Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #541 | November 5, 2025
Good afternoon! We are busy putting the finishing touches on the biggest frac sand event in the entire universe since 2024. Is that stat not impressive? Fine, but we’re still on pace for a 300+ folks with a lot of new faces and new topics on this year’s agenda. You do not want to miss this.
This week’s highlights:
There’s a of stories and headlines to go through!
And now, the news…
SM Energy focuses primarily on West Texas’s Permian Basin, South Texas’s Eagle Ford Shale, and Utah’s emerging Uinta Basin. Civitas is concentrated in the Permian and Colorado’s DJ Basin.
Read all the technical details and find out how you can get in touch with the seller.
All the relevant effects and details about the recent big deal that actually matter to those in the OFS space.
Crescent Energy agreed to sell its conventional oil and gas assets in Wyoming to Aethel Energy for more than $400 million, Bloomberg reported late Monday.
The facility, currently in the design and permitting phase, will produce 40/200 mesh sand with an 8K crush strength and is expected to begin operations in April 2026.
Ovintiv will take over NuVista Energy, in which it is already a shareholder, in a deal worth $2.7 billion including debt. NuVista operates in the Montney shale play in Canada.
Sand market takeaways from the latest Atlas earnings report.
Permian Basin energy companies will be adapting to an economic environment reshaped by soft commodity prices, trade, geopolitical uncertainty and rising demand for energy to power data centers.
Turner noted a sequential decline in third-quarter volumes to 5.25 million tons, attributing it to several key customers slowing or pausing completion activity to preserve 2025 capital budgets and signaled another step down in Q4 to 4.8 million tons, expected as the cycle low.
Interesting observations from a new data release related to rig count/frac fleet trends.
The oil and natural gas company’s revenue jumped 48% to $3.92 billion in the third quarter.
Despite soft oil prices and a slowdown in activity, both Chevron and ExxonMobil reported growth in output from their Permian Basin footprint.
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