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“I CALL THE BAKER HUGHES’

GROWTH INITIATIVES HUB A

START-UP BUSINESS. WITHIN

THE HUB WE LOOK AT DISRUPTIVE

TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES

THAT WE BELIEVE WILL DELIVER

VALUE TO OUR CUSTOMERS.

WITHIN THE HUB WE LOOK

AT DIGITAL SPECIFICALLY FOR

PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION,

CONDITION MONITORING, REMOTE

SUPPORT, SMART IMR AND ASSET

INTEGRITY, WHICH HELPS US

BASELINE ASSETS AND DEVELOP

FIELDS FOR OUR CUSTOMERS.”

ALEX SEINUAH

GLOBAL GROWTH INITIATIVES

LEADER – SERVICES & OFFSHORE,

Source: Baker Hughes

BAKER HUGHES company’s share price. “We don’t need to access production Hughes gets involved to gauge the scope of the feld – the data, we don’t need fow rates; what we need agnostic data number of wells, the number of trees, etc. – to design and to, for example, see your electrical signals, your communica- deliver a condition monitoring system, provide predictive tions signals, so that we can use that to run trends and provide analysis and devise a maintenance strategy early in the process. advice. Ultimately, it’s about working with your customers to Working with the customer, Baker Hughes can help to set up provide the right solution.” a system that can, for example, project the life of equipment so that the customer can strategically plan when to replace it

Life of Field before it becomes obsolete. “Some are early to the game, some

With the oil and gas business riding through a historic are late to the game, and we need to be fexible to accommo- trough, oil companies of every size increasingly press to maxi- date both, whether it is a green feld or a brown feld,” said mize the value of every feld. According Seinuah, the earlier Seinuah. As with any engineered solution, getting involved in a feld’s life that his Baker Hughes team can get involved is on the ground foor generally yields the best results, but the best for overall feld proftability, but the Baker Hughes digi- digitalization solutions proposed by Baker Hughes are not de- talization solution is designed to maximize effciencies and pendent on getting in at the Greenfeld level. “You might have profts no matter the stage. “You don’t have to wait for a feld a brown feld, and you want to leverage digitalization. We can to get old to implement a digital system.” do that too, but frst we’ll need to do a gap analysis and up-

Once a customer says it want to develop a feld, Baker grades to get an idea of what you have and what you need.”

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