Long before sunrise, Molly Sizer starts her day in West Texas as a professional frac sand hauler. She gets dressed, drives her Peterbilt truck to one of the dozens of frac mines around the Permian ...

CHICAGO (June 8) – A new Policy Study from The Heartland Institute shows industrial sand mining has been “a significant driver of economic growth across the Upper Midwest.” If done in an ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the frac sand market and it is poised to grow by USD 4.27 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of almost 10% during the forecast ...

The booming Permian Basin is driving huge demand for sand used in hydraulic fracturing, with no end in sight, according to a report by IHS Markit. The market value for frac sand has more than tripled, ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the frac sand market and it is poised to grow by USD 4.27 bn during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of almost 10% during the forecast period.

The ‘mega-frac’ is turning the typically annoying sand of West Texas into the new gold, and the oil and gas land rush on the Permian Basin has now extended into the dry, gritty sand that only a year ...

Nov. 30—Except for the oil and natural gas themselves, one of the oilfield's hottest commodities these days is the sand used to fracture or "frac" the bedrock formations and loosen them up for ...

A Toronto, Ontario-area police agency this week announced that it, alongside Canadian and U.S. partners, dismantled a transnational organized criminal network that was trafficking illegal drugs into ...

Demand for sand to be used by the oil and gas industry in hydraulic fracturing operations in the US is set to grow by 10% in 2019 and 17% in 2020, said a report. According to Rystad Energy, frac sand ...

A draft report of a strategic analysis of the mining of industrial silica sand, also called “frac sand,” was released in June 2016 by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The study ...

A Texas-based sand mining company is trying to sell off one of its four Wisconsin frac sand mines after facing bankruptcy last year. Hi-Crush Inc., based in Houston, is selling off the Whitehall sand ...

The booming Permian Basin is driving huge demand for sand used in hydraulic fracturing, with no end in sight, according to a report released Wedensday by IHS Markit. The market value for frac sand ...