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Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #219 | May 15, 2019
It was an unusual week for frac sand news. Despite some big industry news and earnings calls, there was little coverage outside of Infill Thinking.
Instead, we got a lot of negative news, very technical articles, and environmental attack pieces. On a positive note, the frac sand conference in September is coming together and soon we’ll be officially announcing the addition of the Frac Sand Equipment Expo to the conference again in 2019!
Have a great rest of the week.
We provide updated thoughts on the market conditions for frac sand in Texas...
Big changes at the biggest sand company in the US...
We are incredibly honored to announce that our CEO Rhett Bennett has won the 2019 Entrepreneur of Excellence in Energy! Congrats Rhett!!
US frac sand miner Hi Crush has reported a sharp drop in proppant sales prices in the first quarter of 2018, compared with the corresponding period in 2018, according to...
Market intel on the Brady frac sand supply stack...
The Petroleum Connection has announced that the Silver Sponsorship level has sold out for the 8th Annual Frac Sand Supply & Logistics Conference. Those interested in having a 10’x10’ booth...
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A major frac sand mining company with operations in Wisconsin is facing bankruptcy while an industry analyst says up to 75 percent of mines in Wisconsin that supply oil and...
Moody's Investors Service downgraded Preferred Proppants, LLC's Corporate Family Rating to C from Caa3, Probability of Default Rating to D-PD from Caa3-PD, and senior secured term loan rating to C...
Lonquist Frac Sand Services is pleased to announce the Grand Opening of our new frac sand testing laboratory in Edmonton, AB. Lonquist Frac Sand Services has been providing testing services...
Two people are dead following a construction accident Tuesday morning at a fracking sand storage and shipping facility in northwestern Alberta.Occupational Health and Safety is investigating the workplace incident which...
Coastal residents are reportedly organizing to stop what they say amounts to a fracking project under a pristine beach. A letter was recently circulated in the community of Tierra Del...
This June, a Conference Titled "Oilfield Water: Identifying & Financing The Right Solution" Will Gather Business Leaders and Finance Professionals in Houston to Discuss Business Model Evolution, Market Structure and...
As our newsletter this past Tuesday predicted, Chevron walked….
A horizontal drilling drought has gripped a region of North Texas credited as the birthplace of the shale revolution. The Barnett Shale has now gone more than a month without...
The oilfield services company Weatherford International has entered into an agreement with its top creditors that will allow the company to file for a "prepackaged" Chapter 11 bankruptcy — after...
The shale industry faces an uncertain future as drillers try to outrun the treadmill of precipitous well declines. For years, companies have deployed an array of drilling techniques to extract...
What’s really going on with Schlumberger’s trucking unit? We discuss the story behind the story here…
Participants came from every part of our industry—short lines and Class I’s, rail labor, suppliers, contractors, shippers and local economic development officials. It was a show of force that focused...
After much discussion, the La Salle County Board agreed to a 10-year lease agreement with Midwest Barge Terminal to operate a barge fleeting operation on county-owned property along the Illinois...
Since the first hydraulic fracturing experiment in 1947, millions of frac jobs have been pumped in vertical and horizontal wells around the world.1 Yet, after more than 70 years, a...
To continue to reduce costs, frac sand companies and oil companies have started to build their own frat sand mines in the Permian Basin, located mostly in the western part...
The Estimated Ultimate Recovery is one of the most important attributes typically calculated in unconventional wells (horizontal fractured wells in resource plays). EUR is defined as the projected hydrocarbons recovery...
The Bakken has sparked several unique to the region projects that in their own way could each streamline, optimize, or offer a new and better alternative in storing produced gas,...
As the well count in the Bakken or Three Forks shale formations continues to grow, the strategies deployed to hydraulically fracture each new well have changed when compared to previous...
A multi-year study of groundwater use in Chippewa County shows that stream levels can be negatively impacted by frac sand mining and irrigated agriculture. Authors and stakeholders say the results...
Six months after a mining company said it had scrapped plans for a contested frac sand operation in western Wisconsin, a lawsuit is still lingering as the company refuses to...
An environmental group in the province is now asking the federal government to step in and take over an environmental assessment of a frack sand mine in Hollow Water First...
Bud Brigham, the owner of Austin-based Atlas Sand, had a problem: Four thousand acres of remote West Texas property his company had leased from the state to mine sand for...
More than six months ago, a storm turned an Atascosa County creek orange and flooded nearby properties, alarming nearby landowners. It wasn’t until later that they learned a pond at...
Market intel on the local frac sand supply stack...
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