Frac Sand Weekly News Digest
Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #520 | June 11, 2025
Catch up with the latest frac sand industry news this week: new patented wellsite solution, Iowa sand mine looks to dramatically increase water use, rail leader gets a promotion on account of frac sand, and more!
Also, we’re excited to announce that Tarmac International is a Gold sponsor at November’s Conference. Do you want to bring some equipment to show off at the biggest frac sand event? We are running very low on space, but you can join Midland trailers, Masaba, Timpte trailers, Kirby-Smith Machinery, Smith Co trailers, and Tarmac in showing off your equipment in front of your customers! Note, we are bringing back the equipment on site this year to make access very easy for all attendees.
Grab another cup of coffee, and let’s dig on in.
And now, the news…
This Week's News
For Sale: Upper Midwest Rail-Served Industrial Site
Ideal solution for a transload facility, but has great potential for other uses as well.
In Other News… Costs To Follow Activity Lower?, 2H Calendar, EOG/Encino Nuggets, Oil Prices, OFS Catching A Bid, And Exxon’s LWP…
TONS of datapoints in this week's research.
Think Haynesville's Best Rock is Tapped Out? Think Again...
Only ~4,000 Tier-1 and Tier-2 wells have been drilled to date, that means there is 53% of Tier-1 and 62% of Tier-2 inventory left; at the recent drilling cadence these quality inventory supports 20 years of development.
SCOOP: New Permian Damp Sand Wellsite Solution Gets Patented
An exclusive on new tech for wet sand wellsites…
As an Eastern Iowa Quarry Seeks to Quadruple Its Water Use, Residents Urge the State to Intervene
Note: anti-mine article bias, but we thought the details of mine operations are interesting... Pattison submitted a request to the DNR to increase its water withdrawal from multiple sources on or adjacent to the quarry, upping its use to 3.7 billion gallons a year.
Liberating The Rig Count – Drilling Trends Since Tariffs Examined 3 Ways
A data-driven look at drilling trends…
Reading & Northern promotes Raffa to VP marketing and sales
The R&N has seen freight traffic increase more than 50% over the last decade through significant increases in anthracite coal and development of a frac sand franchise spearheaded by Raffa.
Spring Redetermination Season – E&P Borrowing Base Datapoints
Some banking datapoints for shale E&Ps to gauge industry’s health and ability to continue forward with capex programs.
After 25 Years, E&Ps Sustain Bakken Oil’s Long Plateau
What began as a modest experiment in a remote Montana field reshaped the future of U.S. oil production.
Pet Coke Well Production Update
In this update, there's new data on the newest technical trend in proppant…
Kodiak Announces Delivery Of Two Additional Customer-Owned And -Operated Driverless Trucks To Atlas Launches Driverless Service Up To 24/7
The two new Kodiak Driver-powered trucks are part of a 100-truck order placed by Atlas as the company seeks to automate its supply chain.
HAL’s Last Mile Change Is Being Noticed…
A follow-up report to an Infill Thinking exclusive on frac supply chain developments from earlier this year….
EIA Sees Lower U.S. Crude-Oil Production as Drilling Slows
U.S. operators will drill and complete fewer wells through 2026, the EIA said.
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