Proppant potential for bauxite
By Mike O'Driscoll
Published: Friday, 24 January 2014
The shale gale and dash for gas continues unabated, and with it increasing demand for proppants required in hydraulic fracturing operations. It’s a golden opportunity for proppant feedstock suppliers - silica sand, bauxite, kaolin - to pursue this growth market. But the key questions are: Which material makes the grade? Where else outside the US is the market likely to catch fire?
The shale gale and dash for gas continues unabated, and with
it increasing demand for proppants required in hydraulic
fracturing operations. It’s a golden opportunity for
proppant feedstock suppliers - silica sand, bauxite,
kaolin - to pursue this growth market. But the key
questions are: Which material makes the grade? Where
else...