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September 1961 number 95
I N T E R C O M is publ ished fo r bet ter l iaison b e t w e e n
f ield eng ineers and m a n a g e m e n t of S c h l u m b e r g e r
O v e r s e a s , S c h l u m b e r g e r S u r e n c o , S o c i é t é d e
P r o s p e c t i o n E l e c t r i q u e , a n d t h e i r s u b s i d i a r i e s .
E D I T O R I A L
by Louis Magne
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P E R S O N N E L N E W S
T H E S C H L U M B E R G E R B O O K S H E L F
by Nancy Lenkeith
THE R E C O R D P O I N T E R
by Nancy Lenkeith
D O E S J A C Q U E S SAVY S T I L L
R E Q U I R E 3 R O L L E R S ?
O F F S H O R E O P E R A T I O N S — I R A N
by Bit! Kohut
SAVINGS AGENCY
At July 31 the value of
the unit was reported to be $18 .92
Editmial Even though offshore operations are expected to grow
fairly slowly because a lot of exploration remains to be
done inland in most countries, the volume of offshore
business has definitely grown to a point beyond excep-
tional operations. Intercom will therefore present over
the next few issues a series on offshore operations. We
begin the series with Iran. See Page 22.
Offshore operations in Holland have just started and we
are planning in the near future to start offshore work
near Ravena in the Adriatic and in Gabon. These will be
SPE units.
W e are operating one offshore unit in Japan, one in
Brunei (north coast of Borneo), one in Egypt off the
coast of Sinai, seven in the Persian Gulf (two off Iran,
two off the Neutral Zone, one off Arabia, one off
Bahrain Island, one off Qatar). All these units belong
to Overseas.
Over the next year or two we expect to start offshore
operations in Kuwait and Nigeria, possibly Libya, and
perhaps Turkey.
Although there are many other offshore concessions no
drilling can be foreseen at present. But of course when it
does we will be there.
Personnel News In Paris
Our visitors this month found a changed city - millions of Pari-
sians have fled the capital in search of solitude, peace and quiet,
and rest. Since everyone has the same idea, the seaside resorts
look like Grand Central Station during the peak hours, while those
who have had to stay behind can walk along a nearly deserted
Boulevard, can drive up the Champs-Elysees at 100 m.p.h., and
park their cars anywhere.
Among those who saw the metamorphosis of Paris was Christian Dubant , but he was not able to appreciate it . . . he came home on leave and in trouble up to his ears. The doctor diag-nosed mumps! If not painful, it could have serious consequences, so get well soon. Christian.
Another visitor, Gerard Blin, was shocked half-way through his leave to discover that we had an "on- the-spur-of- the-moment" assignment for him in Libya. So great was the shock that apparently Louis' mind wandered as he pulled the hand-brake of his car when he stopped in La Rochelle, France, to have a pick-me-up beer. When he came out of the cafe, there was another shock in store for him . . . the two back wheels of his car were still on terra firma, but both the front ones were on the roof of a small boat moored along the pier. The inevitable crowd had gathered, and with much gesticulation and vociferation, "Police Secours" and the local fire service were called to the scene. Gerard, who was lost in the crowd heard . . . well, we won't repeat the actual words, let's just say that several remarks he overheard were not flattering to the owner of the car. Luckily the car was finally rescued and put back on its "land-legs."
Jacques Bellesort T o p p e d in to see us. He's home from Iraq and gave us reassur-ing news, contradicting one by one the pessimistic pieces of news we had heard on the revolution over there.
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We had a short visit from Fran-cois Leschi the other day. Francois, who is on local leave from Catu Bahia, Brazil, was desper-ately looking high and low for a car. August is a verrry bad month, as Francois soon learned, since everyone rents a car for vacation, and not even a 2 h.p. Citroen was available! When he left us, Francois was so disgusted with life, he was almost on the verge of buying a brand new, 6-speed, air-cushion-seat, five-headlight plus one-spot-light—bicycle.
