This expansion adds 2.0 million tons of nameplate capacity to Shale Support, increasing the organization’s total capacity to 5.0 million tons annually.
Shale Support president and co-founder Jeffrey B. Bartlam said: “We’ve been an ‘in-basin’ provider of sand since 2014.
“Shale Support’s geographic proximity to the Haynesville, Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford Shale areas, in addition to our ability to use Norfolk Southern as a single haul carrier to the Northeast, has always allowed us to provide a superior product at a lower price point than our competition.
“This expansion allows us to continue our strategy of being the high-quality, low-cost proppant supplier to the Haynesville, Austin Chalk, Marcellus/Utica and Eagle Ford shale plays.”
Shale Support co-founder and CEO Kevin Bowen said: “It’s been difficult for Shale Support to find acquisition opportunities which maintain the clean, single digit turbidity product quality requirements of our organization.
“These two mines produce a clay-free, white sand that will maintain the stringent product standards of our brand, Delta Pearl, and will be a perfect solution for the huge demand increase that we see coming from increased Austin Chalk activity.”
Shale Support anticipates increasing the two mine’s capacity to 3 million tons by the first quarter of 2019, which will give the organization 6 million tons of capacity.
Shale Support mines Delta Pearl from its properties in Picayune, Mississippi. Delta Pearl is the frac sand of choice among operators and third-party suppliers with operations in the Marcellus/Utica, Permian, Eagle Ford and Haynesville/Tuscaloosa shale plays.
Source: Company Press Release
