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we will be able to produce at our permitted
capacity," he assures.
The plants are situated ideally to deliver
sand to Permian customers at a low cost,
Brigham continues. "The Kermit plant is
bisected by two highways, and the traffic
studies we have done suggest we will be
able to get trucks in and out even if all
the nearby sand mines max out," he says.
"Monahans is in an even better position.
It is adjacent to two highways, including
I-20, a major thoroughfare, and near a
railroad.
"We are the only organically generated
Permian Basin sand mine, built by Permian
operators for Permian operators," Brigham
remarks. "Because we are funded by internal capital and strategic investors, we
have the freedom to build a company to
last."
Brigham says the company eventually
may go public, which means it must exercise extreme diligence in every area,
from accounting and reserve audits to
environmental stewardship. "We will be
aggressively and smartly reclaiming mined
lands, avoiding optimal dune sagebrush
lizard habitat, and having substantial setasides," he details.

gauge on a nearby wellhead, it is simple
to deploy. Although it is as accurate as
legacy completion evaluation methods,
the cost is typically less than 20 percent
of those methods.
"The low cost, accuracy and ease of
deployment mean this technology can be
applied on every well to act as a form of
quality control," Kashikar continues. "By
providing a near real-time assessment of
a completion, it allows operators to adapt

to geological variations that occur throughout plays and to the gradual changes in
stress profiles that occur as plays are developed, reducing geologic and financial
risk."
The pressure data can be processed
quickly enough to inform decisions midcompletion, Kashikar mentions. "For example, after the first stage is completed,
we can look at the diversion technique
used, make changes for subsequent stages,

Completion Quality Control
What if operators could map every
development well's completion to determine whether it is performing as expected
or should be changed to match varying
geology? According to Reveal Energy
Services, that now is a technical and economic possibility with a pressure gauge
on a monitor well. Using technology licensed from Statoil Technology Invest,
the startup applies the recorded pressure
response in the monitor well to calculate
a fracture map of the newly created fractures in the treatment well.
Reveal Energy Services says it uses
the pressure data to:
* Quantify 3-D fracture maps of halflength, height and asymmetry;
* Determine how far proppant has
been placed within the fracture;
* Understand whether a diversion
technique is working;
* Know if the fluid is distributed between multiple clusters; and
* Identify the depletion boundary
surrounding a parent well.
"Pressure-based fracture monitoring
enables 100 percent fracture assurance,"
says Sudhendu Kashikar, the company's
CEO. "Because it only requires a pressure
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