With locations in more than 75 countries around the world, M-I SWACO is a vital part of the world’s hydrocarbon exploration and production industry. We are the leading supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to imp......With locations in more than 75 countries around the world, M-I SWACO is a vital part of the world’s hydrocarbon exploration and production industry. We are the leading supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related problems, fluid systems and specialty tools designed to optimize wellbore productivity, production technology solutions to maximize production rates, and environmental solutions that safely manage waste volumes generated in both drilling and production operations. The Company is a joint venture, 60% owned by Smith International, Inc. (Smith), and affiliated companies, and 40% owned by Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger) and affiliated companies. Today, M-I SWACO employs approximately 13,000 persons in over 400 service locations around the world. The joint venture between Smith and Schlumberger consolidated more than 60 years of leadership and service to the global exploration and production industry, including the industry-defining contribution of two pioneers in the drilling fluids industry - Magcobar (a subsidiary of Dresser Industries) and Imco Services (a subsidiary of the Halliburton Company), coupled with the complementary technologies and services of Dresser Industries’ SWACO business unit, the industry leader in solids and pressure control equipment. In 1986, Dresser and Halliburton formed a joint venture between its two drilling fluid companies, known as M-I Drilling Fluids, LLC. Smith purchased the Dresser share of the M-I joint venture in 1994, and in 1999, Schlumberger contributed its non-U.S. Dowell drilling fluid operations to become the joint venture’s minority partner. Since that time, M-I SWACO has acquired the talents and capabilities of a number of companies to enhance and broaden its solutions offering across the drilling and production spectrum. From its earliest roots, M-I SWACO recognized that it best served its clients, not by delivering drilling fluid products to the client’s location, but by anticipating and planning for how those products would behave in the downhole environment – both to optimize drilling performance and to minimize the risk associated with fluids-related problems. The Drilling Solutions offering – customized to a client’s specific application and location, involves a company expertise focused on fluids-related issues such as differential sticking, lost circulation, hole-cleaning, and well control. It also entails an overall understanding of how these issues contribute to the client’s goals to maximize rate-of-penetration, eliminate non-productive time (NPT), achieve QHSE performance objectives, and obtain quality data from the wellbore. This understanding is strengthened by providing regionally- and globally-based experts to support the application of M-I SWACO technology, and by developing new technology and process solutions to optimize client results. The Wellbore Productivity offering is comprised of a suite of products, services, and technical support focused on safeguarding well completions and formation stability by assuring the optimal quality of the wellbore and fluid systems. As with Drilling Solutions, this solutions offering is focused first on establishing the well plan and contingencies using advanced fluid planning and simulation software, then achieving the surface-, formation-, and completion-related requirements defined by the client – employing fluid conditioning expertise to achieve desired fluid properties, compatibility testing and non-damaging brines to minimize formation damage, specialized tools to optimize completion assembly installation and removal, and recognized rig-site and project engineering expertise to minimize NPT and produce a clean wellbore. Products and services that contribute to this customized solution include the application of “smart” reservoir drill-in fluids, clear brine fluid systems, filtration equipment and services, specialty tools designed for wellbore cleanout, spacer and displacement chemical systems, and vessel-cleaning technologies to eliminate cross-contamination of fluids at the surface. Our Production Technologies solution offering moves beyond the drilling and completion phases, allowing M-I SWACO to apply our expertise in fluids planning and application to the hydrocarbon production environment. This solution offering focuses on the full range of domains encountered in production operations – from injection wells, where bacterial plugging, debris, and gas entrapment are the critical issues, to the downhole environment, where scale and paraffin plugging and tubing corrosion are paramount, to the surface environment where oily-water, drag reduction, and flow-line corrosion issues dominate. Our solutions also address the remediation of produced water, including oil, water, and gas separation via the EPCON Compact Flotation Unit (CFU) and the management of waste generated during production operations, including complex waste pit emulsions, oily sludge and slop oils. The remediation of produced water and production waste is part of our Environmenta