Oil and gas drilling
RPMinerals is one of the pioneering producers in Bentonite. Bentonite (section 9 ,10,11) is a mud constituent for oil and gas well drilling. It has many uses as it extracts the drill cutting, seals the drill hole against seepage and prevents wall cavities and leakages.
Moving to RPMinerals Barite which is used in oil and gas well drilling as a weighting agent for the drilling mud; it is used to provide the needed weight to the mud while drilling.