It is reported that American oil giant, baker hughes said recently, due to low oil prices downturn in the market activities since the start of the year, baker hughes has already laid off 13000 employees; By the end of June, total number of employees has been in the year of 62000 to 49000.

Baker hughes had plans to lay off 3500 employees, however, in April this year, baker hughes declared, will increase to 10500 jobs. Even so, the total number of employees currently firing is still more than announced in April 2500.

Earlier this month, baker hughes released second-quarter results. In the second quarter of this year, baker hughes losses of $190 million, and the baker hughes profit over the same period of last year to $359 million. In the same period, baker hughes business income fell by a third, $5.94 billion over the same period last year dropped to $3.97 billion; Operating cost decreased, from $5.3 billion to $4.11 billion. In addition, baker hughes, said the second quarter layoff severance payments of up to $76 million.

Baker hughes is not only a further job cuts oil service company. American oil company Halliburton said recently that has laid off 16% of the global staff this year, this ratio than 8% doubled at the beginning of the plan. In the second quarter, Halliburton related to job cuts severance pay up to $78 million. So far, Halliburton has paid $212 million in severance pay this year.