Houston / Cacchione / Morgan City / Salvador / Nanning City / Brownsville / Aberdeen / Cartersville / Washington / DC / New Orleans / Fuzhou City / /
Company
Excaliber Minerals Inc. / Baroid / Barita de Sonora S.A. / M-I LLC / Minas de Barita / Elementis Pigments Inc. / Chemical Products Corp. / Baker Chemical Inc. / Exploration Inc. / Newpark Resources Inc. / Smith International Inc. / John S. Herold Inc. / Halliburton Co. / United States Mineral Resources / Baker Hughes Inc. / Schlumberger Ltd. / Harcros Pigment Inc. Trade / Tyler / /
Continent
Europe / Africa / Asia / /
Country
Switzerland / Netherlands / Myanmar / Bulgaria / South Africa / Peru / Thailand / Japan / Bosnia and Herzegovina / Pakistan / Brazil / Canada / Australia / Slovakia / Korea / United Kingdom / China / India / Germany / Italy / Algeria / Tunisia / Mexico / Chile / Poland / Belgium / Turkey / Malaysia / Russia / United States / Soviet Union / Morocco / Argentina / Bolivia / Spain / Greece / /
Currency
GBP / USD / /
Event
Business Partnership / M&A / Name Change / Reorganization / /
Facility
References Cited American Petroleum Institute / American Petroleum Institute / /
Holiday
Corpus Christi Day / /
IndustryTerm
gas reserves / gas production / follow-up telephone calls / important gas supplier / oil reserves / Gas rigs / heavy metal occurrence / end-ofyear proven gas reserves / natural gas / oil and gas / marketable product / natural gas reserves / oil-directed rigs / gas operations / heavy media separation / gas industry / Oil-directed drill rigs / energy source / petroleum products / oil operations / oil industry / barytes producer / gas-directed rigs / heavy metal / Oil prices / chemicals / oil and gas extraction point source category / oil and gas rise / oil and gas prices / oil and gas wells / barium chemicals / oil/natural-gas provinces / heavy cement / paint ingredient / imported natural gas / rubber / paint / oil / chemicals data / oil price increase / kept mining / white paint / gas price increase / gas reserve purchases / mining / oil and gas production / oil production / oil equivalent / chemical / gas and oil / gas-directed rig count change / /
NaturalFeature
Lake Charles / Mt. Barite / Gulf of Mexico / Gulf Coast / /
Organization
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / U.S. Bureau / Society for Mining / Securities and Exchange Commission / Oil Companies’ Materials Association / Petroleum Administration for Defense District / American Petroleum Institute / U.S. Census Bureau / /
Person
Linder Roberts / Donald Carr / Amoco / /
Position
statistical assistant / major U.S. barite company / trader / barytes producer / international data coordinator / Newscaster / /
ProvinceOrState
Andhra Pradesh Province / North Dakota / Louisiana / Missouri / Fujian Province / Hunan / California / Georgia / Texas / Hunan Province / Guandong Province / Illinois / Nevada / Tennessee / Guizhou Province / Guangxi Province / /
Region
Gulf of Mexico / Middle East / west Texas / former Soviet Union / South Africa / Midwest United States / Latin America / Gulf Coast / south Turkey / Asia-Pacific / /
BARITE By James P. Searls Domestic survey data and tables were prepared by Jeff Milanovich, statistical assistant, and the world production table was prepared by Linder Roberts, international data coordinator. Barite, a