Overview
Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) is a US energy technology company developing autonomous drilling systems, robotic pipeline Inspection, and AI-powered oilfield automation. Develops autonomous underwater vehicles for offshore energy inspection.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Technology
Stage
Autonomous systems
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Baker Hughes has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Hexagon1× joint
Most recent
- with Hexagonjust announced
Baker Hughes on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Lorenzo Simonelli Chairman & CEOsecondary-verified
- Scott Parent Chief Technology Officer, Digital Solutions and Enterprise Technologysecondary-verified
- Howard Robard Hughes Sr Foundersecondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Howard Hughes Srno longer at company
- Reuben C Bakerno longer at company
- Howard Robard Hughes Srno longer at company
Former / Previously (2)
- Howard Hughes Sr Foundersecondary-verified
- Reuben C Baker Foundersecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Baker Hughes.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Baker Hughes in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- sec_10k
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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Partnerships
1 total · 1 just announced
Every company Baker Hughes has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Hexagonjust announced
Most-frequent partners
- 1Hexagon1× joint
Timeline
Every recorded move in Baker Hughes’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipBaker Hughes (Waygate Technologies) x Hexagon
2026-04-13Baker Hughes announced the sale of its Waygate Technologies business, which includes the former GE Inspection Robotics (now Waygate Technologies Robotics), to Sweden-based Hexagon for approximately $1.45 billion in an all-cash transaction. The deal integrates industrial inspection robotics with Hexagon's 3D metrology and digital twin portfolio.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Baker Hughes.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Baker Hughes from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
BP tasks Baker Hughes with production enhancement across UK North Sea assets
UK-headquartered energy giant BP has hired U.S.-headquartered energy technology giant Baker Hughes to support new well development and production optimization across its North Sea…
Baker Hughes Wins Major Kutei Northern Hub Subsea Contract For 17 Deepwater Production Systems In Indonesia
Baker Hughes has received a substantial award from Searah North Ganal Limited to supply subsea production systems and digital technology for the Kutei Northern Hub natural gas…
Baker Hughes to Supply Subsea Systems for Kutei Northern Hub
Baker Hughes has been awarded a contract to deliver subsea production systems and digital solutions to support safe, efficient and optimized production for the Kutei Northern Hub…
TD Cowen Boosts Price Target on Baker Hughes (BKR). Here is Why
Baker Hughes extends Equinor North Sea services contracts - Oil & Gas Middle East
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Equinor dishes out contracts for field development - Upstream Online
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Baker Hughes Senior V.P. touts benefits of autonomous well construction - World Oil
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Baker Hughes announces sale of Waygate Technologies to Hexagon - Hydrocarbon Engineering
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Baker Hughes to sell Waygate unit to Hexagon for about $1.45 billion - Reuters
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Baker Hughes launches autonomous well construction solution - Drilling Contractor
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Baker Hughes' Kantori optimizes well construction - Inspenet
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Baker Hughes Launches Kantori™, a Unified Digital Autonomous Well Construction Solution - Baker Hughes
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Machine-readable surfaces
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- RSS feed: /companies/baker-hughes/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/84e00f01-2f83-42ac-b5fc-c00532e81e25
- Revision history: /companies/baker-hughes/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Baker Hughes against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 6, 2026