Less than 15 miles away from McCartney's office, Larry Carbo sits in large wooden rocking chair.
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If it were me, my carbo-loading (and post-race analgesics) would take the form of endless pints of Guinness.
Carbo Ceramics Inc. shares are currently trading down about 3.3% on the day.
Carbo is also a leader in fracture design, consulting services and simulation software.
Carbo Ceramics Inc. shares are currently trading down about 2% on the day.
Carbo Ceramics Inc. shares are currently trading down about 3.8% on the day.
Carbo Ceramics Inc. shares are currently trading off about 6.3% on the day.
She also cooks up vats of creamy seafood, and muskoxen stew, and enough boiled potatoes to let you carbo-load for eternity.
Carbo Ceramics Inc. shares are currently trading trading flat on the day.
The racetrack is also trying to lure in more environmentally friendly high-performance racing series such as the TTXGP Zero-Carbo Electric Motorcycle Racing Series.
That distinction goes to Bernie Carbo, a pinch hitter who walloped a two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to erase a 6-3 Cincinnati lead.
The basic fracking technology has been around a long time, but in the last few years this technology has made radical progress and improvement, and a leader in that is a Houston-based firm called Carbo Ceramics.
Another early beneficiary might be Carbo Ceramics, which sells ceramic pellets the size of grains of sand that are pumped into the rock surrounding the wells to prop open the tiny cracks through which oil and gas flow.
Morris, Chairman of Carbo Ceramics.
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Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.
Carbo Ceramics ( CRR - news - people )(CRR, 73) , a Houston firm that makes various forms of "proppant, " particles (sand or a synthetic substitute) injected along with the fracking fluid to keep the fissures propped open after the pressure is withdrawn.
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