LWP proppant tests point to lower production costs
By Kasia Patel
Published: Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Scrapping bauxite as a raw material and using fly-ash material located near the Pune plant in India is anticipated to reduce production costs for LWP's lightweight proppants.
Test work on LWP Technologies Ltd’s fly-ash
based proppants point to a significant reduction in
manufacturing costs as bauxite will no longer be necessary as a
raw material.
As part of a joint venture (JV) with Indian ceramic proppant
producer Hallmark, the company is looking to produce fly
ash...