We work with you to minimize economic and HS&E risk associated with well construction while maximizing production and ROI.
As your cost of doing business continues to increase, we’re making significant infrastructure investments that are enabling us to work closer with your teams.
Our technology and local expertise—supported by a global knowledge base of lessons learned—maximize your deepwater performance.
Superior reservoir capabilities enable us to offer total asset solutions.
Drilling 30,000 ft in the harshest weather and geological conditions isn’t easy and neither is developing the technology so you can do that. That’s when we’re at our best.
Discover how to improve project economics and HSE performance with Integrated Operations.
Our electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems solutions will optimize your production and the associated investments required to deliver increased value from your reservoir.
Intelligent hydraulic sleeves and valves help you better understand and control the flow in your reservoir, yielding accelerated production and lower lifecycle costs.
Maximize heavy oil asset value through the project life cycle with a fully integrated selection of tools and services.
There is more to achieving an economic shale play than just finding the sweet spot and unlocking it. We apply technology, reservoir insight, and experience to generate greater ROI.
We have a fully integrated range of tools and services to speed development of and maximize the return on your tight gas assets throughout the life cycle.
We’ve been an integral part of coalbed methane (CBM) development from the early days of this work in the Rocky Mountains.
Baker Hughes Reservoir Development Services (RDS) offers impartial advice that effectively supports you throughout the E&P life cycle for maximized asset value.
Our field-proven sand control solutions reduce the serious economic and safety risks of sand production.
Intelligent well systems remotely monitor and control oil and gas production or water and gas injection. They let you change the flow from/to individual zones without intervention.
Our geomechanical models enable fluid flow prediction along faults and fractures with long-term evaluation of the fault/cap rock sealing ability.
We have comprehensive CO2 monitoring technologies and the expertise to solve your carbon storage challenges.
We can improve amine capture unit performance by controlling corrosion, fouling, and foaming.
Knowing the orientation of permeable fractures lets you optimize well trajectories to intersect the maximum number of permeable fractures.
Our downhole sensors and variable speed drives, combined with our monitoring services, give you greater control over your artificial lift system.
We’ll work with your team to deliver the wellbore to the sweet spot for decreased investment risk and maximized production.
We’re participating in multimillion-dollar-funded geothermal R&D with governments and universities in Europe and North America.
A continuous analysis and improvement approach enables you to mitigate operational and financial risk, reduce NPT, and enhance safety to increase ROI.
Hughes Christensen Tricone™ three-cone bit maximizes performance in a defined application. Products include TCI bits and steel tooth bits for the toughest drilling applications.
Baker Hughes' LWD systems offer superior formation evaluation data to maximize reservoir value while drilling.
Our product and service portfolio can manage most technology requirements for UGS applications. We offer superior wellbore construction services.
Our pipeline services improve product-to-market capabilities, including pipeline integrity.
Our wellbore construction solutions reduce capital expense and minimize risk with liner hangers, multilaterals, solid expandable monobores, and wellbore isolation systems.
We’ll work with your team to deliver the wellbore to the sweet spot for decreased investment risk and maximized production.
Our electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems solutions will optimize your production and the associated investments required to deliver increased value from your reservoir.
Every sand control project must begin with proper reservoir understanding to maximize production. Working with you, we identify the most effective sand control methods.
Let us collaborate with you to determine the optimal completion system that connects the wellbore to the pay zone.
We offer maximum sand exclusion while delaying gas or water coning for enhanced reservoir recovery.
Whether your pay zone requires perforating fracturing, stimulation, fluids, artificial lift systems, or gravel packing, we’ll work with you to maximize hydrocarbon conductivity.
Our experts maximize ultimate recovery with comprehensive reservoir knowledge.
Improve reservoir connectivity to maximize production. Future stimulation treatments are more effective at reduced cost.
Mitigate workover risk by reducing plugging or sand control loss with the economic alternative to traditional gravel packing.
Our experts minimize your cost exposure to intense HP/HT environments to maximize deep gas production efficiently. Find and produce deep gas assets quicker and safer.
Increase bitumen recovery in producing wells with the Centrilift CENtigrade™ extreme and ultra-temperature ESP system. There’s an equivalent reduction in the steam-oil ratio.
