Thread regarding Newpark Resources Inc. layoffs

Q1 2023 CC

Needless to say, fluids numbers are ABYSMAL. 2.5% margins in fluids? Folks, we have been in a North American drilling bo-m for almost 24 months, that’s the best you can do?

How about departing The Woodlands and uproot to The Katy Palace that was built to the tune of $40m? I know it’s asking a lot for these “so called executives” to drive out of their posh digs to the lowly confines of Katy!

Secondly, wake up and acknowledge that the folks in regional management ain’t getting the job done. In fact most of them are completely laughed at. All fluids has done is become a “low bid mud provider”. Just a smoke and mirrors show the past 7~8 years.

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Whoever is STUPID enough to suggest a capitol $$$ outlay to a region with a 3.4% market share is either D-MB or STUPID. I would either look for better personnel or start buying wholesale. EITHER would be a HUGE improvement over what you currently have/and are doing. Needless to say, sound decision making in fluids is severely lacking and has been since Perry retired. A complete klusterfu-k….

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Post ID: @fwoz+1msGEOVH

Shut down Conroe….check. Sell Excalibar…check. Pull out of GOM….check. Shut down Stim….check. On its way to being a mats company with only mud left in the way. But let’s invest money into WTX facilities to service their 12 rigs. Great idea. Whoever is making the decisions for that is a decade too late and deserves the boot.

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Post ID: @eipv+1msGEOVH

More food for thought: $7.8m Q1 corp Ofc expense. Divide by 90 days = $86,666 Per day corp Ofc cost. If you have everyone in Ofc making $250k per year (including insurance, bonuses, worthless stock options, 401 match etc that equates to $925 per day/per employee. This equates to 93 employees in corp office making $250k per year. There is NO WAY on this planet that NR needs this kind of non revenue producers on the payroll. You boys are so illiterate, CUT YOUR FRIGGIN OVERHEAD!!! But considering the COLOSSAL failures in Brazil, Australia, GOM, blending and many others, what does anyone expect?

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