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Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #206 | February 13, 2019
This week in Houston, we attended and participated in the sold-out frac sand and logistics conference. As usual, Pete Cook and his team at Petroleum Connection did a tremendous job...
Select Materials, a bulk landscaping materials firm in Colorado, has announced today that it is acquiring an industrial and frac sand mine located in Mount Vernon, Ohio effective Feb 8th...
We heard some chatter about local sand in the Appalachia at the Petroleum Connection’s frac sand conference in Houston last week, so we caught up the plant’s new ownership to...
Just a year after rushing into America’s busiest oil field with new mines, frack-sand producers may have overdone it. West Texas sand used in the hydraulic fracturing process will drop...
Look for the frac sand market to be in a glut scenario in 2019, with 2020 dependent on oil price recovery. In the interim, lower frac sand costs will reduce...
Last week at the frac sand conference hosted by Petroleum Connection in Houston, we moderated a discussion among four last mile logistics experts. Together, the firms represented on stage touch...
This week, Covia advanced an argument they have been making on the speaker circuit for several months now, urging customers to use NWS rather than succumbing to the cost savings...
The Haynesville Shale’s location is helping keep interest in the play high. Stretching across East Texas and North Louisiana, the primarily dry gas play offers players shorter access to Gulf...
In-basin frac sand supply for Eagle Ford will approach 20 mm tons per year by the end of 2019...
While we were traveling gathering market intelligence and meeting with clients this week, some new developments crossed our desk that are worthy of comment...
For the last decade, shale drillers destroyed billions in capital. They delivered record production growth at the expense of profits and cash flows. But today, the game is changing...
Class Is grew their carloads and intermodal loads in 2018 on a year-over-year basis. Their traffic-building efforts helped U.S. intermodal volume set an annual record for the fifth time in...
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. announced today that its SandBox Logistics™ business unit has filed a notice of appeal in its lawsuit against Proppant Express (PropX), which will allow the company...
A Houston oilfield water management company has started operations to recycle wastewater from oil and natural gas sites in the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.
Commodities exchange founder is targeting markets where they “can help people most”...
After a consultation period, Fastmarkets has decided to delist these prices due to limited interest in the market, the presence of available alternatives as part of the existing price book...
Hydraulic fracturing as it is now executed in North American shale plays may have to be replaced with a much more intricate scheme—one that better matches the complex fabric of...
A California company is seeking to build a $1 billion refinery that will make gasoline and diesel near the Permian Basin town of Kermit. Meridian Energy Group announced plans on...
Carrier bags, bottles and nappies will be used to resurface roads and fill potholes across Cumbria – leading a government push into plastic roads that could eventually see household waste...
Fracking in Lancashire has revealed a "rich reservoir of recoverable high quality natural gas present", the company behind the exploration has said. But Cuadrilla renewed its calls for regulations on...
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