Schlumberger in Kuwait: 1960s

1960	Ahmadi Hospital is inaugurated by KOC and was called then “Southwell Hospital” after Sir Philip Southwell, who was KOC President from 1946 to 1959. Sometime during the 1980s, the name was changed to “Ahmadi Hospital.”
1961	The signing by the Amir, the late Sheikh Abdulla Al-Salem Al-Sabah, the 11th ruler of Kuwait, named as the “father of independence” of the independence treaty with Sir George Middleton, the British commissioner for the Arabian Gulf, on behalf of his government.
1966	H.H. Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah lays the cornerstone of Sabahiya City. Schlumberger runs thermal neutron decay tools in KOC wells for measurement of water saturation.