BAKER HUGHES COLLABORATION Baker Hughes is one of the world’s largest oilfield consultant companies. Employing over 58,000 individuals in 90 countries, Baker Hughes provides oil and gas corporations with solutions to “lower costs, reduce risk and improve productivity” for their production operations. Working alongside their customers, Baker Hughes claims “collaboration is at the heart of our business”. To provide services that include engineered products for drilling, evaluation of drill sites, completion/production applications and reservoir consulting, Baker Hughes collaborates with their own internal departments, technological corporations, research facilities, and universities worldwide. In addition, because each project is unique due to the excavation of different fuels and land formations, Baker Hughes is continually challenged with new research efforts and to design new products while collaborating with old and new resource collaborators. Baker Hughes markets itself, as a partner working alongside their clients to meet all of their production needs. Therefore, Baker Hughes adheres to 3 key corporate philosophies to improve their collaboration services. These key areas include: local teams collaborating with clients to find the right solution for each project; “access right experts, right technology and the right data at the right time to maximize the value of every asset”; and for corporate management to focus on continuous improvement in all areas of customer operations. Consequently for Baker Hughes to efficiently consult clients the corporation is structured into 9 regions with 23 geomarket management teams. These regions include: U.S. land, Gulf of Mexico, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Russia/Caspian, Middle East and Asia Pacific. In addition Baker Hughes has become expert consultants in deep water offshore drilling, excavation of