Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Baker Hughes?
What Product Lines make up Baker Hughes?
Who is Baker Hughes Business Support Services?
How many locations does Baker Hughes have?
How many employees does Baker Hughes have?
Who are your customers?
How would you describe your Corporate Mission?
What skills does Baker Hughes need?

Who is Baker Hughes?
Baker Hughes is a Fortune 500 company, recognized around the world as a leading provider of products, services, and solutions for the petroleum and continuous process industries.

Headquartered in Houston, the energy capital of the world, Baker Hughes was formed in 1987 by merging two well respected oilfield equipment companies—Baker International Corporation and Hughes Tool Company. Each company had been a pioneer in oilfield technology since the early 1900's.

Baker Hughes serves the worldwide oil and natural gas industry with reservoir consulting and products and services for drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production. We are a leading provider of high-performance technology that creates value from oil and gas reservoirs. Virtually every product and service we provide is designed to lower costs, reduce risk or improve productivity during activities directly related to hydrocarbon extraction, advancing reservoir performance.

Baker Hughes operates in over 90 countries serving independent, international and national oil companies. Our service network is organized into nine regions comprised of 26 geomarkets. Region and geomarket teams work to understand customer needs and coordinate delivery of individual products and comprehensive service solutions that include the right Baker Hughes technologies for the project.

Baker Hughes’ global operations are backed by six product line groups which develop, manufacture and support their industry-leading technologies.

What Product Lines make up Baker Hughes?
The six product lines are:

• Drilling & Evaluation, including directional drilling systems, logging while drilling systems, and wireline services.
• Hughes Christensen, providing advanced drill bit technology
• Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids, providing fluid systems and drilling waste management services
• Baker Oil Tools, providing completion, intelligent production, workover and well intervention technology
• Centrilift, providing artificial lift systems, including electric submersible pumping systems and seabed boosting solutions
• Baker Petrolite, providing specialty chemicals and engineered services for oil and gas production, pipeline and processing.

Our Reservoir Technology and Consulting Group includes three consulting firms – Gaffney, Cline & Associates, GeoMechanics International and RDS – that provide technical and commercial consulting, with unique capabilities in reservoir engineering, geomechanics and subsurface engineering.

The operating regions and product lines receive administrative support from the Baker Hughes shared services organization, Baker Hughes Business Support Services (BHBSS).

How many locations does Baker Hughes have, and where are they?
Baker Hughes operates from over 1,000 service locations in more than 70 countries,  close to virtually every major oil producing region in the world. Major technology centers are located in Houston, Texas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Celle, Germany, and Aberdeen, Scotland.

How many employees does Baker Hughes have?
Baker Hughes has approximately over 36,000 employees throughout the world, representing a diverse mix of skills, nationalities and backgrounds. More than half of our employees are outside the United States.

Who are your customers?
Basically, they're a Who's Who of world industry.

Our International Oil Company (IOC) customers include Shell, BP, Chevron, Marathon, Texaco, Conoco, Total Fina Elf, Amerada Hess, Exxon Mobil, ENI-AGIP, Repsol and Conoco Phillips. Our National Oil Company (NOC) customers include Saudi Aramco, Petrobras, Pemex, PDVSA, Petronas, Statoil Hydro, CNPC, Sonatrach and Sonangol.  Our independent oil company customers include firms like Anadarko, Devon, Apache, and Chesapeake. Individuals that we serve within these companies include managers and directors, asset teams, drilling and production engineers, drilling superintendents, field foremen, and geologists.

How would you describe your Corporate Mission?
Baker Hughes’ innovative technology, workflow and consultancy solutions enable our global customers to maximize recovery from their reservoirs and deliver sustainable energy.

In the process, we will enhance value for shareholders, customers and employees. For shareholders, this means differential earnings performance. For customers, it means helping them create more value from their oil and gas reservoirs by through reduced risk, lower cost, and higher ultimate recovery. For employees, it means providing a challenging and rewarding working environment and creating opportunities for a diverse workforce that lead to the realization of both personal and professional potential.

What skills does Baker Hughes need?
We're looking for a full spectrum of skills, including:

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