Tag Archives: greenfield expansion

Back in the heyday of the Permian local frac sand boom (2017), Infill Thinking was breaking news about an incremental Permian frac sand plant once a week it seemed. With the Permian now oversupplied, all’s been quiet on the greenfield construction front for the past year. Here lately, we’ve been …

Utah local sand is coming.  It’s coming faster than some folks might think. So we applied our kind of mining to the situation: data mining, public records mining, and interviewing regional contacts to learn more about the situation. Here’s what we know at this point in part one of an …

Price is a powerful lever. And falling sand prices have extended payback periods for new greenfield frac sand plants. What does this mean for interest in building new plants? In this post, we take a data-driven look at the current status of a once-in-a-lifetime silica mining rush. There’s a lot …

What can Eagle Ford frac sand customers and suppliers expect for the rest of 2019 on the local sand greenfield front? We’ve rounded up data on the next round of plant startups. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must …

In addition to the in-depth updates published early this week, a few other interesting items crossed our desk. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current members login here.) Members get …

Interested in the new entrants that are flying below the radar in the completions supply chain? Well… you’ve come to the right place. We’ve unearthed another new frac sand project that will likely come as a surprise to many market observers. In this update, you’ll find an exclusive report on …

While touring the MidCon to gather market intelligence back in September, we picked up on the potential for a frac sand mine to open near Oklahoma City. This morning, we can confirm that intelligence after connecting with the management team behind the project. Get the details in the full report… …

As we prepare for a major Think Sheets release in the next week or so, we thought it’d be interesting to chart the appearance timeline of all the new mines that comprise the great frac sand rush of 2017/2018. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update …

Last week, we spoke with the management team of a private company that is building a 1.5mmtpa mine in Red River Parish, Louisiana. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a subscriber. If your free trial has expired, renew …

We share more boots-on-the-ground intel on the community and regulatory reaction to the frac sand mining rush playing out in the MidCon. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a subscriber. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current …