Our geothermal technology can save you millions of dollars by improving efficiency with reduced development cost. Ensure reliable performance for your renewable energy project.
Our Navi-Drill™ motors are ideal for your directional, horizontal, and straight-hole performance drilling.
Our self-equalizing, surface-controlled subsurface safety valves reduce risk and increase profit compared with completions using nonequalizing valves.
Our borehole seismic services offer application design, data processing, and interpretation for detailed reservoir description that improves production and field development.
Ensure water conformance. Our customized approach includes water inflow detection, mechanical shutoff tools, permanent cement retainers, and chemical remediation.
Our superior application of gel technology penetrates into the formation and preferentially blocks high-flow water pathways to improve production from the less-swept portions.
Decrease operating cost by conserving water and reducing transportation and disposal cost while maintaining environmental stewardship. We understand sustainable operations.
These field-proven solutions reduce cost and increase production.
Our H2S and sulfide control solutions are tailored to fit an operator’s needs and effectively manage sulfide-related risk.
Our pressure pumping services increases access to proven reserves, improving asset value and ROI. We’re the pressure pumping experts with the reliable resources and guidance.
Baker Hughes provides innovative chemical programs and services that help you solve a wide range of processing, water management and finished product quality challenges in the petroleum refining and petrochemical industries. We’re a leading supplier of crude oil, refinery intermediate and finished fuel additives, and services which are used to increase the market value of these products. Our heavy fuel oil additive programs and services help you improve power generation plant performance and equipment life, while reducing your maintenance costs.
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We develop and implement innovative chemical program and service solutions that increase petrochemical plant profitability.
Our fuel additives enable severe fuels in power generation, preventing plant failures, reducing maintenance cost, and maintaining plant efficiency.
Maintain production and profit objectives by maximizing heat-exchange performance with our effective cooling water treatment programs.
Our experts maximize ultimate recovery with comprehensive reservoir knowledge.
Broad-based technical, commercial, and strategic advisory services to the oil and gas sector that also supports Baker Hughes operations with reservoir-focused solutions.
Manage the most complex reservoir modeling, geomechanics, and hydraulic fracturing simulation tasks. Now, you can improve project performance with optimally integrated workflows.
We perform specialized wellbore imaging analysis, such as fracture and fault orientation, sedimentary dip, and reservoir thicknesses to improve production.
Build accurate 3D models, regardless of the reservoir’s structural complexity. Regional and local structures are captured without need to compromise. Easy, fast, accurate.
Receive real-time 3D fracture geometry, including data on acid fracturing, wellbore heat transfer, proppant transport, and perforation erosion.
Our dedicated project management and engineering experts collaborate with you to drill and complete your wells faster at lower cost.
A thorough systems understanding enables our multidisciplinary teams to develop fit-for-purpose solutions that improve asset performance and return on investment.
A continuous analysis and improvement approach enables you to mitigate operational and financial risk, reduce NPT, and enhance safety to increase ROI.
Regional IO contacts are available to help.
We continuously search for new ways to help you drill deeper and faster. Our R&D commitment to your drill bit success includes a full-scale research rig and downhole simulator.
There is more to achieving an economic shale play than just finding the sweet spot and unlocking it. We apply technology, reservoir insight, and experience to generate greater ROI.
Shortens days on well with superior directional control and higher ROP in unconventional plays. This one-piece steel-body design is optimized for curve/lateral drilling.
We continuously search for new ways to help you drill deeper and faster. Our R&D commitment to your drill bit success includes a full-scale research rig and downhole simulator.
We’ll work with your team to deliver the wellbore to the sweet spot for decreased investment risk and maximized production.
We’re your full service drilling fluids partner. We can help you cut rig time, reduce cost, protect your reservoir and maintain complete environment compliance.
Rely on higher ROPs, lower torque and drag, and excellent wellbore stability with rock-strength integrity. Minimize lost circulation, ballooning/breathing, and NPT.
Hughes Christensen Vanguard Tricone™ drill bit platform lowers your cost-per-foot with decreased NPT in high-cost intervals. Drill faster with longer bit life.
We acquire and monitor real-time geological drilling data generated during well construction to optimize wellbore construction and enhance safety.
Our technology, analysis techniques, and geoscience capabilities enable you to enhance reservoir value.
