We did some digging after an E&P CEO’s damp sand frac patent claim last week sent a ripple through frac sand inner circles. Here is what we have uncovered… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research …

Last week, Hi-Crush said on their 4Q19 earnings call that January 2020 was the strongest month of sand sales in any January in company history. This datapoint is inline with our recent stream of reporting on stronger than expected frac activity – and sand demand – starting with this update …

A large E&P operator has firmly planted a legal flag of conceptual ownership in damp sand. This raises lots of questions for the broader adoption of the practice, including applications in in-field frac sand mining… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read …

This earnings season, a morbid data set is emerging from the shadows and becoming visible. Everyone in the oilfield is well aware of the reduction in force (RIF) trend that swept across the US onshore oilfield last year and continues this year. But the true extent of the damage has …

New pictures and a schematic have come to light as one of the first movers on the in-field mining trend continues making moves. 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. …

We live blogged our key takeaways from a critical TX RRC report release via webinar on Tuesday afternoon February 19, 2020… 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 …

Today we are giving readers a look behind the curtain at an important part of our research process. We’ve summarized the key themes we believe will be highly influential in shaping oilfield market fundamentals in 2020. Until now, these ideas have just lived on our whiteboard and post-it notes… There’s …

There are new developments today in the Uintah Basin local frac sand story. Our analysis of the new facts that have come to light can be found here… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …

Listening to the FTSI call this week, here’s what stood out to us as far as market intel takeaways for the Lower 48 pressure pumping market… 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 …

In addition to the other research we’ve posted this week, here’s an assortment of interesting odds and ends that crossed our desk and will be of interest to Infill Thinking members… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive …