Infill Thoughts

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, …

In our regular weekly rig count update, we highlight some recent commentary from two leading land drillers on market trends in the Lower 48 rig market. This commentary confirms two recent Infill Thinking exclusive reports… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read …

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 …

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 …

We recently surveyed the Infill Thinking membership on the outlook for 2H19 and 2020. Our 20 survey questions addressed big picture upstream themes, frac sand, and completions trends. We’d like to extend a big thank you to the many participants who weighed in from across the upstream value chain – …

3 wrinkles in Halliburton’s earnings call commentary yesterday went underappreciated in the myriad of conference call coverage available elsewhere… Here’s three notable nuances that caught our attention. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …

US land drilling has slide downward all year. While that’s likely no surprise to readers of this publication, it may be a bit surprising to some to see the unyielding slide shown in this zoomed-in look at the 2019 weekly progression in drilling activity. There’s a lot more to this story… …

It was a busy Monday for e-frac news, as a flurry of datapoints advancing the narrative in this new trend caught our eye. And it’s possible that buried in this flurry of news is… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this …