We saw Jacques Simon ust week, on home leave from Indonesia. Jacques arrived in Paris a few hours ahead of schedule and made a bee-line for No. 42 where wife Chris-tiane, who came home earlier this year, was supposed to meet him with their car. The last time we saw Jacques, when we left for lunch, he was pacing up and down the sidewalk in front of the office, looking both ways along the one-way street (women are so unpredictable). Well, Jacques isn't there any more, so Mrs. Wife probably made it.
Alain Bertho and Pierre Burel both came to say "hallo"—Alain on his way to vaca-tion in Britanny and Pierre just before leaving for Yugoslavia where he is spending his holidays.
for home-leaver Jean-Claude Reichen, we tried SO hard to find him, but he was as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel, and at time of writing, we still don't know where he is hiding.
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I N P A R I S ( C O N T I N U E D )
We had a laugh this morning over our cup of coffee. The news bulletin included the following story which we transmit for those who were not tuned in to the same program.
Somewhere in the United States, a man, for the first time in his life, spent a night in jail for parking his Cadillac in a public lot in the center of town. The car was a soft-top convertible, the top was down, and the man's pet was sitting in the front seat. The only trouble was that the pet happened to be a lion!
Petit detail: the lion only eats "filet mignon" prepared by the best chefs of the town. The story doesn't say if the lion followed its master to prison . . . maybe not if the chef wasn't up to par!
So, Schlumherger-itesy be careful of the pets you bring home with you. Be sure, before you leave them in an open car, that you are not taking a one-way ticket to the nearest jail!
I N T E R C O M I September 1961
The Caracas offices a r e u n d e r -going remodeling; new offices are being added and everything is in turmoil. Everybody is won-dering who is going where. But soon, we hope, the building and painting will be finished and everybody settled down.
Eduardo Souchon, with his wife, three sons, and daughter, sailed for France on home leave. For the most recent photo of the author of "Eduardo Reminisces" (published in last month's issue) see other side.
After his brief visit to the States, Jean B. Markolf returned to Caracas but not for long. He and Lynette have already taken off on short vacation trip. They were headed for Peru and the ancient Inca capital of Machu Pichu.
Colin B. Guthrie stopped over in Caracas on his way to England and home leave. He stopped just long enough to take his Engi-neer's exam. Congratulations, Colin.
Spending the last few days of home leave in Caracas is the Pierre Gardine family. Pierre has just returned from France and is on his way back to Argentina.
Bill Young is now in Talara, Peru, re-placing Jack Shehon , who has gone home to Texas on long leave. Bill, who was manager in Bolivia, made the trip from Cochabama to Peru via the States where he spent local leave. Howard Gardner has replaced Young in Bolivia.
that the El Tejero location in Venezuela has been closed. Jack Wilkins has been trans-ferred to Houston where he is to take some train-ing in log interpretation and other subjects—and maybe a trip or two to Guatemala. Jack is accompanied by his wife and four children.
Taking a month's local assignment in C e r r o D r a g o n
Glenn Cannihell.
leave from his (Argentina) is
Bruno Berthelin, back from vaca-tion, joined Port Harcourt in Nigeria where he is replacing George Goldlmrn during the latter's vacation.
Claude Abadie has s t a r t e d a new tour of duty in In Amenas (Sahara) , where he is learning the ropes from Luigi Riva, whose job as Lead Engineer Claude is taking over. Luigi then has pleasant vacation prospects in view. Happy holidays, Luigi. Gérard Chocteau f rom Egypt is spending a short while in Paris getting used to French civilization once more
After his holidays, Bernard Des-
rousseaux went to North Europe Area in Han-over to learn all about FTT from Specialist Dr. Weiss. We saw Bernard in Paris for a short while on his way from Germany back to In Amenas. He came to collect an all-precious document— his air ticket to Algiers.
GERARD C H O C T E A U .
K L A U S W E I S S .
Bernard Periers' re turn to Lue from leave enabled Jacques Leveaux to head for Troyes where vacationing Gérard Blin needed replacement. Gérard didn't go back there, how-ever. since we had other plans for him . . . a job in Libya with Overseas. His friends can now reach Gérard in Benghazi.
