Following the Halliburton call on Monday, we’ve heard from three more management teams this week that have no visibility on the oilfield service market outlook in 2020. That said, two of these three did say some pretty interesting things about the current market climate in the Lower 48 oilpatch. Here …
Read More »Forget Frac. EVERYONE Is Talking Storage & Shut-ins
We checked in with a whole bunch of our oilfield service and E&P contacts this week. What we heard from them sure sounds like complete capitulation in the oilfield market. The bottom is coming into focus. Here’s what folks we talk to are saying… There’s a lot more to this …
Read More »A Look Way Back In Time To The Good Old Days… Early-2020 [Top Ten 1Q20 Updates]
By The Stats – Membership Resources Provided During 1Q20 In the 90 days ended March 31, 2020, the Infill Thinking research team: published 86 independent research updates, emailed 25 original Infill Thoughts newsletters to active members, issued 14 data releases to Think Sheets® members, got in one last great member meetup …
Read More »As Bad As Paper Oil Prices Got On Monday, The Real Spot Bid Got Worse [Chart Of The Day]
You’ve gotta see this chart to believe it. Consider our minds blown. 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 …
Read More »Halliburton Will Not Chase Market Share In The Frac Crash [Live Analysis Of Big Red’s Latest Thinking On The Lower 48]
This morning at 8am central, Halliburton will host their 1Q20 earnings call. Needless to say, their remarks on challenging Lower 48 business conditions will be closely watched. While outlook / guidance could be light since visibility is limited, we expect some good color on current market conditions to come from …
Read More »On The Oilfield’s Second Black Monday This Spring… One Word Comes To Mind: TEMPORARY
We know you know the logic, but on days like today, it’s good to read and re-read the crude oil cyclical rationale in it’s simplest form, which is as follows: There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our …
Read More »Schlumberger Estimates 100+ US Frac Crews Will Still Be Active At The Bottom [Live Blog Complete]
Towards the end of Q&A during today’s call, came perhaps the most interesting thing that management said about the US market all morning. Specifically, Schlumberger was asked where the US frac fleet count might bottom. Management used the opportunity presented by this question to refute some of the doomsday frac …
Read More »Paper Trades Make Oil Prices Look Better Than They Are In The Physical Market… [Chart Of The Day]
Torn by two extreme market forces (oil demand destruction from the lockdown and geopolitical supplier actions), US oil prices are being distorted and dislocated beyond recognition. Here’s how the actual spot bids in the field are trending across various grades and basins (spoiler alert, it isn’t pretty and the lowest …
Read More »A 2nd Round Of Negative Revisions Well Underway As E&P Spending Cuts Now Top $25 Billion [Real-Time NAM E&P Capex Budget Monitor]
Here are the E&Ps that have publicly announced cuts in the wake of the Sunday, March 8, oil market collapse…. 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 »Permian In-Basin Frac Sand Mine Closures Officially Begin. Here’s Who To Watch In The Next Wave Of Local Sand Capacity Reduction
This morning comes official news of the first in-basin Permian sand mine closure since Black Monday. This may be the first official Permian closure in the pandemic era, but it a) won’t be the last and b) might not be the actual first. Here’s what we are watching as the frac sand demand destruction situation …
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