Hexion Inc.’s oilfield technology group will expand its resin-coated proppant manufacturing facility in Canada to provide a more efficient supply of proppants to fracturing service companies and operators, the company said June 9.
Hexion’s proppant plant in Sturgeon County, Alberta, is in the process of a phased expansion project to increase capacity and logistics capability. The plant’s internal capacity is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2016.
The expansion project includes the purchase of additional land for the installation of track that will accommodate more than 100 railcars. New storage silos will ensure ample sand supplies, especially during peak seasons. Hexion’s transloading network serves the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
This plant is currently the only proppant manufacturing facility in Canada within the industry and produces a variety of products such as Hexion’s Yukon Black proppants, which are a next-generation resin coated sand that bonds at low temperatures. These proppants are ideal for fracture treatments in the low temperature reservoirs in Canada where flowback control is necessary.
Hexion Inc. is based in Columbus, Ohio.
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