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Advancing Reservoir Performance Baker Hughes in Sub-Sahara Africa A Strong Foundation…Built for the Future

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Baker Hughes in Sub-Sahara AfricaA Strong Foundation…Built for the Future

LIBYA

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

NORTH AFRICA

NIGERIA

ANGOLA

GHANA

CAPE TOWN

ACCRATAKORADI

PORTGENTIL

POINTNOIRE

MALABO

LUBA

Our Sub-Sahara geomarket consists of all African countries south of the Sahara

except Nigeria and Angola

Baker Hughes has been working in Sub-Sahara Africa—in mature markets like Congo and Gabon—for over three decades. During that time, we’ve been providing advanced drilling and completion solutions to national and international clients that helped them increase both their operating efficiency and ultimate recovery. As newer discoveries were made in Ghana, Uganda and other countries, we were there to deliver critical access to the latest technologies; logistics support; and well-trained, experienced personnel.

Investing for Our Shared FuturePeople, technology and infrastructure are the cornerstones of our efforts and investments in Sub-Sahara Africa. In each of the countries where we operate, we are committed to partnering with you to develop local resources including aggressively recruiting and developing local graduates.

We are Committed to Serving You

Every day, in oil and gas fields around

the world, our experts evaluate

customer needs, customize systems to

match each application, and deliver

advanced technologies to maximize oil

and gas production and ultimate reserve

recovery while lowering operating

expenditures and minimizing risk.

Our solutions span the hydrocarbon

lifecycle. Our reservoir consulting

services help you understand how to

best exploit the economic potential of

your assets. Our drilling, evaluation,

completion and production technologies

consistently achieve superior results

and are backed by outstanding service

professionals trained to understand the

unique challenges of each customer.

Strong, client-centered operations are

vital to our organization. Executive

management in each region, together

with focused geomarket teams, provide

timely decision making aligned with

customer needs. At the same time,

Baker Hughes has retained its strong

product line legacy to drive leadership

in technology innovation and product

development, as well as to ensure

timely delivery of customer solutions.

Whether you are exploiting

existing reserves or exploring new

fields; whether your operations are in

remote areas of the African jungle or

in the deep waters of the Atlantic or

Indian Oceans, our award-winning

technologies and services can help

you cut costs and advance the

performance of your reservoir.

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As part of this effort, we’ve been building relationships with local universities to communicate opportunities and to assist in developing curricula related to the petroleum industry. Our commitment to developing our people is demonstrated through our extensive technical and management training programs, which we deploy worldwide to ensure that global standards are maintained and that every employee gains the experience they need to flawlessly execute their jobs.

Our corporate social responsibility program is closely aligned with the United Nations Millennium Development goals aimed at alleviating poverty, improving education and health standards, and promoting equality. Additionally, we recognize our responsibility to share our experience and skills to assist with national development plans.

Even when experiencing record levels of operational activity and rapid growth, we remain transparent and accountable, complying with local legislation and international standards. We recognize that this responsible behavior is both a key to building a trusting relationship with you and your organization and crucial to maintaining our international reputation.

This level of commitment is not limited to Sub-Sahara Africa. In a recent management and excellence study of oilfield service companies around the world, Baker Hughes was ranked second overall and recognized among the industry leaders for sustainability, corporate governance, social responsibility, transparency, ethics and other criteria.

At Baker Hughes, we understand that it isn’t enough to simply deliver technology-based solutions. That’s why our Sub-Sahara Africa group maintains a singular focus on being the best possible business and social partner—creating value for both the clients we work for and the countries we work in.

Cape Town, South Africa – Office

Accra, Ghana – Office

Takoradi, Ghana – Base

Port Gentil, Gabon – Base

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea – Base

Luba, Equatorial Guinea – Base

Point Noire, Congo – Base

Sub-Sahara Geomarket

In 2009, Baker Hughes recruited 65 university graduates in Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Congo, Gabon and South Africa. In total, Baker Hughes employs more than 700 people in the Sub-Saharan countries.

