Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #189 | October 17, 2018
We are only a week away from the 7th Annual Frac Sand Supply & Logistics in San Antonio! Due to capacity limitations at the resort, we will not be allowing...
An increase of locally produced sand could contribute to an excess supply, affecting mine revenues, whenever drilling activity reduces its pace due to the logistics of bottlenecks in the Permian...
Our channel checks reveal that the pain being felt by Northern frac sand producers continues to escalate at a rapid pace. Read the latest developments in the supply stack disruption...
Competing with mines unearthing cheaper-to-ship sand in Texas, the frac-sand-mining company Hi-Crush recently announced it would be idling part of its plant on Highway Q in Whitehall.
Some Midwestern frac sand mines have been temporarily idled due to competition and logistics, the La Crosse Tribune reports. They’re feeling the pain of all the new frac sand mines...
As many readers know by now, there have been rumblings about some big changes happening at the company in recent days. We have learned more about what has transpired and...
Vista Proppants and Logistics, LLC is developing a frac sand mine in Oklahoma, the company announced Oct. 10. Vista’s 1- to-1.5 million tons-per-year frac sand mine northeast of Fay, Oklahoma...
Select Sands Corp. announced today that it has placed 26 employees at its Arkansas operations on temporary furlough until further notice. This necessary step results from the current industry-wide...
A drop in demand for Barron County’s supply of frac sand, coming at the same time as a rise in global crude oil prices, has resulted in a new set...
In addition to the deeper Infill Thinking research updates published this week, a few other quick hits crossed our desk that are worthy of comment. So here are four short...
The two U.S. grain firms that jointly own Ontario grain handler and processor Thompsons Ltd. are taking their relationship to the next level.
More than $800,000 in funding from the Iowa Department of Transportation will help a Clayton County company retain jobs and move forward with a railroad project.
Uinta Basin officials are pushing a project they say could quintuple oil production here, bring higher prices and create 27,000 jobs.
Peru city engineer Eric Carls gave an update Monday night on a project to extend Unytite Drive to connect Donlar Avenue to Plank Road.
As Permian Basin oil and gas operators seek to optimize production in their wells by better determining the “sweet spots,” the University of Texas of the Permian Basin is looking...
Mexico has used hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for considerably more than half a century, and the technique is currently applied to about one in five conventional oil and gas wells, Energy...
The first fracking in England for seven years will start on Saturday, the shale gas company Cuadrilla has confirmed, after campaigners lost a last-minute legal challenge to block the operations.
Oman is looking to replace imported frac sand – a special quality sand used in hydraulic fracturing process in the oil and gas fields – with locally available materials, and...
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