BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY LLC Overview
Company Headquarters: Texas, US
Founded: 1987
Workforce: ~66,000
Company Working: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLC (BHGE LLC) operates as a subsidiary of General Electric, in which General Electric owns 62.5% shares of the company. It specializes in offering oilfield services and equipment services. The company operates through various business segments, which are oilfield services, oilfield equipment, turbomachinery & process solutions, and digital solutions. It offers oilfield products and services under its upstream, midstream, downstream, digital, and industrial business segments. The company's upstream business segment includes products for evaluation, production & optimization, subsea, drilling, completions, and well intervention. Additionally, it's well intervention services include coiled tubing systems and services for many well site operations. The company’s midstream business segment covers products for liquified natural gas and pipeline & storage. The downstream business segment covers products for refining and petrochemical & fertilizer processing. The industrial business segment covers products for power generation and specialty chemicals.
BHGE LLC operates in more than 120 countries, worldwide. It offers oilfield services and oilfield equipment in various countries in the Middle East & Africa including Oman, the UAE, Angola, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. The company heavily invests in the research and development of new products and services. Its invested USD 408 million, USD 352 million, and USD 501 million in 2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively, for the development of advanced products. In 2018, the company launched more than 100 new products and issued more than 2,700 patents.
Strategy
BHGE LLC heavily invests in research and development and focuses on the expansion of core operations, integration of operations, and delivering results for customers and shareholders. It concentrates on launching new products at regular intervals to strengthen its service portfolio and target market share and margin rates for the company in the global market. The acquisition of Baker Hughes by General Electric was meant for higher cash conversion in the future to enhance the overall performance. Moreover, its plans include integrated service modules to address customer challenges, reduce total cost operations, and improve productivity.



