Frac-sand mining opponents are demanding a House committee meeting scheduled for tomorrow be canceled because it fails to set aside time for the public to testify. The House Mining & Outdoor ...

The Houston County Commissioners were not able to come to an agreement on a frac sand mining ordinance Tuesday morning. Houston County will revert back to the original ordinance that says little about ...

The debate over frac sand mining blew like a sudden summer tornado into Winona County. As the county's planning commission - and soon the Winona County Board of Commissioners - prepare to vote on ...

I am not sure if many of you are aware of this or not, but there is a boom happening in the frac sand market. As the need for oil companies to drill deeper and extract more oil from existing wells ...

Frac sand destined for the oil and gas fields piles up at the EOG Resources Inc. processing plant in Chippewa Falls, Wisc. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. — Largely overlooked in the national debate over ...

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The frac sand industry exploded in the late 2000s when horizontal drilling technology and a demand for domestic oil production skyrocketed. In 2002, less than 2.5 million metric tons of silica sands ...

In this country, there's an ingredient that's key to the success of new oil and gas technologies. That crucial ingredient is ordinary and plentiful, but only found in a few places and obtaining it ...

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 ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gen6 Proppants (Gen6), a frac sand solutions provider, announced today its plans to develop a new frac sand mine to serve the Haynesville Shale region, with the acquisition ...

On May 20, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued a final rule listing the dunes sagebrush lizard (“DSL”) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”). 1 The change in the DSL ...

The U.S. energy Renaissance came about because of a combination of high oil prices, hydraulic fracturing, horizontal drilling, and shale. From a big picture perspective, it sounds so simple. On the ...