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As a top-tier oilfield services company with a century-long track record, we deliver solutions that help operators such as yourself make the most of your reservoirs. Our teams around the world listen to you and our other customers to make sure we understand your respective challenges. Then, leveraging our expertise and technology portfolio, we help you manage operating expenses, maximize reserve recovery and boost overall return on investment throughout the life of your asset.

At Baker Hughes, we operate in more than 90 countries worldwide, partnering with national oil companies, international oil and gas companies and independent operators to maximize the value from each reservoir in a multitude of applications, including deepwater, high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT), unconventional gas, subsalt drilling, production or water management.

A critical factor in our ability to deliver maximum value to you and your organization, especially

in emerging markets or remote areas, is our Integrated Operations group.

Baker Hughes Integrated Operations (BHIO) brings together expertise in well design, planning, performance management, fit-for-purpose drilling, evaluation, completion and production services for the successful implementation of integrated projects. With teams located in Africa and other worldwide locations—Mexico, United Arab Emirates, India, Colombia, United Kingdom, Norway, Australia, Russia, Nigeria and the United States—BHIO’s global footprint maximizes our integrated services capabilities. BHIO has strong working relationships with subcontractors and vendors around the world and maintains a multilingual staff to ensure optimal communications and engagement. Our BHIO team is focused on delivering performance-based drilling and incremental production solutions designed to meet the specific needs of the client while providing the necessary level of management support to ensure a successful, cohesive outcome.

A History of Oilfield Excellence

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Managed Projects, Managed RiskBHIO project management and support personnel demand high standards of operational, technical and commercial performance. This ensures that our products and services—as well as those of our subcontractors and vendors—are brought together into a professionally managed, reliable and integrated package to meet project objectives. BHIO skills and experience include wellsite drilling, production and reservoir operations; risk management techniques and analysis; project management; well engineering software and design tools; commercial and contractual awareness; and oilfield best practices.

BHIO also works closely with the Reservoir Technology and Consulting group (RTC), who provide reservoir analysis as well as geomechanical, production and well engineering expertise to support BHIO projects.

Improving Efficiency, Driving Recovery across Your Well’s Life CycleFrom off-site services like reservoir analysis and field development studies to on-site rig and well services management operations, BHIO delivers services across the entire life cycle of the well, both for new fields and field redevelopment projects. Offerings include drilling, logging-while-drilling (LWD), drilling and completion fluids, intervention fluids, intervention and logging services, completions, production chemistry, well monitoring and artificial lift technology.

A key function of our BHIO team is to evaluate local suppliers for optimum effectiveness. These service companies work under the management of BHIO to provide additional services such as rig operations, cementing, tubular handling and well testing. Ultimately, BHIO seeks to improve your return on investment and reduce life cycle costs while enhancing production and reservoir optimization.

Experienced Personnel for Specialized ServicesIn addition to services supporting conventional oil and gas activities, our BHIO group is also responsible for project management and the execution of unconventional energy-related activities, including geothermal, carbon capture and storage, coalbed methane, underground gas storage and coiled-tubing drilling. We have expert teams with substantial experience in all of these areas, providing clients an integrated resource to achieve project objectives.

Our broad base of experience encompasses offshore, HP/HT wells in Mexico, gas storage projects in Europe, exploration and development activities in northern and western Africa, innovative resource utilization in Norway, and well management in Kazakhstan and Russia. The BHIO group has also played a critical role in managing successful operations in Turkey, Morocco, Canada, Uzbekistan, Colombia and Venezuela.

Excellence in Practice

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Investing in Technology for our Industry’s FutureAt Baker Hughes, we’re committed to constantly delivering the new technology you need to maximize the value of your assets. Since 2001, we’ve more than doubled the annual research and engineering investment and over two-thirds of that total spent in 2009 was for new technology research. In addition, we’re expanding our technology infrastructure to meet the specific application needs of both your organization and others that make up our global client base.

The Center for Technology Innovation (CTI) opened in Houston in 2008 to focus integrated research teams on unconventional oil and gas recovery, detailed reservoir understanding, extreme HP/HT environments, deepwater applications and remote monitoring and optimization technology advancements. In 2009, we expanded our already significant research capabilities in Celle, Germany by partnering with the

German government to advance technology capabilities for the high-temperature geothermal industry.

