Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. This article is more than 2 years old. Pumping water ...

Sand is used for what's known in the hydraulic fracturing world as a proppant — it props open fissures in the earth to extract oil and natural gas. Silica sand has been the cheapest proppant ...

This is where proppant comes in. Proppant is usually sand that is pumped down the well with frac water, and is carried out into the cracks. When pumping stops, the cracks tend to close on the sand ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northern Frac Proppants II, LLC (NFP) today announced plans to construct a second frac sand mine and processing plant in Jackson County, Wisconsin. “After we reached ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northern Frac Proppants, LLC (NFP) today announced the acquisition of land and frac sand reserves located on 1,600 acres near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. NFP has ...

Because it's critical for fracking. And there's a fracking boom in the U.S. Frac sand is what, in the industry, is called a "proppant." Essentially, proppants "prop" or keep open the cracks and ...

Frac Sand: the fastest-growing type of proppants in the type segment. Frac sand is a widely used proppant.It is a naturally occurring proppant made from high purity sandstone. These proppants are ...

Genevieve County. The sand from these types of mines is used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Much of the Ste. Genevieve community is upset with how they say the company, Summit Proppants, ...

Operators may want resin-coated sand for fracturing wells at greater depths. Source: Proppant Specialists It was beach sand, though, that two days earlier had been mined from sandstone formed from ...

Houston-area frac sand company U.S. Silica has closed on a $23 million deal to buy a Georgia plant that was used to make ceramics proppants for the hydraulic fracturing process. U.S. Silica ...

API/ISO Proppant Testing Crush Results The following ... methods of liberating sand grains and separation into commercial frac sand sizes. Based on test work completed to date, with a special ...

Vista Proppants & Logistics LLC, a frac-sand supplier backed by investment firms First Reserve Corp. and Ares Capital Corp., has filed for bankruptcy, saying it is facing unprecedented problems ...