SCP Mining and Metals and Orange Petroleum announce Barite Mud Joint Venture

Barite - Quality checked and bagged ready to send to customers worldwide.

UK based SCP Mining and Metals and Orange Petroleum Sdn Bhd from Malaysia have announced a Joint Venture to supply Barite fron various sites in South East Asia to World markets.

After signing an MOU on August 5th In Kuala Lumpur, CEO of Orange Petroleum said

 ' we at Orange Petroleum are very happy to finalise these arrangements with SCP Mining and Metals and expand our portfolio of operations into the supply of Barite to support drilling operations'.

Barite, with the chemical composition BaSo4, is used in offshore drilling operations as a weighting agent.

Barite has a high specific gravity (SG), and the SCP Mining and Metals product conforms to the internationally recognised API13A standard, but is unique in that the specific gravity is in excess of 4.3.

Barite - bagged for transport

SCP Mining and Metals - Offsite Fabrication of Steel for Barite Mining well under way!

Representatives of SCP Mining and Metals have been on site inspecting steel fabrication work for their new Barite operation set to start up in Laos this year.

SCP will commence operating a Barite Mining and Processing operation in the Sibouly Province of Laos in the 4th quarter of 2016, and will supply API13A grade Drilling Mud to offshore drilling platforms in Malaysia and the Gulf States with a supply depot in the Jebel Ali Free Zone.

Construction of a ball mill, grinding mill, barite jig and related equipment is now well under way,