U.S. Silica Upgrading Its Mine Fleet
In June 1998, an experiment to access gas trapped over a mile deep in the Barnett Shale north of Fort Worth, Texas, using sand, water and chemicals ignited a natural gas boom that rippled across…
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Glut Upends Market For Frac Sand
For the last six years, Kevin Bowen has made a good living selling sand to operators and oil-field service providers who use it to complete horizontal wells. It was a lucrative market tied to the…
Fracking Expected to Bring Oil-Field Record
Fracking & Oil-Field Poised to Break Records his spring America’s oil companies are expected to produce a record 10 million barrels of American crude a day, largely due to another record that is expected...
Sand Mining Booming as Fracking Grows
on Jordan picked up a handful of damp sand as it cascaded off a broad conveyor belt, eventually bound for trucks or rail cars that will take it to eager buyers in South Texas...
