Newpark Drilling Fluids provides drilling fluids products and services to thousands of wells around the world. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Katy, Texas. The company is active in the offshore GOM market, including deep-water 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.