Newpark Resources Sets 2008 Annual Meeting Date

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Newpark Resources, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors set the date of the Company's 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 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 http://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