Baker Hughes plans to close Broken Arrow location

[SlugSlinger]

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Baker Hughes announced 2023 closure of Broken Arrow site

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — One of the world’s largest oil field service companies, Baker Hughes, says they plan to close their site in Broken Arrow.

That location employs around 170 people. Baker Hughes says they will not close until 2023.

In a brief statement the Houston-based company said:

“We regularly review our operational footprint due to changing market conditions and customer demands, and the current environment requires us to restructure parts of our business. As part of our strategy to transform our operations, we intend to close the Broken Arrow site, and manufacturing will be transferred to other locations within the company. This decision was not taken lightly, and we make it with the utmost sensitivity to how it affects our employees, customers and communities. We remain focused on right-sizing our footprint for our customer base and market conditions through this challenging time.”

The company provides the oil and gas industry with products and services for oil drilling, formation evaluation, completion, production and reservoir consulting. Baker Hughes currently has 756 oil rigs in the United States.

The company did not elaborate on a date for this closure or what would be done with the building near S 145th E Ave. and the Broken Arrow Expressway.

 

[Poke78]

BA/Tulsa has been down this path before with this company when B-H was being acquired several years ago. Lots of work was done on incentives and workforce to keep the plant. This is a former client so I won't go into any details beyond what's out there in the public. The skill level of the workforce is top-notch because they manufacture some very high-value downhole equipment that uses very expensive specialized metals.

 

[SoonerP226]

Dang--they're not far from my office. There are a bunch of new "office space for lease" signs on the buildings in that area, but they're definitely the biggest.

 

[Podman]

I hope they don't close the Claremore plant too. It sure won't help the local economy.

 

[Profreedomokie]

A friend of mine has a son that works there.

 

[Snapshot2022]

BA/Tulsa has been down this path before with this company when B-H was being acquired several years ago. Lots of work was done on incentives and workforce to keep the plant. This is a former client so I won't go into any details beyond what's out there in the public. The skill level of the workforce is top-notch because they manufacture some very high-value downhole equipment that uses very expensive specialized metals.

I worked at this BH plant in around 1982 was hired as a Research Engineer working on their sub surface safety valves, really enjoyed the many challenges using exotic materials to withstand 600 degrees F Temp when valve must operate when downhole.
Really sorry to hear the BA plant closing in 23.
Ivan Hersh

 

[mouthpiece]

I worked at this BH plant in around 1982 was hired as a Research Engineer working on their sub surface safety valves, really enjoyed the many challenges using exotic materials to withstand 600 degrees F Temp when valve must operate when downhole.
Really sorry to hear the BA plant closing in 23.
Ivan Hersh

That's about when they opened this branch isn't it?

 

[Judi]

Wonder how many of them voted democrat when senile Joe said he would shut down oil......

 

[SoonerP226]

Wonder how many of them voted democrat when senile Joe said he would shut down oil......

People working in the oil and gas field in Oklahoma? I wouldn’t bet on that number being particularly high.

 

[Shadowrider]

I learned a long time ago that if you plan on making a career with Baker Hughes, you need to plan on moving.

They bought the company I worked for and move the plant to Houston. There was no real reason, we were in a central location and owned the real estate which was very nice. We had a bunch of quite large equipment (think CNC slant bed lathes with 100 HP motors and large CNC mills to match) that were difficult, slow and expensive to relocate. We did a lot of very unconventional machining (made steerable drilling tools for horizontal drilling) and had a trained workforce to do it. EVERYTHING was metric. Blueprints, programming, measuring tools, everything. There was just no compelling reason for the move from a manufacturing perspective. They did it anyway.

They made me a pretty damn decent offer to relocate with them to include selling my house and buying another in Houston for me. After seeing Houston I decided there wasn't a compelling reason for me to in Houston.

Several of the longer term people (like myself) went with them. After their 1 year relocation agreement was up all but one left the company for other jobs. I loved that job and the people I worked with, I'm pretty sure we all did. We had a great thing going and I would probably still be there had they not packed it all up. The funny thing about it was that they were unable to sell that very nice OKC property for a very long time. Years...