The South Windsor, Conn., town council unanimously approved an ordinance that bans fracking waste from being brought to or used in the town, according to the Hartford Courant. The town became the 34th ...
... or processing of sand used for fracking - while allowing the mining of sand for construction and agriculture uses - violated the U.S. Constitutions' interstate commerce clause and the U.S. and Minnesot ...
... its high-quality, near-surface, Tier 1 sand deposit is suitable for fracking in the oil and natural gas industries, and that the company should pursue this opportunity to achieve near term production ...
... hearing in January and listen to a presentation from the activist group Food and Water Watch before voting on an ordinance that aims to ban fracking waste from being brought into South Windsor. Ordinances ...
... was the reason for the slide.
“We began to be a thorn in their side,” Shearer said, about the fracking industry as a whole. OPEC decided to drive the oil price down to drive out companies doing fracking, ...
... and provide sand for the oil industry in fracking operations. But that business can go up and down – it’s soft right now. So, we switch over to highway construction, delivering aggregate and rock in our ...
• As much as 10 percent of U.S. fracking work could be delayed after Hurricane Harvey ripped through south Texas, Raymond James analysts said. More than half of the rigs running in the Eagle Ford shale ...
Hundreds of Floridians gathered together in the state capitol to urge elected officials to pass a fracking ban, commit to increasing renewable energy sources and protect waterways.
The group, including ...
... g to the Reno Gazette-Journal. The state, in 2014, enacted fracking regulations some say are among the strictest in the nation, but a new proposal would ban it outright. According to Assemblyman Justin Watki ...
... sand for the purpose of hydraulic fracturing. The ban ended mining, transporting and processing silica sand for the purpose of fracking but allowed those activities for other uses of silica sand such as ...
... able to take advantage of the “superfracking” of existing wells, and have invested in technology to make operations more efficient. They also learned how to deal with changing market conditions and ongoing ...
U.S. drillers have the ability to double the country's oil production to 20 million barrels a day, but doing so too soon would tank oil prices, Continental Resources CEO and fracking advocate Harold Ham ...
... Orr, research fellow, The Heartland Institute. “Study after study, such as those conducted by the University of Cincinnati, and a review of the impact of fracking on groundwater in Pavilion, Wyo., has con ...
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The below chart shows frac sand demand over the past years and also the forecast for the next three years. Re-fracking of existing older wells could add to a demand rebound. Another potential positive ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is stirring unease in the oil and natural gas industry with his remarks about hydraulic fracturing, according to a report from The Hill. Trump supports fracking ...
A state appeals court has affirmed a decision blocking a frac sand mine in western Wisconsin, according to a report on Wisconsin Public Radio. The Mississippi Land Connection and Timber Company LLC and ...
... r fracking on federal and Indian lands, according to National Public Radio.
U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl said Congress had not granted the BLM that power, and had instead chosen to specifical ...
... c fracking process) to generate electricity, Orr said. In this respect, the small, spherical grains of frac sand mined in the Upper Midwest are helping to bring cleaner air to the entire country.
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Colorado’s Supreme Court struck down voter-approved bans on fracking and the storage of fracking waste within the cities of Fort Collins and Longmont, ruling they conflicted with state law, according to ...
... ties to private equity. While the long-term outlook for fracking looks promising, the current low oil price has put the entire E & P sector (and their Private Equity sponsors) under duress.
Sand that ...
... an upward sloping price for oil.” Nangia said his firm, IHS, has forecast oil prices to average above $40 a barrel through 2016. At that price, he said, fracking oil wells in Texas and parts of North Dakota ...
... IHS, has forecast oil prices to average above $40 a barrel through 2016. At that price, he said, fracking oil wells in Texas and parts of North Dakota can still be profitable, meaning demand for Wisconsi ...
... proppants with around 14 percent. A majority of manufacturers are using frac sand products due to their low cost and abundant availability.
The global fracking proppants market is segmented by type and ...
... company officials wrote. Plus, fracking companies now use more sand per well. All of that means frac sand will be big business in the future, but it is unclear when that recovery will happen. Hi-Crush ...
According to Channel 10 News, Tampa Bay, Fla., a bill that would create regulations for fracking was approved by a Florida House committee despite strong opposition from environmentalists who said the ...
... it will be used for fracking or in a foundry.
“Foundry sand production and frac sand processing are actually similar processes,” said Kyle Grahn, vice president of A.F. Gelhar. “What we needed was to ...
... quantities of sand in fracking wells have put a profit squeeze on oil and gas producers. Canadian companies by and large have not cut their capital expenditures and continue to drill wells. As a result, ...
... In Alberta, where fracking operations are claimed to have caused a significant increase in the number of induced earthquakes, regulations have been introduced that requires frac operators to monitor all ...
... from fracked shale wells deplete by up to 70 percent in the first two years, requiring refracking every two or three years at a cost of $2 million or more. This high cost significantly decreases the economics ...
... rock have tried to cut every unnecessary penny from their operations. Water acquisition and transportation can be up to 10 percent of the cost of drilling and fracking a well, according to consulting firm ...
... frac sand mining and resolving problems with nonconforming mines.
No frac sand shipments have come through the Winonam, Wis., city harbor this year, owing to the slowdown of fracking across the ...
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Coupled with pad drilling (and closer well spacing) and the potential refracking of old wells, proppant demand is expected to increase over the long term. Smaller grained sand is also increasing in use, ...
... minerals and logistics company. NBI’s Tyler, Texas, plant and 1,400-acre mine produces sand primarily used for fracking; however, the plant’s process of mining sand and loading 40-ton trucks was not as ...
... , the company will be able to market its findings and sign pre-sale contracts with potential customers."
Andrews continued, "Low oil prices and the use of higher quantities of sand in fracking wells h ...
... use in the fracking industry. BMIX has access to a multitude of different types of sand from its dozens of minerals rights areas and is beginning a process to identify potential locations for supply. Ther ...
... black powder as a blasting agent. Nearly all domestic hydraulic fracturing, often referred to as hydrofracking or fracking, is a process where fluids are injected under high pressure through perforations ...
... sand is a specialized sand that is added to fracking fluids that are injected into unconventional oil and gas wells during hydraulic fracturing (fracking or hydrofracking), a process that enhances petroleum ...
... be a huge benefit for attendees and exhibitors alike,” said MMI President Peter Johnson.
With a renewed look at refracking old wells, developing incomplete wells, and increased per-well sand usage, frac ...
... shed product and raw material inventory at its 7P Plant which is available to supply its customers as fracking activity resumes following spring break-up, according to the company. ...
... an enormous supply of non-completed wells, and the epic potential of refracking to greatly increase the demand for frac sand, said Adam Galas, writing for stock analysis website The Motley Fool.
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Following a process that included more than 1.5 million public comments, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell released final standards that she said will support “safe and responsible hydraulic fracturing ...
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... ined due to the drop in oil price, however the trend toward re-fracking of wells, increasing frac sand mass per stage, more stages per horizontal well and a rising inventory of wells that have been dr ...
Following a process that included more than 1.5 million public comments, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell released final standards that she said will support “safe and responsible hydraulic fracturing ...
... s on a go-forward basis.
The industry trend toward increasing proppant intensity (more fracking stages per well using more proppant per stage) is expected to somewhat offset the potential impact on fr ...
... n the fracking technology to drill them. Because the price of oil isn't high enough to cover the costs, there's just no economic incentive to start.
The shale oil industry produces nearly four million bar ...
... 100 Mesh) will continue to increase due to weather-related logistical challenges and unexpectedly high requirements stemming from changes to fracking design. The sandstone at the property is “considere ...