Preferred Sands is building a new frac sand facility in Monahans, Texas, a spot right in between the Delaware and Midland Basins, where well activity is present, according to NewsWest9. After two and a half years of surveying different Texas areas and the permitting phase, the $100 million facility is becoming a reality.
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Preferred Sands Gets New Location for Plant
Preferred Sands has purchased more than 4,000 acres in northern Atascosa and southern Bexar counties in Texas, and the acreage includes a sand mine that’s already been in operation for decades, according to mysa.com.
Read MorePreferred Sands Touts Nebraska Sand
Preferred Sands announced that third-party testing and real production data confirm that silica sand from its Genoa, Neb., processing facility provides comparable crush and performance benefits to Northern White Sand, in addition to offering a lower proppant cost and logistics savings.
Read MorePreferred Sands Touts Performance of its RCS Product
Preferred Sands announced that its Garnet resin-coated sand (RCS) product outperformed by approximately 90 percent the highest producing conventional resin available in the Permian Basin, based on a study sampling 2,099 horizontal wells in the Permian from January 2013 through December 2014.
Read MoreTechnology Designed to Control Fugitive Dust
Preferred Technology, an affiliate of Preferred Sands and one of North America’s leading proppant-technology companies, recently completed a series of successful DustPRO proppant pilot wells in Colorado.
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