BKR Baker Hughes Company

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 1, 2023

Registration No. 333-256439

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Baker Hughes Company

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

575 N. Dairy Ashford Rd., Suite 100

Houston, Texas 77079-1121

(713) 439-8600

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Fernando Contreras

Vice President, Legal Governance and Corporate Secretary

Baker Hughes Company

575 N. Dairy Ashford Rd., Suite 100

Houston, Texas 77079-1121

(713) 439-8600

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND

DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-256439) of Baker Hughes Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 24, 2021 (the “Registration Statement”), registering an indeterminate amount of the Registrant’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share, debt securities, guarantees of debt securities, purchase contracts and units (together, the “securities”).

The Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of the securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with the undertakings made by the Registrant to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering, removes from registration any and all securities of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Houston, State of Texas, on this 1^st day of December, 2023.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.