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Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #170 | June 6, 2018
The U.S. Shale Oil Industry utilizes a stunning amount of equipment and consumes a massive amount of materials to produce more than half of the country’s oil production. One...
We caught up this week with Jason Holton, CEO of Omega Sands. Omega is a new entrant frac sand producer focused on a 1Q19 Mid-Con launch.
Pennsylvania-based Preferred Proppants, LLC plans to open an “in-basin” frac sand mine in Oakwood, Okla., to serve drilling operations in Oklahoma’s STACK and SCOOP plays, newsok reports. Plans are for the...
Emerge Energy Services LP today announced an expansion of its in-basin sand presence by commencing the development of a new mining and processing operation located in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. Emerge Energy's...
Last week, Emerge Energy Service subsidiary Superior Silica Sands posted a cryptic capacity cliffhanger announcement on LinkedIn. In this update, we speculated that this might be Mid-Con expansion and a...
This is the second installment in our Research Rewind Series. Rewinds aggregate our long-shelf life work on hot topics, providing comprehensive and thematic perspective.
Covia Holdings Corporation announced today the completion of the previously announced strategic combination between Unimin Corporation and Fairmount Santrol. Covia will commence trading today on the New York Stock Exchange...
Black Mountain Sand, a Texas-based in-basin frack sand provider, has announced its expansion into the Eagle Ford Shale with the acquisition of 2,300 acres in Atascosa County. The company will...
As May turns into June, Atlas Sand’s twin frac sand plant construction projects in the Permian should be moving up everyone’s list of completions infrastructure worth monitoring.
Crude oil pipelines out of the Permian are filled to capacity and the differentials between crude in Midland and in Cushing and Gulf Coast destination markets are wide and likely...
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd said a strike by more than 3,000 workers over employment terms ended on Wednesday after the railroad operator reached tentative agreements with labor union Teamsters.
On Thursday afternoon, we gathered some market intel from LinkedIn posts. One left us with more questions than answers, and one got us thinking about last mile logistics optimization and...
The longtime executive director of the Port of Olympia who was placed on administrative leave is officially out.
In the history of American Energy Independence, September 29, 2016 was a significant day. OPEC was two years into a strategy to bankrupt the U.S. shale industry, by allowing prices...
Riding on the shale revolution yet again, the United States topped the global energy production charts in 2017 by churning out more than 15 million barrels per day (MMBbl/d). Retaining...
If necessity is the mother of invention, then the oil and gas industry has effectively reinvented itself during the course of the past few years. Faced with a precarious future...
The fracking industry in the US state of Texas has condemned renewed attempts to list the dune sagebrush lizard as an endangered species because such a move could choke off...
Last Monday morning, workers and first responders saved a Trempealeau County man’s life after his bulldozer slid into a retention pond at the Hi-Crush frac sand mine in Whitehall, Wis.,...
Uresti has been free on bond since his conviction. He and Gary Cain were convicted of running a Ponzi scheme through a company called FourWinds Logistics, a business that sold...
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