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Baker Hughes Company. Baker Hughes Company is an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. As one of the world's largest oil field services companies, it provides products and services for oil well drilling, formation evaluation, completion, production, and reservoir consulting.
Hughes Tool Company was an American manufacturer of drill bits. Founded in 1908, it was merged into Baker Hughes Incorporated in 1987. History. The company was established in December 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.
At one point, known as BJ Services Company, the company operated in more than 50 countries worldwide. BJ Services generated record revenue of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2008, up 13% from the prior year, and had 18,000 employees. On April 28, 2010, the company was bought by Baker Hughes in a $5.5 billion stock and cash deal.
Baker Hughes (NYS: BHI) carries $7.4 billion of goodwill and other intangibles on its balance sheet. Sometimes goodwill, especially when it's excessive, can foreshadow problems down the road.
Bently Nevada is an asset protection and condition monitoring hardware, software and service company for industrial plant-wide operations. [1] Its products are used to monitor the mechanical condition of rotating equipment in a wide variety of industries including oil and gas production, hydroelectric, wind, hydrocarbon processing, electric ...
Reuben Carlton "Carl" Baker, Sr. [1] (July 18, 1872 – September 29, 1957 [1]) was an American oil industry drilling pioneer. He established Baker Oil Tools in 1907 after developing a casing shoe that revolutionized cable tool drilling. In 1903, he introduced the offset bit for cable tool drilling to enable casing wells in hard rock and in ...
CEO, Baker Hughes. Term. February 2017-. Predecessor. Martin Craighead. Board member of. Chairman of the U.S.-Russia Business Council . Board member of CNH Industrial and C3.ai. Lorenzo Simonelli is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Baker Hughes, an energy technology company.
Baker Hughes (1998-2000) Western Geophysical was an international oil exploration company founded in California in 1933 by Henry Salvatori for the purpose of using reflection seismology to explore for petroleum . The company prospered and was sold by Salvatori to Litton Industries in 1960. [1] [2] In 1987, Litton and Dresser Industries formed a ...