KERMIT, Texas — It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph – too slow for a truck and too long for a train. It's the ...

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 company named “The Dune ...

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 ...

A 42-mile conveyor belt by Atlas Energy carries sand needed for hydraulic fracturing Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Kermit, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) A 42-mile conveyor belt by Atlas Energy ...

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 company ...