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PSB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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FOCUS PROPPANTS
Proppants: One Piece of the Puzzle by Kristie Kubovic, Director of Communications, Shale Media Group Tejas Gosai, Editor, Shale Media Group From the planning stages to the actual drilling, to completion and even production, there are a variety of stages that transpire in the building and use of the overall puzzle of an oil or gas well. There are literally thousands of pieces, steps and protocols that go into the process of getting that oil or gas from the ground and turning it into usable energy. Of all these steps, one important part that may not readily come to mind is proppants. Sometimes referred to as propping agents, proppants are solid particles, which range from naturally occurring substances, like sand and man-made, engineered materials, such as high-strength ceramic or resin-coated varieties. These particles are then mixed with a fluid, which could be water or another substance, to form a gel or foam. Factors, like the proppant’s size and spherical shape, make a difference on how efficiently the oil or gas will flow through the well. The type of fracturing being utilized also plays a part in the desired composition of the proppant/fluid mix. Ultimately, the mixture is employed to keep a narrow opening in the earth accessible for hydraulic fracturing. Simply stated, proppants keep the shale fractures open and flowing with natural gas. Like the oil and natural gas industry as a whole, proppants are one piece of the puzzle that help revitalize the economy. The demand for proppants is not only assisting businesses that were declining, but also helping to create new businesses with some scientific help.
Building a Different Puzzle Picture Contribution by Dave Carr, MBA, Commer cial Real Estate Specialist, Prudential Images Provided by Jim Lind, President, McKees Rocks Industrial Enterprises In the United States, it is estimated that 60 billion—yes, 60 billion with a B—pounds of proppants are now utilized annually by the shale oil gas market. The vast majority of that proppant supply needs to be stored and transported from one location to another. This created an opportunity for McKees Rocks Industrial Enterprises, Inc. (MRIE). Located in McKees Rocks, the family owned industrial park is over 100 years old. “Originally the facility was just a warehousing industrial park. River and rail services were not utilized,” explained Jim Lind, MRIE President. In the late 1990s, facing an industrial decline, the company expanded
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McKees Rocks Industrial Enterprises, Inc. warehousing, rail and truck transloading facilities. The industrial park has receiving, dry warehousing and shipping facilities to accommodate a 24/7 sand proppant handling operation. Sand proppants are offloaded from barge or railcars into a three-story dry warehouse and then into trucks for transport to the well sites. “In the past, we primarily dealt with steel products. We still work with steel products, but now about 50% of our business deals with sand shipping and storage for drillers,” explained Lind. The effects of proppants on MRIE continue to change the company’s profile. In 2009, a second transloading facility opened in Hannibal, Ohio. Since then, four additional satellite branches have opened in Coshocton and Niles, Ohio and Renovo and Sayre, Pennsylvania. While MRIE’s McKees Rocks headquarters works with products other than proppants, the satellite operations deal solely with hydraulic fracturing materials. MRIE currently works with four sand suppliers and six drilling service companies.
Dan Cosgrove Territory Manager Pennington Seed, Inc. Custom and Native Seed Mixes Virginia Division Hydroseeding Products 900 Main Street Rolled Erosion Products Hwy. 40 West Geosynthetics Kenbridge, VA 23944 We help find the right solution. Oce: 800-999-7333 Fax: 434-676-6492 Mobile: 434-480-1016 dcosgrove@penningtonseed.com
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Quality and safety control are very important in MRIE’s line of work. The proppants are kept dry and separated by mesh size. Typically there are four different mesh sizes used in the drilling of an oil or gas well. In addition, possible silica dust (a component of sand) contamination is kept below Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards. Silica dust could cause serious lung problems. MRIE hired an environmental consultant to keep employees safe and adhere to safety protocols. Plus, shift workers wear company-provided protective gear. With the help of proppants, MRIE’s picture has excelled to an even more positive one. The company has experienced a 300 percent growth over the last four years, but is still open to additional transloading and storage customers. More information on MRIE could be found on their website, http://www.e-mrie.com/, or by calling 412-331-3555.
