System of delivering and storing proppant for use at a well site and container for such proppant

Abstract The invention relates to methods of loading and transporting largevolumes of proppants to a well drilling site. The method comprises positioning a plurality of empty proppant containers, each container located on a trailer and strengthened to receive a large volume of proppant, filling the containers with proppant, staging a plurality of road transport vehicles that receives at least one of the proppant filled containers, transferring the proppant filled containers to a well drilling site, unloading the containers and vertically stacking the containers at a second site. The invention also relates to a system structurally strengthened for proppant storage. 21113660_1 (GHMatters) P124821.AU