Together, they will mine and ship some 22 million tons of sand this year to shale drillers all around them in the Permian Basin, the hottest oil patch on Earth. It is a staggering sum of sand, equal ...

Wisconsin state environmental officials say they have no plans to impose new restrictions on the mining of sand for use in hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas. The state Department of Natural ...

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 ...

Over the past decade, demand for silica sand soared as new technology allowed drillers to reach previously untapped oil, much of which was found in the Bakken formation of North Dakota, with a process ...

Anyone hoping to start a frac sand mining operation in Winona County will need to put their plans on hold — at least for now. In a 3-2 vote, the Winona County Board of Commissioners passed a ...

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 ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is allowing more frac sand mines to open even though it let its environmental regulations on the industry expire nine months ago because the rules didn’t ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Six-year-low crude oil prices have decimated new drilling ...

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 ...