Frac Sand Weekly News Digest

Last Friday, we mixed with 150 attendees at the frac sand industry conference hosted by the Petroleum Connection in Houston. The event was oversubscribed – there was a waiting list of 20+ potential attendees...

Domestic production of industrial sand increased more than 36 percent in 2017 as Wisconsin again led the nation, according to new numbers from the U.S. Geological Survey...

New data from the U.S. Geological Survey show the country’s production of industrial sand increased more than 36 percent in 2017 as Wisconsin again led the nation...

Sand miners have invested huge amounts in production in the Permian Basin, but Texan 40/70 mesh frac sand still has to prove itself down-well...

Atlas Sand Company, a frac sand reserve holder in West Texas, has secured a $150 million credit facility from BlackGold Capital Management LP. The capital will be used to fund a portion of the ongoing construction of Atlas’ Kermit and Monahans frac sand plants and for general company purposes...

Some key takeaways from the first frac sand supplier report this quarter have read through for the broader frac sand market...

Hi-Crush Partners LP is sitting pretty with unique competitive advantages and favorable macro-trends pushing the stock up 48% in the last 6 months. Management has made...

In 2016, hydraulically fractured horizontal wells accounted for 69 percent of all oil and natural gas wells drilled in the U.S. and 83 percent of the...

The U.S.'s Permian Basin is looking like Saudi Arabia, with as much as 1 million barrels of spare oil capacity ready to go into production, according to Nansen Saleri, former head of reservoir management at Saudi Aramco, the world's largest crude exporter...

Overall, US oilfield operations continued to show improvement over the past year, with crude oil production reaching record levels. 2018 should be even better based on current projections...

The sand boom is highly visible out in West Texas. From the silos and dry plants going vertical to the long lines at transload to the boxes parked at every truck stop – frac sand is literally everywhere you look...

Superior Industries Inc has manufactured a 210 ft (64 m) road-portable telescoping radial stacking conveyor. The TeleStacker® Conveyor was designed and built for a frac sand operation in Texas, US, and is the longest one of its kind...

More than seven weeks after bids were due, there are no results available yet from an auction on land advertised as holding millions of tons of silica sand in La Salle...

Multi-stage acid-proppant fracturing has been used for the first time by Gazprom Neft, at well No. 1522 in the Eastern block of its Orenburgskoye oil and gas-condensate field...

A Senate panel on Monday launched the effort to ban fracking in Florida and unanimously ignored pleas from the oil lobby to stop the measure...

Ynes Vasquez, a resident of the Alanna Heights subdivision just north of Poteet, moved to the area thinking it would be the perfect place to retire. He never dreamed that he and his wife would have to battle dust clouds, loud noises and bright lights at night...

There’s a new local frac sand mine in the works and it’s important because it marks the spread of the in-basin frac sand rush to a new play – a play our survey last year was very likely to attract new entrants...

State Sen. Carlos Uresti's criminal fraud trial has entered its third week. The case could hinge on the testimony of one of Uresti's former legal clients...