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November 2018
13 November 2018
Frac sand miner Hi-Crush will provide Northern White frac sand to Chesapeake Energy for use in North America’s Marcellus and Powder River basins.
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01 November 2018
Frac-sand miner Atlas has made its first deliveries from a new mine in West Texas and expects a quick ramp-up to full capacity.
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October 2018
31 October 2018
French multinational industrial minerals group Imerys is looking at options to divest its ceramic proppant business.
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29 October 2018
The number of drilled but uncompleted wells in the Permian Basin is at a record high, which means bad news for companies selling frac sand.
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26 October 2018
Select Sands has put workers on leave and scrapped expansion plans after a slump in sales volumes
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25 October 2018
US miner Hi-Crush has warned that frac sand prices are under pressure due to slow completions activity.
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24 October 2018
Falling spot prices for frac sand have affected US Silica's sales revenues in the third quarter of 2018.
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23 October 2018
US short-line railroad operator OmniTrax will upgrade its frac sand handling capacity in a joint venture to be called ShaleTECH.
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22 October 2018
Crowded basins are driving a trend to drilling near existing wells, Schlumberger boss warns, and the result could be lower sand intensity.
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22 October 2018
The new frac sand capacity will come online in January 2019.
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22 October 2018
A round-up of commodity price movements in September 2018.
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22 October 2018
No reason has been given for the termination of the deal that had been originally announced in March 2017.
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11 October 2018
US frac sand miner Vista Proppants is planning to begin new operations in Oklahoma and Texas.
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08 October 2018
Regional sand supply and peak sand intensity is finally starting to balance the frac sand market, but cheapness still trumps quality.
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01 October 2018
US frac sand giant Covia has reduced its out-of-basin frac sand capacity, calling it a “necessary step,” even as it plans to ramp up in-basin capacity.
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01 October 2018
Frac sand miner Select Sands is the latest to report waning demand for high-grade material.