Here’s just what you really need to know from the Halliburton US onshore outlook provided on Tuesday morning… 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 …
Read More »A “Quadfecta” Of Bold Last Mile Step-Change Promises – Any Of Which Could Upset The Apple Cart
A quadfecta is a set of four events. The following four items aren’t really events yet, they are futuristic concepts that we know some very smart folks with various levels of access to capital are looking at and working on at the moment. Whether any of these (or a combination) …
Read More »Another Large Carrier Rolls Up Their Sand Hauling Operations
A datapoint this week emphasizes the disruptive impact that a combination of automation software and depressed rate sheets is having on the frac sand hauling industry as another large carrier rolls up and…. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update …
Read More »Schlumberger’s US Onshore Strategic Review Continues After A Mondo Rightsizing Round That Stopped Just Shy Of HHP Retirements
4Q19 earnings season is officially underway in the oilfield with Schlumberger’s call kicking things off this morning. Three months ago, their last earnings conference call prompted us to ask: What Is Schlumberger Going To Do With Their North America Business? Since then, we’ve all heard the speculation that… There’s a …
Read More »The Final Frontier In Frac Sand Logistics Optimization? [Out Think Special Report]
On New Year’s eve, we sent a newsletter. Despite the holiday, it was one of our most opened and shared newsletters of 2019. Why? It introduced a new idea with disruptive potential. Just when we all thought the frac sand was sufficiently disrupted by the advent and maturation of in-basin …
Read More »Something Big Is Brewing On The Infill Thinking Research Desk…
Please pardon our publishing silence over the past 24 hours or so… our research team is busy working on deep dive. One might say that our head is buried in the sand. It’s topical. It’s controversial. And it has massive implications for value creation / destruction in the frac supply …
Read More »5 Quick Tuesday Followups: Why ESG Matters, Utah Sand Update, Last Mile Capex Datapoint, E&P M&A, & Crude’s Nasty Reversal
In addition to the in-depth research we’ve published this week, several datapoints crossed our desk that advance the narrative on stories we’ve recently covered. We are sharing these followups in the five-point list below: There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this …
Read More »Sandemonium Has Died Down, But Pockets Of NPT Remain Problematic
The widespread pandemonium we recently documented in frac sand’s last mile during Christmas and New Years has died down somewhat now that we are two weeks into the new year, according to our latest channel checks. However… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… …
Read More »In Other News… Frac Spread Cost Risk, Utah Sand Mine Scuttled, Last Mile Cash Crunch? Water M&A Follow-up, RIFs, Tempest In A Teapot
In addition to the in-depth updates published over the past week, these “quick hit” datapoints 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 our research newsletters, you must be …
Read More »Quick Thoughts On Atlas Sand’s TX/NM Frac Sand Conveyor Project
Infill Thinking first wrote about Atlas Sand’s conveyor project back in May 2019 (see point 10). The cat is out of the bag now and the mainstream media is feasting on a BLM press release about a new permit application filed by Atlas Sand. Atlas Sand isn’t commenting about the …
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