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Baker Hughes Incorporated

Baker Hughes provides the worldwide oil and natural gas industry products and services for drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production. We create value for oil and gas producers by providing advanced, reliable technology to find, develop, produce and manage oil and gas reservoirs. We also provide reservoir engineering and other consulting services. Baker Hughes operates in over 90 countries serving independent, international and national oil companies.

Baker Hughes is the only major oilfield service company structured around strong product-line divisions that are focused on Best-in-Class products and services. Our divisions are organized in two segments -- Drilling & Evaluation and Completion & Production -- which share common opportunities in developing and delivering technology solutions during distinct phases of oil and gas development.

Our newly-formed Reservoir Technology and Consulting Group includes two consulting firms – Gaffney, Cline & Associates and GeoMechanics International – that provide technical and commercial consulting, with unique capabilities in reservoir engineering and geomechanics.

Drilling & Evaluation

Our Drilling & Evaluation segment includes divisions that apply their products and services primarily during the drilling process to improve efficiency, reduce risk and acquire accurate information. The segment includes Baker Atlas, Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids, INTEQ and Hughes Christensen.

Baker Atlas
Baker Atlas offers a complete range of downhole well logging services for every environment including advanced formation evaluation, production and reservoir engineering, petrophysical and geophysical data acquisition services. In addition, perforating and completion technologies, pipe recovery, and processing and analysis of open and cased hole data complete the service range.

Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids
Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids provides fluids systems and services that help optimize the drilling and completion processes, maximize hydrocarbon production and manage drilling waste. Leading technologies include environmentally compliant water-based and synthetic-based mud systems and remediation fluids that can restore productivity from damaged wells.

INTEQ
INTEQ provides real-time services to help oil companies drill more efficiently, evaluate geologic formations, and place wells in productive zones within the reservoir. Important technologies include automated rotary steerable directional drilling systems, high performance drilling motors, and integrated logging-while-drilling assemblies. INTEQ also provides data communications, data management and expert centers to improve drilling operations and enhance formation evaluation.

Hughes Christensen
Hughes Christensen is the leader in Tricone™ and PDC drill bit, ream-while-drilling and casing drilling technology. Hughes Christensen application and design engineers work with customers to provide the best drill bit for the application to continuously improve drilling performance.

Completion & Production

Our Completion & Production segment includes divisions that apply their products and services primarily during the well completion, field production, transportation and refining processes. The segment includes Baker Oil Tools, Baker Petrolite, Centrilift, and the Production Optimization business unit.

Baker Oil Tools
Baker Oil Tools provides completion and intervention solutions that help manage cost and reduce risk while optimizing production. The division has a comprehensive line of completion systems, which maximize performance and safety from the reservoir to the surface. Wellbore intervention solutions address issues ranging from temporary well abandonment and fishing to casing exits, wellbore cleaning, and isolation, remediation and stimulation operations.

Baker Petrolite
Baker Petrolite provides chemical technology solutions for hydrocarbon production, transportation and processing, and also delivers pipeline integrity services. Baker Petrolite is a leader in oil/water separation technology and in solutions to control corrosion, deposition, bacteria and H2S in producing wells and production facilities. To serve refinery and petrochemical customers, Baker Petrolite provides chemicals and technical support to enhance plant processes, improve productivity, manage water treatment, and resolve environmental issues.

Centrilift
Centrilift provides artificial lift systems, including electric submersible pumps (ESP) and progressive cavity pump systems, as well as specific engineering, project management and well monitoring services. Centrilift has expanded the applications for ESP systems to harsh downhole environments that include high gas to oil ratio, heavy oil, high temperatures and abrasive laden fluids. New systems also address the needs of coalbed methane and subsea production.

ProductionQuest
Baker Hughes formed its ProductionQuest business unit to provide technology and services that help maximize recovery from both new and mature fields. The unit provides production optimization services centered on the well bore, including permanent monitoring, chemical automation, intelligent production systems, and consulting services. The unit also includes the Baker Hughes Integrated Operations group, which manages projects and combines technologies and services from Baker Hughes divisions and subcontractors to meet customer objectives for both well construction and production optimization.

Reservoir Technology and Consulting

Baker Hughes recently formed the Reservoir Technology and Consulting Group to enhance the company's capabilities in reservoir engineering, geomechanics and energy consulting services. The group currently includes Gaffney, Cline & Associates and Geomechanics International, Inc., which continue to operate as stand-alone consulting firms.

Gaffney Cline & Associates
Gaffney Cline & Associates is an international advisory firm focused on providing integrated technical and managerial services to all sectors of the oil and gas industry. For more than 45 years GCA has provided strategic and detailed advice aimed at achieving practical and commercially viable results. In addition to reservoir engineering, GCA advises a wide group of clients in exploration, reservoir evaluation, field development, drilling and production, pipeline, refining and LNG projects throughout the world.

GeoMechanics International
GeoMechanics International is a leader in consulting, training and software in the field of geomechanics and its application to oil and gas reservoirs. GMI was founded in 1996 by a team of experts from Stanford University's Department of Geophysics, and each of its consultants is a recognized leader in the field of geomechanics. GMI methods are focused on applying geomechanics modeling to the entire life of a reservoir and are based on 20 years of R&D and more than 12 years of practical application to oilfield problems. These methods have been proven to reduce exploration risk, save Non-Productive Time (NPT) and help increase production and recoverable reserves.

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