Baker Hughes has opened a plant at its Dhahran base in Saudi Arabia to manufacture drill bits.
The
plant
will
supply
polycrystalline
diamond
compact
bits
to
the
US
company’s
clients
in
the
country
and
the
rest
of
the
Middle
East.
“After
several
years
of
successfully
assembling
drill
bits
in
Saudi
Arabia,
we
took
the
next
logical
step
of
manufacturing
bits
from
raw
materials,”
said
company
vice
president
Art
Soucy.
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