A conveyor belt more than 40 miles long runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, across state borders into Lea County, New Mexico.

A new, record-breaking conveyor belt is changing how sand is transported for hydraulic fracturing across the southwest United ...

It is a new sight: the longest conveyor belt in the US. Atlas Energy Solutions, a Texas-based oil field company, installed a ...

The culprit was a dust storm (sand storm) over Texas that occurred earlier in the week on March 4th. The dust and sand were ...

Beachcombers along the Texas coast were in for a treat this past week as numerous Sand Dollars washed up along the shoreline.

The rumble of sand-hauling trucks is a familiar sound in the Permian Basin, but soon, that sound may come without a driver ...

Atlas Energy Solutions, a Texas-based oil field company, has installed a 42-mile long (67 kilometers) conveyer belt to transport millions of tons of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt the ...

A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from the oil fields of West Texas to New Mexico, all for the purpose of one mission: oil production KERMIT, Texas -- It's longer ...

In remote West Texas, there are few people to marvel at the unusual machine in Kermit, a city with a population of less than 6,000, where the sand is typically hauled by tractor-trailers.

This 'Dune' Isn't Fiction. It's the Longest Conveyer Belt in the US and Moving Sand in Texas KERMIT, Texas (AP) — It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the ...