Chieftain Sand and Proppant

Your Trusted Supplier

Our goals are one and the same with our customer, reliability and performance. That means keeping our promise to be on time and to spec every time. We are Chieftain Sand, a trusted supply chain partner providing consistent quality and meeting every commitment.

Our products include quality proppants used in the hydraulic fracturing process for the oil and gas industry. Our mission is to exceed customer expectations by applying exacting quality controls to produce exceptionally consistent products.

These online pages are designed to answer many of the frequently asked questions about Chieftain Sand, our products and our people. For additional information, please refer to the Contact Us page that lists key personnel and their contact information, and shows a location map of Chieftain's Garland City, Arkansas plant.

Featured Products & Services

Frac Sand - Direct Truck Transport

Chieftain’s Arkansas plant manufactures ISO grade 40/70, 30/70 and 70/140 frac sand products and can produce other products (20/40 and 30/50) to customer order.

Procurement & Logistical Support

Chieftain’s team has the capability to manage the procurement and logistics on behalf of customers for third-party manufactured proppant anywhere in North America.

Industrial Silica and Construction Materials

Chieftain produces silica products for the filtration and specialty industrial markets and sand/aggregate products for the road-building and construction markets.

Recent News and Information

January 27, 2010

TCEQ: No Widespread Air Quality Issues in Barnett Shale

Overall, TCEQ Chief Toxicologist Dr. Michael Honeycutt said based on the test results, the commission believes there is “no need for widespread alarm” among North Texas residents since the vast majority of the monitors showed volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to be within acceptable levels while the problems were relegated to only a few select locations. 

January 19, 2010

Industry feels chill from a new administration in Washington

The Bush administration had to be a golden age for the oil and gas industry. The president, although a scion of New England Brahmins and a Yale-man, spoke like a Texan and once ran an oil company, albeit with only middling success.

January 08, 2010

Stricter smog rules a challenge for some parts of Texas

For Houston, Dallas-Ft. Worth and some other areas of Texas, which still don't meet the old standard, the new regulations would mean finding a way to cut emissions drastically or risk losing federal highway dollars. But sharply negative reaction from the governor and state environmental regulators highlight the long-standing and deep division separating Texas, which supplies the rest of the country with oil, chemicals and gas, from environmentalists pushing for federal minimums that would ensure cleaner air nationwide.