To the Stockholders of Oil States International, Inc.:
The 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Oil States International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), will be held at the Hotel Granduca at 1080 Uptown Park Boulevard, Houston, Texas, 77056 on the 15th day of May, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. central time (the "Annual Meeting"), for the following purposes:

(1) To elect three (3) Class II members of the Board of Directors to serve until the 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders;
 
(2) To ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ended December 31, 2012;
 
(3) An advisory vote to approve executive compensation; and

(4) To transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournments thereof.
 
The Company has fixed the close of business on March 26, 2012 as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof. Stockholders who execute proxies solicited by the Board of Directors of the Company retain the right to revoke them at any time; unless so revoked, the shares of common stock represented by such proxies will be voted at the Annual Meeting in accordance with the directions given therein. If a stockholder does not specify a choice on such stockholder’s proxy, the proxy will be voted “FOR” the nominees for director named in the attached Proxy Statement, “FOR” the ratification of the appointment of the independent regisgtered public accounting firm for the Company named in such Proxy Statement and "FOR" the approval of executive compensation. The list of stockholders of record of the Company may be examined at the offices of the Company beginning on May 5, 2012 and at the Annual Meeting.
 
 
Further information regarding the Annual Meeting is set forth in the Proxy Statement below.  Below please find all of our 2012 Proxy Materials.  In accordance with SEC Mandatory Rule 14a-16, effective January 1, 2009, this website does not track users, and the documents are searchable, viewable and printable.  Please note that each hyperlink will activate a pop-up window with the selected document in Adobe Acrobat format. In order to view this file, you will need the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader™, a plug-in available from Adobe Systems, Inc.  Click here to download Adobe® Acrobat® Reader™.