This plant is offered for sale with +/- 11 acres of land in an industrial park located 10 minutes from I-20 and Minden, Louisiana. It is served by rail and industrial level electrical, gas, water and sewer connections. The production system was designed to produce resin-coated frack sand, a product now displaced by alternate technologies. Expected use would be to upgrade the drying and separation systems while utilizing the advanced high-capacity rail and storage systems already in place. Currently limited by the dryers 24 tons/hour total production, the bulk handling system components are capable of moving up to 300 tons/hour of sand.
The site has security fencing and lighting, powered gates, and large hard-pack gravel surfaces. The office building includes laboratory facilities, employee areas with kitchen and shower facilities, a large shop and a second floor of undeveloped space. There is also warehouse space, production areas and the electrical room in the main building. The adjacent tower is filled with the dual circuit production system including bucket elevators, conveyors, dryers, pug mills, screeners, silos and emission control systems including cartridge dust collectors and a RTO (regenerative thermal oxidizer to destroy VOC’s. The 2000kVA 480V electrical system is operated by a Honeywell control system through PLC’s and MCC’s with numerous VFD’s. There is a battery UPS for controls, and a natural gas 250kW standby generator with ATS. Two Kaeser air compressors with dryers and reservoirs serve the pneumatic systems. Full original documentation of the plant and equipment is included in the sale.
Complete Frack With Rail
Product was brought in by rail, and unloaded into an under-track conveyor feeding to two bulk silos. From there it was conveyed into the processing tower and resin coated. Then it was conveyed to one of four finished product silos with direct truck loading systems over truck scales. Product was also conveyed back to the rail tower for loading into cars sitting on rail scales.
Upgrading the plant capacity can be accomplished by adding rotary dryer capacity and additional screening equipment. This could result in a plant capacity of over a million tons capacity per year. Original cost for this plant in 2010 was $48,000,000. It only ran for three years, was mothballed for re-start and has been powered up and guarded until now. With the anticipated upturn in fracking, this plant offers a unique opportunity to quickly establish a presence in the proppant supply chain.
The facility as shown including the land is offered for $6,600,000 USD.
