BAKER Hughes has acquired Siberia-based Oilpump Services (OPS), the second largest electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems service company in Western Siberia.
The US oilfield services major says that, with the addition of OPS’s service bases, it now has complete geographic service coverage in the heart of the largest ESP population in the world, and that the acquisition doubles Baker Hughes’ share of the Russian ESP market.
Baker Hughes operated its ESP service business from a single base in Noyabrsk. The acquisition adds three full-cycle bases in Nyagen, Nizhnevartovsk and Megion, and four remote field service bases, with the capacity to service more than 10,000 ESP systems. Russia has more than 70,000 installed ESP systems, equivalent to 60% of the total world population of this type of downhole pump.
Baker Hughes is already a leading equipment provider to the Russian ESP market for high-volume and technically challenging artificial-lift applications. It said the addition of the OPS service infrastructure would allow it to expand its operations to cover the full spectrum of the Russia ESP market, from low-volume, benign applications to high-volume, technically challenging applications.