PO Box 1675 | Houston, TX 77032 P: 281.871.4613 F: 281.871.4621 baroididp.com YouTube.com/BaroidIDP [email protected] Baroid Industrial Drilling Products Let’s talk about clay. Not just any clay, but a special kind of clay, a unique swell- ing clay called sodium bentonite. Baroid IDP is a company dedicated to finding new ways to ulize this natural resource to make your unique industrial drilling efforts more successful. So where does sodium bentonite come from? The story begins in Wyoming about 65 million years ago when the now rolling grasslands were the boom of a shallow inland sea. It was a me of extreme volcanic acvity, as pieces of the earth’s crust collided in what is now western North America. A line of volcanoes erupted where the plates met, spewing tons of ash into the air. The ash eventu- ally fell to earth. Some of it landed in the shallow sea. The minerals in the water and millions of years of wave acon transformed the ash into the sodium rich clay we call bentonite. The area around the Big Horn and Black Hill mountains of Wyoming, South Dakota, and Montana has large deposits of the highest quality sodium bentonite in the world, and that is where the modern story of Baroid IDP’s bentonite products begins. Baroid IDP’s bentonite is carefully mined to protect the clay and more impor- tantly, the land. Once the mining is finished, the topsoil is replaced and reseed- ed with lush, nave plants, leaving the land beauful and suitable for recre- aon, farming or ranching. This landscape reclamaon program has earned an Excellence in Mining Reclamaon Award by the Wyoming Depart- ment of Environmental Quality. The goal is to leave the land in beer condion that it was when the mining began. From the mines, the bentonite goes on to processing plants in Lovell and Colony, Wyoming. There, different grades of clay are dried, sized and prepared for use in products important to the industrial drilling market. Baroid IDP bentonite products are then engineered to purpose by blending different grades of clay and unique addive packages to produce applicaon specific drilling fluids and groung materials. The next step is delivery to distributors. The Baroid IDP Distributor performs a very important role in our bentonite business. The Distributor stocks and transports drilling products and provides local experse as to their use. From the Distributors, Baroid IDP products go to the work site, where they are used for drill hole stability, cungs transport, and annular protecon of the resource. All About Bentonite “Baroid IDP’s bentonite is carefully mined to protect the clay and more im- portantly, the land.”

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PO Box 1675 | Houston, TX 77032 P: 281.871.4613 F: 281.871.4621baroididp.com YouTube.com/BaroidIDP [email protected]

Baroid Industrial Drilling Products

Let’s talk about clay. Not just any clay, but a special kind of clay, a unique swell-ing clay called sodium bentonite. Baroid IDP is a company dedicated to finding new ways to utilize this natural resource to make your unique industrial drilling efforts more successful.

So where does sodium bentonite come from? The story begins in Wyoming about 65 million years ago when the now rolling grasslands were the bottom of a shallow inland sea. It was a time of extreme volcanic activity, as pieces of the earth’s crust collided in what is now western North America. A line of volcanoes erupted where the plates met, spewing tons of ash into the air. The ash eventu-ally fell to earth. Some of it landed in the shallow sea. The minerals in the water and millions of years of wave action transformed the ash into the sodium rich clay we call bentonite.

The area around the Big Horn and Black Hill mountains of Wyoming, South Dakota, and Montana has large deposits of the highest quality sodium bentonite in the world, and that is where the modern story of Baroid IDP’s bentonite products begins.

Baroid IDP’s bentonite is carefully mined to protect the clay and more impor-tantly, the land. Once the mining is finished, the topsoil is replaced and reseed-ed with lush, native plants, leaving the land beautiful and suitable for recre-ation, farming or ranching. This landscape reclamation program has earned an Excellence in Mining Reclamation Award by the Wyoming Depart-ment of Environmental Quality. The goal is to leave the land in better condition that it was when the mining began.

From the mines, the bentonite goes on to processing plants in Lovell and Colony, Wyoming. There, different grades of clay are dried, sized and prepared for use in products important to the industrial drilling market. Baroid IDP bentonite products are then engineered to purpose by blending different grades of clay and unique additive packages to produce application specific drilling fluids and grouting materials. The next step is delivery to distributors. The Baroid IDP Distributor performs a very important role in our bentonite business. The Distributor stocks and transports drilling products and provides local expertise as to their use. From the Distributors, Baroid IDP products go to the work site, where they are used for drill hole stability, cuttings transport, and annular protection of the resource.

All About Bentonite

“Baroid IDP’s bentonite is carefully mined to pro-tect the clay and more im-portantly, the land.”