Frac Sand Weekly News Digest
Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #567 | May 27, 2026
Good evening, everyone! Light news after the US Holiday weekend, but here’s your top 9 stories from the past week.
And now, the news…
This Week's News
Sand and the new oil boom
Simulfrac and trimulfrac operations, where multiple wells are fractured simultaneously, are pushing proppant intensity to record levels.
New Well Demand Jumps In One Of Two Big Tight Oil Plays & We Look At Who’s Driving
You need to see this leading indicator data for drilling.
Federal Permian lease sale tops $4 billion in record-setting auction
The U.S. Department of the Interior said a federal oil and gas lease sale covering acreage in New Mexico and Texas generated more than $4 billion in total receipts, marking what officials described as the largest onshore federal lease sale in U.S. history.
Canada Moves Toward Energy Superpower Goal With German LNG Deal
The deal marks a significant step in Prime Minister Carney’s effort to capitalize on Canada’s oil-and-gas reserves
Public E&P Well Data Analysis As Of 2Q26
Infill Thinking's 3rd article in their installation on "Operator Handbook"
A Hot IPO Lifts Geothermal Power Companies
We keep watching this for potential EGS usage of proppant.
Bosch and Kodiak are about to hand a Texas energy firm its first fully driverless semi-trucks — big rigs that haul sand across open highway with empty cabs
Kodiak Robotics, the autonomous-driving company whose software controls the trucks, confirmed on April 30 that it delivered two additional driverless semis to Atlas, expanding a fleet that the company says can now haul sand up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
What Is This Oil ‘Demand Destruction’ That People Keep Talking About?
Plus: tracking the cost of the Iran war, a river on the brink of disaster and what NextEra’s merger with Dominion means for your bill
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