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3 unusual facts about Baker Hughes


Baker Hughes

Baker Hughes has its headquarters in the America Tower in the American General Center in Neartown, Houston.

In April, 2007, Baker Hughes pled guilty in U.S. federal court to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), including bribing oil-related industry officials in Russia, Uzbekistan, Angola, Indonesia, and Nigeria.

Tananger

Apart from the oil companies some of the major oil service companies Schlumberger, Halliburton and Baker Hughes are located in Risavika.


Balikpapan

Companies including Baker Hughes (US), ChevronTexaco (US), Halliburton (US), Pertamina (Indonesia), Schlumberger (France), Thiess (Australia), Total S.A. (France) and Weatherford International (US) use Balikpapan as their base of operations in the region.

Jæren

The petroleum industry around Stavanger is an important part of economy of Jæren, with the headquarters of the country's largest oil company Statoil being located on Jæren, as well regional offices of international companies like ExxonMobil, Eni, Shell, ConocoPhilips, BP, Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes and several others.

MCA Solutions

The companies share several joint customers including the U.S. Navy, Bombardier Aerospace, KLA Tencor, Baker Hughes, Philips and ABB Group .

Moomba, South Australia

There are a number of partners and contractors on site including SGS, O&G Solutions, Transfield Services, OneSteel, Origin Energy, Diversified Construction, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, ProTechnics a Division of Corelab and SAGE Automation.

Summa Corporation

The tool division would merge with Baker International in 1987 to form Baker Hughes, the world's third-largest oil-services company.


see also

Dresser Atlas

In 1987, the company merged with Western Geophysical to form Western Atlas, and in 1998, Western Atlas was acquired by Baker Hughes, and, since then, was named Baker Atlas.

Raymond Davies Hughes

Using the alias of John Charles Baker, Hughes agreed to broadcast propaganda and went to Berlin where he was allowed a substantial degree of freedom, renting a flat while he was employed as a broadcaster and scriptwriter at Radio Metropole, for which he was paid 600 RM monthly.