Newpark Resources Announces Results of Special Meeting of Stockholders

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Nov. 3  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Newpark Resources, Inc. (NYSE:NR) announced today that at a special meeting of stockholders held on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, the Company's stockholders approved an increase in the number of authorized shares of $0.01 par value common stock from 100,000,000 to 200,000,000.

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 http://www.newpark.com/.

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

             Ken Dennard, Managing Partner
             Dennard Rupp Gray & Easterly, LLC
             
             713-529-6600


DATASOURCE: Newpark Resources, Inc.



CONTACT:  James E. Braun, CFO of Newpark Resources, Inc.,

[phone]; or Ken Dennard, Managing Partner of Dennard Rupp Gray &

Easterly, LLC, [phone], , for Newpark Resources,

Inc.



Web Site:  http://www.newpark.com/ 

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