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Baker Hughes

Baker Hughes Incorporated
Public
Traded as BHI
S&P 500 Component
Industry Oil and Gas
Founded 1907 / 1987 (merger)
Headquarters American General Center
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Martin S. Craighead
(Chairman) & (CEO)
Revenue
  • Increase US$ 22.364 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 21.361 billion (2012)
  • Decrease US$ 1.949 billion (2013)
  • Decrease US$ 2.192 billion (2012)
  • Decrease US$ 1.096 billion (2013)
  • Decrease US$ 1.311 billion (2012)
Total assets
  • Increase US$ 27.934 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 26.689 billion (2012)
Total equity
  • Increase US$ 17.912 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 17.268 billion (2012)
Number of employees
35000 (2016)
Website BakerHughes

Baker Hughes is an American industrial service company, it is one of the world's largest oil field services companies. It operates in over 90 countries, providing the oil and gas industry with products and services for oil drilling, formation evaluation, completion, production and reservoir consulting. Baker Hughes has its headquarters in the America Tower in the American General Center in Neartown, Houston.

Baker Hughes is the combination of many companies that have developed and introduced technology to serve the petroleum service industry. Their combined history dates back to the early 1900s. During its history, Baker Hughes has acquired and assimilated numerous oilfield pioneers including: Brown Oil Tools, CTC, EDECO, and Elder Oil Tools (completions); Milchem and Newpark (drilling fluids); EXLOG (mud logging); Eastman Christensen and Drilex (directional drilling and diamond drill bits); Teleco (measurement while drilling); Tri-State and Wilson (fishing tools and services); Aquaness, Chemlink and Petrolite (specialty chemicals), Western Atlas (seismic exploration, well logging), BJ Services Company (pressure pumping).

The Hughes Tool Company was founded in 1908 by business partners Walter Benona Sharp and Howard R. Hughes, Sr., father of Howard R. Hughes, Jr.. That year, Hughes, Sr. and Sharp developed the first two-cone drill bit, designed to enable rotary drilling in harder, deeper formations than was possible with earlier fishtail bits. They conducted two secret tests on a drilling rig in Goose Creek, Texas. Each time, Hughes asked the drilling crew to leave the rig floor, pulled the bit from a locked wooden box, and then his associates ran the bit into the hole. The drill pipe twisted off on the first test, but the second was extremely successful. In 1909, the Sharp & Hughes bit was granted a U.S. patent. In the same year, the partners formed the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company in Houston, Texas to manufacture the bit in a rented space measuring 20 by 40 ft (12 m).


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