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The industry is always interested in new ideas.  Even if  they cost more initially , those costs can be and often are brought down.

 

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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Ghawker on June 18, 2013 at 3:27

Either way, you're going to have to mine the raw materials, and I don't see how it would be more cost effective to mine, then manufacture a proppant (using a lot of energy to do so) vs. simply mine sand and ship it by rail.  Ceramic proppants are only superior in cases of deep, high pressure applications, where the rock pressure would crush sand.

Permalink Reply by jlgm on June 19, 2013 at 13:59

Still, there is a drop in the sand mining activity.  There must be a reason.

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