Diesel Frac Glut Hinders Lower-Carbon Fleet Adoption
by Bloomberg |Wednesday, April 21, 2021 EWS has been in business for five years and has deployed seven crews in the USA, well below its expectation of about 20 by now. (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Alejandro Bulgheroni’s dream of making fracking more environmentally friendly is running up against the reality of shale-patch economics. The Argentine oil tycoon has pumped about $250 million into developing the technology behind Evolution Well Services, a Texas-based company that makes fracking equipment powered by natural gas produced at drillers’ wells instead of diesel that has to be trucked...