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Alpine Electric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

American Refining Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Bri-Chem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Burning Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Cam-Tek Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

CARES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Clean Harbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Drill Baby Drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Ernst Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Facteon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Fairmont Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Fisher Welding LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Five Star International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Godwin Pumps - Xylem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Hapco Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Keystone Clearwater Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Layfield Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Lee Reger Builds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Lyden Oil Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Mansfield Crane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Marcellus Safety Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Martlin Distributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

McCluskey & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

MJ Painting Contractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Mustang Aerial Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

New Pig Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

New River Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

North American Field Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Pennington Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Peoples Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

PSB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Rig Maids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Shannon Safety Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

SiteSaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

STICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Sunnyside Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

System One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Tank Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Techtonic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Unit Liner Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Weavertown Environmental Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Welltec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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Training and Workshops Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

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EVENTSADDC 62nd Annual Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Clean Fracking Communication and Technology Conference . .8

Frac Sand Supply & Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

NAPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

OOGA Oilfield Expo 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

PA Energy Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Shale Envirosafe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Shale Insight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Water Management for Shale Plays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

WV Oil & Gas Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

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Building a Different Puzzle PictureContribution by Dave Carr, MBA,

Commer cial Real Estate Specialist, PrudentialImages Provided by Jim Lind, President,

McKees Rocks Industrial Enterprises

In the United States, it is estimated that 60 billion—yes, 60 billion with aB—pounds of proppants are now utilized annually by the shale oil gas mar-ket. The vast majority of that proppant supply needs to be stored andtransported from one location to another. This created an opportunity forMcKees Rocks Industrial Enterprises, Inc. (MRIE).

Located in McKees Rocks, the family owned industrial park is over 100years old. “Originally the facility was just a warehousing industrial park.River and rail services were not utilized,” explained Jim Lind, MRIE Presi-dent. In the late 1990s, facing an industrial decline, the company expanded

into more of a river terminal. Then around 2007, the bleak picture beganto change. MRIE started receiving inquiries from the oil and natural gas in-dustry. Shortly afterwards, the industrial park was converted into a majortransloading facility for sand proppants and began working with UniversalWell Services, Inc.

MRIE’s 90-acre site now offers barge, rail and truck transloading services,along with bulk materials handling and warehousing terminal operations.Ideally located by mile point 4 on the Ohio River, the facility features an of-floading dock and shipping facilities. Two railroad spurs allow service tothe CSXT and Norfolk Southern railroads via the Pittsburgh, Allegheny andMcKees Rocks railroads. Plus, access to major highways is readily avail-able. Lind attributes a large portion of MRIE’s success to their barge andrailroad access. MRIE also stores, processes, blends, bags, screens, driesand distributes bulk materials, coal, steel products and packed goodsthroughout the northeast, mid-Atlantic and Canada.

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Proppants: One Piece of the Puzzleby Kristie Kubovic, Director of Communications, Shale Media Group

Tejas Gosai, Editor, Shale Media Group

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From the planning stages to the actual drilling, to completion and even production, there are a variety of stages thattranspire 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 en-ergy. 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 sub-stances, 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. Fac-tors, like the proppant’s size and spherical shape, make a difference on how efficiently the oil or gas will flowthrough the well. The type of fracturing being utilized also plays a part in the desired composition of the prop-pant/fluid mix. Ultimately, the mixture is employed to keep a narrow opening in the earth accessible for hydraulicfracturing. 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 theeconomy. The demand for proppants is not only assisting businesses that were declining, but also helping tocreate new businesses with some scientific help.

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The industrial park has receiving, dry warehousing and shipping facilitiesto accommodate a 24/7 sand proppant handling operation. Sand prop-pants are offloaded from barge or railcars into a three-story dry ware-house and then into trucks for transport to the well sites. “In the past, weprimarily dealt with steel products. We still work with steel products, butnow about 50% of our business deals with sand shipping and storage fordrillers,” explained Lind.

The effects of proppants on MRIE continue to change the company’s pro-file. In 2009, a second transloading facility opened in Hannibal, Ohio. Sincethen, four additional satellite branches have opened in Coshocton and Niles,Ohio and Renovo and Sayre, Pennsylvania. While MRIE’s McKees Rocksheadquarters works with products other than proppants, the satellite oper-ations deal solely with hydraulic fracturing materials. MRIE currently workswith four sand suppliers and six drilling service companies.

Quality and safety control are very important in MRIE’s line of work. Theproppants are kept dry and separated by mesh size. Typically there are fourdifferent mesh sizes used in the drilling of an oil or gas well. In addition, pos-sible silica dust (a component of sand) contamination is kept below Occu-pational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards. Silica dustcould cause serious lung problems. MRIE hired an environmental consult-ant to keep employees safe and adhere to safety protocols. Plus, shift work-ers wear company-provided protective gear.

With the help of proppants, MRIE’s picture has excelled to an even morepositive one. The company has experienced a 300 percent growth over thelast four years, but is still open to additional transloading and storage cus-tomers. 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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McKees Rocks Industrial Enterprises, Inc. warehousing, rail and truck transloading facilities.

