Oilfield minerals News in Brief

• Autores: Laura Syrett, Kasia Patel
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 568, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Enero)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • "Because Andhra Pradesh is the barite hub of India, the state's Chief Minister has declared a war against illegal mining of the mineral," she explained.

    "Production at the plant will validate the scalability of our proppant product and provide a clear runway for the commercialisation of the product in the massive global fracking and proppant market," Siegfried Konig, Coretrack's executive director, said.

    As a result of its 'shale gale', the US' requirement for frac sand, ceramic proppants, and resin-coated versions of each, has grown from around 5m tonnes in 2007 to 34.7m tonnes in 2013, according to IM 's China's Proppants market report.