Andrew Frederick James Gould (born 17 December 1946) is a British businessman, the former

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and

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Schlumberger Schlumberger Limited (), doing business as SLB, is an oilfield services company. Schlumberger has four principal executive offices located in Paris, Houston, London, and The Hague. Schlumberger is the world's largest offshore drilling compa ...

. Following his retirement from Schlumberger Ltd., Gould is serving as non-executive chairman of the British oil company

BG Group BG Group plc was a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. On 8 April 2015, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire BG Group for $70 billion, subject to regulatory and ...

Education

Gould received his degree in Economic History from the University of Wales, Cardiff.

Career

Gould retired from his role of chief executive officer on 1 August 2011 and served as chairman until the company's annual

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meeting in April 2012. Gould served as the

of Schlumberger from February 2003 to August 2011. Prior to that appointment, he held the position of

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, Schlumberger Oilfield Services. In a series of earlier assignments, he was treasurer of Schlumberger Limited, and president of Sedco Forex, Wireline & Testing, and Oilfield Services Products. Gould started his career at

in 1975 in the company's Internal Audit department in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

. Before joining Schlumberger, he had worked for

Ernst & Young Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership headquartered in London, England. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world. Along with Deloitte, KPMG and Pricewaterh ...

. As of 2018, he is the chairman of the advisory board of Paris-based energy research start-up, Kayrros.

References

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