Our cased-hole wireline systems offer fit-for-purpose technology that solves your operational and evaluation needs.
Ensure a safer, more efficient approach for the deployment of downhole instruments. Our total system approach overcomes your application-specific challenges.
Our borehole seismic services offer application design, data processing, and interpretation for detailed reservoir description that improves production and field development.
We bring quality core to the surface efficiently.
Our perforating charges are engineered for specific completion requirements. They come in a wide range of gun sizes, shot density, shot-phasing options and temperature ratings.
This superior service reduces the risk of compromised PVT data that can occur during the retrieval, transportation, and transfer process before laboratory analysis.
Evaluate real-time formation-pressure and mobility information with our formation-pressure testing service.
Industry-standard sealing and anchoring technologies, meticulous planning, and a no-nonsense approach to risk avoidance will maximize production, cut costs, and extend well life.
Our wellbore construction solutions reduce capital expense and minimize risk with liner hangers, multilaterals, solid expandable monobores, and wellbore isolation systems.
These field-proven solutions reduce cost and increase production.
Our field-proven sand control solutions reduce the serious economic and safety risks of sand production.
One-trip packer milling and retrieving tools reduce rig time.
For hanging liner in existing casing, our liner hangers are available in load capacities to fit any application. Mechanical or hydraulic actuation is available.
Our ESPs and PCPs are the best performing and most reliable artificial lift solutions for a wide range of oilfield and industrial applications.
Our intelligent production systems give you the insight and control you need to make confident decisions to increase ultimate recovery and reduce total cost of ownership.
Our fluid additives solve numerous problems in a wide range of applications in the hydrocarbon production and processing industries, particularly in drilling and well stimulation.
Our comprehensive line of oilfield chemicals and chemical services help you keep your production flowing safer and cost-effectively.
Our reliable, permanently installed electronic and fiber-optic systems improve production management and optimize reservoir performance.
Our fluid additives solve numerous problems in a wide range of applications in the hydrocarbon production and processing industries, particularly in drilling and well stimulation.
Our services maximize production and increase process efficiency without human interaction. Lower cost, increase staff efficiency, and reduce HSE exposure.
We look at every fracturing job from several directions, combining proppants, fluids, and pumping technology with a formal workflow and better knowledge management systems.
Optimized cement systems and automated mixing equipment enable safer slurries that match well conditions with minimized rig time. Ensure well integrity and proper zonal isolation.
Our CT deployment teams help you achieve significant operational and economic performance advantages.
We have a variety of acid systems, delivery processes, and expertise to suit your well’s technical and economic requirements, all to increase productivity.
Our sand control pumping services maximizes production by creating the optimal frac-pack design to effectively connect the wellbore to the reservoir.
Inhibit scale, paraffin, asphaltenes, and salt; counteract bacteria and corrosion. Prevent downhole deposition and tubular damage, increasing production with less NPT.
We have a variety of acid systems, delivery processes, and expertise to suit your well’s technical and economic requirements, all to increase productivity.
When you need expert handling of exotic chrome tubulars, for any job from the simplest to the most challenging, we have the answer that minimizes rig time.
Reduce completion failure risk. Our expertise and technical skills satisfy the most demanding torquing, testing, and inspection of OCTGs and completion subassembly work.
This is the efficient solution without energy loss for any large-diameter tubular driving job, such as conductor driving, caisson installation, and pile driving.
Reduce cost by eliminating the need for a rig. When performing conductor preinstalls, you can save as much as 20 days of rig time on a 12-slot platform.
High-performance cased- and openhole completions for frac-pack sand-control applications handle extreme fluid velocities and high proppant volumes and maintain openhole stability.
When you’re spending $350 per minute on a $500,000-per-day deepwater rig, you can be confident our global expertise enables you to work safer with minimized NPT.
We offer you engineered solutions for precommissioning, commissioning, and maintenance shutdowns with specialized services for the process industries.
Increase pipeline safety with inspection services, testing, cleaning, and drying. We engineer our services to suit your specific project for a more cost-effective solution.
Maximize ROI without CAPEX commitment. Our temporary equipment packages allow you to determine if reservoir flooding responds as predicted before building a permanent facility.
