This ‘Dune’ is not a fairy tale. It’s a very long belt to the US and the moving sand in Texas

Kermit, Texas (AP) – taller than Rhode Island width, snakes in the days of southwest of oil with us and the crawls at 10 MPH – very little in the truck.

New View: The longest belt to move to America.

Atlas Energy Solutions, Texas-based Oil Field Company, including 42 miles (42 km) from Tiny Kermit, Texas, and overseas Lea County, New Mexico. Tall and Lanky with bottles such as solar modules, metal structure is likely to be wrong with roller coaster.

In Texas Remote West, a few people who claim to be a strange machine in Kermit, a city of less than 6,000 people, where sand is often translated by tractors – trailers. At the time of return, the liquid is full of the ground for the highest crash, or cracking, oil out. The sand helps keep the holes open like water, oil and gas flowing to it.

But shipping sand with truck usually is a long and dangerous process, according to the CEO John Turner. He said large trucks traveled on sand and other industrial goods are a common place in the rich airy and oil and risky.

“It is very early, sandy delivery is not only working, it was dangerous,” he said.

Shipment belt, which has 13 tons of goods (11.79 tons of metric), are designed to pass and contend along the traffic.

Establishment is not new in the oil and gas industry, and it is not the idea of ​​using the navigation belt to move surrounding materials. Another passenger belt that shows that it shows a long-term move in the world – 98.17 miles) Length – carries phospholous from the western Saharan mine on the northwestern coast of Africa, at the point of land.

When shipping sand in a truck was a problem, an unprecedented and dangerous opportunity emerged: Create a $ 400 million machine to submit hydraulic dream production. The company left in the community on March 2023, in part, to help pay for the delivery belt and finished its first delivery in January, Turter said.

The sand is living in a covering pan with a cover that can be removed at any time, but most of them are loaded with Silos near Texas and New Mexico Brider. For its long journey, sand is sold and we were sent to companies that removed the truck with the last truck.

Keeping Belt Rollers aligned and confirmed that it works well that the big fixing barriers, according to Torner. The rollers are installed by chips signed when failing to fail and need to be replaced. This helps prevent dressing and tear and stored a simplified machine, Turter said.

The belt is cut through a large oil pool when environmental expansions have been increasing about the local industry disorders, including those of SAGEBRUSH Lizard, which were in the US world and the US fish.

“In addition, we know that sand will accelerate the nearest digging,” said Luke Metzger, the environmental texas chief. “We could see more numbers than we can do, meaning more air pollution, more spills than what could happen.”

DUNE Express is currently working for about 12 to 14 hours a day with great force for approximately half but the company expects to be transferred to the hours ago in the hours this year.

New Mexico, Lea County Brad Whiber Commissioner said he hoped to walk along the same highway where cars appeared.

“I believe it will have a good impact here,” he said.

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Lathan reported from Austin, Texas.

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Lathan is a member of the Associated Press Corps / Report for American Statering News initiative. The US report is a non-profit service program that sets journalists at local stores to report unlicensed problems.