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This June 21st in Downtown Houston, US oil industry leaders will gather to discuss oilfield water’s evolving business model, market structure, and finance trends. Oilfield Water: Identifying & Financing The Right Solution is the first-ever conference devoted entirely to the business side of oilfield water. This segment now poses structural …

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In the pithy bullet points below, here’s what all frac supply chain folks should know from Solaris’s remarks on their earnings call last week. Their words. Their views. Not ours. But just the stuff we think matters for the broader completions marketplace. There’s a lot more to this story… Login …

On their earnings call on May 2, 2019, an E&P management team dropped this little lightning bolt of news: 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 …

In the pithy bullet points below, here’s what all frac supply chain folks should know from US Silica’s remarks on their earnings call 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 …

About one month ago, we tipped readers off about five potential upcoming deals in the oilfield water M&A pipeline. Today, one of the deals on our watch-list came to fruition. We knew the seller before… now we know the buyer. And it is one of the most aggressive consolidators in …

This is the fifth installment in our Silica Valley Series which shines the spotlight on an increasingly critical part of the frac value chain: new software solutions in the last mile. A crop of new entrants are improving the frac sand industry’s “mind-muscle connection” on the highways from origin to …

In our weekly rig count update this week, a highlights from the latest round of remarks made by the leading land rig contractors. 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 there’s one thing we can say with certainty about the 2019 US shale business it’s that oilfield water management is trending. You’ve probably noticed an uptick in water research here at Infill Thinking (example 1, 2, and 3). And we aren’t alone… check out newly launched oilfieldwater.com. So when …

Price is a powerful lever. And falling sand prices have extended payback periods for new greenfield frac sand plants. What does this mean for interest in building new plants? In this post, we take a data-driven look at the current status of a once-in-a-lifetime silica mining rush. There’s a lot …