About Us
Newpark Drilling Fluids
Based in Houston, Newpark Drilling Fluids (NDF) is the largest of the Newpark companies, and has expanded rapidly since its formation in 1997. Newpark has provided drilling fluids product and service excellence to thousands of wells on six continents. A leading provider in the U.S. and Canada, the company credits its rapid growth to its unique approach to customer service and efficiency improvement programs, fostered by a professional staff carefully chosen to mesh with the company’s business strategy.
Newpark's U.S. service activity averages several hundred rigs, with supply managed through a mature network of dozens of distribution centers. The company is active in the offshore GOM market, including deepwater locations, and in most U.S. areas of drilling activity, including onshore Texas and Louisiana, the Mid-Continent, Rocky Mountains and in the many burgeoning unconventional shale plays of North America.
NDF is active in the offshore GOM market, including deepwater locations, and is a technological leader in unconventional shale drilling. The company’s broad presence includes onshore Texas and Louisiana, the Mid-Continent, the Rocky Mountains, Canada and the Marcellus.
Barite grinding capacity is 800,000 mt/year, with nine mills located along the Gulf Coast. The company provides a full drilling fluids product line, including WBM, OBM and drill-in fluids.
Our teams of service-driven engineers deliver the latest, most innovative technology and expertise to the field.
Our ongoing history of global technological breakthroughs and on-the-ground expertise continues to drive customer success around the world. Our innovations have given us strong footholds in international markets, including Canada, Brazil, Italy and Africa.
Applied and formulated by professional Newpark project supervision and team members, and supported by some of the industry’s most powerful engineering and management tools, Newpark technology is fostering a cleaner energy future.
»Since 1997, our water-based drilling fluid R&D has produced the industry’s most innovative new technology«
Our Products
On August 19th, 2010, we unveiled Evolution®, our new high-performance water based drilling fluids, the most innovative new water-based technology to hit the industry in decades. Designed specifically for unconventional shale horizontal drilling, it promises to permanently displace environmentally archaic oil-based fluids from the landscape.
Leading the charge in drilling fluid innovation, Newpark Drilling Fluids has introduced an effective group of proprietary products and fluid systems incorporating novel new components designed to advance the science of drilling demanding wells under harsh conditions.
Our approach is twofold: Achieving new synergies of performance by combining existing technologies into a single package; and developing totally new approaches in fluid chemistry. As a result, Newpark has rolled out a growing number of new cost-effective products maximizing our customers’ drilling performance.
Our technological experts match performance criteria with cost-effective tools, refining and perfecting application techniques to provide solutions to a wide range of geological challenges.
Central to this development is our respect for the environment, which is an ongoing driving force behind Newpark breakthroughs, such as DeepDrill® water based drilling fluids (as an alternative to invert emulsion systems), the versatile FlexDrill™ system (customizable to address a wide range of drilling environments) and CyberPhase™ (synthetic-based) and OptiPhase™ (oil-based) salt-free internal phase invert systems. Likewise, Newpark has introduced a variety of proprietary products to provide solutions to age-old drilling challenges such as shale stabilization, inhibition and penetration rates.
Our Services
Newpark Drilling Fluids structures its service model around the concept of total immersion in client projects. Our technical services group assures the success of our customers’ projects through innovative, experienced and vigorous planning and implementation of drilling fluid systems.
Tech group members coordinate a wide range of project activities, focusing upon client objectives, with emphasis placed upon specialized engineering functions while interacting daily with operator staffs both at the well site and in the office.
Our technical and engineering staff ranks among the most experienced and thoroughly trained in the drilling fluids business. Their experience and dedication to customer service have provided a platform for growth based upon customer satisfaction. Of the company’s technical service representatives, 75% have over 15 years of experience; 20% have 3-8 years. Every day, these seasoned professionals first validate and then implement action plans to address the next challenge each project presents to our customers.
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Le programme de formation assistée par ordinateur (FAO) de Newpark fournit une formation continue avancée pour son personnel de terrain, dans des domaines tels que la conformité environnementale et la conception de fluides de forage avancés, ainsi que dans l’application spécialisée en eau profonde. Newpark certifie son personnel de terrain et son personnel technique dans des domaines incluant la conformité des fluides de forage synthétiques tels que décrit dans le permis général NPDES pour les eaux fédérales américaines, ainsi que pour les pratiques d’ingénierie en eau profonde.
Newpark organise aussi régulièrement des écoles de formation, notamment : les Éléments de base de la technologie des fluides de forage et la certification des techniciens des services de fluides.
Un service de sécurité proactif, axé sur la prévention assure une pleine conformité dans les domaines de la formation sur la santé, la sécurité et l’environnement.
