Construction has begun in Webster Parish for a company that will make products for oil and gas operators in the Haynesville Shale fields in northwestern Louisiana and other natural gas fields in the United States. The company is called Patriot Proppants. It will produce a resin-coated sand used in hydraulic fracturing — the use of pressurized fluid to fracture underground rock and release gas. Patriot Proppants is building on 27 acres in the 260-acre South Webster Industrial District Park. The company held groundbreaking ceremonies Tuesday. It hopes to open by late summer 2010 and plans to have 30 skilled employees with a payroll of approximately $1.3 million annually, according to the Shreveport Times.
Webster plant will make gas production supplies
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