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Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #237 | September 18, 2019
Outside global oil disruption news, we have a pretty quiet week for frac sand news…the PropX-Sandbox dispute being the exception. We will be launching the websites for the 5th Annual Frac Sand Industry Update and for the 9th Annual Frac Sand Supply & Logistics Conference in the next day or so. So if you are reading this on Wednesday afternoon or later, check it all out at www.petroleumconnection.com
An update earlier this week summarized some key quotes from the panels on in-basin and northern white sand at the largest completions supply chain event of the year.
Proppant Express Investments today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office through the Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidated patent claims of a SandBox Logistics, patent.
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. announced today that its SandBox LogisticsTM business unit intends to appeal a recent United States Patent Office decision to invalidate challenged claims in one of the...
In the ongoing legal dispute between company X and company Y over intellectual property… two notable responses from both parties to a judgement in the past 24 hours.
Earlier this week we shared five talking points from our sideline conversations at the Petroleum Club’s completion supply chain conference last week.
Oil plunged nearly 7% in London after Reuters reported Saudi Arabia is close to restoring 70% of the oil production it lost after this weekend's attack on a key crude...
Sunday was not a day of rest for most folks who think about the oil and gas industry for a living. We’ve never seen so many weekend news updates and...
Houston oilfield service company Baker Hughes is dropping "a GE Company" from its name and changing its stock ticker symbol. Baker Hughes made the announcement on Monday after its parent..
A bankruptcy judge in Houston has issued an order accepting a Chapter 11 reorganization plan filed by the struggling oilfield service company Weatherford International.
At a dusty drilling site east of San Antonio, shale producer EOG Resources Inc recently completed its latest well using a new technology developed by a small services firm that...
After years of improvements in drilling techniques and impressive “efficiency gains,” there is now evidence that the U.S. shale industry is reaching the end of the road on well productivity.
The Rio Grande Pacific Corporation has hired a railroad veteran to lead a massive new rail line project that could connect the energy markets of Colorado and Utah. According to...
Covia, a leading provider of mineral-based and material solutions for the Industrial and Energy markets, announced that effective today, it has closed on the sale of the Winchester and Western...
Very excited to report our new $3.5 Million grant from Office of Fossil Energy to develop a “Novel Smart Microchip Proppants” Technology for Precision Diagnostics of Hydraulic Fracture Networks” in...
The administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom has imposed a de-facto moratorium on hydraulic fracturing while it studies permitting procedures for the politically controversial oil well-completion technique better known as fracking.
Drones are increasingly dotting Permian Basin skies, looking for methane and pipeline leaks and scouring both proposed pipeline routes and well locations. The rise of wind and solar farms is...
Up to 300 trucks a day take their fill of sand at a mine on the Sone River in Bihar state. India’s construction boom is stripping large volumes of sand,...
Last month during our Eagle Ford market intel gathering trip (see the big picture highlights here), we stopped by the Signal Peak Silica frac sand production facility for a tour...
In three weeks from now, on October 4 in Downtown Houston, US oil industry leaders and investors will gather to discuss oilfield water’s evolving business model, market structure, and latest...
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