There's a good job coming up for some young, enterprising engineer, who is seeking a life of great excitement with a spell of quiet from time to time. The new base will probably open within the coming year if prognostics prove correct. The salary hasn't been set yet, but will probably have a coefficient of about 15.5 with free board and lodging and home leave every six months. Travel to and from home leave will be via first-class de Luxe missile. Now that Titov has succeeded, Schlumberger is getting ready to go . . . Any volunteers? 7
Noel Hawley, a brand new J.E., (see promotions) has started operating in Syrte (Libya) under Manfred Boetel's guidance. Noel has taken on Harry Shepherd's job since Harry rushed off to Oasis C base (in Benghazi District) which needed a manager on John Johannesen's depar-ture on sick leave.
M A N F R E D B O E T E L .
Hans Hager has returned to Mobil A in Libya after his local leave, so Michel Vaucher
gave him back his job and went on to Tripoli.
H A N S H A G E R .
Jacques Rippe finally took off for Indonesia at the end of his leave. We'll tell you more about his exact assignment next month.
Massimo Spila, off on official busi-ness in Sardinia for almost a month, is back again in Ragusa, Sicily.
Gerald Rester from Khorramshahr in Iran can now be found in Kuwait, where he is replacing Christian Duhant who has gone on sick leave. Due to Gerald's departure, Gaétan Payen, who formerly was back-up operator for both Khosrovabad and Khorramshahr, has now become manager of the latter.
C H R I S T I A N D U B A N T .
From South Kuwait, Lionel Stiles has gone to the Bahrain District, where he is now in charge of the new Bapco center. Hilmar Romisch took over Qatar f rom Carl Alberto Costa who needed no prompting to go off on a well earned local leave. Carl Alberto is back again but has gone to Das Island as manager. The Neutral Zone welcomed Jean Deslandes from Bahrain. Jean will assist center manager James Dunlap in operating the center.
Norbert Paterak has left Turkey for Ras Gharib in Egypt, to take over the center from home-leaver Jean-Pierre Etter.
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JßdTl XjdSSßU/Tf one of our new trainees, has left the Argenteuil center for Mon-télimar, with a few days stop-over in Troyes, France.
Jean-Marie Morlot courageously interrupted his well-deserved vacation to get back to the grind . . . it was only for a week, and for a Refresher course which took him to Clamart, Argenteuil, and Paris. The Morlots are now tour-ing Spain for the remainder of their leave. Michel Mouqiiin, after his assignment in Hanover and a few days leave, has joined Overseas in Libya where he is Relief Engineer for Benghazi District.
Following two weeks local leave, George Pagendam has moved from Benghazi to Tripoli. His new job is F T T Specialist with East Mediter-ranean Area.
Local leave is up for Hans Till. Hans and his family have returned to West Pakistan and we are sure they are already planning ahead for their Home Leave which is due early next year.
HANS T I L L .
Vacation time has come fo r J ean Larvoire and Marc Chesiioy in Morocco. Sidi Kacem therefore has a temporary new boss, Laurent Romatier, who went there from Hassi Messaoud, and Marc's job is being looked after by Roger Reynaud from Wildcats-Sahara.
Yemen is a new base in the East Mediter-ranean Area. It opened on June 21, with Swiss-born Rodolphe Von Buren as master of cere-monies.
Professor Palustran has closed his School. It isn't that he is out of students but holiday-time has come round for him too, and a well deserved vacation it is. If everyone can keep a secret, his hideout is St. George-de-Didonne, a tiny sea-side resort just south of Royan on the Atlantic coast of France. Word was sent round that he was NOT to be disturbed, except for Top Secret State Emergencies. Happy Holidays, Professor.
A N D R E P A L U S T R A N .
Jacques Bonsergent, who cut his leave in half to ""déguster" a Special Palustran Cacktail, has now gone off to Brittany on a hop, skip and a jump, where he is again enjoying sunshine, sea and sand.
Bruno Pirolo, after an assignment in New Zealand as District Manager and then a few weeks Home Leave, has returned to his first love—SWSC, where he started his Schlumberger career. Sorry to see you go, Bruno, and the best of luck to you.
