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Things are heating up in West Texas - some large players are scaling up for what looks like will be a boom and return of the super fracs although it never really shut down out here when oil dropped.

San Angelo’s footprint on the oil industry is expanding, with the announcement that US Well Services, LLC is relocating one of its Northeastern fleets to San Angelo, according to a news release.

The company, which provides high-pressure, hydraulic fracturing services, operates in shale regions of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, along with the Cotton Valley, Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford Shale out of Bryan, Texas.

“The arrival of a highly-skilled, national well services company to San Angelo is further evidence that oil producers are being strengthened by the steady and measured increase in the price of West Texas Intermediate Crude,” said Mike Boyd, president of the city’s Chamber of Commerce, in a news release. “Unlike the boom of 2014, this is a more durable and progressive resurgence of WTI.”

The company's San Angelo operation will not involve transporting frac sand, but equipment, said Michael Looney, the chamber's vice president of economic development.

According to its website, the Houston-based company provides "industry-leading well stimulation services for our clients by offering safe, cost-effective, state-of-the-art hydraulic fracturing equipment and experienced personnel."

The San Angelo fleet will service the Wolfcamp and Southern Eagle Ford Shale and will begin operations mid-February 2018.

The company will be hiring office and shop employees, advising interested applicants to visit http://uswellservices.com/careers.html.

MORE: San Angelo becomes new home to manufacturing corporation

Last year another company in the oil industry announced its entry to San Angelo.

Dragon PES Inc. announced Sept. 11 its acquisition of a 19-acre production tank manufacturing plant in San Angelo, bringing new manufacturing jobs to the area.

Dragon — which is based in Beaumont — fabricates items that serve the energy and industrial industries, including trailers, tanks, rigs and pumps. The San Angelo site is dedicated to manufacturing surface production equipment, which deals with the treatment and storage of oil after it is drilled.

Richmond Bennett, Dragon’s vice president of human relations, said in September the intent was to hire about 125 employees from the San Angelo area for the plant.

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