Last Thursday, Infill Thinking broke the news about a ruling in a key last mile logistics battle after digging through court records to uncover an unsigned order from a judge. Today, other channels are also reporting this news as one of the parties involved has spoken out. There’s a lot more …
Read More »Boom Goes The Dynamite: This Was The Worst Week For US Onshore Drilling In Nearly Three Years
In our Friday morning newsletter and a post on Thursday, we previewed this Friday and next Friday’s rig count releases as two of the most important to monitor all year. We noted that the rig count surprisingly hadn’t fallen in reaction to crude prices and pointed out that if it …
Read More »Schlumberger: US Onshore Will Play Second Fiddle To International OFS Growth Rates In 2019 For The 1st Time In 4 Years
Oilfield earnings season is underway. We provide our key takeaways from the first earnings call of the season, boiling down an hour-long call into a 5-minute read of pithy points. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our …
Read More »DEVELOPING: Did A Crucial Last Mile Legal Battle Just Come To A Close?
There’s some big news breaking in one of the longest running completions logistics legal battles. 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 …
Read More »This Friday And Next Are The Most Important Baker Hughes Rig Count Releases Of The Year
Rig count still matters and we frame thinking about the next couple releases in this update. 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, …
Read More »Railing Local Permian Frac Sand WITHIN The Basin Just Got Real [Exclusive Details]
Last October, we published research introducing the idea of railing locally-mined West Texas frac sand within the Permian Basin. At the time, we wrote that the concept could gain traction in 2019. It has gained traction. We’ve learned new and exclusive details about the concept’s adoption… log in to read. There’s …
Read More »Direct Sourcing Adoption Trends [Chart Of The Day]
Direct sourcing in the supply chain may feel like it’s been around forever since “everybody’s doing it” now. But it’s actually still very new and the repercussions are still reverberating. In the wake of a flurry of direct sourcing headlines in recent weeks, we thought it’d be interesting to put …
Read More »Last Mile Yard Driveby Confirms Shingle Swap, Closing The Loop On A Recent Infill Thinking Report
In mid-December, Infill Thinking drew a conclusion based on a sighting of physical evidence we observed in the field. This week, we close the loop on that report with additional photographs (and this time they are conclusive, not speculative). There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the …
Read More »How Long Can Lower 48 Derricks Defy Gravity?
The US onshore rig count per Baker Hughes GE was up 2 rigs last week to 1,052 active. What gives? 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 »Another Day, Another New Chesapeake Vendor
They’re coming in so fast that it’s hard to keep up… don’t worry, we’ve got it documented, mapped, broken down, and analyzed for you here. 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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