2015 Proppant Trends And Future Expectations
by Erik Freitag, Primary Vision As we all know 2015 has been a tough year for most in the oil and gas industry. Primary Vision estimates that D&C activity is down roughly 40%. While proppant has been impacted significantly there have been a few trends the downturn less severe for proppant companies, and provide […]
Insights Into The Largest Frac Sand Unit Train On Record
by Pete Cook, President, Petroleum Connection As reported in an earlier issue of the Frac Sand Weekly News Digest, on October 2, 2015, Rangeland Energy received a record-breaking frac sand unit train at the company’s RIO Hub located near Loving, New Mexico. The Frac Sand Weekly News Digest conducted a follow-up interview with Rangeland’s Executive […]
SILICA Regulatory Wreck
by Henry Chajet, Jackson Lewis Safety and Health Law Group The OSHA regulatory train is gaining speed, potentially unloading billions in costs on industries that produce, use, or transport silica based products, and ultimately on the consumer. The OSHA bureaucracy has promised and intends to deliver. In October, 2015, Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, […]
2016 Frac Sand Industry Update Announced
The Petroleum Connection has announced the launch of the 2016 Frac Sand Industry Update. This one-day event will be held at The Houstonian Hotel & Spa in Houston, Texas on March 10, 2016. Based on feedback from the 4th Annual Frac Sand Supply & Logistics Conference, The Petroleum Connection realized that industry members were looking […]
Industry Leaders Prepare For The 4th Annual Frac Sand Supply & Logistics Conference
by Pete Cook, President, Petroleum Connection With less than two weeks until the most widely attended frac sand related event of the year, The 4th Annual Frac Sand Supply & Logistics Conference, industry leaders are scheduling meetings, make travel plans, and shipping materials to the JW Marriott Hill Country Resort in San Antonio. With over […]
Positive Oil News
by Pete Cook, President, Petroleum Connection A couple of recent articles indicate that there are reasons for optimism in regards to the price of oil and the oil & gas market. In addition to crude oil having its best day since March 2009, two articles comment on the state of the oil market being better […]
Refracking – Great Expectations For The Second Time Around
by Dava Jennings, Marketing Manager, Industrial Project Solutions With the upstream oil sector currently facing pricing declines, production efficiency and cost cutting is on everyone’s mind. One of the solutions may be refracking existing wells. The cost of a new well can be more than $8 million, compared to the cost of refracking an […]
Keep An Eye On Mexico’s Oil & Gas Sector
by Pete Cook, President, Petroleum Connection Energy reform in Mexico was all the talk a year ago. Since then, a lot of work has been done in Mexico and in the U.S. to prepare for, evaluate, and begin the bidding rounds. While the first round of bidding was disappointing, it was a first step […]
Managed Downtime As A Profit Center
by Robert Ober, CEO & Principal, Robert Ober & Associates, LLC Preventative maintenance and scheduled-managed-downtime, are terms that the Frac Sand industry hasn’t necessarily had time to define for itself during the last few years. While such terminology is commonplace in many production/manufacturing settings, the Frac Sand niche, especially in terminal operation and transload […]
New Generation Solutions For Frac Sand Storage
by Ben Fox, President & CEO, Legacy Building Solutions Any operation, fracking included, runs more efficiently when all the necessary materials are in one place – a task complicated by the fact that most fracking occurs in areas with minimal infrastructure. In response, most fracking companies are forced to make do with inadequate sand storage […]