This article also proves that the WARS are PRIMARILY for ISRAEL, not OIL!!! I mean, think about: the oil companies WANT STABILITY so they can get the product out (think Saudi Arabia)! They don't want chaos and destruction.
Yeah, maybe Dick conned them with the map, but they were not the DRIVING INTEREST of the IRAQ (or Iran) WARS!! Seeing as CONTROLLED-OPPOSITION LEFTIES (like Democracy Now, Chomsky, Hartmann, et al) like to propmote the OIL WAR THEORY, I would LOOK SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!
"Oil firm sidesteps sanctions on Iran; High-tech tool poses 'dirty bomb' risk; Legal loopholes frustrate US efforts" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | December 7, 2008
TEHRAN - In the oil fields of Iran, a 2,000-pound drilling tool shaped like a metal pipe probes deep under the earth for fresh supplies of crude, the lifeblood of one of the most formidable foes of the United States.
While helping to enrich Iran's economy, the drilling tool also presents a potential risk to American security, were it to fall into the wrong hands. It is powered by a radioactive chemical that scientists say could fuel a so-called "dirty bomb," capable of spreading radiation across many city blocks.
The tool is the type of sophisticated technology that the United States has sought for 13 years to prevent from reaching Iran, a country the US government says is financing terrorism with its oil profits. But the device - developed by the oil-services firm Schlumberger in labs in Connecticut and Texas - was brought to Iran through a legal loophole that allows multinational corporations to use foreign subsidiaries to sidestep US sanctions, according to a Globe investigation.
Over the years, despite three executive orders by the Clinton administration, increased public pressure after 9/11, and close monitoring by Congress, gray areas in the law have seriously eroded the ability of the United States to ensure that technology developed by Americans does not go to potential US enemies....
Translation: When the DIRTY BOMB FALSE FLAG is carried out it was IRAN, s***-chomping Amurkns!!!!
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While the US government has been largely successful in forcing companies registered in the United States to stop sending technology to Iran, it has far less leverage against Schlumberger, because the oil-services giant is registered in the Caribbean, despite having its CEO based in Houston. Schlumberger's international status also helped the firm avoid a post-9/11 crackdown on major American contractors who were skirting sanctions....
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Halliburton did work in Iran, Dick?
Then the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks sparked federal investigations into whether US personnel were involved in the subsidiaries operating in Iran. Facing tighter scrutiny, negative publicity, and investor anger, all three of Schlumberger's main American competitors pulled out of Iran. "People do business in Iran at their peril," said Robert Clifton Burns, a Washington-based lawyer and international export controls expert.
Well if that isn't warning you (and Schlumberger), Amurka!!!
But American companies felt the heat much more directly than Schlumberger. As US-registered firms, they answered to the US government and could be subject to a deeper crackdown; but while the government could impose rules on Schlumberger's work involving Americans, the US government has little sway over what foreign firms can do outside the United States.
Not when $$$ is at stake!!!
So Schlumberger - which was founded in Paris, moved its headquarters to the United States, and is now incorporated offshore - was particularly well-positioned to avoid US sanctions. As the world's largest oil service provider, it has subsidiaries around the world, employing some 60,000 foreign citizens who are not subject to US laws.
But when it comes to researching and developing the most technologically sophisticated products, Schlumberger draws heavily on American expertise. For 60 years, the company has maintained labs in Texas and New England - at various times drawing on funding from US government contracts.
That has led some in Congress to try to rein the company in. But while the Senate is currently weighing a bill aimed at holding US companies accountable for the work of their foreign subsidiaries in Iran, Schlumberger, with its foreign status, remains largely out of the government's reach.
"People on the Hill want to put Schlumberger under the same constraints of a typical American company, but no one can figure out how to make than happen," said Robert Ebel, an oil specialist who has served in the State Department and the CIA.
Meanwhile, some of Schlumberger's rivals have sought to replicate its international status. Weatherford shifted its place of incorporation from Delaware to Bermuda in 2002, and last year Halliburton moved its headquarters and CEO to Dubai.
Translation: THE OIL COMPANISE KNOW that the NUCLEAR IRAN business is a bunch of ZIONIST BULLSHIT!! However, seeing as ZIONIST INTERESTS are promoted AHEAD of the OIL COMPANIES....
The moves have sparked fears in Congress that more multinational companies will try to emulate Schlumberger by incorporating overseas. Policymakers say Congress's ability to control multinational companies operating on US soil and the products they develop here is already rapidly diminishing....