This year, we are working with two national oil companies to meet their technology needs and further expand our global research capabilities with new technology centers of excellence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

� Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: We will partner with Petrobras to drive new advancements in reservoir characterization, drilling optimization, completion and production technologies; production and recovery optimization; and deepwater technology.

� Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: Our scientists will focus on research areas critical to Saudi Aramco, including reservoir, production and recovery optimization; and technologies to drive drilling efficiency; and recovery methods for Saudi tight gas reservoirs.

A History of Innovation

For over 100 years, we have

been a recognized leader in

technology innovation for the

oil and gas industry. Since the

earliest days of the petroleum

era when Baker Oil Tools

introduced the casing shoe

to advance well cementing

techniques and Hughes Tool

Company invented the first

two-cone drill bit to drill

through harder rock and tap

deeper reserves, our culture

has pushed the technical

boundaries across

the hydrocarbon life cycle.

Today, that innovative spirit

is more important than ever

as the industry increasingly

depends on oilfield service

companies like Baker Hughes

for research and development

needs. Since 2005, the major

oilfield service firms have

outpaced major oil companies

in granted patents by more

than two-to-one.

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Driving Future InnovationsBaker Hughes innovations are driven by a variety of functions throughout the organization. Our strong product line teams ensure Baker Hughes remains an industry leader in drilling, formation evaluation, completions and production technology.

We are also focused on delivering world-class digital oilfield capabilities. As part of this effort, we’re investing in a global network of remote advisory centers that are designed to allow real-time, well-to-web data collection and analysis; remote system monitoring and automation, and collaborative decision making.

BEACON collaboration centers, one key component in the Baker Hughes digital oilfield platform, enables real-time awareness of operations and collaboration between Baker Hughes experts, customers and third parties. BEACON services are built on open industry standards that offer customers the freedom and flexibility to integrate data and third-party components into their workflows and applications. New workflows facilitated by BEACON services enable remote monitoring, support, collaboration and operation. These in turn allow us to flexibly rebalance the composition and location of teams to match the requirements of your business environment, operations and locations.

Our BEACON centers facilitate remote monitoring and collaboration—allowing us to quickly adjust the composition and location of teams to best match your needs and increase your operational efficiency.

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Understanding your ReservoirBaker Hughes has long been recognized for technology leadership in its products and services, which were primarily used “near the wellbore.” Recently, we formed the Baker Hughes Reservoir Technology and Consulting Group to enhance our reservoir engineering, geomechanics and energy consulting services away from the wellbore.

These groups represent a team of reservoir experts whose practice ranges from international consulting on integrated technical and managerial services to geomechanics, petrophysics, simulation and subsurface and well consulting. Among our projects are advising clients on exploration, reservoir evaluation, field development, drilling and production, pipelines, refining and LNG projects. We also apply geomechanic modeling to the entire life of a reservoir and perform single-discipline analysis to fully-integrated field management services.

Efficient Drilling SolutionsIn 1909, we delivered a step-change in drilling performance when one of our company’s founders introduced the two-cone drill bit. Since that time, we’ve remained one of the world’s most innovative and technically advanced drill bit manufacturers. In addition, we have a strong legacy in other key technical disciplines that impact your drilling performance including positive displacement motors, measurement-while-drilling services (MWD), rotary steerable systems and drilling fluids.

Each and every one of these drilling services are backed by a team of experienced wellsite professionals and around-the-clock access to our collaboration centers to provide fast access to expert consultation on your most critical wells.

Drawing on this portfolio of advanced technologies and our global drilling expertise, we can engineer customized drilling solutions that can help you steer to your reservoir’s most productive zones with maximum speed, safety and efficiency.

Fast, Durable Bit Technology Our research and development programs have produced dozens of oilfield firsts —advancements that position our drill bits as the industry standard around the world. We offer Tricone™ drill bits, ream-while-drilling tools and casing drilling tools. Our design application and research teams will work with you to match the right bit with your formation for optimum drilling performance and record runs in both simple and challenging formations anywhere in the world.

