Smart Sand acquires Quickthree and becomes a fully integrated service provider of frac sand and logistics. It can finally compete in the last mile market.

In the early days of the shale revolution, most of the nation’s frac sand came from mines in Wisconsin and Minnesota, from where it was shipped by rail to regional depots, stored in silos and ...

Sand for hydraulic fracturing is moved from a rail car to a truck at a yard in Hondo. U.S. frac sand shipments from mines rose more than fourfold from 2007 to 2012, according to a researcher. San ...

Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure announced a new seven-year contract with an unnamed major customer to handle frac sand unit trains through a transload facility it is developing on the Union Pacific ...

Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure, LLC today announced the initial deployment of the company’s 5-million-pound Mobile Sand Silo System.

Sand for fracking is now 3 times as expensive as it was last year, and it's one of several reasons US oil production isn't increasing ...

Drive up to Emerge Energy Services' sand mine near Kosse, Texas and a sign points the way for "frac trucks" to head to the sand loading site. Demand for sand is surging as oil and gas production ...

Hi-Crush Partners (HCLP -3.1%) says it has entered into a new, long-term supply agreement with CNX Resources (CNX -1.7%) for the in-basin purchase of Northern White frac sand to support its ...

Try sand Halliburton's South Texas plant, which is in Bexar County, can handle 115-car trains and its silos can hold 40,000 tons of sand, according to the companies' statement.

A Mississippi sand company has scooped up a Lafayette-based supplier of frac sand, a material used in the hydraulic fracturing process.

Six-year low crude oil prices have decimated new drilling activity but market indicators show there is a more intense use of frac sand in the new wells that remain in the Eagle Ford and other ...

Demand for frac sand has surged in recent weeks as U.S. producers rush back to the oil patch, stoking concern that supplies of the key component of drilling may not be able to keep up with demand ...