Baker Hughes

Baker Hughes is an international industrial services company and one of the biggest providers of oilfield services. In 2017, General Electric Company purchased more than 62 percent of Baker Hughes, prompting the renaming of the company to Baker Hughes, a GE company, or BHGE. Their headquarters are in Houston, Texas. As of December 2017, Baker Hughes had 64,000 employees. Employment opportunities available at this company include business development and management, communications, finance and data entry, engineering, field operations, human resources, legal, jobs in logistics, manufacturing, and marketing.

BHGE is the combination of multiple different companies that have advanced technology to serve the petroleum industry. Their origins trace back to the 1900s. Since its start, Baker Hughes has acquired numerous pioneers in oil including Brown Oil Tools, Elder Oil Tools, Milchem and Newpark, Eastman Christiansen, and Drillex. Products include upstream products like evaluation, drilling, completion and production products; midstream products like pipeline and storage; and downstream products like process chemicals, reciprocating compressors, control valves, safety valves, and much more. They also have a number of industrial products including aeroderivative gas turbines, ORegen, and specialty chemicals including specialty polymers.

As of July 2017, 62.5 percent of the company is owned by General Electric and 37.5 percent of the company is publicly traded. It operates in more than 120 countries around the world. BHGE reported revenue of $22.13 billion as of the 2017 fiscal year. Their revenue per share came out to be $52.50 and they showed a quarterly revenue growth of 84 percent.