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Environmentally Compliant, High-Performance Drilling FluidsWe design and implement our water- and emulsion-based systems as part of an overall well plan to maximize project efficiency and minimize wellbore damage. Based on your particular drilling situation, our drilling fluids solutions provide the most effective, environmentally safe fluids to optimize the drilling process.

In addition to our drilling fluids, we can offer you access to a complete line of drilling completion and remediation fluids to help you maximize your reservoir production. Our Fluids Environmental Services include quality assurance processes to ensure environmental compliance for drilling and completion fluids as well as for handling, treating and disposing of cuttings.

Fast and Accurate Drilling and MWD ServicesDrawing from a tightly integrated and customizable set of drilling and MWD services and technologies, we can provide real-time answers and solutions across the full range of exploration and development challenges. Our far-reaching capabilities include directional and performance drilling services built on proven technologies such as our AutoTrakTM rotary steerable systems and Navi-DrillTM motors. Combined with advanced MWD measurements that provide detailed directional and dynamics information, these technologies help you improve wellsite efficiency, reduce drilling risks, and maximize hydrocarbon recovery.

In addition, these bottomhole assembly (BHA) components can be integrated with our most advanced LWD technologies to allow you to get a complete understanding of your reservoir with maximum efficiency and minimal non-productive rig time.

Background A medium-sized operator required geosteering work as part of an onshore well development program in Gabon. Based on the results of previous performance drilling successes, the company selected Baker Hughes to help them engineer and drill the well.

A three-month extended project management and well planning process was driven by the local Baker Hughes operations managers in collaboration with in-country technical support and the Africa BEACON team. The technology selected to drill the well included steerable drill bits, an advanced AutoTrak rotary steerable BHA incorporating advanced AziTrak™ reservoir navigation capabilities. These advanced services were new to the region and would require significant planning and technical support along with additional preparation related to repair and maintenance capabilities, and field operations.

Results � Quickly mobilized and introduced new technologies into Sub-Sahara Africa in order to meet the client’s needs

� Successfully executed a difficult 8½-in. hole section to horizontal inclination with maximum precision and efficiency

� Precisely navigated the reservoir section using a geologically modelled wellpath and LWD updates through technically demanding formations

Delivering Precise Well Placement in Technically Demanding Formations

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Thorough and Dependable Formation Evaluation

A clear understanding of your reservoir is crucial in terms of both quantifying and maximizing the recovery of the hydrocarbon reserves it contains. Whether as part of an accurate and reliable LWD service, an integrated mudlogging service or an advanced wireline logging suite, we can get you the formation evaluation answers you need to minimize your wellbore development risks while maximizing your ultimate recovery.

As a leader in data management, processing and analysis, we make sure our formation evaluation services apply throughout your reservoir’s life cycle—from prospect evaluation and appraisal to production and reservoir management—allowing you to define, reduce and manage risk.

Efficient LWD SolutionsOur LWD technology is recognized for performance and reliability in directional drilling, formation evaluation and reservoir navigation applications. Through real-time, wireline-quality LWD logs, our LWD services provide accurate data to help clients enhance drilling performance, optimize well placement and gather quantitative information about the reservoir. In addition

to LWD services, we also provide a wide range of surface logging capabilities and services

Integrated Surface Logging AnswersWe are the industry leader in Surface Logging Services (SLS), also known as Mud Logging. With over 50 years of SLS experience, we deliver cutting edge SLS technology, highly trained personnel and dependable wellsite answers for today’s most challenging drilling and formation evaluation applications. Our experienced rigsite geologists and engineers use specialized software to combine the lithological data they gather with real-time engineering data collected from surface sensors and downhole services. This data provides the timely answers you need to operate at peak efficiency and enhance operational safety

High-Resolution Formation Evaluation If you need highly detailed reservoir answers that include high-quality sampling, our wireline logging technologies offer a complete range of advanced formation evaluation services including testing and sampling. Our newest-generation of well logging and data analysis technologies enable high-resolution

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data capture in even the most challenging environments to enhance reservoir model accuracy, identify pay zones, increase production and accurately assess reservoir economics.

