Resumen de Halliburton goes large with sand terminal
Oilfield services giant Halliburton has responded to the challenging logistical demands of frac sand supply by bringing on stream the world's largest dedicated frac sand transfer terminal.
In fact, the US frac sand industry is a logistics game. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of sand are having to be shifted from mines located primarily in north-central US (Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, and Texas), to fracking operations in the shale gas and shale oil plays of the Bakken formation (Montana, North Dakota), the Permian (west Texas), the Marcellus (Pennsylvania, New York), and the Utica (Ohio).
The plant utilises a state-of-the-art system to discharge sand swiftly from 90-110 railcar unit trains to 10 storage silos each holding 4m lbs sand, which in turn load sand trucks to deliver the proppant to the drill pads in the Niobrara.
