About SandPile Services – Frac Sand Experts in the Permian Basin and Beyond
Who We Are: Leaders in Wet and Dry Frac Sand Operations
SandPile Services is a trusted provider of wet frac sand operations, logistics, and consulting services in the Permian Basin and beyond. With years of hands-on experience in frac sand sourcing, supply chain optimization, and onsite sand operations, our team is dedicated to delivering efficient, reliable, and innovative solutions for today’s oil and gas industry.
SandPile Services started with just an operations guy with a background in water resource management and a sand engineer with a background in frac and completions. Who knew that a 2018 wet sand project would lead to the vision of SandPile Services? Traditionally, frac operations used only dry sand railed down from Wisconsin. That is a long way from Texas… and we paid for it. Understanding the sand supply chain led to finding ways to improve economics, which eventually eliminated rail and terminals from the picture. Local frac sand mines began to pop up in each basin, and after many production comparisons and lengthy debates, the industry learned that local sand worked just fine with no impact on production and, in fact, improved investment returns. The oil & gas industry has embraced in-basin sand over the past few years. The next evolution came in 2018, when we experimented with reducing drying time at the mine and used only their washed piles for frac sand supply at the wellsite.
This is where our wet sand experience starts, the very beginning. Fast forward to today’s wet sand success… it seems like second nature to us now, but we reflect on the past years of frustrations and enhancements, troubleshooting and improvements, and challenges and solutions. Key word: SOLUTIONS.
We have crawled under many pieces of equipment at all hours of the night and at the most inconvenient times to thoroughly understand and solve wet-sand issues. Heck, we introduced a water-filter pod system to address an issue in the sand industry. As few people have witnessed a piece of this true sand revolution, SandPile Services has been involved from the very beginning, continually innovating and improving the frac sand process. It has been a fun job from the start. It keeps us sharp and tinkering, continually streamlining the sand process. You won’t meet anyone more passionate about bringing sand to your wellsite. We are the SandPile team, a group of wet sand experts who absolutely love helping the industry from the mine to the wellhead. It’s what we breathe.
Leadership Team at SandPile Services
Anna Omsberg
CEO
Anna earned her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Montana State University in 2006. Since then, she has accumulated more than 17 years of upstream oil and gas experience, providing innovative technical solutions to improve Estimated Ultimate Recovery rates across basins in North America. Her career includes high-level positions in engineering, sales, management, supply chain, and operations in frac, cement, and completion tools. In a previous role, she worked for an E&P company to transition its frac fleets from dry sand operations to wet sand.
Brian is a proven water resources manager and sand coordinator with 15 years of experience in water transfer, sand sourcing, and logistics. He helped lead the charge to pivot from dry-sand operations to wet-sand operations in the Permian Basin. This includes redesigning and testing equipment modifications to accommodate the “stickiness” of damp sand, and eventually transitioning away from the traditional box-and-belt systems to stacking wet sand into a pile on location.
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