Frac Sand Weekly News Digest

The Austin company is betting on the continued strength of the oil and gas industry by setting up a pair of facilities that will mine and refine sand used during hydraulic fracturing at oil wells across West Texas...

If 2017 proved to be a new beginning for the downtrodden oilfield services sector, 2018 is expected to be the year that operators are positioned for future growth in both the onshore and offshore.

We believe the following 20 questions encapsulate the transcendent themes facing the US oilfield service market during 2018. These are not in any particular order...

Permian’s production growth—the main driver of the second shale revolution as oil prices crept higher this year—may be limited not by geological or technological constraints, but by a shortage of truck drivers to transport the increasing volumes of oil pumped out of the most prolific areas...

With oil prices inching back higher and production in the Permian soaring once again, the drillers want the truckers back. The feeling, though, isn't mutual. The pain of the 2014...

After an extremely bearish two years in the oilfield minerals markets – defined here as the group of minerals that find their main use in the oilfield services industry, chiefly in drilling oil wells or in extracting shale gas through hydraulic fracturing...

Despite an expected slowdown in drilling activity in 2018, IHS Markit forecasts an uptick in frac demand as built-up drilled uncompleted wells from 2017 are completed and begin to produce...

Operators in the Permian Basin in Texas will continue to drill unconventional wells with longer laterals and large amounts of proppant, although moderate production gains are expected next year, industry analysts say. Capital expenditures are going up...

The explosion of new industrial (silica) sand mining and processing operations in west Texas suggests the need for a review of one of the oldest known occupational diseases, silicosis, and the strategies...

Smart Sand, Inc. announced today that it has completed construction of its unit train capable rail facility served by the Union Pacific Railroad in Byron Township, Wisconsin...

The Obama administration’s 2015 fracking rule was never actually implemented, thanks to an ongoing court battle, and it apparently never will be...

With the passage of Measure Z in November 2016, Monterey County stood to be the first oil-producing county in California to ban hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, and the expansion of oil production procedures, but...

As a region flush with coal, oil and natural gas reserves beneath the ground’s surface, billions of dollars worth of investment continue flowing into northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio for mining, drilling, fracking, pipelining and processing...

After two years working together, DynaCorp Energy Services and Energes Oilfield Solutions LLC have merged to form a single sand solutions operations for the oil and gas industry...

The OneStim JV between Schlumberger and Weatherford contemplated in March of 2017 has broken apart. Instead, Weatherford sold off its idled pressure pumping business to Schlumberger...