Title: Liquid Treatment Market for Shale Fracturing Sand is Growing Rapidly

The use of centrifuges, filter presses, belt presses, screens, hydrocyclones, thickeners, pumps, valves, cross flow membranes and treatment chemicals in manufactured sand plants producing proppants for shale fracturing is growing rapidly. The techniques developed in the U.S. to fracture shale for the purpose of extracting oil and gas are the foundation of the success of the U.S. economy in the last decade. Developers have continually reduced costs with new techniques such as horizontal drilling. The transport of sand with the correct fracking features from Wisconsin and Minnesota to West Texas has been very costly. One of the most recent cost reductions is to manufacture high quality sand from the lower quality resources available in the region. The West Texas Permian Basin is relatively arid. Freshwater supplies are limited. The new fracking sand mining plants in the basin add to the large water demand already caused by the fracking process. One solution for the fracking sites is the use of treated municipal wastewater. Another potential is the treatment and use of brackish water. Nevertheless fresh water will remain the main source for the foreseeable future. As a result conservation becomes a high priority. Fracking sand plant suppliers have risen to this challenge by designing systems which reuse as much as 98 percent of the process water needed. Fracking’s water footprint could grow by up to fiftyfold in some regions of the U.S. by the year 2030. The U.S. demand for water management services associated with the acquisition, transport, transfer, storage, flowback, treatment and disposal of water increased by nearly 50 percent over the last year at a cost of nearly $20 billion. Water management spending for hydraulic fracturing services in the U.S. is expected to total $150 billion over the next decade. Sand mining plants are tasked with minimizing water use. There were at least five sand mines opened in the Permian Basin by Hi-Crush, Black Mountain Sand and U.S. Silica in 2018 with a proppant supply of 35 billion pounds per year. Many more mines are expected to be opened soon.

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