Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #263 | March 18, 2020
We’re praying for you, my friends. Not any good news in this week’s articles. We did postpone the Mobile-Mini Frac Sand Mine Forum from April 17 until July 1. Hopefully things can return, somewhat, to normal by then. While sometimes the measures being taken seem extreme, it is good to remember that we are going through all this to help protect the most vulnerable among us. And this has been a great opportunity to spend more time with the family, to check in (via video conferencing) with friends and family, and to catch up on things which have been neglected.
We’ll get through this together. Stay safe.
As last week wore on, we had hoped it would get better. It did not. We had also hoped that our initial concern expressed on Tuesday was overstated when we wrote then that the swiftest...
Hi-Crush is pleased to announce an extension of its logistics and equipment service offerings, with the commencement of engineering on its first mobile processing unit, to be branded...
The Petroleum Connection has announced that the Mobile-Mini Frac Sand Mine Forum has been postponed from April 17 to July 1, 2020. Due to the coronavirus complications, travel restrictions...
If this virus can can shut down Major League Baseball and Disney Land, why should we expect that frac sites will be any different and stay open as virus reaction spreads...
State officials want to know where a mining company proposes sending Iowa water and how it will be used once it leaves the state. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources told Pattison...
Vikas Proppant & Granite announced that the company will be shipping the entire quantities completing the entire order of 75500 tons ordinary proppant aggregating to approx. Rs 455 crore to...
Afrac sand company in Wisconsin has re-emerged from bankruptcy and has brought its Chippewa County mine back into compliance with state and local regulations...
Athabasca Minerals Inc. announces that Ms. Tanya Finney has joined the Corporation’s leadership team as Director, Investor and Stakeholder Relations, effective March 16, 2020. Tanya will...
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Winona County’s ban on the mining and processing of silica sand, which is used in the oil and gas industry for hydraulic fracturing...
Chapter 11 bankruptcy allowed Houston oilfield service company Weatherford International to close 2019 with its first profit in more than six years. The company made $5.3 billion in the fourth quarter...
The total capital and operational expenditure of exploration and production companies is now likely to be cut by $100 billion in 2020 and another $150 billion in 2021 if oil prices remain on a $30 level...
Here are the E&Ps that have publicly announced cuts in the wake of the Sunday, March 8, oil market collapse…
Saudi Arabia plans to boost oil exports even further from April to May, reaching a record of more than 10 million barrels a day as the kingdom taps a new field...
It’s getting tougher for refiners to make money on gasoline as demand plunges, signaling more dark days ahead for oil markets. The U.S. benchmark crude tumbled to a four-year low Monday while...
When Phil Baxter recently asked me if I had looked into the big changes that were made in January to the FMSCA’s drug and alcohol policies (and the impact they could have on hauling capacity in the...
From their 19th floor offices at Union Pacific Railroad’s headquarters, senior executives have a spectacular view of downtown Omaha, Nebraska. They can catch a glimpse of the nearby Creighton...
My thesis is that the North American railcar fleet is too large. What makes it too large?Reasonable people can agree that with almost one-quarter of the available and usable cars in storage, that’s not a sustainable business model...
Subsequent to the outbreak of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus that began in China’s Wuhan province, not all of the country’s workers have returned to their jobs after the extended break for the...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden momentarily appeared to take a harder line on oil and gas drilling during Sunday's debate with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. After Sanders pressed...
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