Manage your pipeline integrity threats with our 25 years of experience and superior technology. Our in-line inspection (ILI) tools meet your integrity program objectives.
Reduce vessel time and cost by performing flooding and hydrotesting operations on the seabed. With all equipment on the seabed, deck space requirements are kept to a minimum.
Our Downstream Chemicals group’s chemical programs and services manage processing, water management, and finished product-quality challenges in petroleum refining.
Our fuel terminal additives increase profitability by enhancing market value of fuels and crude oils. Our fuel additive specialists offer superior service and logistical support.
Our fuel additive technology maximizes profitability by increasing fuel marketability and value. Rely on our expertise in refineries, fuel terminals, pipelines.
We increase your profitability by reducing operating cost through effective influent, cooling, boiler, and wastewater system treatment.
We develop and implement innovative chemical program and service solutions that increase petrochemical plant profitability.
Our SULFIX™ H2S scavengers and services reduce the levels of hydrogen sulfide in crude oil, intermediates, and refined products for safer operations.
Ensure fired heaters and utility boilers can use heavy fuel oil (HFO) without the problems of corrosion or slag-and-ash buildup.
Optimize your wastewater treatment plant’s efficiency and treat process effluent to derail potential upsets before they reach the plant.
Our agricultural crop protection chemicals increase irrigation efficiency by controlling submersed aquatic weeds and algae in flowing and impounded irrigation systems.
Our specialty polymers deliver solutions to five key markets: plastics, imaging and coatings, personal care, adhesives, and candles.
Our agricultural crop protection chemicals increase irrigation efficiency by controlling submersed aquatic weeds and algae in flowing and impounded irrigation systems.
Classes are taught by instructors with industry experience and are offered throughout the world. We add new classes frequently.
Our TotalDepth™ services catalog includes courses in diverse technical disciplines, keeping pace with the industry’s technology advancements.
Our global network of research, development, and testing facilities cooperate with local clients to create advances in every aspect of oilfield technology.
Onsite training rigs, test wells, and well-equipped classrooms staffed by subject-matter experts provide training and continuing education for new and experienced employees.
Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) provides reliable, practical solutions when and where our customers need them to lower costs, reduce risk and improve productivity.
The Baker Hughes Core Values and Keys to Success are the basis for establishing a common culture for Baker Hughes.
Our Keys to Success are four priorities that should guide decision-making in Baker Hughes: Engage People, Deliver Value, Be Cost Efficient, Resource Effectively.
Our Community Impact Team identifies charitable organizations and coordinates events for them in the greater Houston area.
For over a century, innovation has been part of our DNA. Baker Hughes was formed with the merger of Baker International and Hughes Tool Company - both founded over 100 years ago.
Dan Georgi is a Baker Hughes technology fellow working in the technology portfolio management team in Houston, Texas.
David Curry is a Baker Hughes technology fellow working in the Hughes Christensen product line headquarters in The Woodlands, Texas.
Hartley Downs is a Baker Hughes technology fellow working in the fluids and chemicals business segment headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.
As a global company and an oilfield service industry leader, Baker Hughes strives to operate in a sustainable manner.
This comprehensive report detailing our corporate social responsibility programs, demonstrates that sustainability activities are a large part of our daily business.
Baker Hughes strongly believes that our operations must meet the highest standards of ethical behavior and legal compliance.
One of our objectives is to help customers develop energy reserves in an environmentally responsible manner.
Investments in people and communities are an integral part of our long-term business plans.
Learn about our coiled tubing, extended reach and multi-lateral drilling techniques that minimize impacts on the environment.
Through collaboration with community stakeholders, we identify opportunities to make a valuable difference in the lives of local citizens.
Our compliance program consists of a rigorous, customized system of corporate governance.
The HSE&S management system has been in place and evolving since 2002 and now describes mature processes that drive continual improvement and help to maintain legal compliance.
Audits enable us to identify risk, determine the degree of implementation and effectiveness of the HSE&S Management System, and verify compliance with applicable regulations.
Baker Hughes has continued to significantly reduce its enterprise-wide Total Recordable Incident Rate and vehicle accident rates.
Baker Hughes HSE&S programs are simple, engaging, and systematic, driving us toward a more mature, interdependent culture that ensures greater efficiency.
