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Organization and Background of Business
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
Organization and Background of Business  
Organization and Background of Business

1.    Organization and Background of Business

Description of Business

We are an independent provider of supply chain management and logistics solutions designed to drive efficiencies and reduce costs for the oil and natural gas industry. We manufacture and provide patented mobile proppant and chemical management systems that unload, store and deliver proppant and chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas wells. The systems are designed to address the challenges associated with transferring large quantities of proppant and chemicals to the well site, including the cost and management of last mile logistics, which includes coordinating proppant and chemical delivery to systems. Our systems are deployed in most of the active oil and natural gas basins in the United States.

We also provide software solutions to remotely monitor proppant inventory from the source mine to well site through our Solaris Lens® and Railtronix® inventory management systems. Our customers use data from our software solutions to manage distribution of proppant and chemicals throughout their supply chain.

Recent Developments

The global response to the coronavirus 2019 pandemic (“COVID-19”) as well as the actions taken by a number of global oil producers has contributed to steep declines in the demand and pricing for oil, natural gas and NGLs, negatively impacting U.S. producers and reducing demand for our services. Our revenues have decreased materially as a result of these lower activity levels. In response, we have reduced direct operating costs and SG&A expenses, including reducing workforce levels across the Company and lowered our capital expenditures. We have also recognized impairments on certain assets which is discussed further in Note. 2. Although pricing has stabilized in the second quarter, the commodity price environment is expected to remain depressed based on over-supply, decreased demand and a potential global economic recession. In response, in addition to other measures, the Company has reduced costs and lowered its capital budget for the year.