Shipment Of Frack Sand To Texas Sets Record -- October 15, 2016

Halliburton, US Silica claim 19,000-ton frack sand haul is a record.

Link here.

Data points:

• 19,000 tons of frack sand
• single train from Illinois to Texas
• probably set a North American record
• BNSF rail from Ottawa, IL, to Halliburton's South Texas Sand Plant in Elmendorf, TX
• five days to assemble (load)
• largest shipment of its kind
• Elmendorf, TX, in Bexar County
• terminal can handle 115-car trains
• silos can hold 40,000 tons (80 million pounds -- enough to frack 2 or 3 Permian wells)

19,000 tons = 38 million lbs.

A Permian well: fracked with 30 million lbs. This one unit train that set a record -  will provide enough sand to frack 1.3 Permian wells.

It took five days to load that train with all that sand.