This week, Covia advanced an argument they have been making on the speaker circuit for several months now, urging customers to use NWS rather than succumbing to the cost savings temptation of local sand. They also introduced a new argument questioning a well performance metric that we’ve never seen challenged before …
Read More »Smart Sand Asks The Railroads To Not Give Up On Frac Sand; Makes The EUR Case For NWS
Smart Sand yesterday launched a new quality defense in the Northern White Sand vs. In-Basin debate. Management cited customer requests for conductivity testing, specifically for 100-mesh sand. They also appealed directly to railroads not to give up on the frac supply chain. We discuss… There’s a lot more to this …
Read More »Read The Preferred Sands Response To Recent In-Basin 40/70 Criticism
The debate around in-basin 40/70 grade frac sand quality heated up earlier this week when one Permian sand producer argued vigorously that customers will not buy local 40/70 because it is too fine and fragile. Preferred Sands, whose West Texas reserve profile is 50% 40/70, shared their response to this …
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