Paul Reynard has turned over his center in Holland to Bill Mountjoy while he is in France enjoying his leave.
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paperbacks of the month:
Paperbacks of the m o n t h : Bal thazar by Lawrence Durrell; The Longest Day
(June 6, 1944) by Cornelius Ryan.
Following the moves in the elaborate, erotic chess game being played by Lawrence
Durrell's extraordinary characters, we now come to Bal thazar — "a sibling to
Justine," as the author calls it — to Balthazar, the psychiatrist, who convinces the
narrator that the first volume of his story was wholly inaccurate.
In the tale retold, Melissa, Clea and Justine, take their turn in the wings, while the
minor characters of the previous novel come out as key witnesses: Pombal, the
French diplomat who shares with the narrator Darley an apartment and much else;
Pursewarden, the rebellious, introspective writer; Scobie, the odd man in and out of
the Arab quarter; Nessim's brother Narouz, who has a harelip and lives in seclu-
sion at the edge of the desert.
This shift in viewpoint is a familiar device, often used by Proust, Gide and
Faulkner. But it is a difficult one to manage without straining the reader's credulity.
To get his narrator properly informed, Mr. Durrell has to tell us, for instance,
that one character has the habit of talking to himself. Should the novelist have
done away completely with his narrator, and thus given us something less
thoroughly cooked?
The city of Alexandria, however, remains as vivid and challenging as ever —
every individual there seems to belong to some sort of secret society. Mr. Durrell's
description of the Carnival is a literary gem, flashing with color, sparkling with
wit and perception. To understand Balthazar , we must, of course, first read Justine!
And even then the truth-search may prove less enchanting than the facade it
demolishes. But there are new wonders in the second novel — new depths, new
facets, new subtleties — and, even if some of the characters seem phony at times,
we are steeped through and through with the atmosphere and being of the city
and thus quite prepared to follow Mr. Durrell wherever his baroque prose and
Bergsonian theory may take him.
INTERCOM I September J9(;i ^
NO paperback: The Longest Day CORNELIUS RYAN
For D. Zanuck's film T h e Longest Day, shooting actually started in Paris this year, on August 1st. It has been rumored that the widow of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel would portray herself in the picture—the sequence in which, on invasion day, Rommel, then in charge of Nazi defenses along Normandy, was visiting Mrs. Rommel in Germany, instead of being at his headquarters.
Such publicity bits, however, do little justice to the intensive research on which Ryan's dramatic reconstruction of D-Day is based. He has explored the battle from both the German and the Allied sides, interviewing hundreds of survivors, studying documents that were hitherto unavailable. His em-
phasis is on the actions and thoughts of the
individuals in battle—the men who were on the
beaches, behind the beaches, in the sea or in the
air—but he manages nevertheless to preserve the
outlines of the battle as a whole.
Nor does the author romanticize the horror ol
modern war: he simply weaves together the actual
experiences of some of the participants and thus,
by juxtaposition, draws a gripping picture of per-
sonal muddle, agony, and achievement. After all the
dull memoirs by the Generals who won or lost the
war, it is a relief to read such a cogent report on
the men who helped them do it.
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« Jl. J[lJ When the Australian soprano, Joan Sutherland, opened the Palermo opera season last winter as the prima donna in Bellini's I Puritani, Italian critics forgot she was a foreigner and cheered themselves hoarse. The same thunderous ovation was repeated a few weeks later, when she opened the season at the Teatro Fenice in Venice, singing
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the role of Lucia which had already made her famous in London. But at the Paris Opera this June, her Lucia seems to have made operatic history: never in our time has the whole audience there been driven into such delirium. At the end of the mad scene, when all the spectators rose spontaneously to acclaim the total vocal perfec-
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T i l i l l i i i ^ l i l T I S tion of her interpretation, many could not believe hers was a human voice. She will sing Lucia at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, next December.
