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Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #218 | May 8, 2019
We have a varied and interesting collection of articles, videos, and human interest stories this week. We hope you enjoy them! Please do not hesitate to reach out to us if you have articles to submit, suggestions, comments, or inquiries. If you enjoy the Frac Sand Weekly News Digest, please encourage your colleagues to sign up so they can enjoy it as well!
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Breaking news involving the acquisition of an innovative last mile boutique and a software platform that Infill Thinking has been covering for quite some time...
Industry forecast uncertain: Driven by volatile oil prices, there is significant uncertainty in the market for 2019. With the long list of in-basin mines in the Permian and other basins,...
Top 5 Basins in Total Pumped Proppant (Million Pounds) per Year...
Compared to the last West Texas oil boom in 2014, there's almost four times more oil flowing in the Permian Basin. Oil and gas companies have turned this dusty, desert...
A recent development in the onshore US oil and gas market has been the rise of locally sourced sand to serve as proppant for hydraulic fracturing. Although initially met with...
The Petroleum Connection can work on behalf of companies to confidentially reach out to other parties to see if there is an opportunity to pursue a transaction. Those interested in...
We were pleased to hear that no one was hurt when a tornado hit McCourt & Sons Equipment in La Grange, Texas...
Ramsey Hill Exploration, a company based in River Falls, Wisconsin, recently purchased property and is planning to mine frac sand west of Highway 191 about five miles north of Vernal...
In the pithy bullet points below, here’s what all frac supply chain folks should know from US Silica’s remarks on their earnings call this week...
U.S. Silica +6% pre-market after reporting a smaller than expected Q1 loss and a 2.6% Y/Y rise in revenues to $378M amid a resurgence in volume and pricing for Northern...
Here’s the latest on a plant worker strike that is impacting NWS supply...
Athabasca Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce that it has increased its ownership in the Duvernay Frac Sand Project to 49.6% through the acquisition of an additional 33.4% interest in...
In the pithy bullet points below, here’s what all frac supply chain folks should know from Solaris’s remarks on their earnings call last week. Their words. Their views. Not ours...
Houston startup Ensign Natural Resources said Tuesday it bought the Eagle Ford assets of Dallas' Pioneer Natural Resources for about $475 million. The deal makes Pioneer a pure-play Permian Basin...
Industrial Accessories Company, the premier New Plant EPC Contractor and innovative equipment and service supplier to the Frac Sand industry, has announced the next generation of frac sand plants...
Wayfinder Corp. has partnered with TR Transport Inc. to provide last mile frac sand delivery and logistics solutions. The added service strengthens the company’s commitment to “Total Proppant Management”, which...
This is the fifth installment in our Silica Valley Series which shines the spotlight on an increasingly critical part of the frac value chain: new software solutions in the last...
Frac sand exploration has been a main focus of Westward's Geology Department since 2015. Since that time, almost 1,300 borings have been drilled over 200,000 acres across 6 states in...
Operating a frac sand mine seems so simple. After all, the process is straightforward, predictable and linear...
If there was ever an issue that everybody can agree on in a bipartisan manner, it’s the fact that our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling. Everything from bridges and tunnels to...
Citadel Drilling Ltd. had one good year of running room in western Canadian after its founding in 2013. Then oil price collapsed, leaving the company scrambling to find a return...
Mother’s Day is May 12, and several East Bay Regional Park District locations will observe it with programs celebrating moms of human and animal varieties. At Crab Cove Visitor Center...
Take a look at our SandBank Proppant Silo System being set up for our Shrimp Boil customer event next week...
Interesting video of slot flow test with slick water and two different proppants ... 2.0 specific gravity CARBOAIR vs 2.65 specific gravity sand demonstrating the impact on propped fracture geometry...
According to the United States Geological Survey, Minnesota mined $4.05 billion in non-fuel minerals in 2018, making it the fifth-largest state for mining, in terms of the value of minerals...
A spokesman for a frac sand mining company says they’ll fight claims from landowners in the Whitehall and Blair area are inundating their homes with dust, polluting their wells with...
After a nearly yearlong review, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has declined to reinstate a wetland permit for a controversial Monroe County frac sand operation...
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