Smart Sand and Canadian Pacific Announce Partnership to Supply High Quality Frac Sand to Major U.S. Markets by Rail

Smart Sand and Canadian Pacific Railway Limited

today announced a strategic long-term partnership under which the two companies will supply and ship premium, Northern White frac sand to the unconventional oil and gas industry in key North America producing regions (including the Bakken and Eagle Ford formations, and the Utica and Marcellus Shales). The two companies also announced the partnership's first initiative: building a new frac sand transload facility, expected to be the region's largest, in Makoti, North Dakota that will serve the Bakken formation in the Williston Basin beginning in early 2013.