This new sensation in the way of prima donnas owes her as-tounding success to the fact that she possesses a genuine triii which she can carry in flights over the entire range of her voice. Like the great singers of the past, she is in full com-mand of the fundamentals of her craft, and she sings therefore with easy exuberance for the sheer pleasure of singing. The new two-disk album in which her most beautiful operatic arias are col-lected is most accurately entitled; Joan Suther-
land: The art of the prima donna (London A 4241, 2LP, $9 .96) . For this recording, she received the first Orphee d'or given by the Academic du disque lyrique, a new prize jury started in France last year.
Nor are her triumphs all Italian: she is just as fluent and perceptive in French and German. Her Mozart is stylishly exquisite (Marten aller Arten
f rom Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail) and she sings the usual Gounod arias and the Bell Song f rom Lakme and O mon beau pays f rom Les
Huguenots with high romantic exuberance. Most interesting, however, are her renditions of The
soldier Tir'd f rom Arne's Artaxerxes and Let the
bright Seraphim f rom Handel 's Samson. Miss Sutherland will probably give the operas of Handel and Arne that contemporary luster which Madame Callas has already bestowed upon Bellini and Donizetti.
Since Sutherland is singing what is Icnown today as the Cailas repertoire, a compari-son between the rival prima donnas is inevitable. Madame Callas returned to La Scala last season in Donizetti's Poliuto, where she sang the only female role. Her comeback was the talk of Milan and Italian newspapers noted the "moving moment" in the performance when Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly entered the theatre. Callas' obvious technical shortcomings—she can flatten like a ton of bricks in high notes which Sutherland tosses off with
' insouciance—are often offset, however, by her
instinctive power for dramatic projection. Her magnificent stage presence is felt even in her recordings. Of these, the most spectacular is a collection of her Mad Scenes (Angel 35764, $4.98), the most memorable being the long final scene from Donizetti's Anna Bolena. Such hair-raising intensity can come only f rom an inspired artist, and it would be sheer grumpiness here to dwell on the fact that La Divina is above all an actress.
There is no question that "in altissimo" Joan Sutherlund is unique. There ure other new-comers, however, whose work is most appealing. Anna Moilo, for instance, who mude her de-but with the Metropolitan Opera in Violetta, a season ago. She sings the Verdi role in a new recording of La Traviata (RCA Victor L M 6154, 3LP $14.95) with Richard Tucker as Alfredo and Robert Merrill as the elder Germont in a performance recorded in the Rome Opera House, with its orchestra and chorus under the direction of Fer-nando Previtali. The conductor 's zest makes this a lively performance which the Victor engineers have captured in the full bloom of its original sound. But it is the fragile loveliness of the young Philadelphia soprano which gives the record its distinction. Her voice is relatively small but com-pletely inflected within its own scale of volume, and her interpretation is consistently delicate and sensitive.
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Rnna Motto excells in the small-scaled, intimate pertom-ances trom which her lovely portrayals emerge with the clean, dear brightness ot those Dresden tigarines. Her Madame Butterfly is such — also recorded by Victor (LM 6135, 3 LP, $14.95) with Cesare Valetti as Pinkerton and Erich Leinsdorf con-ducting. But this Puccini opera which has always been, more than any other, the prima donna's show needs perhaps more elan than Miss Moffo can bring forth. A more dramatic interpretation of Cio-Cio-San is given by Tebaldi, whose own vocal loveliness is beyond dispute, under the direc-tion of Tullio Serafin, the Puccini conductor par
excellence (London A 4337, 3LP, $14.94; in France Decca L X T 5 4 6 8 / 7 0 ) . The most effulgent Butterfly, however, is that of Victoria de los Angeles in another Roman performance con-ducted by Gabriele Santini (Capitol GCR 7232, 3 LP, $14 .94) . Miss de los Angeles sings with controlled fire; Jussi Bjoerling as Pinkerton is even greater than Gigli ever was; and Mario Sereni gives substance, both musical and dramatic, to the role of Sharpless. Together, the unusual all-star cast makes this without doubt the best-sung Butterfly on record.
