Baker Hughes Declares Quarterly Dividend

                   Baker Hughes Declares Quarterly Dividend

PR Newswire

HOUSTON, Oct. 25, 2012

HOUSTON, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI)
President and Chief Executive Officer, Martin S. Craighead, announced today
that the Baker Hughes Board of Directors declared the regular quarterly cash
dividend of $0.15 per share of common stock payable November 16, 2012, to
holders of record on November 5, 2012.

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Baker Hughes is a leading supplier of oilfield services, products, technology
and systems to the worldwide oil and natural gas industry. The company's
58,000-plus employees today work in more than 80 countries helping customers
find, evaluate, drill, produce, transport and process hydrocarbon resources.
For more information on Baker Hughes' century-long history, visit:
www.bakerhughes.com.

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Media Relations:    Teresa Wong, +1.713.439.8110, teresa.wong@bakerhughes.com
                    Pam Easton, +1.281.209.7050, pamela.easton@bakerhughes.com
Investor Relations: Trey Clark, +1.713.439.8039, trey.clark@bakerhughes.com
                    Eric Holcomb, +1.713.439.8822,
                    eric.s.holcomb@bakerhughes.com

SOURCE Baker Hughes

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