Aurora Innovation (AUR) announced a new commercial agreement with Detmar Logistics to autonomously transport proppants around the clock for one of the world’s largest multinational oil and gas ...

Frac sand mining may no longer be booming, but it hasn’t become a bust. Oil prices have dropped more 50 percent since last year at this time, and have an unstable short-term future. That’s slowed ...

According to documents filed with state officials, at least half a dozen companies have hatched plans to build mines or loading terminals along rail lines that provide an economical link to drilling ...

Permian Basin logistics company finds early success hauling frac sand without humans on private desert roads in Texas and New Mexico. Atlas plans to add more heavy-duty self-driving RoboTrucks to its ...

In a clash of old and new industries, Wisconsin frac sand producers say their business is threatened by a handful of railroads operating under outdated regulations. Wisconsin produces about a third of ...

YARDLEY, Pa., May 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Smart Sand, Inc. (SND) (the "Company" or "Smart Sand"), a fully integrated frac and industrial sand supply and services company, a low-cost producer of high ...

RED WING, Minn. - Near the muddy banks of Hay Creek, a popular trout stream, are significant bluffs covered with a hardwood forest of oak, bass wood and black cherry trees. Underneath the forested ...

There's a rumor going around the energy industry that it's running low on frac sand. That sand is critically important, because it props open cracks in the rock so oil and natural gas can escape. If ...

Frac sand companies won’t have to complete extra traffic studies before opening for business in Winona under a recommendation from the city’s planning commission. The commission voted 8-1 Monday; ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Demand for frac sand has surged in recent weeks as U.S. producers rush back to the oil patch, stoking concern that supplies of the key component of drilling may not be able to ...