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Game-changing proppant technology significantly improves reservoir production through superior proppant transport and placement while increasing hydraulic fracturing efficiency SUGAR LAND, Texas, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Santrol, a Fairmount Minerals company, announced today the acquisition of self-suspending proppant technology from Soane Energy of Cambridge, MA, that will enable operators to improve hydrocarbon production by substantially increasing the surface area of propped...
PITTSBURGH, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Warren M. Garrison Jr., a professor of materials science and engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a new ultra-strength steel of high fracture toughness that is significantly less expensive to manufacture than existing products. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20020422/CMULOGO ) The new steel contains no cobalt and only a relatively small amount of nickel and therefore is much less expensive than other ultra-high...
HOUSTON, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CARBO Ceramics Inc. (NYSE: CRR) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the payment of a dividend on February 15, 2013, of $0.27 per share to shareholders of record on February 1, 2013. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120503/MM00528LOGO) CARBO is the world's largest supplier of ceramic proppant for fracturing oil and gas wells and a supplier of resin-coated sand proppant; the provider of the industry's most widely...
There has been great advancements in the development of the high-strength steel and the need for additional enhancements continue to grow. Various industries have a need for structural components that are lighter and stronger, improve energy efficiencies, reduce emissions and pollution increase safety and cost less to produce, particularly in the automotive industry. A group of researchers in Wayne State University’s College of Engineering have been working to create advanced materials...
HOUSTON, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CARBO Ceramics Inc. (NYSE: CRR) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the payment of a dividend on November 15, 2012, of $0.27 per share to shareholders of record on November 1, 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120503/MM00528LOGO) CARBO is the world's largest supplier of ceramic proppant for fracturing oil and gas wells and a supplier of resin-coated sand proppant; the provider of the industry's most widely...
Brett Smith for RedOrbit.com Artificial fissures in the earth’s crust caused by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, typically extend less than 600 meters, according to a new Durham University study. These findings could be very important for government officials looking to regulate the fracking industry, which has come under scrutiny for allegedly contaminating drinking water and causing seismic events. "Shale gas exploration is increasing across the world and sediments of different...
Rice University researchers surprised to see twin-induced brittle-like fractures in gold nanowires Thin gold wires often used in high-end electronic applications are wonderfully flexible as well as conductive. But those qualities don't necessarily apply to the same wires at the nanoscale. A new study from Rice University finds gold wires less than 20 nanometers wide can become "brittle-like" under stress. It appears in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. The paper by Rice...
GONGYI, China, Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China GengSheng Minerals, Inc. ("GengSheng") (AMEX:CHGS), a leading China-based high-tech industrial materials manufacturer producing heat resistant, energy efficient materials for a variety of industrial applications, today announced that it has been awarded $10.5 million a follow-on contract for its fracture proppants from a China-based distributor specializing in sales to overseas oil and gas companies. GengSheng will begin...
Lynn Yarris, Berkeley LabGlass stronger and tougher than steel? A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of any known material, has been developed and tested by a collaboration of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)and the California Institute of Technology. What's more, even better versions of this new glass may be on the way."These results mark the first use of a...
Applied physics professor Chris Marianetti figures out how to shatter the world's strongest materialIn 2008, experiments at The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University established pure graphene, a single layer of graphite only one atom thick, as the strongest material known to mankind. This raised a question for Chris Marianetti, Assistant Professor in Columbia Engineering's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics: how and why does graphene...