Customers are enthusiastic about Baker Hughes' emphasis on safe work practices.
The HSE&S management system has been in place and evolving since 2002 and now describes mature processes that drive continual improvement and help to maintain legal compliance.
Customers are enthusiastic about Baker Hughes' emphasis on safe work practices.
Our commitment to protecting the environment begins with our HSE&S Policy Statement.
We must view compliance with all laws applicable to the Company's business as being the bare minimum for our operating conduct and recognize that ethics is something more.
For more than two decades, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has applied to Baker Hughes Incorporated business operations globally.
We are committed to working ethically, and in full compliance with the law in our dealings with customers, suppliers, government agencies and fellow Baker Hughes employees.
We must view compliance with all laws applicable to the Company's business as being the bare minimum for our operating conduct and recognize that ethics is something more.
For more than two decades, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has applied to Baker Hughes Incorporated business operations globally.
Our global network of research, development, and testing facilities cooperate with local clients to create advances in every aspect of oilfield technology.
Baker Hughes is the first oilfield service company to receive accreditation of its Competence Management Program from the International Association of Drilling Contractors.
Onsite training rigs, test wells, and well-equipped classrooms staffed by subject-matter experts provide training and continuing education for new and experienced employees.
Our global network of research, development, and testing facilities cooperate with local clients to create advances in every aspect of oilfield technology.
Onsite training rigs, test wells, and well-equipped classrooms staffed by subject-matter experts provide training and continuing education for new and experienced employees.
A significant portion of a company's shareholder value is derived from its intellectual property.
Strict adherence with regulatory requirements is a foundation of our worldwide operations.
With more than 53,000 employees operating in more than 80 countries worldwide, our personnel work in a wide variety of dynamic environments.
We use a multifaceted, threat-based approach to information security.
An effective way of reducing these costs is to embed security into the preplanning stage, develop standardized processes, and accurately assess the facility risk.
Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) provides reliable, practical solutions when and where our customers need them to lower costs, reduce risk and improve productivity.
The Baker Hughes Core Values and Keys to Success are the basis for establishing a common culture for Baker Hughes.
Our Keys to Success are four priorities that should guide decision-making in Baker Hughes: Engage People, Deliver Value, Be Cost Efficient, Resource Effectively.
Our Community Impact Team identifies charitable organizations and coordinates events for them in the greater Houston area.
For over a century, innovation has been part of our DNA. Baker Hughes was formed with the merger of Baker International and Hughes Tool Company - both founded over 100 years ago.
We’ve been counting the rigs for more than 65 years. Stay up to date on drilling activity.
As a global company and an oilfield service industry leader, Baker Hughes strives to operate in a sustainable manner.
This comprehensive report detailing our corporate social responsibility programs, demonstrates that sustainability activities are a large part of our daily business.
Baker Hughes strongly believes that our operations must meet the highest standards of ethical behavior and legal compliance.
One of our objectives is to help customers develop energy reserves in an environmentally responsible manner.
Investments in people and communities are an integral part of our long-term business plans.
We’ve been counting the rigs for more than 65 years. Stay up to date on drilling activity.
We’ve been counting the rigs for more than 65 years. Stay up to date on drilling activity.
We’ve been counting the rigs for more than 65 years. Stay up to date on drilling activity.
We’ve been counting the rigs for more than 65 years. Stay up to date on drilling activity.
We’ve been counting the rigs for more than 65 years. Stay up to date on drilling activity.
We’ve been counting the rigs for more than 65 years. Stay up to date on drilling activity.
Our interactive map application of Baker Hughes' US rotary rig counts is available for the Apple iPhone and iPad. Baker Hughes' Rig Counts are an important business barometer for the drilling industry and its suppliers. The active rig count acts as a leading indicator of demand for products used in drilling, completing, producing and processing hydrocarbons. The US rig count is released weekly at noon central time on the last day of the workweek. Get the application from iTunes™.
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We’ve been counting the rigs for more than 65 years. Stay up to date on drilling activity.
Rocks fail during production because the cohesive material cementing the grains fails. The resulting production of sand (and/or solids) can reduce production rates and increase completion costs. Unfortunately, anticipating the onset of sand/solid-production is difficult because the tendency for wells to produce them changes continuously with production as stresses within the reservoir vary.
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