The conveyor belt, with a freight capacity of 13 tons (11.79 metric tonnes), was designed to bypass and trudge alongside traffic. Innovation isn't new to the oil and gas industry, nor is the idea ...
KERMIT, Texas (AP) — It’s longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph – too slow for a truck and too long for a train.
“Pretty early on, the delivery of sand via truck was not only inefficient, it was dangerous,” he said. The conveyor belt, with a freight capacity of 13 tons (11.79 metric tonnes), was designed to ...