Resumen de Year in Review: Frac sand
Northern Frac Proppants, LLC (NFP) announced a multi-year agreement to supply Northern White frac sand to CARBO Ceramics' new processing plant in western Wisconsin, US. NFP is also building a 145-acre (0.58km 2 ) sand mine and processing plant adjacent to CARBO's sand processing and resin-coating plant in Marshfield, Wisconsin.
At the end of April, London's historic Stationers' Hall played host to IM's Proppant Prospects for Europe Roundtable, where among other topics, the security of proppant supply in Europe was discussed. Clive Mitchell at the British Geological Survey said: "The UK is nearly self-sufficient in silica sand (...) there are 40 sand quarries in the UK producing 4m tonnes of silica sand".
In July, a new Alberta, Canada-based frac sand terminal, owned by specialty chemicals company Di-Corp., begun to benefit from Canadian National Railway (CN) services. The 20-acre (0.08km 2 ) frac sand terminal has an annual throughput capacity of 550,000 tonnes frac sand.
