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At one point, known as BJ Services Company, the company operated in more than 50 countries worldwide. BJ Services generated record revenue of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2008, up 13% from the prior year, and had 18,000 employees. [1] On April 28, 2010, the company was bought by Baker Hughes in a $5.5 billion stock and cash deal.
Hughes Tool Company. The manufacturing operations of the company at 2nd and Girard Streets in Houston, Texas, where it was located in the 1910s. Today, the site of the building is on the campus of University of Houston–Downtown. A February 1914 advertisement for the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company in Fuel Oil Journal.
Parent company Number of U.S. locations Areas served ... Houston, Texas: 1936 Houston, Texas: Peak Rock Capital ... 1940 Edina, Minnesota: 4,339 Nationwide
Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI), the world's third-largest oilfield services company, today agreed to snap up smaller rival BJ Services Co. (BJS) for $5.5 billion in cash and stock in an old-school merger.
Spring Branch is a district in west-northwest Harris County, Texas, United States, roughly bordered by Tanner Road and Hempstead Road to the north, Beltway 8 to the west, Interstate 10 to the south, and the 610 Loop to the east; it is almost entirely within the city of Houston. [4]
Harrell Edmonds "Eddie" Chiles (May 11, 1910 – August 22, 1993) was the founder of the Western Company of North America and an owner of the Texas Rangers. He was also the paternal uncle of actress Lois Chiles . Eddie Chiles was born in Itasca, Texas to Harsh Edmonds Chiles and Jewell ( née Files). After graduating from Wentworth Military ...
NRHP reference No. 99000068 [1] Added to NRHP. January 27, 1999. The Humble Oil Building, is a historic office building, designed in the Italian Renaissance architecture style, [2] located at 1212 Main Street in Houston, Texas and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was constructed by Humble Oil and Refining Company in 1921.
In 1939, after working as a Sales Engineer with Reed Roller Bit Company in Houston, Eddie Chiles founded the Western Company of North America in Fort Worth, Texas. He started the company with two trucks and three employees. Western served the petroleum industry with technical services required in the discovery and production of oil and gas. The ...