Global Security Advisor
Global Security Advisor (Direct Contractor)Schlumberger Limited (SLB) Paris Responsible for advising Schlumberger Ltd on a global basis in all security related aspects around the world. Schlumberger is an international company operating in over 100 countries with over 120,000 direct employees with revenues for 2013 in excess of $45,000,000,000.00 USD. The security department alone consists of at least 10,000+ personnel (mainly) contracted from a variety of International Consulting specialist such as Control Risks and Man Guarding companies such as GardaWorld and G4S). SLB do not set a budget for security as it is the responsibility of each area manager to implement the required security measures; however the annual security spend was in excess of $120 Million USD.During the period with Schlumberger; Victor was able to visit all nearly all Oil and Gas fields in hostile environment around the world. These countries include the following Hostile Environments • Africa: Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania, DRC, Congo, Angola, Niger, Nigeria, IVC, Cameroon.• Middle East: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Kurdistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Yemen.• Central and Latin America: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico Belize and Guatemala.• Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan India, Bangladesh, Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea East Timor.• Russian. Russia in general, Georgia, Dagestan, ChechnyaVictor fully integrated Security into the Schlumberger HSE culture and in doing so was involved in the development of all Schlumberger HSE standards and took HSE Mangers course applicable in Nov 2000. During Victor’s period as Global Security Advisor he was responsible for overseeing and implementing several high profile evacuations or temporary repatriations of locations most notably Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia etc.