Edited October 26, 2005 by houstonsemipro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YakuzaIce Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 Remember you are not supposed to put full articles in the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonsemipro Posted October 26, 2005 Author Share Posted October 26, 2005 (edited) Yeah, you're right. I just now fixed it. Thanks for looking out. Edited October 26, 2005 by houstonsemipro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssullivan Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 This is good news for Houston. Hopefully they'll go downtown, and not out at the Sugar Land campus or the building on San Felipe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 This is good news for Houston. Hopefully they'll go downtown, and not out at the Sugar Land campus or the building on San Felipe. They have a pretty big facilty out there sully, I think I even recall seeing new buildings being built out there around their compound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 I have to agree that this deal screams Sugar Land.They also have a decent size campus on Dairy-Ashford and they used to have lots of acreage in Westchase but they sold half of it, rented out a quarter of it and jammed all their people into the remaining quarter.Glad I don't work for them anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 i'm thinking more energy corridor or cbd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 (edited) I talked with some of the guys still in the Westchase offices and thier guess was cbd just because its mainly New York lawyers and accountants moving from Citicorp Center. Edited October 28, 2005 by Lowbrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 i hope they do move to the cbd to fill up some of our vacancy, I am ready to start building more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 100 people is nothing. We have more than that on my floor alone. But I do hope they come downtown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjb434 Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 This will be a nice consolidation, but since the majority of there workforce is already here in Houston, we won't see much of an influx.The good out of this is that this is another large company with Houston as it's headquarters versus New York.I'm guess the bussiness climate was more enticing not to mention they have the majority of operations here.Is this company a Fortune 500? It'll be another headquarters to add to our list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 This will be a nice consolidation, but since the majority of there workforce is already here in Houston, we won't see much of an influx.The good out of this is that this is another large company with Houston as it's headquarters versus New York.I'm guess the bussiness climate was more enticing not to mention they have the majority of operations here.Is this company a Fortune 500? It'll be another headquarters to add to our list.I think it will not count as a Fortune 500 headquarters because this is just the US headquarters. They overall HQ is still in Europe. Just like Shell is not listed among Houston Fortune 500 companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjb434 Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Ok,good to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 True, 100 people won't make much of a difference, but it's better than nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 I think it's great. 100 executives and the money they spend is always appreciated in Houston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 I think it's great. 100 executives and the money they spend is always appreciated in Houston.100 execs with a combined salary of about 15 to 25 million dollars to spend each year. Yea, I'd say that would be ok. I have Schlumberger folks spending money with me all the time, I need more of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 100 execs with a combined salary of about 15 to 25 million dollars to spend each year. Yea, I'd say that would be ok. I have Schlumberger folks spending money with me all the time, I need more of them.Not to sound elitist but it is good news to have some high income people relocating here as the types of nice developments we all hope for depend on it. Our population growth needs a good balance of income levels otherwise we just end up being another Sao Paulo; some nice sections with shanty towns in abundance on the outskirts.Should we send them a "welcome to Houston, from HAIF" gift basket or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Should we send them a "welcome to Houston, from HAIF" gift basket or something?Best idea of the year. If only we knew the address they were moving to and the names of the big wigs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 I think it will not count as a Fortune 500 headquarters because this is just the US headquarters. They overall HQ is still in Europe. Just like Shell is not listed among Houston Fortune 500 companies. Or any other major oil companies that have division headquarters here unfortunitly. Like Exxon has more employees here then any other city in the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 (edited) Well, we were all wrong, official word is that they are moving into the San Felipe office. Edited October 31, 2005 by Lowbrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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