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Does Baker Hughes support Israel?
Baker Hughes Company
We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Baker Hughes. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.
Filed under: Energy & oil companies · Companies that support Israel
Background
This pass found no record of Baker Hughes contracts, operations, investments, or donations in Israel. The plausible leads all attach to other companies: drilling and completion services on Energean's Karish and Karish North fields went to Halliburton, the subsea EPCI contract to TechnipFMC, and the FPSO topsides to Siemens, while Leviathan's subsea trees came from OneSubsea/Schlumberger — energy trade press records no Baker Hughes role on Karish, Katlan, Leviathan, or Tamar. Baker Hughes' visible footprint in Israel is minimal: its Druck pressure-measurement brand is represented there by an independent local distributor (Instrumetrics Engineering, Tel Aviv), not a company office, and the company's 2024 proxy statement lists exactly one employee in Israel in its per-country headcount table. Its 10-K mentions Israel only in generic geopolitical-risk language, its foundation's grants are environment- and community-focused, it has had no corporate PAC since 1996, and no fact-checker has evaluated any Baker Hughes–Israel claim.
Halliburton (Karish drilling services went to Halliburton, not Baker Hughes) TechnipFMC (Karish subsea/FPSO EPCIC contractor) Baker Hughes Druck — Israel covered by independent distributor Instrumetrics Engineering SLB/OneSubsea (Leviathan production-systems award)
What we checked
- News & official statements — 2026-07-21
- Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-21
- SEC filings — 2026-07-21
- Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-21No active corporate PAC: the Baker Hughes Incorporated PAC (C00042010) filed its last report in 1996 and terminated; FEC committee searches for 'Baker Hughes' and 'BHGE' show no successor committee, so there are no PAC disbursements to check.
- Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-21
- usaspending — 2026-09-24Queried the USAspending.gov award API on 2026-09-24 for US federal contracts, grants and other awards to this company whose award text mentions Israel. It returned no awards.
- lobbying — 2026-09-24Searched the US Lobbying Disclosure Act database at lda.gov on 2026-09-24 for filings naming this company as the client whose reported lobbying issues mention Israel. No filings matched.
- ohchr — 2026-09-24Checked the UN OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, report A/HRC/60/19, on 2026-09-24. This company is not listed in it.
- whoprofits — 2026-09-24Searched the Who Profits company index on 2026-09-24 — the research centre that documents corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation. This company has no profile there.
- hebrew-arabic-press — 2026-09-24Searched Hebrew and Arabic news for this company on 2026-09-24 via Google News and Bing News. No headline mentioned a donation, aid, the war, an investment, an acquisition or a boycott.
Frequently asked questions
Did Baker Hughes donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
No records found. We searched 10 public source types — news and official statements, nonprofit tax filings, SEC filings, and federal election records — and found no donations from Baker Hughes. The dated search log on this page shows exactly where we looked.
Where does this information come from?
Every record on this page links to its source — news reports, official company statements, tax filings, or government records. 4 distinct sources are cited for Baker Hughes. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-24
- Halliburton (Karish drilling services went to Halliburton, not Baker Hughes) halliburton.com
- TechnipFMC (Karish subsea/FPSO EPCIC contractor) technipfmc.com
- Baker Hughes Druck — Israel covered by independent distributor Instrumetrics Engineering bakerhughes.com
- SLB/OneSubsea (Leviathan production-systems award) slb.com