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LEE REGER BUILDS, INC. Bri-Chem Supply Corp. is in the business of warehousing and delivering products used for drilling, cementing, completing and producing oil & gas wells. Bri-Chem Supply also provides products in the mining, water treatment, water well drilling, environmental remediation and construction industries. Our facility in the Northeast is located at 59 Leetsdale Industrial Drive, Leetsdale, Pennsylvania. Facility Manager: Ken Hicks Phone: 724-318-8153 Fax: 724-385-0471 Cell: 570-637-6530 Northeast Sales & Marketing Manager: James Browder Cell: 512-587-5701 This facility has a complete Liquid Mud Mixing Plant for Oil Mud Based Fluids.
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Building a New Piece of the Puzzle Contribution by Dave Carr, MBA, Commercial Real Estate Specialist, Prudential Images Provided by Barry Scheetz, Ph.D., Materials, Civil and Nuclear Engineering Professor, Penn State Proppants are a 10 billion pound business a year in Pennsylvania. The high demand for proppants has left a need for cost effective proppants and high quantities of them. Two Pennsylvania State University (PSU) professors have developed a synthetic proppant for oil and gas well hydrofracturing. Dr. Barry Scheetz, PSU Professor of Materials, Civil and Nuclear Engineering and the Director of the Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies, and Dr. John Hellmann, PSU Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, developed PennProp Synthetic Proppants by recycling cast-off materials. These cast-off substances, include materials like local mine tailings (the material left after the valuable minerals are separated from ore), glass cullets (crushed scrap glass) and fly ash (the discharged, unburnt mineral matter in coal).
Intermediate Magnification of NETCO-Type Manufactured Proppants; Proppants—Black, Impurity—White
Hellmann says, "Our work on developing proppants from alternative raw materials which are normally relegated to land fill (such as mine tailings, mixed glass cullet, fly ash and drill cuttings from shale gas wells) enables a new, greener proppant technology that can be employed in emerging unconventional gas and oil reserves such as the Marcellus, Utica and Bakken plays. These materials are abundant and indigenous to the areas where the most intense development of unconventional reserves are taking place in the United States.” These cast-off materials are used to produce ideally hardened spherical proppants in various mesh sizes. “More spherical proppants are very desirable. They are better, especially for wet gas removal and offer greater permeability. Our synthetic proppants meet or exceed drilling industry standards,” explained Scheetz. Their research and development is providing top quality International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certified particles. ISO is an international organization that tests procedures and general usage thresholds.
Magnified Bottle Glass
Penn State has an entrepreneur-in-residence, who looks at the faculty and their research in an effort to invigorate entrepreneurship and technology transfer. With the help of the PSU entrepreneur-in-residence and the Ben Franklin Technology Partners, a technology-based economic development program, Hellmann and Scheetz patented their line of PennProp synthetic proppants. Scheetz says, “The first step was testing. We needed to prove the properties were comparable, but the industry is also economically driven. It needed to be economical and comparable in performance.” Hellman and Scheetz also founded Nittany Extraction Technologies (NETCO), a State College, Pennsylvania based company to mass-produce and market the proppants. They are in the process of securing funding and for the development of a pilot facility for mass production of the proppants. Scheetz says, "An enormous amount of proppants, around three thousand tons of material per day, will need to be processed through this pilot facility.”
