Type: Public
On the web: http://www.newpark.com
Employees: 1,001
Employee growth: (39.8%)

Oil field waste is gold for environmental services alchemist Newpark Resources. The company provides integrated environmental and drilling fluid and engineering services to oil and gas drillers. Newpark Resources also supplies prefab work platforms and provides DuraBase brand composite mats used to make temporary access roads (through its Newpark Mats & Integrated Services unit), processes and disposes of oil field waste (injecting it underground or recycling it into drilling fluids), and performs fluid processing and recycling on site at rigs. It also processes and disposes of nonhazardous industrial waste.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $716.0M
One year growth: 46.0%
Net income: $41.6M

Officers:
Chairman: Jerry W. Box
President, CEO, and Director: Paul L. Howes
VP and CFO: Gregg Piontek

Competitors:
Baker Hughes
Halliburton
Schlumberger

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