This is our fourth installment of Permian Points – quick notes from our time on the road in West Texas in February. Permian Points 1 touched on the local sand business, including pricing and construction status updates; Permian Points 2 hit oilfield activity levels and labor; Permian Points 3 covered issues we …
Read More »Chasing Rigs Around The Basins, Through Recent Highs And Lows
In this weekly rig count update, we take a spin around the basins looking at relative performance from recent peaks and valleys. Studying rig count changes during mini-cycles within the big picture trend can illustrate the level of operator commitment to various plays and reveal drilling program volatility within each …
Read More »High Roller Sand Resumes The Ramp Up
Shortly after pressing send on an early-February 2018 edition of the Infill Thinking newsletter, we hit the road in Odessa bound for a visit to High Roller Sand’s Kermit frac sand plant. The facility had been open less than a week at the time of our visit, about four weeks …
Read More »In Other News… More Sand In The Uinta, Eagle Ford And Haynesville; An OCTG Surprise; And Last Mile Developments
Things are happening fast in the oilfield / sandpatch right now. In addition to the Infill Thinking research updates published this week, some third-party stories crossed our desk that are worthy of passing along. All links will open a third-party article in a new tab. There’s a lot more to …
Read More »The Tax “Bottom Line” – Property And Sales Tax Opportunities For The Permian Sand Rush [Friday Guest Post]
Each Friday in the last month of each quarter, we pass our keyboard to an Infill Thinking subscriber to weigh in from their field. We hope you enjoy reading these hand-picked contributions as much as we do. Guest Contributor(s) Introduction From Joseph Triepke: Today’s guest post comes to us from …
Read More »The First Truckloads Just Shipped From The 6th Permian Frac Sand Plant [Infill Thinking Exclusive]
Industry sources tell Infill Thinking that [NAME REDACTED] mine’s first truckloads are rolling out from their new frac sand plant near Monahans as you read this update. Login to see the plant’s name that is shipping and learn exclusive details about the planned ramp up here…. There’s a lot more …
Read More »In-Basin Frac Sand Adoption Is Now In Full Swing, Held Up Only By Availability
We have sorted through 1,000+ pages of E&P conference call transcripts to come up with the most important things customers are saying about frac sand. 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 »You Have To Be A Policy Wonk To Predict OCTG Pricing In 2018
A look at the latest import data, trade protection measures, and capacity and pricing commentary from a market leader. 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 …
Read More »5 Important Oilfield Market Takeaways From The Emerge Energy Services Call Monday
On the back of a strong conference call and roughly in-line 4Q17 results, Emerge Energy Services stock traded almost 7% higher yesterday. The following are some of our key takeaways from CEO Rick Shearer and his team’s commentary on the conference calls. These points include the latest progress on San …
Read More »Of Highways, Drivers, Chassis, Engines, And Wheels [Permian Points 3]
Here’s a Tyner Energy Tweet – good follow on Twitter by the way – that will probably resonate with anyone that has i) spent time in the Permian oilfield and also ii) seen the movie Mad Max which features a fantastical fleet of muscle trucks racing around a post-apocalyptic desert. …
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