This Week’s Market Buzz

• Fairmount Santrol released its 11th annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, “Staying True,” which highlights the company’s collective commitment to Sustainable Development (SD), as well as the many accomplishments of Fairmount Santrol Family Members in 2016. Family Members achieved 101 percent of the 2016 SD team goals and individual facilities achieved 97 percent of their SD goals, while shipping…

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Carbo Looks Ahead to Market Success

Carbo Ceramics Inc. reported adjusted net income of $16.1 million, or $0.70 per share, excluding certain asset write-downs and other adjustments of $15.7 million, or $0.68 per share, on revenues of $167.8 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2014. Reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2014 was $0.4 million, or $0.02 per diluted share.  

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News Briefs – November 2014

According to the latest PacWest Consulting Partners ProppantIQ market study, North America proppant consumption is expected to increase at 23 percent per annum through 2016, from 80 billion lb. in 2013 to 153 billion lb. in 2016, with much of the growth occurring in frac sand consumption. Growth in proppant consumption is driven by an increasing number of horizontal wells…

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This Week’s Market Buzz

Frac sand in ambient air does not pose a health concern for Winona residents, according to the Winona Daily News. The first look at eight months’ worth of air monitoring data in downtown Winona, Minn., showed silica sand was, for the most part, undetectable. Only two samples taken from state monitors between January and August detected silica in the air,…

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This Week’s Market Buzz

According to the latest PacWest Consulting Partners ProppantIQ market study, North America proppant consumption is expected to increase at 23 percent per annum through 2016, from 80 billion lb. in 2013 to 153 billion lb. in 2016, with much of the growth occurring in frac sand consumption. Growth in proppant consumption is driven by an increasing number of horizontal wells…

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