Baker Hughes announced that BJ Services, a Baker Hughes company, was awarded a USD multimillion contract by Woodside to provide casing and tubing running services in Australia.
Baker Hughes has installed the world’s first ultra-temperature electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems in steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) wells in the Canadian oil sands.
Baker Hughes has acquired oilfield equipment and service supplier Tanroc, based in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada. Tanroc primarily supplies progressing cavity pumping (PCP) systems and surface production equipment, including variable frequency drives for downhole pumping systems and wellhead drives.
Baker Hughes announced it has signed a three-year strategic alliance with Iraq’s South Oil Company (SOC) to provide technical services to SOC’s wireline logging department in Burj Esya, Basra south Iraq.
Baker Hughes opened its Eco-Centre waste management facility in Peterhead, Scotland, today, providing the North Sea oil and gas industry with the highest level of environmentally compliant waste processing services from the rigsite to final disposal.
Baker Hughes Incorporated and BJ Services Company announced that their Boards of Directors have approved a definitive merger agreement, which represents a transaction value of $5.5 billion for BJ Services based on closing stock prices on August 28, 2009.
Baker Hughes Incorporated announced that Belgacem Chariag, 46, will be appointed Baker Hughes Vice President and President Eastern Hemisphere Operations, effective May 1, 2009. In this position, he will be located in Dubai and will report to Martin Craighead, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
Baker Hughes Incorporated announced that it will organize its global operations by geography. Western Hemisphere operations will report to John A. (Andy) O Donnell who will be named Baker Hughes Vice President and President Baker Hughes Western Hemisphere Operations.
Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) announced today that Arthur (Art) L. Soucy, 46, will be appointed Vice President Supply Chain, assuming his new duties on April 1, 2009.
Baker Hughes Incorporated announced that Martin S. Craighead, 49, has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and is expected to assume his new duties on April 30, 2009.
