This Week’s Market Buzz

A new frac sand mine in southeastern Barron County, Wis., will make relatively quick work of a sand deposit estimated at about 6 million tons, according to the Barron News-Shield. Information in the reclamation plan identifies the owners of the 80-acre property as David and Louise Driver of Chetek. The operator is Chieftain Sand & Proppant-Barron of New Auburn.

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Hi-Crush, U.S. Well Enter into Long-Term Contract

Hi-Crush Partners LP announced the entry into a three-year supply agreement by a subsidiary of Hi-Crush with U.S. Well Services, LLC, a Texas-based oilfield services provider of well stimulation services to the upstream oil and gas industry. The supply agreement requires U.S. Well to pay a specified price for a specified minimum volume of frac sand each month.

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ADM-Benson Quinn Adds Frac Sand Operation

After its first full year of business in an agriculture-based community, Archer Daniels Midland Co. has found an oil field niche at its Hebron, N.D., grain elevator, according to Prairie Business magazine. Not only does it take wheat, sunflowers and canola, it has added a frac sand transloading facility.

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Midwestern Industries Double-Deck Screener Offers Flexibility

The new Model MR-7 Screener with its compact, highly efficient design is specially engineered for conveyor-type installations. The double-deck screener allows materials to be separated from an approximately 1-in. opening on the top deck to a separation down to 1/8-in. opening on the bottom screening deck.

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