Each week through the end of this month, we are illuminating the activity trend patterns of one large operator in the Lower 48 with hard data from Lium Research. While readers that provide services to these big E&Ps (or pay attention to company disclosures) might know their current rig count …
Read More »Update On Vaca Muerta Silos
Nearly a year ago, we “guesstimated” (and then confirmed) that the first NOV SandBank deployed to Argentina’s Vaca Muerta Shale (here’s a link). This week… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be …
Read More »The Competitive Advantage Of Fully Integrated Water Midstream At Scale [Site Visit Observations]
During our Permian Basin trip this month, we had an opportunity to spend the better part of an afternoon with H2O Midstream touring the company’s extensive Howard County water midstream infrastructure. H2O Midstream owns and operates the largest independent fully interconnected produced water disposal and recycling network in the Midland …
Read More »All Eyes On Halliburton’s Pricing Commentary – Digesting Big Red’s Frac Market Commentary & Outlook
Halliburton’s conference call this week outlined… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If you are new to Infill Thinking, or your membership has expired, please email us to discuss …
Read More »Photos From The Road – Permian Field Trip
It was great to be back out in the Permian Basin to meet with folks and visit various job sites this month. We posted 13 key observations in this recent post. Today, we wanted to share more boots on the ground insights from our trip and what better way than …
Read More »Turning The Corner With Less Rigs And Fleets
Infill Thinking keeps members abreast of drilling trends with our weekly rig count analysis – unique takes and presentation on otherwise pedestrian rig count data… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be …
Read More »In Other News… Eagle Ford Mine Reopens, Drop & Hook, Wet Sand, Hot Sand, E-Trucks, & More…
In addition to the in-depth updates published so far during this week in the frac research life, these 7 quick hits also crossed our desk and are worthy of a mention… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive …
Read More »Limiting Factors For “In-Field” Mines – The Needful Boxes Aren’t Always Easy (Or Possible) To Check [Site Visit Addendum]
As an addendum to this week’s deep dive mobile-mini report from our site visit to see several in-field frac sand plants in person last week, we wanted to break out and highlight the limiting factors we see to this sand mining approach. There are some big insurmountable ones in our …
Read More »Full Steam Ahead (Without Emissions) For OnCore Processing’s Mobile Mini Mines [Site Visit Report / Pics]
Based on production run rates the day we visited, Hi Crush’s two mobile mini mines are producing enough sand to… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If you are …
Read More »Hottest Permian Counties For Drilling So Far In 2021
Infill Thinking keeps members abreast of drilling trends with our weekly rig count analysis – unique takes and presentation on otherwise pedestrian rig count data… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be …
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