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…
Oxygenates, Metals Leaching Into U.S. Oil Supply Chain
The complex web of U.S. pipelines, tanks and export terminals that’s helped make America the world’s top oil producer is causing a headache for some crude buyers, industry analysts say.
As various types of crude…
Remote Tank Monitors Can Save Time and Money
If you distribute or collect fluids, imagine a magical fleet-and-workforce multiplier, empowering you to know when and where you’re needed so you can get there promptly without even being called. Remote tank monitors keep you…
Profits Await Vacuum Truck Operators
The U.S oil-field industry is growing due to global pressures to produce more oil and petroleum products. Like in years past, the driving force for on-shore expansion will be fracking technology. For operators of vacuum…
Drilling Is Slowing According To Data Firm
In the first half of the year, the spot market in Texas was boiling over, with not nearly enough trucks to cover the growing demand for freight. In the past month, the market’s been pretty…
Driver shortage slowing oil, gas extraction
hen the price of oil collapsed in 2014 and disrupted drilling operations all across Texas’s massive Permian Basin shale formation, truckers were among those hardest hit. Rendered unnecessary by the slump in output, they...
Oil and gas firms plan leaner projects worldwide
About 30 upstream oil and gas projects are expected to be approved around the world this year, similar to 2017, as operators stay focused on less capital-intensive projects with quicker returns, according to Wood...
Oil & Gas Exploration to Draw $811 billion, Data Firm Predicts
ore than $811 billion will be spent on 615 upcoming oil and gas fields between 2018 and 2025 according to data and analytics company GlobalData. Globally, capital expenditure (capex) into conventional oil, heavy oil,...
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...
