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DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250502

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Nine Energy Service, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001532286
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	OIL, GAS FIELD SERVICES, NBC [1389]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	01 Energy & Transportation
		EIN:				800759121
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-38347
		FILM NUMBER:		25909863

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2001 KIRBY DRIVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 200
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77019
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(713) 227-7888

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2001 KIRBY DRIVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 200
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77019

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		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	NSC-Tripoint, Inc.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20111007
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:24pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>NINE ENERGY SERVICE, INC. </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Items 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In
accordance with Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1</FONT> under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (&#147;Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1&#148;),</FONT> Nine Energy Service, Inc. (&#147;Nine&#148; and, together with
its subsidiaries as of December&nbsp;31, 2024, the &#147;Company,&#148; &#147;we,&#148; &#147;us&#148; or &#147;our&#148;) has filed this Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD (this &#147;Form SD&#148;) for the reporting period from
January&nbsp;1, 2024 to December&nbsp;31, 2024. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Conflict Minerals Disclosure </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1</FONT> requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures or contracts to manufacture products
for which specified minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. The specified minerals (&#147;3TG minerals&#148;) are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives, which
are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten. The Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1</FONT> reporting and public disclosure requirements apply to registrants whatever the geographic origin of the utilized 3TG minerals and whether or not the
utilized 3TG minerals were sourced in a manner to fund armed conflict. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We are a leading completion services provider that targets unconventional oil and
gas resource development across North American basins and abroad. We partner with our exploration and production customers to design and deploy downhole solutions and technology to prepare horizontal, multistage wells for production, and we offer a
variety of completion applications and technologies to match customer needs across the broadest addressable completions market. Our comprehensive well solutions range from cementing the well at the initial stages of the completion, preparing the
well for stimulation, isolating all the stages of an extended reach lateral, and the drilling out of isolation tools. To provide our services, we purchase a wide variety of raw materials, parts and components (the &#147;Products&#148;) that are
manufactured and supplied for our operations from various suppliers. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We have conducted an analysis of the Products and found that, although the Company
does not (i)&nbsp;directly purchase 3TG minerals from mines, smelters or refiners or (ii)&nbsp;make direct purchases of any 3TG minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda,
Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia or Angola (the &#147;Covered Countries&#148;), the Company did purchase certain Products that contain 3TG minerals that were necessary to the functionality or production of those Products. Therefore, Nine is subject
to the reporting obligations of Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1.</FONT> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company is committed to a culture of compliance with the laws of
each of the countries in which we operate. The Company is also committed to sourcing materials and components from companies that share our values and commitment to human rights, ethics and environmental responsibility. As part of this commitment,
Nine has adopted a Conflict Minerals Position Statement, a copy of which is available on Nine&#146;s website at <U>https://investor.nineenergyservice.com/corporate-governance/governance-documents</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As stated above, the Company does not purchase raw ore or unrefined 3TG minerals directly from mines, smelters or refiners and makes no direct purchases of
any 3TG minerals in the Covered Countries. The Company&#146;s supply chain with respect to the Products is complex, with intermediaries and third parties in the supply chain between the manufacture of the Products containing 3TG and the original
sources of such 3TG. The Company must therefore rely on its suppliers to provide information on the origin and chain of custody of the 3TG contained in the Products supplied to the Company, including, in some cases, the sources of 3TG that are
supplied to the Company&#146;s suppliers by their own suppliers. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">To complete the reasonable country of origin inquiry (&#147;RCOI&#148;) required by the
Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1,</FONT> we identified those suppliers from which the Company purchased Products that contain (or may contain) 3TG minerals (the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;At-Risk</FONT> Suppliers&#148;). Next,
we sent each <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">At-Risk</FONT> Supplier a communication that requested it provide information regarding the sourcing of its materials with the ultimate goal of identifying the 3TG minerals smelters or refiners
(&#147;SORs&#148;) and associated mine countries of origin. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">At-Risk</FONT> Suppliers who had already performed an RCOI through the use of the Responsible Minerals Initiative&#146;s Conflict Minerals Reporting
Template (&#147;CMRT&#148;) were asked to upload this document or provide this information. The CMRT requires a supplier to make representations regarding (i)&nbsp;the country of origin for the 3TG mineral contained in the Products the supplier
provided to the Company, (ii)&nbsp;all of the SORs in the supplier&#146;s entire supply chain for such 3TG mineral, (iii)&nbsp;whether such SORs have been validated as being in compliance with the Conflict-Free Smelter Program, (iv)&nbsp;whether the
supplier has its own conflict minerals policy that requires its own direct suppliers to be conflict-free, and (v)&nbsp;whether the supplier uses the CMRT with its own suppliers to gather similar information. </P>
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<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">At-Risk</FONT> Suppliers for completeness and accuracy. We conducted necessary <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">follow-up</FONT> communications with <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">At-Risk</FONT> Suppliers when
information provided by the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">At-Risk</FONT> Suppliers appeared to be incomplete and when suppliers failed to respond within a reasonable period of time. We also provided feedback to
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">At-Risk</FONT> Suppliers and requested additional information when we identified gaps or inconsistencies in their responses. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our RCOI inquiry regarding the origin or source of the 3TG minerals contained in the Products sold to the Company by its suppliers did not provide us with
sufficient information to conclusively determine the country of origin of the 3TG minerals contained in the Products or whether such 3TG came from recycled or scrap sources. However, based on the information that has been obtained through the
process summarized above, there was an indication that the countries of origin of some of the necessary 3TG minerals contained in the Products supplied to the Company may include Covered Countries. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">A copy of Nine&#146;s Conflict Minerals Position Statement and this Form SD can be found on our website at <U>https://investor.nineenergyservice.com/</U>.
Information contained on or available through Nine&#146;s website is not a part of, or incorporated into, this Form SD or any other report that Nine may file with or furnish to the Securities and Exchange Commission. </P>
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