Full Recovery of High-Quality Core SamplesHigh-quality core samples are essential to fully understanding your reservoir. These samples give you definitive answers regarding the formation’s lithology and mineralogy, flow characteristics, storage capacity, production potential and more. Your geologists and petrophysicists can use the core analysis data to interpret and correlate the well logs. These samples will also allow your reservoir and drilling engineers to fine-tune future drilling and well placement operations in order to target the reservoir’s most productive zones for maximum recovery.

Whether you want to gather large diameter samples while drilling or smaller sidewall cores during wireline operations, we excel at developing customized coring programs designed to optimize rigsite efficiency while delivering 100% recovery of high-quality core samples.

Background An independent oil company required advanced logging for a remote well in Sub-Sahara Africa. One of the client’s main objectives for the logging run was to retrieve high-quality water samples.

Ensuring sample quality for the formation fluid was extremely challenging due to the deep invasion of mud filtrate into the formation and the fact that the filtrate had a very similar salinity to the formation water.

In order to meet the client’s needs, our experts designed a wireline logging suite comprised of our DSL/XMACTM, WGI/HDILTM, CN/ZDL/MreXTM, STAR/CBILTM, VSP, SWC and RCITM services. In order to compensate for the filtrate invasion, a sequential segregated sampling technique was used through the clean-up phase for the water samples. This permitted confident determination of the level of contamination in the individual samples and composition of the clean formation water.

Results � A total of 49 pressure tests were performed and 22 fluid samples were collected in three RCI runs

� During the clean-out phases for the various samples, 164 gal (622 L) were pumped and we used our SampleView™ service to ensure proper clean-up for all the samples

� Two fluid identifications were performed with the SampleView service to confirm results from measured pressure gradients.

Obtaining High Quality Fluid Samples Under Challenging Conditions

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Comprehensive Completion and Production Services

Our completion and production solutions help you to maximize the value of your organization’s oil and gas assets by optimizing recovery while reducing your capital and operating expense. Our fundamental commitment to you is to help solve your oilfield problems by providing the highest quality and best performing products and services.

Fit-for-Purpose Completion, Intervention and Workover TechnologyAs the industry’s undisputed leader in reliable, performance-based completion solutions, we offer the world’s most dependable sealing and anchoring technologies, meticulous planning, and a no-nonsense approach to risk avoidance. From established packers and liners to cutting-edge multilateral completion systems and intelligent production systems, we can tailor a completion solution to best match your reservoir’s requirements and maximize your recovery and return on investment.

Our sand control services range from record-setting gravel packs and award-winning production management systems to advanced fracturing and stimulation services. Our reservoir optimization processes exceed conventional sand control options in enhancing wellbore stability while optimizing productivity from unconsolidated formations.

In addition, we offer full access to intervention, casing exit, perforating, and remediation and stimulation technologies. Working closely with other experts throughout our organizations, we can deliver options for integrated side tracking, wellbore obstruction removal, pipe recovery as well as solutions for cased hole, open-hole and through-tubing operations.

Reliable Artificial Lift Technologies Boost RecoveryWe provide exceptional artificial lift systems, service and support to optimize production and maximize ultimate reserve recovery from both newly-developed and mature oil fields. Our complete line of artificial lift solutions includes electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems, progressing cavity pumping (PCP) systems and horizontal surface pumping systems. Our ESP monitoring and automation, our engineering support and our round-the-clock service all help operators meet production objectives at the lowest possible lifting costs.

Our proven artificial lift systems are known for record-breaking run life in some of our industry’s most demanding applications, ranging from harsh downhole conditions to deepwater subsea pressure boosting applications; extreme temperature, steam-assisted gravity drainage and geothermal projects, and wells requiring high-horsepower systems.

