Drilling drought takes toll on small US frackers
While most large public energy companies are kept afloat by loans in 2015, lower-profile private firms are folding
Weatherford, Texas
OIL field work was coming in fast when GoFrac doubled its workforce and equipment fleet at the beginning of last year, just one of hundreds of small oil service companies thriving on the revival of US drilling.
Founded in November 2011 with a loan of around US$35 million, the Fort Worth, Texas-based company was by 2014 making nearly that much in monthly revenues, providing the crews and machinery needed by companies including ExxonMobil to frack oil and gas wells from North Dakota to Texas.
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