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“Penn State is a land grant university. Working with a project like this is what we are supposed to be doing. It creates job opportunities in Pennsylvania and impacts the state’s economy. The need for cost-effective, quality proppants is a Pennsylvania problem and industry need. Our process eliminates multiple waste streams and takes them out of landfills. Even the transportation process creates Pennsylvania jobs. Plus, ceramics was once a great Pennsylvania industry. Our homegrown work force is already trained, and we could get them back to work,” concluded Scheetz. “In the Marcellus and Utica shale regions, the manufacturing and transportation infrastructures related to the mining, refractories, steel and glass industries can be brought to bear in creation of an entirely new industry in the northeastern United States—proppant manufacturing. Economic and environmental benefits associated with using these materials for proppant manufacturing include lower transportation costs, removal of a sizable waste stream from landfills, sequestration of these materials into the deep geological strata from whence they were originally derive (e.g. drill cuttings) and potentially lowering greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing and transportation of proppants to their sites of use," explained Hellmann. PennProp synthetic proppants, the new piece of the proppant puzzle, reduces production manufacturing costs, saves raw materials, like sand, and lessens the burdens on landfills. More information on PennProp and/or NETCO, contact Dr. Scheetz at se6@psu.edu or 814-863-5956 or Dr. Hellmann at jrh3@psu.edu or 814-865-7659.
The Final Puzzle Piece Drillers can easily employ anywhere from 2 to 60 million pounds of proppants in one well, depending on the well length and number of times the well is fractured. With no end to the oil and natural gas boom, proppants will keep playing a major role in the overall oil and natural gas puzzle. Proppants, whether they are natural or synthetic, will continue to assist both established and innovative, new businesses.
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SAFETY ON THE JOB
Schools Are Back In Session – Don’t Be a Distracted Driver It’s official, as I sit and write this article, most schools in my area have already begun the 2013 school year. As summer winds down it is important to keep in mind that that there are now kids and school busses on the road. As the new school year brings more children out onto the road, bus riders and new drivers alike, I have decided to outline the dangers of distracted driving as well as refresh everyone on the rules of the road when it comes to school busses and school zones. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), distracted driving is defined as driving while engaged in any activity that could divert a person’s attention away from the primary task of driving. All distractions endanger driver, passenger, and bystander safety. The following is a list of distractions that the NHSTA recommend avoiding whenever possible while operating a motor vehicle: • • • • • • • • •
TEXTING USING A CELL PHONE OR SMART PHONE EATING AND DRINKING TALKING TO PASSENGERS GROOMING READING, INCLUDING MAPS USING A GPS DEVICE WATCHING A VIDEO ADJUSTING A RADIO, CD PLAYER OR MP3 PLAYER
Although all of these distractions should be avoided, the NHTSA lists texting while driving as the most alarming distraction for drivers today. Text messaging requires visual, manual and cognitive attention, which leaves a driver incapable of paying the appropriate amount of attention to what is going on around them.
I would like to make it clear that I have been completely guilty of driving while engaged in all of the distracting activities listed above, I would expect that most of us are, but there is always time to change the way we think about these activities and how dangerous they can really be. At any given daylight moment in America, approximately 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or other electronic devices while driving, a statistic which has held steady since 2010. So, the importance of not being a distracted driver is exponentially increased when you consider how many other people on the road with you could be distracted. According to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), engaging in visual-manual subtasks, such as reaching for a phone, dialing and texting, associated with the use of handheld phones or other portable devices increases the risk of getting into a crash by three times, and using a hands free device or headset is not substantially safer than handheld use. The most surprising, and frightening, statistic that I have come across in my research is the fact that sending or receiving a text message takes a driver’s eyes away from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds. I know that this doesn’t sound like a long time to look away from the road, but at 55 MPH it is the equivalent of driving the entire length of a football field completely blind. Would you simply close your eyes for 5 seconds on the highway? If you are sending or receiving texts while driving, you might as well be. Now that we have discussed the dangers of our own distracted driving, it is time to consider other drivers on the road, especially younger and newer drivers. Just because you know better than to text while driving, does not mean that anyone else on the road also knows better. I bring this point up in relation to the