As the development of unconventional oil and gas plays continues to ramp up across North America, the race to supply the resources necessary for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is heating up. In addition to water supplies, the hunt for sand, with certain properties that make it ideal for fracking, is reaching far and wide.
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Halliburton Secures More Sand for Onshore Operations, Updates Seismic-to-Stimulation Service
Halliburton Co., one of the largest onshore oilfield services providers, has obtained a long-term agreement through 2018 with Hi-Crush Partners LP for sand to use in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations.
June 24, 2014
Company Betting South Dakota Has Fracking’s ‘Right Stuff’
Denver-based South Dakota Proppants (SDP) is proceeding with plans to develop a mine on federal lands in southwestern South Dakota to supply sand used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale oil/natural gas production in the Williston and Denver Julesburg (DJ) Basins in North Dakota and Colorado.
June 6, 2014
Minnesota Governor Declines to Enact Frack Sand Mining Ban
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has turned down calls to enact a two-year moratorium on silica sand mining in the southeastern part of the state, saying he doesn’t have the authority to implement such a ban.
April 25, 2014
South Dakota Sand Deemed Not Suitable for Fracking
Although South Dakota officials had been hoping to cash in on the oil and natural gas boom in the Williston Basin, there is little chance operators…
April 3, 2014
Is the Sandman Fracking’s New Boogeyman?
The mining and transport of proppant sand are drawing controversy similar to that related to the content and handling of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluids if recent events are an indication.
August 23, 2013
Summit Buying North Dakota, Colorado Midstream Company
Summit Investments has agreed to acquire Bear Tracker Energy LLC for $513 million from affiliates of GSO Capital Partners LP and Bear Tracker Investments LLC. Midstream company Bear Tracker is focused on oil and natural gas in North Dakota and Colorado.
January 11, 2013
Endeavour Excited, But Waiting, on Heath Shale Development
Endeavour International Corp. said it plans to spend 2012 focusing on developing its offshore oil assets and ramping up production in the North Sea while it waits to see the results from tight oil test wells drilled into the Heath Shale play in Montana.
March 16, 2012
BLM Shale Impact Review Criticized
An environmental impact review on oil shale and tar sand plans in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming initiated earlier this year by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an “inefficient and unnecessary” exercise, according to one Shell Exploration and Production (E&P) Co. official.
August 29, 2011
Subcommittee Hears Criticism of BLM Oil Shale Impact Review
An environmental impact review on oil shale and tar sand plans in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming initiated earlier this year by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an “inefficient and unnecessary” exercise, according to one Shell Exploration and Production (E&P) Co. official.
August 26, 2011
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