BULK WATER Services for Kermit, TX

Atlas Energy Solutions invested $400 million to construct the Dune Express, a 42-mile fully electric overland conveyor system that originates approximately ten miles northeast of Kermit and began commercial operations in early 2025 (Texas Monthly), making Winkler County home to the longest conveyor system in the United States and cementing Kermit as the operational center of the Permian Basin's proppant supply infrastructure. Atlas added approximately five million tons of annual frac sand production capacity near Kermit with its $450 million acquisition of Hi-Crush's Kermit Mine in early 2024 (Atlas), joining Iron Oak Energy's four large-scale facilities in Winkler County and a new KingCo Energy mine launched the same year, collectively making the Kermit corridor the most concentrated frac sand mining and processing district in the country. Atlas's mining operations at the Kermit complex rely directly on cost-effective water access to support electric dredge mining (MarketScreener), and the water demand profile across this district extends well beyond mining itself to include processing plant operations, dust suppression on high-traffic sand haul roads, equipment maintenance yards, and facility construction associated with ongoing capacity expansion at multiple competing operators. Kermit sits in Winkler County along State Highway 302, positioned between the Delaware Basin to the west and the Midland Basin to the east, giving it direct logistics access to both sub-basins and making it a perpetual staging ground for drilling and completion crews whose sand supply, equipment, and water requirements all converge in this corridor simultaneously. Winkler County ranks among the top 25 counties in Texas for barrels of oil equivalent produced (MineralAnswers), sustaining active upstream operations alongside the frac sand industry and placing consistent, multi-sector water demand on a local supply base that has limited spare capacity when multiple projects are running concurrently. Water Runner delivers TCEQ-licensed bulk water with the fleet reach and Permian Basin operational experience to support Kermit-area mining, upstream, and construction operations reliably from the first day of site activity through full commissioning.