Miss Moffo can also be heard on two disks of Operatic Arias, recently issued by different com-panies. For Victor (LM 2504, $4.98) with Tullio Serafin conducting, she sings three Puccini arias with as much warmth and mellowness as any now on record; Mi Chiamano Mimi f rom La Boheme
— a whole new Boheme is being taped in Rome this summer by Victor starring Anna Moffo, of course, with Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill and Giorgio Tozzi in a restudied, non-heavyweight performance—and from Turandot Signore ascolta
and Tu che di gel sei cinta. But in the other arias, though her voice is always accurate and agile, her coloratura display lacks fire and glitter. Her delicate lyricism is better served by the Philhar-monia Orchestra, Colin Davis conducting (Angel 35861, $4.98) in a series of traditional excerpts f rom Lucia di Lammermoor, The Barber of
Seville, I Puritaui, La Sonnambula, and La
Traviata (from her version in the full opera).
Even those who do not like aria collections should prize Victor's newly released sampling of Leon-tyne Price's "golden voice" (RCA Victor LM 2506, $4.98) . The American Negro soprano is heard here in excerpts from four of the operas she sang at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, this past season, and from two others
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she sang in E u r o p e . H e r purity of tone and the plas-ticity of her vocal line are absolutely enthralling, and her ar t i s t ry and sense of style are heartfelt, if not al-ways consummate. The only flaw here is that she is not always convincing as an ac-tress. Even in Butterfly's sobs after Gioca, gioca . . her voice retains its own ma jes t i c and impos ing identity.
In Verdi's Requiem, how-ever, she is triumphant. Her identification with the musi-cal subject there is com-plete. In fact, her singing in this big, fiery work makes the new Fritz Reiner ver-sion rival the great Toscani-ni performance. Up to now, there were two remarkable recorded versions of the Manzoni Requiem, both on
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R C A Victor disks of fairly ancient vintage. There was the author-itative Verdian inter-p r e t a t i o n c o n d u c t e d b y S e r a f i n w h i c h owed its brilliance to a quartet of great so-loists: Canigha, Stig-nani, Gigli and Pinza. Issued originally on 78 rmp, it is no longer available though it is expected to reappear in the Great-Record-ings -o f - the -Cen tury / G r a v u r e s - I l lus t res series. The other was T o s c a n i n i ' s a t h i s greatest (2 Victor L M 6018, $9 .96) , though n o n e of its s ingers could c o m p a r e wi th the Serafin quartet.
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BEST BUYS: Bunny Berigan and his Orchestra:
Bunny ( R C A Camden 550, $1.98) .
Fine examples of solid Swing Era playing by jazz trumpeter Berigan's big band. The other soloists include Don Lodice, Georgie Auld and Joe Bushkin. The dozen reissued selections start with an early number Carelessly recorded in 1937 and follow the group up to the compelling maturity of its last pre-war sessions 'Deed / do
and Sobbin' Blues; There'll be Some Changes
Made, Little Gates Special and Jazz Me Blues.
A new version has also been recently re-corded by Tullio Ser-a f in c o n d u c t i n g the Chorus and Orchestra of the Rome Opera (Capitol GBR 7227, 2 LP $9.96) , but none of his solois ts this t ime are f r o n t - r a n k V e r d i s ingers . F r i t z R e i n e r , h o w e v e r , in his r ecen t p e r f o r m -ance with the Vienna Philharmonic Orches-tra and the Chorus of the Gesellschaft der M u s i k f r e u n d e , con-ducts with breath-tak-ing finesse and preci-sion and his soloists. are: Leontyne Price, Rosalind Elias, Jussi Bjoerling and Giorgio Tozzi (RCA Victor L D 6 0 9 1 , 2 L P $9 .96) . Bjoerling is less tearful than Gig-li; Tozzi as smooth as Pinza; Rosalind Elias qu i t e good, t hough Simoniato would have b e e n p e r f e c t ; a n d L e o n t y n e P r i c e , though she can sound dry and chesty in the lower passages, sings ; so beautifully in the upper reaches of her part that the emotional
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M O Z A R T : Mass No. 19, in D minor, K. 626 Requiem. Werner Pech, soprano; Hans Breit-schopf, contralto; Walther Ludwig, tenor; Harold Proglhof, bass; Vienna Hofmusikkapelle, Josef Krips conducting (Richmond B 19077, $1.98) . First released in 1950, this record does produce some needless surface noise along with some edginess in the violin tone. Also the voices are all unchanged male voices, boy sopranos and altos being used here both as soloists and in the chorus. But the choral and instrumental balances are exceptionally good, making this a steady, com-mendable performance.