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Building a New Piece of the PuzzleContribution by Dave Carr, MBA,

Commercial Real Estate Specialist, PrudentialImages 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. Thehigh demand for proppants has left a need for cost effective proppantsand high quantities of them. Two Pennsylvania State University (PSU)professors have developed a synthetic proppant for oil and gas wellhydrofracturing.

Dr. Barry Scheetz, PSU Professor of Materials, Civil and Nuclear Engi-neering and the Director of the Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies,and Dr. John Hellmann, PSU Professor of Materials Science and Engi-neering and the Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research,developed PennProp Synthetic Proppants by recycling cast-off materi-als. 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, unburntmineral matter in coal).

Hellmann says, "Our work on developing proppants from alternative rawmaterials which are normally relegated to land fill (such as mine tailings,mixed glass cullet, fly ash and drill cuttings from shale gas wells) enablesa new, greener proppant technology that can be employed in emergingunconventional gas and oil reserves such as the Marcellus, Utica andBakken plays. These materials are abundant and indigenous to the areaswhere the most intense development of unconventional reserves are tak-ing place in the United States.”

These cast-off materials are used to produce ideally hardened sphericalproppants in various mesh sizes. “More spherical proppants are very de-sirable. They are better, especially for wet gas removal and offer greaterpermeability. Our synthetic proppants meet or exceed drilling industrystandards,” explained Scheetz. Their research and development is pro-viding top quality International Organization for Standardization (ISO)certified particles. ISO is an international organization that tests proce-dures and general usage thresholds.

Penn State has an entrepreneur-in-residence, who looks at the facultyand their research in an effort to invigorate entrepreneurship and tech-nology transfer. With the help of the PSU entrepreneur-in-residence andthe Ben Franklin Technology Partners, a technology-based economic de-velopment program, Hellmann and Scheetz patented their line of Pen-nProp synthetic proppants. Scheetz says, “The first step was testing. Weneeded to prove the properties were comparable, but the industry is alsoeconomically driven. It needed to be economical and comparable in per-formance.”

Hellman and Scheetz also founded Nittany Extraction Technologies(NETCO), a State College, Pennsylvania based company to mass-produceand market the proppants. They are in the process of securing fundingand for the development of a pilot facility for mass production of theproppants. Scheetz says, "An enormous amount of proppants, aroundthree thousand tons of material per day, will need to be processedthrough this pilot facility.”

FOCUS PROPPANTS

Intermediate Magnification of NETCO-Type Manufactured Prop-pants; Proppants—Black, Impurity—White

Magnified Bottle Glass

Magnified Proppants from Bottle GlassContinued e


FOCUS PROPPANTS

“Penn State is a land grant university. Working with a project like this iswhat we are supposed to be doing. It creates job opportunities in Penn-sylvania and impacts the state’s economy. The need for cost-effective,quality proppants is a Pennsylvania problem and industry need. Ourprocess eliminates multiple waste streams and takes them out of landfills.Even the transportation process creates Pennsylvania jobs. Plus, ceramicswas once a great Pennsylvania industry. Our homegrown work force is al-ready trained, and we could get them back to work,” concluded Scheetz.

“In the Marcellus and Utica shale regions, the manufacturing and trans-portation infrastructures related to the mining, refractories, steel andglass industries can be brought to bear in creation of an entirely new in-dustry in the northeastern United States—proppant manufacturing. Eco-nomic and environmental benefits associated with using these materialsfor proppant manufacturing include lower transportation costs, removal ofa sizable waste stream from landfills, sequestration of these materials intothe deep geological strata from whence they were originally derive (e.g.drill cuttings) and potentially lowering greenhouse gas emissions from themanufacturing and transportation of proppants to their sites of use," ex-plained Hellmann.

PennProp synthetic proppants, the new piece of the proppant puzzle, re-duces production manufacturing costs, saves raw materials, like sand, andlessens the burdens on landfills. More information on PennProp and/orNETCO, contact Dr. Scheetz at [email protected] or 814-863-5956 or Dr. Hell-mann at [email protected] or 814-865-7659.

The Final Puzzle PieceDrillers can easily employ anywhere from 2 to 60 million pounds of proppants inone 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 majorrole in the overall oil and natural gas puzzle. Proppants, whether they are natu-ral or synthetic, will continue to assist both established and innovative, new busi-nesses.

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It’s official, as I sit and write this article, most schools in my areahave already begun the 2013 school year. As summer winds down itis important to keep in mind that that there are now kids and schoolbusses on the road. As the new school year brings more children outonto the road, bus riders and new drivers alike, I have decided tooutline the dangers of distracted driving as well as refresh everyoneon the rules of the road when it comes to school busses and schoolzones.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA), distracted driving is defined as driving while engaged in anyactivity that could divert a person’s attention away from the primarytask of driving. All distractions endanger driver, passenger, and by-stander safety. The following is a list of distractions that the NHSTArecommend avoiding whenever possible while operating a motor ve-hicle:

• 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 liststexting while driving as the most alarming distraction for driverstoday. Text messaging requires visual, manual and cognitive atten-tion, which leaves a driver incapable of paying the appropriateamount of attention to what is going on around them.