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Comprehensive Fluid Treatment SolutionsAt the heart of Baker Hughes chemicals business is our ability to engage with customers like you to jointly identify and deliver the best fit-for-purpose solutions that satisfy your operational needs and provide value while reducing risks. Our expert technology and service teams can work with you to create optimized service programs to control your specific production issues including hydrates, corrosion, paraffin and scale.

We offer a full range of protection chemicals, and oil and gas production products, including reservoir souring controllers, wax and asphaltene control agents, foamers, scale and corrosion controllers, emulsion breakers, and water clarifiers to clean produced water.

Comprehensive Completion and Production ServicesOur completion and production solutions help you to maximize the value of your organization’s oil and gas assets by optimizing recovery while reducing your capital and operating expense. It is our fundamental commitment to help you solve your oilfield problems by providing the highest quality and best performing products and services.

Background A client operating on a Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in a deepwater field off the coast of Sub-Sahara Africa contracted us to provide a variety of completion service in order to safely optimize the well’s production.

We installed our UniFlex™ liner hanger, a 7-in. single frac-pac with a tie back isolation packer assembly and dual-string FLX upper completion. Along with a flawless open-hole and cased-hole completion, the client’s surface operation was supported by the one of our fracturing and stimulation vessels.

Results The final result was flawless execution in a challenging environment. The Baker Hughes operations team’s excellent communication with the client was recognized as a crucial element to the safe and successful installation.

Delivering Crucial Deepwater Completions Services

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Each day, our leaders and employees work to maintain a culture in which everyone is accountable for his or her actions and decisions. Nowhere is this commitment more evident than in our health, safety and environment (HS&E) practices.

Performance expectations are set at the enterprise level, but have the flexibility necessary to address regional or local issues as well as your organization’s specific needs. For example, we have recently instituted specialized programs here in Sub-Sahara Africa for malaria prevention and family-oriented health and safety campaigns.

We work closely with our clients and industry groups to ensure standards continue to evolve and improve. Partnering with clients and other members of the industry is an important step in our HS&E journey towards excellence.

We integrate safety into all levels of management and work practices to ensure business initiatives are accomplished safely. Safe equipment, defined

procedures, and appropriate training are provided to all employees. Our local commitment to this initiative is shown by our specialized driving and coaching programs and a short service employee program audit to ensure that our new employees live up to Baker Hughes high HS&E standards.

Employees are encouraged to apply safe work practices to activities at home as well as at work to maintain a consistent safety culture. Employee health is protected from workplace hazards through effective controls and monitoring while wellness programs encourage employees to adopt healthy lifestyles for themselves and their families.

Working Together to Protect our Environment Environmental protection is integral to our daily business activities across Baker Hughes. All of our employees are expected to act responsibly with regard to maintaining air, water and land quality; managing and minimizing waste; reducing energy consumption; and promoting conservation to reduce our carbon footprint.

An Unparalleled Commitment to Health, Safety & Environment

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Developing a High-Performance Culture

To quickly develop the knowledge base of our new employees and to retrain existing employees in new technology developments, Baker Hughes has invested in regional training facilities.

In 2008, we inaugurated a new Eastern Hemisphere Education Center in Dubai to support training operations for Sub-Sahara Africa and other regions. This center can simultaneously train as many as 300 students. The Dubai Center supplements existing training centers in Houston, Aberdeen and Kuala Lumpur.

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Ongoing Community Investment

When working internationally, our first priority is to source our supplies from the best local providers. We recognize the importance of partnering with local suppliers to conduct our business and drive the local economy. We will procure goods and services from local business and service providers wherever and whenever possible. At Baker Hughes, our operations promote sustainable development of local services in those areas that support our operations. This investment includes the development of people and support services as well as their associated infrastructure.

Another of our key goals is to recruit the best local workforce possible. Hiring local staff is just part of our commitment. We have established a strong training program that focuses on each individual’s needs and their goals for advancement. The objectives of the training program are to deliver a competent, motivated workforce and provide the African petroleum industry with the highest possible level of service and support as well as quality products in the safest possible environment.

Our commitment to the people of Sub-Sahara Africa does not stop at using regional vendors and hiring and training employees. We are also heavily committed to furthering the local economy and social structure through community investments.

