TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Report methodology 1.2 About Proppant Today, LLC 2.0 Legal Disclaimer 3.0 Executive Summary 4.0 Hydraulic Fracturing and Proppant Use 4.1 Unconventional shale plays and hydraulic fracturing 4.2 Types of proppant: frac sand and manufactured proppant 4.3 Proppant products 4.4 Proppant quality 4.5 Proppant selection and evolving preferences 5.0 Frac Sand Sources, Mining and Production 5.1 Frac sand sources: location of frac sand in the US 5.2 Frac sand mining and processing methods 5.3 Frac sand mining and processing costs 5.4 Transporting frac sand to the oil field 5.5 Frac sand site permitting 6.0 Proppant Industry Structure: Supply, Demand & Logistics 6.1 Supply side: proppant producers and in-basin transloads 6.2 Frac sand delivered cost per ton 6.3 Frac sand market share: 2014 6.4 Manufactured proppant producers 6.5 In-basin proppant transloads 6.6 Demand side: the oil field service companies 6.7 Frac sand commerce 6.8 US shale play ProppantToday.com 1
6.8.1 Permian 6.8.2 Eagle Ford 6.8.3 Marcellus 6.8.4 Utica 6.8.5 Williston 6.8.6 Niobrara 6.8.7 Mississippian 6.8.8 Barnett 6.8.9 Woodford (Cana, Arkoma, Ardmore) 6.8.10 Granite Wash 6.8.11 Fayetteville 6.8.12 Haynesville 7.0 Frac Sand Logistics 7.1 Moving frac sand to the basins 7.2 Moving frac sand by rail 7.3 Cost of moving by rail 7.4 Rail infrastructure limitations 7.5 Moving frac sand by truck 7.6 Moving frac sand by barge 8.0 Market Impacts and Trends in Proppant Usage 8.1 Increase in horizontal wells 8.2 Increase in proppant per well 8.3 Proppant per well by shale play 8.4 US Oil & Gas Industry trends affecting demand for proppant 8.5 US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Frac Sand Price Index 8.6 Proppant as a percent of well cost 9.0 Proppant Demand Projections 9.1 EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2015 9.2 US Demand for proppant 2013 to 2020 ProppantToday.com 2
9.3 US regional demand for proppant 2013 to 2020 9.3.1 Permian demand for proppant 2013 to 2020 9.3.2 Eagle Ford demand for proppant 2013 to 2020 9.3.3 Marcellus demand for proppant 2013 to 2020 9.3.4 Utica demand for proppant 2013 to 2020 9.3.5 Williston demand for proppant 2013 to 2020 9.3.6 Niobrara demand for proppant 2013 to 2020 9.3.7 Other shale plays: historic proppant usage 10.0 Regulatory and Economic Issues 10.1 Federal hydraulic fracturing regulations 10.2 State and local hydraulic fracturing legislation 10.3 Moratoriums on frac sand mine permitting 10.4 Economic impacts of frac sand mining to the local community 11.0 Company Profiles Badger Mining Corporation Capital Sand Proppants, LLC CARBO Ceramics Inc. (NYSE: CRR) Chieftain Sand, Inc. Completion Industrial Minerals LLC EOG Resources Inc. (NYSE: EOG) Erna Frac Sand Fairmount Santrol (NYSE: FMSA) Hexion Inc. Hi-Crush Partners LP (NYSE: HCLP) Imerys Oilfield Solutions (EuroNext Stock Exchange: NK) Mississippi Sand National Silica Northern White Sand LLC, a subsidiary of Eagle Materials (NYSE: EXP) Pattison Sand Company, LLC ProppantToday.com 3
Preferred Sands Premier Silica LLC, a subsidiary of Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD) Saint-Gobain Proppants Select Sands Corporation (TSX Venture Exchange: SNS) Smart Sand Partners LP Source Energy Services Proppants LP Superior Silica Sands LLC, a subsidiary of Emerge Energy Services LP (NYSE: EMES) Victory Silica Ltd., a subsidiary of Victory Nickel (Toronto Stock Exchange: NI) Vista Sand Unimin Corporation U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLCA) 12.0 Concluding Remarks ProppantToday.com 4