beginning of the school year because it adds several newer, younger drivers to the road much earlier in the morning. Several local law enforcement releases recommend a heightened awareness of these drivers between the hours of 6:30 am and 8:30 am, as well as between the hours of 2:30 pm and 5:00 pm. These times are based on when younger, less experienced drivers will be on their way to and home from school. These concerns are based on a statistic from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) that states that one in four teens respond to a text message once or more EVERY TIME THEY DRIVE. Also keep in mind that this statistic is based on whether or not a teenager was honest about their driving habits when asked, so the “one in four” calculation should be considered a minimum number. As I mentioned above, I also want to take a few lines of this article to refresh everyone on the rules of driving when a school bus is involved. I am sure everyone reading knows that when the red lights are flashing and the stop arm is extended, it is illegal and extremely dangerous to pass a school bus. The following list of tips on how to stay safe around school busses and in school zones is
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So, in short, it is illegal to pass a school bus that has its red lights flashing and stop arm extended. It is also important to note that school busses are also equipped with yellow flashing lights. These yellow lights are for warning purposes and used to let the bus driver alert other motorist that a stop is about to take place. If in a legal passing zone, it is legal to pass a school bus with flashing lights, but it is not recommended. If you see the flashing yellow lights, it is safe to assume that there are children near-by and that you should be prepared to come to a complete stop at any time. For those of us who spend a lot of time on the road, and for those of us who only drive to the office and back every day, it is very important to remember that distracted driving is a serious problem that results in thousands of deaths annually. We have all seen the news reports and public service announcements talking about the dangers of distracted driving, but what made me fully appreciate the danger is acknowledging that you might not just injure or kill yourself, but someone else. As you hit the road after reading this, I hope that you will think twice about checking that text “really quick” or rushing to get around a bus before it makes you late for work. For more information regarding distracted driving, the NHTSA has set up a website called www.distraction.gov to spread the word about the dangers of distracted driving. This website has several tools for spreading the word about distracted driving including sample employer policies and ways to teach drivers about the dangers of distracted driving. By Chris Chadwick, Safety Products Coordinator at SunnySide Supply, Inc. www.SunnySideSupply.com References: “National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.” (April 2013). Web. 21 August 2013. www.nhtsa.dot.gov “Distraction.Gov.” (n.d.). Web. 21 August 2013. www.distraction.gov “Virginia Tech Transportation Institute.” (June 2013). Put The Phone Down. Web. 21 August 2013. www.vtti.vt.edu “University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.” (n.d.).
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A A Positive Positive Pairing Pairing Starting in January of 2013, The Northeast ONG Marketplace and Shale Media Group teamed up and launched a partnership. ONG Marketplace is an oil and natural gas concentrated publication with over 10,000 in distribution across the northeastern United States. Shale Media Group (SMG) is a niche market multimedia firm that produces and disseminates information, news and updates regarding the shale oil and gas energy industry and reaches millions per month by leveraging video, internet, publication, events and radio. One of SMG’s websites, TheMarcellusShale.com alone, receives roughly 2.3 million page views per month. Both companies have made it a point to continue their advocacy of reaching American energy security by educating the masses. During the past year, both companies have produced insightful work regarding the shale oil and gas industry by keeping apprised of the latest industry news and trends. Important topics like water, new technology and health and safety have been addressed, while utilizing industry experts from companies such as FYDA, Sheffield Fire and Safety Co. and NiSource Midstream Services, a segment of the Columbia Pipeline Group. The oil and natural gas community has benefited from the strengths of both ONG Marketplace and Shale Media Group. This positive partnership has allowed ONG’s clients access to SMG’s writing staff and radio opportunities with Shale Energy Now. It has also created more industry exposure at events, such as the Elite Energy Events (E3), which are energy-based events, where attendees can enjoy energy-based discussion and pick up the latest ONG Marketplace. The next E3 will be held on September 19th and will be focused on health and safety. In the coming months, ONG Marketplace and SMG will be covering topics such as water, environmental impacts and cold weather. With shale oil gas emerging as the top industry in the northeastern United States, the SMG staff looks forward to engaging ONG readers with comment sections, info graphs and hardhitting information for 2014’s energy discussion.
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