Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #539 | October 22, 2025
Quick notes on the latest news over the past week! Our team is busy getting ready for the biggest frac sand show of the year. Despite the pricing pressure throughout the oilfield this year, there is a lot of excitement and energy building for the frac sand conference in San Antonio in 4 weeks (link).
Digest highlights:
There’s a lot more stories and headlines to go through! Fire up that espresso, dig into the latest, and book your plans to be with us in San Antonio.
And now, the news…
CoreWeave and Poolside announce partnership for a data center built on a sprawling ranch in West Texas
HUGE news dropped in the Permian Basin late last week.
See the specs and estimated pricing within.
Exxon Mobil’s proprietary proppant’s well results showed greater oil output, but the proppant costs 10 times more than sand, J.P. Morgan Securities analysts found.
A deep look into who are the biggest buyers in the Haynesville.
While we may measure frac fleet performance in different ways, the only way forward is to work more, and cram more into the time you work.
While the press release reflected challenging frac market conditions, the stock surged by anyway. Read why.
"Oil producers, which comprise a vast majority of North American frac activity, opted to moderate completions against the backdrop of macroeconomic uncertainty and after exceeding production targets during the first half of the year."
See what Big Red had to say about recent activity.
Privately financed fund aims to retire 20,000 wells at no cost to taxpayers
Some of these announcements took us off guard.
The county’s oil and gas regulations are the strictest in the state, county officials have said.
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- Ryan Hassler, Rystad Energy
- Joseph Triepke, Infill Thinking [M]
- Greg Lanham, President, Sand Revolution
- Joseph Triepke, Infill Thinking [M]
- Steve Brock, Nomad Proppants
- John Young, Smart Sand
- Ryan McMaster, Delta Sands
- Pete Cook, Petroleum Connection [M]
- Sanjiv Shah, Piper Sandler
- Charlie Crisp, Crisp Supply Chain Solutions [M]
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- Frank Zamora, Premier Corex
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- Ron Gair, Nexmile
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- Nick Cook, Petroleum Connection [M]
- Matt Oehler, PropX
- Joe O'Rourke, Cyber Square [M]
- Chris Samanns, Signal Peak Silica
- Corey Donaldson, ProFrac
- Paul Sheperd, FCI Sand
- Billy Smith, Superior Silica Sand
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- Alex Meleshko, LIUM Research [M]
- Candace Rowell, Expand Energy
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• Tim McMahon, UT Bureau of Economic Geology
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• Joseph Triepke, Infill Thinking
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• Adam Katz, Badger Mining Corp.
• Brian McConn, Atlas Energy
• Pete Cook, Petroleum Connection [M]
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• Rick Pattillo, Lobo Logistics
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• Kirby Wilkerson, KBW Partners [M]
• Dane Walker, Wall Street Sand Company
• Dr. Anthony Konya, Konya Mining Company
• Jim Otteman, Imperium Enterprises
• William Hitters, CEO, Luxmath Consulting
• Alex Meleshko, LIUM Research [M]
• Matt Oehler, PropX
• Anna Omsberg, SandPile
• Steve Brock, Nomad Proppants
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