Syria, Miley Cyrus, and frac sand
Published: Wed, 09/11/13
Been reading the news lately?
If you read the news at all, many of the headlines you see lately
have to do with Syria and Miley Cyrus. Not frac sand. Ha
Someone in Syria used chemical weapons on civilians, innocent women
and children (or so we are told).
The leader of Syria, Assad, says that he didn't do it!
The rebels claim to have done it, but who knows. Perhaps they are
saying that to get the US to strike and get rid of Assad.
The United States started out by saying that use of chemical
weapons would "cross the red line."
Then when President Obama was pressed on the "red line"
issue, he said that he didn't set the red line.
Now it looks like Russian President Putin has brokered a deal where
the weapons will be monitored, saving Assad from an attack by the
US.
Now, it's not my goal here to start some sort of political
debate, just highlight the fact that the Syria issue - and
it's a serious issue - is going to be somewhat resolved for the
time being. It doesn't look like the US will strike anytime
soon, anyway.
Now how about that Miley Cyrus!
Miley Cyrus used to be Hannah Montana. Or so we are told. Heh.
Anyway, she caused an enormous "ruckus" at the MTV awards
when she performed controversial "twerking" during her
routine.
I didn't even know what "twerking" was. Had to look
it up.
Apparently it's a combination of the words "twist"
and "jerk," and it means that the person doing the
twerking is moving their body in a "sexually suggestive
fashion."
Funny thing (or sad thing?) about all this is, what do you think
interests people more?
The life and death struggle going on in Syria, or Miley Cyrus'
"twerking"?
It's Miley Cyrus! Apparently something like 12 times as many
people clicked on Miley Cyrus stories than clicked on Syria stories.
I wasn't one of the people that spent a lot of time reading
Miley Cyrus articles.
Nope.
Lately I've been reading and researching on other markets where
sand suppliers can sell their sand.
You see, very little of the silica sand out there can be used for
hydraulic fracturing. The specs are so tight, that a few sharp
corners on otherwise good sand will disqualify it from being frac
sand.
But, my good pal that owns a rail terminal service has pointed to
several other markets that high quality silica sand can be sold to.
Water well drilling companies...
... tire manufacturers, and more.
So, at our lab we are busy getting information and contacts in
those industrial sand markets.
We don't act as a broker for your sand or anything (yet).
But we do link up folks with markets both inside and outside the
frac sand industry.
And of course we do testing of sand, and a mighty fine job at that!.
Because even though you might have excellent silica sand, it might
not quite be of frac sand quality.
But we still think you should get your sand to market, if possible.
We stand ready to work with you.