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2018 in the Rearview Mirror for Black Mountain Sand Mid-year 2017, nothing existed along East TX-302 thirty-minutes west of Kermit, Texas except desert ranch land. Today, Vest and El Dorado, Black Mountain Sand’s flagship in-basin frac sand facilities, operate 24/7 to help serve the needs of customers throughout the Permian Basin. Constructed and commissioned over…
Anadarko Basin Crude Production, Frac Sand & the SCOOP-STACK In 2017, the Energy Information Administration recognized the Mid-Continent’s Anadarko Basin among the top U.S. shale plays––mainly driven by production gains enjoyed in the SCOOP and STACK production areas. Anadarko Basin Map (Courtesy of USGS) SCOOP and STACK Definition SCOOP stands for South-Central Oklahoma Oil Province.…
Permian Frac Sand Demand by the Numbers Frac sand demand in the Permian Basin is evolving, even from what it was just a few short years ago. Now with more crude oil takeaway capacity planned for the area, production is projected to continue to climb, which will no doubt continue to drive the ever-changing proppant…
Record DUC Wells Equals Record Frac Sand Demand Drilled Uncompleted Wells (DUCs) are reaching record levels according to the EIA. August of 2018 added another 238 DUC wells in the major basins to reach a record 8,269 drilled uncompleted wells in inventory in the United States. The Permian Basin leads the pack with 3,630 DUC…
Permian Basin Frac Sand Demand Skyrocketing Hydraulic fracturing (fracing) operations in the oil-rich Permian Basin have already taken off, leading experts to forecast that the area’s output by 2023 will be double what it was in 2017. This means that fracing investment continues to rise, especially in the materials that are pivotal parts of the…
Black Mountain Sand, a Texas-based in-basin frac sand provider, announced today expansion into Western Oklahoma’s Mid-Continent. Construction is now underway on its sixth mine, the first outside of Texas. Once fully commissioned, the 1,290-acre Blaine County facility will employ 75 people and produce 3 million tons of sand annually. Delivery of the mine’s first commercial tons…
In 2016, the United States’ dependence on foreign oil hit a 30-year low. This news may have been largely ignored by the average American, but those who remember the oil shortages in the 1970s surely recognized the significance. In 1973, OPEC, the group of (at the time) Arab nations responsible for the majority of the…
Black Mountain Sand is expanding into the Eagle Ford Shale with the acquisition of 2,300 acres in Atascosa County. Construction on our third in-basin frac sand mine will begin immediately with anticipated delivery of our first commercial tons serving South Texas by year-end 2018. Once fully commissioned, the Eagle Ford mine will employ 75 people…