Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #535 | September 24, 2025
Our latest digest before the Petroleum Connection team hits the road next week!
Lots of interesting stories this week as PropX does a media push on “hydrohauling” technique. If you want to hear more about it, come to the Frac Sand Conference in November where it’ll be on the agenda to be sure. Also, a number of looks at the leading indicators for where future D&C is headed.
And now, the news…
Granted, it's written from an industrial hose publication's perspective, but great and detailed information on this technique.
You need to see this leading indicator data for drilling.
A year after they broke up via text, California and Chevron finally reconnected by phone.
It’s hard to believe, but the fourth quarter is now less than 2 weeks away. Some important frac market trends as we head into it…
Service companies already own the horsepower — pumps, proppant logistics, fiber-optic diagnostics — while field crews know how to stage-frac, monitor microseismic and handle live-well pressures.
Wet or dry sand is metered precisely into a slurry and pumped into a fit-for-purpose lay-flat hose that is run to the well site by following the right of way the exploration and production company has already acquired for water transfer.
An emerging trend focused on the data center buildout is blurring industry lines between oilfield and tech…
Pet coke helps make the biggest even bigger.
Insight on a key trend in frac hydraulic horsepower supply and mix.
In 2018, a federal jury convicted Cain on nine felony counts related to his involvement with FourWinds Logistics Inc., a company that purportedly bought and sold sand used in fracking but was actually a "sham operation".
A discussion of the trends affecting a key oilfield activity driver.
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