Frac Sand Weekly News Digest

Great insights from the Infill Thinking team as a follow up to the Update last week.

This Tuesday, they'll be providing an informational session in Monahans to educate the industry on upcoming changes.

This year the company plans to use it on 50% to 60% of its wells in the basin, up from 20% last year, Jeff Newhook, a completions operations manager, told Reuters in an interview.

Energy Transfer just put out some clever industry marketing while making fun of a Gen Z term.

Dust off your downturn playbooks… we are on the verge of the most uncertain earnings season since Covid.

The Government of Canada’s retaliatory tariff measure will add $240 Million a year in additional costs on frac sand alone, significantly impacting drilling operations, creating instability in Canada’s oil and gas sector, and increasing energy costs.

The vessel will be capable of generating up to 25,000 horsepower and store more 600 cubic metres of proppant.

Great, data-heavy insights into comparing the two.

Great datapoints from multiple different basins.

The continent has sharply increased its U.S. purchases in recent years, with little appetite to buy more.

Zoomed out look at the broader platform that Iron Oak has built.

"So far in 2025, president and CEO Scott Melbourn says the growth on a year-over-year basis for sand consumption in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin is tracking close to the expected five to 10 per cent range of increase over 2024."

Good news in the short-short-term.

Some hopeful insights during this stormy weather.

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