We spent the first week of February on location in the Permian Basin gathering market intelligence on the completions supply chain. In addition to taking it all in from the road this week, we have met with a variety of management teams and visited operations in the field. During our …

Atlas Sand was one of six in-basin sand plants (various stages of development) that we visited in the Permian Basin in early-February. Like with our five other in-basin frac sand stops, our purpose here was simply to learn more about the company’s in-basin initiatives and document our observations. In this …

We highlight an interesting appearance at a San Antonio area job fair this week. 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 your …

Newly minted public frac company Liberty Oilfield Services hosted their first ever quarterly earnings call on Tuesday March 13, 2018. We are live-blogged it, and these are our key takeaways… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our …

The frac sand logistics market is a happening place these days. Here’s a few things we’ve uncovered in the past week or so… Have you seen these yet? There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …

In our weekly rig count update this week, we slice and dice the latest drilling permit data in the Permian, divining clues about the future direction of the rig count in the Permian Basin and beyond. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To …

In the table below, we start with the range of estimates we’ve heard for Halliburton’s fleet count from our contacts recently and then we walk through what that implies for HHP at various crew size levels. Here’s our sensitivity table with a few thoughts on what you are looking at …

With the transformational impact of in-basin frac sand being written about by some of the mainstream press this week, we figured it’d be a good time to dust off our In-Basin Frac Sand Economic Impact Study published on InfillThinking.com two months ago back in early-January. If you joined Infill Thinking …

In our typical Friday guest posts, we get to hear the perspective of one Infill Thinking member at a time. And that’s usually pretty great, but as the old saying goes two heads is better than one. This post (or conversation really), is the brainchild of two Infill Thinkers who …

This is our fifth and final installment of Permian Points (quick notes from the road) from the first of two February trips we made to West Texas to gather on-the-ground market intelligence. Revisit Permian Points 1-4 at the links below: Permian Points 1 Permian Points 2 Permian Points 3 Permian …