T C H A I K O V S K Y : Symphony No. 5, in E minor. Op. 64; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic cond. (Parliament PLP 149, $1.98). No drippy sentiment here: a straightforward account that allows the music to speak for itself. The tempos are sensible, slowing down in the second movement to let the forceful horn soloist sing, then building up gradually to a towering finale. Von Matacic's interpretation is so carefully thought-out and so admirably proportioned that it makes this overplayed symphony into a glowing, startlingly fresh experience—quite unlike the other mushy Fifths in the higher price range.
T C H A I K O V S K Y : Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture; Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan cond. (London CM 9278, $2.98 for a limited t ime) . This is not a reissue but a preview at reduced price of a performance which is bound to delight many disk collectors. In both the
IF THINCS GET RAMBUNCTIOUS, TONIGHT, SLIP THIS MOOD POETRY ONTO THE TURNTABLE."
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Tchaikovsky and the Strauss, Kara jan preserves the soaring romantic spirit of the music without any loss of dramatic focus or cumulative force. The Don Juan is also newly available in a performance by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orch. Eugen Jochum cond., (Epic L C 3769, $4.98) but this version is clearly no match for Karajan's unique rendering.
DVORAK: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra,
in B minor. Op. 104; Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Czech Philharmonic Orch., Vaclav Talich, cond. (Parliament P L P 139, $1 .98) . The Czech players are superbly at home in this work. Rostropovich's cello has its usual enchanting purity of tone, but the exceptionally crisp, almost rustic animation comes f rom Talich's orchestra. As a result, this disk is far superior to its com-petitor where Gregor Piatigorsky is soloist and the Boston Symphony is conducted by Charles
Munch ( R C A Victor L M 2490, $4.98) . But the great Casals performance of 1937 (Great Record-
ings of the Century COLH, 30, $5.98; in France, Gravures Illustres) still stands unequalled at any price or level of sound.
SEmnVE: not a bargain, unless the saving
of a jet fare to Papeete is taken into account, but certainly a treat for any who might prefer vahines to prima donnas: Tahiti Dream Island
(Capitol T A O 10281, $4.98), one of the most delightful programs of Tahitian song available.
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fifW JACQUES SAVY STILL REQUIRE 3 ROLLERS?
One day back in 1958, February 24, to b exact, on receipt of an urgent order, three rollers for the Cable Measuring Device were sent in a parcel to Schlumberger Asiatic, Inc. in East Pakistan via registered airmail. On August 17,1961, 2 years 5 months and 24 days later, the same parcel was returned to SPE, Paris, sealed but unde-livered! Does Jacques SAVY, the present East Pakistan Manager still "u r-gently" require three rollers for his Cable Measuring Device? We are enclosing the wrapping of the parcel and the invoice that was in i t . . . Paul CHAMPAULT, who filed the order, is probably still won-dering whatever happened to the rollers and why he never re-ceived them!
Se.ptemher 196/
To the right, Anny Kohut. Some Schluniberger engineers may remember her
from Pechelbronn School days. Anny helped to assemble these photographs.
T h e fo l lowing text is reproduced
courtesy World Oil, August 15,
1 9 6 1 , issue and refers to STRIP
and IPAC. See map.
SIRIP. The first offshore test drilled by this joint Italian-Iranian firm has evidently been completed as an oil discovery and is believed to be com-mercial, p r o b a b l y good for about 3,600 bpd initially. Bargansar 1 was drilled to 11,012 feet after finding oil at 7,050 feet in the Asmari formation and at 8,850 feet in the Cretaceous Banoestan horizon. In October the O deviated test Bargansar 2 was spudded from the same fixed platform. The confirmation test was intended to bot-tom 2,625 feet horizontally distant
Contintied
Above at Abadan on their wedding day — Joan and Louis Cardon with author
Bill Kohut {on the right).
o f f s h o r e o p e r a t i o n s - I r a n I N T E R C O M I September 1961
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vabad in April 1961.
