Frac Sand Weekly News Digest

Although the Eagle Ford is still only about 20% of the Permian’s size in fully utilized frac fleets, the frac activity growth rate on a percentage basis in South Texas during the past 3 months was double that of the Permian Basin.

Chesapeake Energy Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously voted to appoint Domenic "Nick" Dell'Osso as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Bundling barrels with promises to capture carbon can make companies’ emissions figures look better, but critics say the practice could undermine the case for burning less fossil fuel.

Low-carbon fracking—as oxymoronic as it sounds—is gaining traction across the U.S. But since it still extracts the very oil and gas that fossil-fuel critics want the world to stop consuming altogether, not everyone’s convinced.

Other large oil companies have disclosed similar net-zero goals over the past two years, as they face calls from investors and activists to respond to ESG, or environmental, social and governance concerns.

Black Mountain Sand is pleased to announce that after almost two years, the litigation matter styled, “Black Mountain Sand Midcon, LLC and Black Mountain Eagle Ford, LLC v. Schlumberger Technology Corporation” has been satisfactorily resolved.

Infill Thinking fills in their teasers from early last week.

While Suvo has been going great guns with its kaolin projects, the coming weeks should see some of the attention shift to its promising Nova silica sands projects.

Railed sand and obscure grades are of interest to many of us, so here is a quick recap of some of the things Infill learned talking to Chris Favors, formerly of Vista, who now runs Favors Business Solutions.

Calima Energy Ltd has begun fracture stimulation for three wells at its Throsby asset in Alberta, Canada, as part of its Leo development program and coinciding with a period of strong Brent prices.

Schlumberger case study on the benefits of simul-fracs in the Eagle Ford.