Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #176 | July 18, 2018
The newest frac sand company, Covia Holdings, is also the largest frac sand production transitioning to local sources to eliminate $30-60 per ton railroad costs New mines in shale plays...
Smart Sand has been on the fence on whether to build a Permian mine since last year. Here are the latest details on their plans as we await the next...
Superior Silica Sands LLC, a subsidiary of Emerge Energy Services LP, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with a third-party logistics provider, Torq Energy Logistics...
The Mouat Company, Inc., a design build firm specializing in frac sand plants and transload facilities, announces the commissioning of their latest facility, a 30,000 ton (60,000,000 pound) transload...
The BioUrja Group of Houston, TX and BBH Capital Partners have formed a joint venture, Rivercrest Logistics Partners, LLC, to acquire, own, and operate infrastructure and logistics assets. The platform...
Appalachian region’s first unit train/barge transloading facility up and running in the heart of the Marcellus and Utica shale formations is a project called Long Ridge Energy Terminal. Long Ridge...
It’s been a rough news week for Permian frac sand logistics. Incidents like this week’s fatal crash in Odessa remind us that driving is the most dangerous oilfield activity.
When the Ceres Northgate Terminal, previously called the Ceres Northgate Commodity Hub, was first initiated, crude-by-rail was a big part of the plans. But just as the facility was coming...
West Texas' frac sand mining industry is expected to supply 22 million tons of sand this year and, eventually, more than 50 million tons annually. West Texas sand is a...
Schlumberger will kick off oilfield service earnings season with their conference call on Friday July 20, with Halliburton’s report following on the next business day.
A company's plan to use about 61.8 million tons of sand from the Red River near Doddridge, Ark., for fracking has spurred a community meeting next week and a public-comment...
In many ways, the oil business in the U.S. has never been better, with domestic producers in a growing number of states churning out barrels of crude in record numbers....
A tiny but critically endangered lizard found in Argentina's extensive Vaca Muerta petroleum field could pose a major challenge to companies planning multimillion-dollar investments in the area. The lizard, whose...
When Argentina’s currency plummeted by 50% this year, the oil sector started to worry about a slowdown in the development of Vaca Muerta, the country’s biggest shale play.
Laura Jacobs, the former FourWinds Logistics comptroller who assisted in a scheme to defraud company investors, was sentenced to a year and a day in a federal women’s prison camp...
You tax dollars may pay for disgraced former State Senator Carlos Uresti's appeal, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports. Court documents obtained by 1200 WOAI news reveal that Uresti, who was...
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