Baker Oil Tools, a division of Baker Hughes Incorporated, provides oilwell completion and intervention services. The division provides completion systems, which maximize performance and safety from the sand face to the surface. Wellbore intervention solutions address issues ranging from temporary well abandonment and fishing to casing exits, wellbore cleaning, and isolation, remediation and stimulation operations.

History

In 1907 Reuben Carlton (Carl) Baker invented and patented a casing shoe- a tubular device with outwardly tapered "teeth" at the bottom to ensure that a drilled hole diameter is larger than the inserted wellbore casing. The revolutionary tool is marketed nationwide, riding the first wave of a booming oilfield industry. This enterprise marks the conceptual beginning of the company that will become Baker Oil Tools.

The Baker Casing Shoe Company is incorporated to protect Carl baker's several patents, license them to manufacturers, and collect royalties. Contract oil drilling and other business interests also contribute to corporate growth. The corporation acquires its own facilities to manufacture guiding, floating and cementing tools- a line of equipment essential to safe and efficient drilling operations. Carl Baker develops corporate citizenship by assuming a variety of civil service roles: organizer of schools and libraries, board of education member, city trustee and mayor of Coalinga, CA.

Following new oil strikes between 1939-1941, and technological advancement in the industry, the company builds a manufacturing plant in Houston, TX and adds new offices in California, Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. Technological improvements in scrapers and packers help fuel a six-fold increase in sales, and company revenues pass the $2 million mark.

In 1942, Baker Oil Tools revolutionizes the industry with the introduction of the Model D Retainer Production Packer, the first permanent packer able to hold pressure effectively from either direction. The Model D enables the multiple-completion technique and opens vast new opportunities for Baker equipment.