Gabon Community InvestmentIn 2009, Baker Hughes Gabon supported nine students in the completion of their studies. In addition to financial support, all of them spent three months working in the company as part of their study requirement. Four of the students, who were at the final stage of their study for a National diploma, each produced a thesis and successfully passed their oral examinations. The other five students we sponsored were all in the middle of their studies (Three were in master degree programs, and two were studying towards engineering degrees).

A Fresh New Look for Sekondi School for the Deaf in GhanaLed by the country manager, Baker Hughes (Ghana) Limited embarked on an educational support project in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis in Ghana.

The project’s goal was to renovate the local school for the deaf where children study and live. When the Baker Hughes team visited the school they noticed that the facility had deteriorated, and the children’s dormitory lacked mosquito netting and louver blades. Our investment facilitated repainting of the dormitory block, replacing the torn nets and broken blades, and providing 106 double beds and more than 300 mattresses, bed sheets and pillows.

This investment will enhance school life for the students and reduce the reported number of malaria incidents.

Headmaster Osei Bonsu Kuntoh stated “The support from Baker Hughes has changed the face of the school.”

Baker Hughes Ghana plans to stay engaged with Sekondi School for the Deaf in the future.

The support from Baker Hughes

has changed the face of the school

said the headmaster, Mr. Osei Bonsu Kuntoh

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Equatorial GuineaIn Equatorial Guinea, we have been able to help the community and local employees through:

� donations of supplies to schools in Luba, Equatorial Guinea � delivery of mosquito nets for local employees and their families � provision of basic construction supplies to local hospitals � English language classes for national employees.

We are currently trying to identify other initiatives that will allow us to help support the local community. We have requested and received from the government a list of social projects that currently require funding. We are also working closely with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop a strategy for long-term investments in the community.

Our commitment in

Sub-Sahara Africa is

mirrored in other

regions and countries

around the world. In a

recent Management and

Excellence benchmark

study comparing oilfield

service companies’

sustainability programs,

Baker Hughes ranked

second in the world.

The benchmark study

included 355 criteria

such as sustainability,

corporate governance,

social responsibility,

transparency and ethics.

The company improved

from a 47.8 percent

score in 2008 to 72.7

percent in 2009,

indicating our singular

focus on expanding its role

as a reliable and

committed business and

social partner in the entire

Sub-Saharan region.

In Ghana, Baker Hughes provided substantial help in renovating the local school for the deaf.

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At Your Service

Sub-Sahara Africa main office – Cape Town, South AfricaPh: +27 (0) 21 702-8100 c/o Baker Hughes South Africa Block B, Silverwood, Steenberg Boulevard Steenberg Office Park Steenberg, Western Cape 7945 South Africa

Ghana officePh: +233 (0) 302-768395 c/o Baker Hughes (Ghana) Limited No 1, 838 First Street, Ringway Estates Osu RE Accra, Greater Accra Ghana

Gabon, Port Gentil – Base Ph: +241 553-612 BP 587, Oprag Port Port Gentil, Ogooue-Maritime Gabon

Equatorial Guinea, Malabo – Base Ph: +240 9-2781/0507/0509 Cocoteros Calle, Abilio Balboa No 4 Bioko Island Malabo Equatorial Guinea

Congo, Pointe Noire – Base Ph: +242 294-28-18 BP 1171 Pointe Noire, Kouilou Congo

At Baker Hughes, we look forward to providing you, our national and international clients, advanced drilling and completion solutions to help you increase both your operating efficiency and ultimate recovery. We were there as new discoveries were made in countries such as Ghana and Uganda, delivering critical access to the latest technologies, logistics support and well-trained, experienced personnel. And we will continue to be there when and where you need us.

Visit our website, www.bakerhughes.com, for further information about our company and its products and services.

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Sub-Sahara Africa main office Cape Town, South Africa Block B, Silverwood, Steenberg Boulevard, Steenberg Office Park Steenberg, Western Cape 7945 South AfricaPh: +27 (0) 21 702-8100

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