HOUSTON, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CARBO Ceramics Inc. (NYSE: CRR) announced that it plans to release earnings results for the fourth quarter and year-end 2009 on February 4, 2010, and will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. central time (11:00 a.m. eastern) that day. The call will be hosted by Gary Kolstad, President and CEO, and Ernesto Bautista, III, Vice President and CFO.

To participate in the teleconference, investors in the U.S. should dial 1-800-860-2442 about 10 minutes before the start time and reference the CARBO conference call. Canada-based callers should dial 1-866-605-3852 and international callers outside of North America should dial 1-412-858-4600. The conference call can also be accessed by visiting the company's Web site, www.carboceramics.com.

A replay of the earnings conference call will be available on the company's Web site approximately two hours after the end of the call.

CARBO is the world's largest supplier of ceramic proppant, the provider of the world's most popular fracture simulation software, and provides leading fracture design and consulting services. The Company also provides a broad range of technologies for spill prevention, containment, and geotechnical monitoring.

The statements in this news release that are not historical statements, including statements regarding our future financial and operating performance, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. All forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and estimates, which involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements. Among these factors are changes in overall economic conditions, changes in demand for our products, changes in the demand for, or price of, oil and natural gas, risks of increased competition, technological, manufacturing and product development risks, loss of key customers, changes in government regulations, foreign and domestic political and legislative risks, the risks of war and international and domestic terrorism, risks associated with foreign operations and foreign currency exchange rates and controls; weather-related risks and other risks and uncertainties described in our publicly available filings with the SEC. We assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

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