Ha! It is the CORPORATIONS that CONTROL CONGRESS, not the other way around!!!!
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One of the world's first truly global firms, Schlumberger is a corporate chameleon, forming research partnerships with both the US Department of Energy and the state-owned National Oil Company of Iran. It develops cutting-edge oil field technologies in its new lab near the MIT campus in Cambridge, but it also utilizes its expertise in Sudan and Cuba. It pays taxes in more than 80 jurisdictions, but is accountable to the foreign policy dictates of none.
Except their OWN BOTTOM LINE!
The Schlumberger lab in Kendall Square is decorated with stone tiles resembling rock formations and bronze plaques commemorating the successful inventions of its scientists in America. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, in an upscale neighborhood in Tehran, Schlumberger's office is packed with non-Americans. A bronze plate spells out Schlumberger in Farsi in front of the company's office and a sign on the lobby wall reads: "Our vision: Schlumberger is the preferred oil field service provider of Iran."
Hey, I am ALL FOR HELPING IRAN!! It is a HELL of a lot better than KILLING THEM for Iz-ray-HELL!!!!!
The company's roots date back to 1919, when two French brothers, Marcel and Conrad Schlumberger, set out to invent an instrument that could determine what was below the earth's surface. Vowing to form a company that valued scientific achievement as much as profit, the brothers succeeded in using electrical measurements to produce the world's first map of an underground oil well in the French countryside.
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Until then, oil companies used guesswork to decide where to drill and most wells turned up dry. But the Schlumbergers' invention proved that science could perfect the art of drilling, helping to usher in a new era of oil production and consumption.
In 1940, after Germany invaded France, the Schlumbergers moved their company to Houston, where they set up headquarters among the giants of the budding global oil industry. For decades, they held a near-monopoly on so-called "wireline" logging - a term that refers to lowering measurement devices down a hole to determine the quality and quantity of oil there.
During World War II, Conrad's son-in-law, Henri Doll, set up a lab in Ridgefield, Conn., inventing tools for the US military that searched for mines. The same technology later proved to be a boon for the oil industry. In 1956, Schlumberger incorporated the company in the Netherlands Antilles, a group of islands in the Caribbean and a budding tax haven, but maintained its headquarters in Houston. Schlumberger listed itself on the New York Stock Exchange, and received contracts and research grants from the US government.
The Schlumberger-Doll Research Center in Connecticut became the world's oldest and most prestigious source of oil technology research, churning out increasingly sophisticated devices that accounted for more than 40 percent of the company's revenues in 1967, the year that Doll retired, according to a company publication. In 1982, the company earned $1.3 billion, making it by some measures the most profitable of the world's 1,000 largest corporations that year. Some of its breakthroughs were made with the help of the US government.
That is with YOUR (taxdollars) HELP, Amurkn!!! Aren't you glad your money went for that instead of schools, roads, bridges, health care, etc.?
Schlumberger was allowed to use to use a sensitive neutron pulser at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois under a joint project with the US Department of Energy in the 1980s. In the 1990s, the company's scientists participated in a joint venture with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and later used equipment at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.
In the past decade, Schlumberger had received modest contracts with the US Navy to supply communications and radar equipment, with NASA to deploy sensor equipment to measure asteroids, and with the Department of the Interior for help with mapping mineral resources, among others. And it signed a new Department of Energy contract in 2006 to develop another new oil field tool.
But at the same time, Schlumberger pursued partnerships with governments all over the world, including Iran, where it developed a reputation for loyalty to the country's Islamic leadership by staying in Iran throughout the country's devastating eight-year war with Iraq.
You know, the one we ENCOURAGED Saddam to start?
In 2004, Schlumberger signed a research agreement with the National Iranian Oil Company to examine ways to boost crude production by solving problems of lime and carbonated fields.
"I think their attitude has been very traditional, that 'we are involved in business and technical activities and not in politics, and to the extent that we can legally do that, we'll do that,' " said Jeffrey S. Schweitzer, a scientist formerly employed by Schlumberger.
"We bend over backwards to treat all customers equally," said Ram Shenoy, managing director of the Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, which moved from Ridgefield to Kendall Square in 2006.....
As ANY GOOD BUSINESS WOULD DO for its customers!!! The CUSTOMER is ALWAYS RIGHT, right?