Upper right is the Pan Am toiv with Barca 152 on its way down
the Shatt-el-Arab to the Persian Gulf.
To the lower right is the extraordinary photograph of 132
having turned over while being towed in the Persian Gulf in
a high, running sea. The barge sank in l60 feet of water
immediately after this photograph was taken. It is now at the
bottom and there are no salvage plans.
o f f s h o r e o p e r a t i o n s - i r a n from the first hole. Production and loading facilities for tankers up to 48,-000 dwt were completed by the end of December, and 375,000 barrels of crude had reached Italy by May 1961. An average of about 6,150 bpd was expected to be lifted from the new field this year.
By July 1, 1961, Bargansar 1 and 2 were undergoing production tests, and preparations to drill well 4 from the fixed platform were underway. A mobile platform had been brought in to help drill up the field and had spudded SIRIP's offshore well 3
the ill-fated barca 152 '
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A more cheerful note is the dramatic towing of the
Platform 36 to the drilling site.
On the right is the service boat alongside. The
Schlumherger offshore unit can he seen on the helio-
port deck.
pan am platform 56
T h e text cont inues
IP AC. T w o wells had reached total depth in IPAG's offshore concessioi by the end of 1960, well Al whicl bot tomed at 13,151 feet and B1 al 12,497 feet. Well Al had been under going tests in mid-1961 in severa possible oil zones for more than i
year. I PAG Bl , located about 21 miles south of Kharg Island, 20 mile f rom the mainland shore and 60 mile southeast of A l was suspended as; non-commercial p r o d u c e r early ii 1961.
As of July 1, 1961, I PAC had tm new wells drilling, CI at 2,757 fee and D1 at 5,920 feet.
To the right, the Shah inspecting the Schlumberger unit on the helio-
port deck. Mr, J. Hamilton, in charge for Pan Am in Iran, is behind
the Shah.
On the back cover is H.I.M. the Shah returning gladdened by his
inspection of Pan Am 36—and, we hope, intrigued by our equipment'
Succeeding issues of Intercom will include articles on offshore opera-
tions in Japan, Brunei, and Egypt.
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INTERCOM INDEX
A
ABADIE, 11
B
BARGE, 28
BERNARD, 11
BERTHELIN, 11
BOETEL, 12
BOTH, 4, 12, 19-20
BUREL, 4
C
CAMDEN, 20
CHAMPAULT, 25
CHOCTEAU, 11
COLIN, 10, 19
D
DAVIS, 19
DAY, 4, 15, 25-26
DESLANDES, 12
DUNLAP, 12
DUTTON, 14
E
ETTER, 12
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INTERCOM INDEX
G
GARDNER, 11
GEORGE, 11
GOOD, 11, 20, 26
GRAS, 7
H
HEAD, 11
HOUSTON, 11
J
JAMES, 12
JAN, 21
JOB, 11-12
JURY, 18
K
KELLY, 18
KOHUT, 2, 26
L
LEVEAUX, 11
LONG, 10-11, 18
LUDWIG, 20
M
MAGNE, 2
MARKOLF, 10
MICHEL, 12
N
NOEL, 12
NORTH, 3, 11
P
PARK, 4
PATERAK, 12
PAUL, 25
PERIERS, 11
PETIT, 10
PRICE, 19-21
PRINCE, 18
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INTERCOM INDEX
R
RIVA, 11
ROMISCH, 12
ROSE, 17
RYAN, 15
S
SAVY, 2, 25
SHAH, 32
SHEPHERD, 12
SIMON, 4
SPEED, 4
SPILA, 12
V
VAUCHER, 12
VU, 22
W
WAY, 4, 10-11, 18, 28
WEISS, 11
WILKINS, 11
