Menu
Menu
Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #260 | February 26, 2020
Some very interesting articles this week! Of note are the articles on Shale Support, Saudi Aramco, mobile/mini mines, and wet sand. Registrations and sponsorships continue to come in for the Mobile-Mini Frac Sand Mine Forum, which is happening in Houston in less than 60 days! Learn more and sign up here: https://petroleumconnection.com/event/mobile-mini-mines/
Shale Support Holdings, LLC, a leading provider of frac-sands and logistical solutions to the oil and gas proppant market, announced it has finalized a supply contract for a tier-one petroleum...
Saudi Aramco is launching the biggest shale gas development outside of the United States to boost domestic gas supply and end the burning of oil at its power generation plants, Chief Executive...
Last week, Hi-Crush said on their 4Q19 earnings call that January 2020 was the strongest month of sand sales in any January in company history...
U.S. Silica +10.8% pre-market after reporting better than expected Q4 results and saying it sold a record 15.1M tons in its oil and gas segment during 2019...
Here are the key bits of market intel that we picked out remarks made by three market share leaders in the wellsite storage game last week…
Free ceramic proppant for fracking. Left over from foreclosure.. over 100 bags, over 1.5 ton each Free to pick up. Must take all. Serious inquires only with knowledge of product...
This GH Rapid Set Plant is capable of processing 985,500 tons a year. The plant was newly built and deployed in 2015. The plant has been maintained extremely well and an equipment maintenance...
New pictures and a schematic have come to light as one of the first movers on the in-field mining trend continues making moves...
Over the past few weeks we have received several inquiries regarding mobile or mini frac sand mine opportunities. From land deals to equipment design to procurement, there is a lot of...
Functional wash plant available in the upper Midwest. Very competitively priced at only $410,000. This will sell quickly...
A large E&P operator has firmly planted a legal flag of conceptual ownership in damp sand. This raises lots of questions for the broader adoption of the practice, including applications in in-field frac sand mining…
We did some digging after an E&P CEO’s damp sand frac patent claim last week sent a ripple through frac sand inner circles. Here is what we have uncovered…
Athabasca Minerals Inc. announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aggregates Marketing Inc., has rebranded the company as AMI RockChain Inc....
For the oil and gas industry, the move to analytics has been fueled by the rise of horizontal drilling. This creates thousands of new test cases each year with many unique variables across...
Last August I highlighted the challenges the oil, gas, and chemicals sector has had in demonstrating value to investors in a volatile and low commodity price environment. Now that we...
"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst." That was basically the theme of my 2020 Outlook column a couple months ago. In that piece, I focused on the “prepare for the worst” side of the rail...
U.S. rail traffic has been in slow decline for decades. While it grew coming out of the great recession, it never recovered to 2006/7 levels, then went back to long term declining trends. Now it is sinking...
A reduction in operating expenses helped Western U.S. railroad BNSF achieve a 4% increase in fourth-quarter net profit and a 5% increase in annual net profit despite lower revenues on both a quarterly and annual basis...
Halliburton on Wednesday said it plans to issue a type of debt known as senior notes. Due in March 2030, the notes will pay 2.92 percent interest. The company said it will use proceeds from the sales...
With their inability to meet quarterly revenue and profit targets evident, there is rising skepticism about oil and gas companies as purveyors of energy efficiency. Amy Myers Jaffe, senior fellow...
While Texas currently leads the United States in oil and gas production, the industry threatens the health of water and wildlife from the Permian Basin to Padre Island. If Texas is going....
More than forty Islanders came together on Saturday at Newport’s Unitarian Meeting House to learn more about the prospect of oil and gas drilling (fracking) on the Island and how such projects might be stopped...
So it was President Day and my boys wanted something to do. The Lego 10K CSF Cyclonic Sand Separator Challenge was born. My boys are 14 - 11 - 6 and love all things Lego. I couldn’t be...
Get relevant announcements and news from major outlets, industry leaders, and local media so you always know what’s happening and changing in the frac sand industry.
Subscribe to get our carefully curated summary of relevant frac sand related news and analysis delivered to your inbox each Wednesday morning.
Send us your press releases and any other news articles which you believe would be of interest to our readers. Email submissions to [email protected]
Phone: 214-984-1615 | 33800 Tyler Road, Walkerton, IN 46574
Event Registration – $25