I would like to make it clear that I have been completely guilty ofdriving while engaged in all of the distracting activities listedabove, I would expect that most of us are, but there is always timeto change the way we think about these activities and how dan-gerous they can really be. At any given daylight moment in Amer-ica, approximately 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or otherelectronic devices while driving, a statistic which has held steadysince 2010. So, the importance of not being a distracted driver isexponentially increased when you consider how many other peo-ple on the road with you could be distracted.

According to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), en-gaging in visual-manual subtasks, such as reaching for a phone, di-aling and texting, associated with the use of handheld phones orother portable devices increases the risk of getting into a crash bythree times, and using a hands free device or headset is not sub-stantially safer than handheld use. The most surprising, and fright-ening, statistic that I have come across in my research is the factthat sending or receiving a text message takes a driver’s eyes awayfrom the road for an average of 4.6 seconds. I know that this does-n’t sound like a long time to look away from the road, but at 55MPH it is the equivalent of driving the entire length of a footballfield completely blind. Would you simply close your eyes for 5 sec-onds on the highway? If you are sending or receiving texts whiledriving, you might as well be.

Now that we have discussed the dangers of our own distracted driv-ing, it is time to consider other drivers on the road, especiallyyounger and newer drivers. Just because you know better than totext while driving, does not mean that anyone else on the road alsoknows better. I bring this point up in relation to the beginning ofthe school year because it adds several newer, younger drivers tothe road much earlier in the morning. Several local law enforce-ment releases recommend a heightened awareness of these driv-ers between the hours of 6:30 am and 8:30 am, as well as betweenthe hours of 2:30 pm and 5:00 pm. These times are based on whenyounger, less experienced drivers will be on their way to and homefrom school. These concerns are based on a statistic from the Uni-versity of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) thatstates that one in four teens respond to a text message once ormore EVERY TIME THEY DRIVE. Also keep in mind that this statisticis based on whether or not a teenager was honest about their driv-ing habits when asked, so the “one in four” calculation should beconsidered a minimum number.

As I mentioned above, I also want to take a few lines of this arti-cle to refresh everyone on the rules of driving when a school busis involved. I am sure everyone reading knows that when the redlights are flashing and the stop arm is extended, it is illegal and ex-tremely dangerous to pass a school bus. The following list of tipson how to stay safe around school busses and in school zones is

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designed to remind us of the rules, but also to remind us that thereare other safety concerns in play that involve the other motoristsaround us.

• KEEP ALLERT FOR SCHOOL ZONES AND BUS STOPS• BE AWARE THAT THE BUS STOPS YOU REMEMBER FROM

LAST YEAR MAY HAVE MOVED AND OTHERS MAY HAVEBEEN ADDED

• OBSERVE SCHOOL ZONE SPEED LIMITS• IF YOU ARE TRAVELING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS A

SCHOOL BUS THAT IS FLASHING RED LIGHTS AND HAS THESTOP ARM EXTENDED, YOU MUST STOP AND CANNOTMOVE UNTIL THE DRIVER RETRACTS THE STOP ARM ANDTURNS OFF THE RED LIGHTS

• IF YOU ARE TRAVELING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF ASCHOOL BUS THAT IS FLASHING RED LIGHTS AND HAS THESTOP ARM EXTENDED, YOU MUST STOP AND CANNOTMOVE UNTIL THE LIGHS ARE OFF AND THE STOP ARM ISRETRACTED UNLESS:

-YOU ARE ON A DIVIDED ROADWAY AND THE ONE-WAY ROADWAYS ARE SEPARATED BY AN UNPAVEDSPACE AT LEAST 5 FEET WIDE-YOU ARE ON A DIVIDED HIGHWAY AND THE ONE-WAYROADWAYS ARE SEPARATED BY A PHYSICAL BARRIER

• WATCH OUT FOR CHILDREN!

So, in short, it is illegal to pass a school bus that has its red lightsflashing and stop arm extended. It is also important to note thatschool busses are also equipped with yellow flashing lights. Theseyellow lights are for warning purposes and used to let the busdriver alert other motorist that a stop is about to take place. If ina legal passing zone, it is legal to pass a school bus with flashinglights, but it is not recommended. If you see the flashing yellowlights, it is safe to assume that there are children near-by and thatyou 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 thoseof us who only drive to the office and back every day, it is very im-portant to remember that distracted driving is a serious problemthat results in thousands of deaths annually. We have all seen thenews reports and public service announcements talking about thedangers of distracted driving, but what made me fully appreciatethe danger is acknowledging that you might not just injure or killyourself, but someone else. As you hit the road after reading this,I hope that you will think twice about checking that text “reallyquick” or rushing to get around a bus before it makes you late forwork.

For more information regarding distracted driving, the NHTSA hasset up a website called www.distraction.gov to spread the wordabout the dangers of distracted driving. This website has severaltools for spreading the word about distracted driving includingsample employer policies and ways to teach drivers about the dan-gers 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 ThePhone Down. Web. 21 August 2013. www.vtti.vt.edu

“University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.” (n.d.).

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