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Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #203 | January 23, 2019
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Rumblings are growing louder about a potential new Texas law that could carry some weight in how sand travels in Texas’s last mile market (pun intended). In this exclusive report,...
Proppant Express Investments, LLC announced today that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas has dismissed all patent infringement claims asserted by SandBox Logistics, LLC against PropX...
Last Thursday, Infill Thinking broke the news about a ruling in a key last mile logistics battle after digging through court records to uncover an unsigned order from a judge....
Vista Proppants and Logistics, LLC has commenced operations of a transload terminal facility to facilitate enhanced delivery of frac sand into the Midland and Delaware Basins of the Permian Basin....
Last October, we published research introducing the idea of railing locally-mined West Texas frac sand within the Permian Basin. At the time, we wrote that the concept could gain traction...
Reminiscent of the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush, the 2018 Permian Basin sand rush saw excited investors descend on the Basin, opening approximately 19 new sources of this granular gold. Black...
Everyone in the sand business is facing different challenges; Midwest facilities are feeling pressure from the increased availability in the Permian Basin. Sites in the Permian basin are seeing bottlenecks...
Join us on Tuesday, February 12 for a free webinar designed to help frac sand facility personnel understand how to troubleshoot the bottlenecks preventing them from achieving desired tonnage and...
Investors are the most optimistic on oil in two months as the worst fears that roiled markets at the end of the year start to dissipate. Hedge funds boosted their...
Recently, there has been some concern about the ability of U.S. shale, and in particular, the Permian Basin, to continue the meteoric increases in production that have characterized the past...
Oil steadied near a two-month high in New York amid a pullback in U.S. drilling activity, while ongoing U.S.-China trade talks left an uncertain outlook for demand.
Direct sourcing in the supply chain may feel like it’s been around forever since “everybody’s doing it” now. But it’s actually still very new and the repercussions are still reverberating....
Have you seen the latest agenda for the Frac Sand Industry Update, being held February 6 at The Petroleum Club of Houston? You’ll hear from industry leaders on topics...
Houston oil field service giant Halliburton finished 2018 with a $1.66 billion profit and beat Wall Street expectations despite weaker demand for its hydraulic fracturing services in North America.
Houston oil services giant Halliburton has promoted company executive Mark Richard to serve as Western Hemisphere president.
Dave Lesar, fresh from retiring as executive chairman of Halliburton Co. at the end of 2018, is working on a new venture in the oil patch with funding from private...
America’s journey to preeminence in the global oil trade is about to hit another milestone. Propelled by the shale-oil boom, the U.S. is already producing more crude than either Russia...
The largest oil field service company in the world expects flat growth for U.S. shale in 2019. Schlumberger closed 2018 as a profitable year, modestly exceeding Wall Street expectations for...
Some of the most important numbers of early-2019 are trickling out and we’re tracking them here so you don’t have to.
In addition, certain wells in XEC’s Snowshoe project, as well as the Animal Kingdom, will drive second half production for 2018. The Animal Kingdom wells in Culberson County are quite...
State regulators have issued a permit that will allow Kansas City Southern Railway Co. to build a rail and marine terminal in Port Arthur for crude oil, gasoline, ethanol and...
Extraction continues to grow in permian Basin and southeast New Mexico, bringing more resources to the surface.
Before jumping into the 2019 outlook for the rail equipment markets, a review of 2018 is in order. Going into 2018, the expectation was that freight-rail traffic growth would be...
North 40 Resources group met with the East Farmington, Wisc., town board on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, to discuss its purchase of the Rybak gravel pit on 267th Street, The...
Vikas Proppant & Granite Ltd has recently entered into a new niche market of Proppants manufacturing which ONGC and other oil and gas drillers are importing currently. The company has...
During this free webinar (recorded), you’ll get a dust control check list for your sand plant. Key takeaways include understanding the impact of the new OSHA regulations on conveyor belts,...
A 1982 ordinance that created an aggregate removal tax was unanimously repealed by the Anoka County Board Jan. 8.
The Monroe County Sanitation and Zoning Committee will consider early next week whether to add provisions for sand mining to the county zoning ordinance.
Now vice president of the Midland-Odessa Transportation Alliance, Fawcett said he’d always wanted to visit West Texas. MOTRAN is an alliance between Odessa and Midland that has been instrumental in...
MSC Cruises has released more details about Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve, the line's private island in the Bahamas, set to open in November.
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