Baker Hughes Incorporated · Houston, TX United States ·(NYSE: BHI)

Baker Hughes cooks up a baker's dozen of products and services for the global petroleum market. Through its Drilling and Evaluation segment, Baker Hughes makes products and services used to drill oil and natural gas wells. Through its Completion and Production segment, the company provides equipment and services used from the completion phase through the productive life of oil and natural gas wells. The company tests potential well sites and drills and operates the wells; it also makes bits and drilling fluids and submersible pumps, and provides equipment and well services. In a major industry consolidation, in 2009 Baker Hughes agreed to buy oil field services titan BJ Services for $5.5 billion. To read the full description, subscribe now.