New Frac Sand Transload Opens in Pennsylvania

Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
Based in The Woodlands, Tex., Smart Sand provides frac sand (proppant) and related logistics services to the oil and gas industry. In addition to its newest transload in Waynesburg, Pa., it offers transload sites in Van Hook, N.D., Gardendale, Tex., and El Reno, Okla.

Based in The Woodlands, Tex., Smart Sand provides frac sand (proppant) and related logistics services to the oil and gas industry. In addition to its newest transload in Waynesburg, Pa., it offers transload sites in Van Hook, N.D., Gardendale, Tex., and El Reno, Okla.

Smart Sand, Inc. has started operating and delivering sand to its new Norfolk Southern-served transload in Waynesburg, Pa.

With more than four miles of track, the unit train-capable terminal serves the southwestern portion of the Marcellus Basin, and is expected to have a transloading capacity of more than 1 million tons of frac sand per year, Smart Sand reported on Jan. 25.

The Woodlands, Tex.-based Smart Sand provides frac sand (proppant) and related logistics services to the oil and gas industry. It also offers transload sites in Van Hook, N.D., Gardendale, Tex., and El Reno, Okla.; mining sites in Wisconsin and Illinois; and a manufacturing facility in Saskatchewan, Canada.

“This [new] facility is ideally located, being on the Norfolk Southern Class I rail line and in close proximity to our customers’ drilling activity,” Smart Sand CEO Charles Young said. “Together, Smart Sand and its customers will share the benefit of reduced landed costs for Smart Sand’s high-quality Northern White sand. Equally important, the shortened truck rides will reduce carbon emissions and enhance safety, thus serving important ESG goals that Smart Sand is determined to fulfill.

“We look forward to this terminal driving incremental opportunities to grow our business, including our SmartSystem™ [last-mile storage and transloading] utilization, as we did with our Van Hook terminal in the Bakken, where we have sold more than 3 million tons since commencing operations there in April 2018.”

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