The Exploration Logging company was originally founded in 1952 in Sacramento

Sacramento, California

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, California

California

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, by a group of Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 geology

Geology

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 and engineering

Engineering

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 graduates to provide geologic logging services. Exploration Logging is now part of INTEQ

Baker Hughes INTEQ

Baker Hughes INTEQ is among the world's leading oilfield drilling and evaluation service companies. INTEQ was formed from the legacy companies of Eastman Christensen, Teleco MWD, Milchem and EXLOG, which were acquired by Baker Hughes Incorporated in the late 1980s...

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History

The first president of the company was Vern Jones. In the 1960s, the company performed jobs in Latin America

Latin America

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, Australia

Australia

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, Europe

Europe

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 and Africa

Africa

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. Exploration Logging acquired Peters Mud Logging in 1968 and was in turn acquired by Baker International

Baker International

Baker International was established 1907 when Reuben C. Baker developed a casing shoe that revolutionized cable tool drilling.In 1987, the company merged with Hughes Tool Company to form Baker Hughes Incorporated....

 in 1972, when its name was abbreviated as Exlog. Its market then expanded in the 1970s to the Gulf Coast, the North Sea

North Sea

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, Asia Pacific and the Middle East

Middle East

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. In the 1980s, Exlog provided service in China

China

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, acquired three more companies (Monaco Mud Logging service in 1980, Smith Mud Logging service in 1983, and Core Lab Mud Logging in 1986), and moved its headquarters to Houston

Houston, Texas

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, Texas

Texas

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 in 1987 when it merged with TOTCO after Baker and Hughes

Hughes Tool Company

Hughes Tool Company was established in 1908 as Sharp-Hughes Tool Company when Howard R. Hughes, Sr. patented a roller cutter bit that dramatically improved the rotary drilling process for oil drilling rigs. He partnered with longtime business associate Walter Benona Sharp to manufacture and market...

combined.

When INTEQ was formed from combining Exlog, Develco, EastmanTeleco, Baker Sand Control and Milpark, the mud logging group re-formed into what Baker Hughes INTEQ now calls Surface Logging Systems. The SLS group has continued to thrive, operating world wide, concentrating on high end, mostly deepwater operations.