Baker Atlas
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Baker Atlas is a Wireline Logging Company. This is an oil well service company whose main activity is to measure and record the physical properties of the rocks in oil wells. Its customers are the oil companies, owners of the oil wells. Its main competitors are Schlumberger and Halliburton Logging Services.
[edit] Description
"Logging" consists of introducing sensors in an oil well via a "wireline", an electromechanical cable, and, while displacing them up and down, measure and record the properties of the rock and the borehole. The sensors are lowered inside the borehole, usually to its bottom. Then, they are pulled up at a constant speed by spooling the wireline by means of a hoist unit. As the sensors are moved they measure the properties of the surrounding rock and the borehole. The data is sent to a surface unit for recording, control and display.
[edit] Division names
The following are older names of the Baker Atlas division of Baker Hughes, or companies that were acquired to form what is currently Baker Atlas: Acutec, Atlas Wireline Services, Birdwell, Canadian Perforator, Du-al Well Servicing, Elgen Corporation, Dresser Atlas, Eskimo Fracturing, Heartland Kingfisher, Lane Wells, NL Mc Cullough, Pacific Oil Tool, Ltd, PGAC (Pan Geo Atlas Corporation), PML, RIS, SIE, Western Atlas, Wedge Dialog, Widney Well Servicing, WSI, Z&S Geoscience, Ltd.
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