Frac Sand Weekly News Digest

“If we increase output all of a sudden and demand is hit in one area because of a new wave of covid, the price would collapse,” a Saudi oil official said. “So bringing back more oil to the market rapidly is not on the cards at the moment.”

Operators made a series of small adjustments to keep spending in this commodity upcycle while still managing to check the box on capital discipline.

Alberta is introducing legislation the province says will allow it to better compete in the developing global minerals market.

Why is supply shrinking? No new construction is conspiring with greater wellsite intensity to burn supply.

“Mammoth's natural sand proppant services division contributed revenue (inclusive of inter-segment revenue) of $8.4 million for the third quarter of 2021, as compared to $6.0 million for the same quarter last year and $6.9 million for the second quarter of 2021.”

“On a consolidated basis, STEP pumped 496 thousand tonnes of proppant in the third quarter of 2021 compared to 283 thousand tonnes in the third quarter of 2020 and 466 thousand tonnes in Q2 2021.”

In the Permian: “Completion efficiency for all 20 net TILs in the quarter averaged over 3,000 feet per day, with 95% of these wells completed using simul-frac. In addition, three of the five pads brought online during the quarter used 100% local, wet sand, generating savings of approximately $100,000 per well.”

“The categories that you can imagine are inflating right now certainly are those that are in need here in the US as we start to recover out of the low point, things like OTCG, labor, sand, pressure pumping, and the likes.”

“We continue to see great success like others with simulfrac. As I said in my prepared comments, we do have two simulfrac fleets, and we're looking at the possibility of adding a third simulfrac fleet at some point in time in the near future, seeing significant efficiency gains, well cost reductions in the neighborhood of $200,000 to $300,000.”

“We have taken ownership of the value-added parts of the drilling, completions and production supply chain by applying our operational expertise and proprietary technology to improve efficiency and lower cost. Examples include sand, water, chemicals, drilling fluids, completion design, drilling motors, the marketing of our products and much more.”

“On the completion side of the business, we've seen a step change in efficiency as we've transitioned the majority of our completion crews to simul-frac operations and are now completing wells in the Midland Basin nearly 70% faster than when we were utilizing the traditional zipper frac design.”

“We've learned a lot in the last 8 or 10 months of operating in this Simul Frac technique while adding a third Simul Frac.”