Baker Hughes, a GE Company: International oil and gas industry leader serves Alaska and its employees.

AuthorAnderson, Tasha
PositionCorporate 100

Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), is an international, full-stream oil and gas industry equipment and service provider and leads the industry in technological innovations, such as the Dynamus Extended-life Drill Bit, which according to the company "enables operators to keep drilling while using the most robust drilling equipment available. It protects the BHA [bottom hole assembly component of a drilling rig] by mitigating lateral vibrations. Its cutters are designed to prevent cracks and heat damage, and its body has been engineered for long life in extreme operations."

In addition to its significant technological innovations, Area Manager of Alaska BHGE Oilfield Services Jon Rhodes explains, "Globally BHGE is a full-stream provider--and we are the only full-stream provider." While many companies specialize in upstream, midstream, or downstream oil and gas activities, BHGE brings together capabilities across the full value chain of oil and gas activities. "We are the only company able to provide full stream capabilities, from reservoir to refinery," Rhodes says. "None of our competitors can offer that, start to finish." In fact, BHGE has recently been awarded its first full stream contract for Twinza Oil Limited to provide full-stream support on the Pasca A gas condensate field, located off Papua New Guinea in the Gulf of Papua.

The company provides a broad portfolio of services to the Alaska oil and gas industry, including oilfield services such as completions, coil tubing drilling, drill bits, drilling and evaluation, artificial lift, and upstream chemicals, as well as oilfield equipment such as wellheads and turbo machinery. "We have a larger portfolio in other global locations, but these are the services we focus on in Alaska at the moment," he says. BHGE works throughout the state with all of Alaska's oil and gas companies, including in Cook Inlet, but the bulk of their current operations are on the North Slope.

Wherever BHGE operates, Rhodes says, "It's all about creating value for our customers." While Alaska's economy was particularly hard hit by the crash in oil prices and their long, slow recovery, worldwide the industry took a blow. "We're seeing a bit of encouragement in the last couple of months--oil prices have gone up, so the outlook is looking better--but it's still about how you can offer value to your customers to help them reduce their costs and be more efficient." The more BHGE is involved in the oil and gas process...

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