Newpark Resources Sets 2010 Annual Meeting Date

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Feb 16, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Newpark Resources, Inc. (NYSE: NR) today announced that its Board of Directors set the date of the Company's 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The meeting will be held on Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. central time at The Marriott Woodlands Waterway Hotel & Conference Center, 1601 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, Texas.

Newpark Resources, Inc. is a worldwide provider of drilling fluids, temporary worksites and access roads for oilfield and other commercial markets, and environmental waste treatment solutions. For more information, visit our website at www.newpark.com.

    Contacts:   James E. Braun, CFO
                Newpark Resources, Inc.
                281-362-6800

                Ken Dennard, Managing Partner
                Dennard Rupp Gray & Easterly, LLC
                ksdennard@drg-e.com
                713-529-6600

SOURCE Newpark Resources, Inc.