AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. (NYSE: AESI) (“Atlas” or the “Company”) today announced the first commercial delivery of sand off the Dune Express. On the early morning of Sunday, January 12th, a commercial proppant delivery occurred at our End-of-Line facility utilizing the 42-mile Dune Express conveyor system. The sand was originally produced and placed onto the Dune Express at our Kermit facility and traveled 42-miles to our End-of-Line loadout facility in New Mexico.
John Turner, President & CEO of Atlas, commented, “The first commercial delivery utilizing the Dune Express conveyor system is a major milestone for Atlas, our shareholders and our customers we proudly serve. I want to extend a big thank you to all of our employees, and particularly our construction team, for bringing this innovative project online. The Dune Express is a step change in oilfield logistics and will help redefine the efficiency and reliability for the Permian oil and gas community. In addition, the Dune Express will help make the communities of West Texas safer places to work and live by reducing truck traffic on public roads.”
Dune Express revolutionizing proppant logistics
The Dune Express is a fully electrified 42-mile overland frac sand conveyor system that originates at our mine in Kermit, Texas and ends just past the New Mexico / Texas state line, in Lea County, and is capable of moving 13 million tons of proppant per year. The system has two permanent loadout facilities, which represent over 84,000 tons of vertical frac sand storage. In addition, customers have the ability to offload sand at any point along the Dune Express utilizing our engineered mobile offload system.
Improving safety, reducing emissions
The Dune Express meaningfully shorten the distance that proppant travels by truck, which is expected to significantly minimize trucks on the road, miles driven, and associated emissions all while driving efficiency gains at the wellsite. All of these things in tandem will make the communities in which we operate safer places to live and work.
