Frac Sand Quarry-to-Well Logistics More Complex

摘要

Besides water, one key ingredient is needed for hy-draulic fracturing to take place: sand and — like water-lots of it. A typical fracturing job can take thousands of pounds of sand and like getting the rig to the drilling site or pipe to the rig — it takes a complex set of move-ments to get the sand from the quarry to a rail site to a drill site and down the hole.