Our History

Buckeye, Inc. was established in 1964 and has been based in Midland, Texas with the same corporate headquarters and same phone number since our inception 61 years ago.

Buckeye, Inc. is a strong well-capitalized company that has survived all of the ups and downs of the oil industry including the downturns of the mid 1980s, 1998, 2008, 2014 and 2020.

We own all of our own facilities, inventory and equipment outright and are not dependent on subcontractors.

We inventory more bulk barite, bulk bentonite and sack products than any company in the Permian Basin.

We own our own rail spur in Midland County that has a capacity to hold 29 railcars and has 5 railcar unloaders. We currently have storage capacity to inventory 14,000 tons of bulk barite and bulk bentonite. We have 165 rig silos available for wellsite use.

57 acre bulk facility located between Midland and Odessa including:

  • Railroad spur with 29 railcar capacity
  • 5 railcar unloaders
  • Storage for 7,700 tons of bulk barite and 4,700 tons of bulk bentonite
  • Mettler Toledo truck weight scale
  • Water base plant with 1,500 barrel mixing pit capacity

Oil base plant located between Midland and Odessa with:

  • OBM storage capacity of 134,000 barrels
  • Two CenTex variable speed drive centrifuges
  • Mixing pit capacity of 1,350 barrels
  • Diesel storage of 1,000 barrels
  • Calcium chloride water storage of 3,000 barrels