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

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

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. Atlas Energy Solutions, a ...

It is a new sight: the longest conveyor belt in the US. Atlas Energy Solutions, a Texas-based oil field company, installed a 67km-long conveyor belt to transport millions of tonnes of sand for ...

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 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 ...

The belt cuts through a large oil patch where environmentalists have long raised concerns about the industry disturbing local habitats.

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