Business View Magazine | July 2020

132 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2020 Hayden Gillespie, Chief Commercial Officer of Black Mountain Sand, reports, “I was working for another local service company that was also noticing the trend and we ultimately ended up joining forces. I came over in late 2016 and we began in earnest in 2017, launching a really strong ground game looking at different sites within different basins – South Texas, West Texas, Oklahoma. The first site we identified was the dune complexes in Winkler County, Texas on the Permian Basin, centrally located to the Midland and Delaware Basins. Being an upstream company with a lot of land experience, we felt that was an area where we could capture a lot of value to be first movers; securing land from landowners and very quickly transitioning to the construction and commercialization phase.” In 2017, the Black Mountain team was small and lean, only a handful working on the project, including the CEOs and CFOs of both companies, and Gillespie was the first Sand- specific employee. They were a motivated crew