The La Crosse Center is playing host to the Frac Sand Insider conference which began Tuesday. Frac sand mining is the mining of sand that is used in the fracking process to get oil and natural gas out ...

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking,” has created an energy revolution for the oil and gas industries in states such as North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. If governments ...

Sand from the upper Midwest is coveted for hydraulic fracturing. It is the right size, shape and cleanness (almost pure quartz). It is also highly resistant to crushing under immense pressure, acting ...

(Bloomberg) -- Bumping along the desolate highways of the Permian Basin, the world’s busiest oil field, there are long stretches where all you see are drilling rigs, sage brush and miles upon miles of ...

Frac sand production has increased seven-fold in the past decade, according to the United States Geological Survey. Thomas Dolley, a mineral commodity specialist at the USGS, said he can’t divulge ...

U.S. shale drillers will be eager to boost production as oil prices near $100 per barrel, but a looming frac sand shortage may stop them. Combined with rising labor costs, a potential trucker shortage ...

During field trials, PetroChina successfully installed screenless frac-pack completions to control proppant flow-back, thereby extending the life of marginally producing wells in Jidong oil fields.

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Atlas Energy Solutions and Kodiak Robotics announced their first driverless delivery of frac sand in West Texas’s Permian Basin. Ad Loading... The 21-mile delivery transported frac sand from an Atlas ...