Infill Thoughts

During our recent field trip through the basin and many conversations with a variety of local market participants, we’ve managed to piece together some general market intel on the proppant market and supply chain conditions in this basin. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full …

During a drive through the Haynesville in early-June 2019, we passed by the construction site of a new frac sand plant just south of Shreveport, LA. Shortly after driving by, we talked with management to confirm some of our field observations and learn more about the project from this new …

We caught up with the management team of the only company operating two new construction local frac sand plants in the Haynesville shale for the latest scoop on their operations… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our …

We caught up with a sand producing management for an update on their Haynesville plant and the latest details on in-basin market trends. 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. …

With 2019 nearly halfway over, we thought it’d be a good time for a US oil production growth status check. And it doesn’t look good for the service industry, although there is a silver lining for rig owners that we see in the data… There’s a lot more to this …

Most folks reading this update probably know that dealflow in the oilfield water sector is extremely hot in mid-2019. That said the magnitude of the transaction surge and cumulative deal flow described below may come as a bit of a surprise even to those that are plugged in on this …

Today’s guest post comes to us from Hunter Wallace who is Chief Operating Officer at Atlas Sand. Something we appreciate about Hunter is that he’s not shy to voice his beliefs with a high degree of conviction. Those of you that attended the Petroleum Connection’s frac sand conference last October …

While our recent work on rig count has detected signals from E&P operators that more rig releases are coming, this won’t be a 2H19 pivot but rather the continuation of a now well established trend. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read …

In this piece, we’ve put together a proprietary “voice of the industry” survey on electric frac fleets. We talked to contacts across the completions space about the pros, cons, adoption rates, and second order effects of utilizing electric frac fleets for this study. There’s a lot more to this story… …

In an after-hours newsletter one month ago, we warned Infill Thinking members that the buzz around electric frac fleets was poised to surge to new heights. That happened and then some! We take a look at the narrative that Wall Street has been pushing since the big dual e-fracing datapoints …