Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #386 | August 17, 2022
It’s Wednesday morning, so here’s your latest frac sand news as the financial markets grow increasingly bullish on the industry!
And now, the news…
U.S. Silica is back from a near-death experience and has a long runway ahead as oil and gas drilling booms.
The data shows that investment bankers have been busy making deals happen for E&Ps in 2022.
Erick Beaudoin analyzes the frac sand industry’s market trends and pricing and provides advice for lenders based on the short- and long-term outlook.
Observations about the increase in capacity for frac sand plants coming online in the near future...
Compared to traditional drilling, almost everything about fracking is less: less capital to get a well drilled, less time to get a well producing and less time that it will be producing that oil.
Contains a series of nuggets from recent data work and channel checks into the easy-to-digest summary.
Relying too much on renewable energy sources has risks, the private-equity firms say, pointing to how natural-gas shortages and weak winds led to high energy prices in Europe last year, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this February.
Members of Germany's coalition government want fracking to be reconsidered as a potential solution to the coming gas crunch.
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