We’ve seen plenty of E&P divestitures of water midstream assets to third-party water pure-plays over the past 12 months. But oilfield service firms can also benefit from… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …

We highlight the most important sustainability developments disclosed by operators, including several “firsts” for the industry. For many years, EOG has been the industry leader in completion design, technology and reservoir exploitation. Now they are leading the charge on a new front for operators as well: “going green….” There’s a …

There is already a veritable flood of pressure pumper and operator earnings coverage making the rounds from other analysts and publishers this week. So we focused here on sharing 11 bite-sized pieces of market intel (including a mix of datapoints and our own thoughts on the market) that are a …

At this publication, we tend to steer clear of “stock talk.” As regular readers know, our focus instead is getting deep into the weeds on corporate strategy, industry trends and the people that drive this industry forward. Furthermore, our staff does not personally invest in or trade individual stocks in …

The larger two deals of the three involve E&P operators handing off a portion of their water management operations to third-party midstream companies. This is a critically important sub-theme in water M&A, which we’ve addressed in many updates this year. Check out more analysis of each deal in this update, …

Boxes vs. pneumatics? It’s a long standing argument. Even without that competitive dynamic, it’s been tough in the sand hauling business with rates under pressure for the past 12-24 months. Here’s the latest datapoint we’ve picked up with implications for the frac sand hauling market… There’s a lot more to …

US Silica press released strong 2Q19 results this morning. We highlight 5 items from the press release that caught our attention. We also share what we’ll be listening for on this morning’s call and will add conference call analysis to this update later today… There’s a lot more to this …

Utah local sand is coming.  It’s coming faster than some folks might think. So we applied our kind of mining to the situation: data mining, public records mining, and interviewing regional contacts to learn more about the situation. Here’s what we know at this point in part one of an …

Boiling down everything that’s crossed our desk this week to just the following 12 items of import wasn’t easy. After the typical summer lull in news flow, it feels like folks are getting back to work in the oilfield business. School is about to start, folks are returning from summer …

Some savvy Infill Thinking members requested that we provide our Summer Survey results limited to only include E&P operator responses. It’s a good idea, and one that triggered our own intellectual curiosity. So we crunched the numbers and in the charts below, you will see……. There’s a lot more to …