Emerge Energy Services LP (Emerge)

Company Profile

Emerge Energy Services LP (Emerge) is a Delaware limited partnership. The company was formed by Insight Equity, a private company based in Southlake, Texas in 2012. Insight Equity managed a portfolio of companies that owns more than $800 million capital. Emerge Energy Services LP is the leading manufacturer of Northern White Silica sand.

Emerge operates in fuel processing and distribution, and the sand mining. The company wants to create a diversified portfolio of critical energy service operations.

Significant Company Events

July 25, 2014, The company completed the acquisition of mineral reserves and related assets to help manage the supply and cost of raw sand to the company’s Wisconsin sand processing plants.

May 14, 2013Emerge completed the acquisition of Direct Fuels’ net assets for $98.3 million. Direct Fuels operates a motor fuel terminal and transmix processing facility in Texas, in which it expands the company’s geographic presence into the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas market.

May 2013 Emerge Energy Services was combined with Superior Silica Sands (SSS), Allied Energy Company (AEC), and Direct Fuels (DF) in a series of transactions which developed in the initial public offering of Emerge, stated in the company’s website.

2012 Due to additional demand, SSS was motivated to construct a second mine and plant operation in Barron County, WI, and shipped its first sand.

2011 SSS expanded to Wisconsin with the construction of the new Auburn facility, which provide direct access to the highest quality frac sand in the industry.

2010 The company opened a second industrial sand plant in Kosse dedicated to processing sand mined at the Kosse quarry.

2009 SSS built a new state-of-the-art processing plant at Kosse, Texas, with the support of Insight Equity. The facility has the capacity to supply over 900,000 tpy of quality proppant (frac) sand from high quality Wisconsin feed.

2008 Insight Equity acquired Superior Silica Sand.

Insight Equity acquired AEC, a wholesale distributor of renewable and petroleum based refined products, with fuel distribution representing a majority of revenue. AEC was founded in 1962.

2003 Insight Equity acquired Direct Fuel (DF), the largest independent regional fuel distributor and specialty processor in North Texas. DF was established in 1997.