Conveyor belt carries frack sand 42 miles in Permian Basin

Imagine a 42-mile long conveyor belt in west Texas and southeast New Mexico.

The $400 million project, the world’s second largest conveyor belt, was designed to haul hydraulic fracturing sand from a Texas facility to Permian Basin oil and gas operations in New Mexico.

Reporter Russell Gold of the Texas Monthly recently wrote about the belt that can carry 13 million tons of sand a year…

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