Infill Thoughts

Calling all DFW-area Infill Thinking members: we’d like to buy you a mid-morning coffee, shake your hand and chat oilfield trends with you. This is our sixth member event so far in 2018. We look forward to networking with members over coffee in Downtown Fort Worth in mid-August. There’s a …

While breaking the news about a MidCon mine construction halt exactly one month ago, we introduced a thesis to the market that MidCon frac sand mines would likely be delayed vs. initial expectations. With the potential for Oklahoma mine delays now well documented, we reiterate our first-to-market thesis that MidCon sand …

To say the Hi-Crush management team had a busy weekend might just be the understatement of the year. On Monday morning, the company dropped 3 press releases containing over 3,500 words. That’s 8 pages in Microsoft Word at 12 point font with single line spacing (yes we copy/pasted out of …

The Schlumberger conference call begins at 7:30 am this morning, and we are live blogging the highlights here. Before the call starts, we posted two observations from the press release. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our …

In our 2Q18 oilfield earnings season preview earlier this week, we wrote that Northern White Sand displacement anecdotes in the Permian Basin were likely to be heard on this upcoming round of conference calls (see point 6). It didn’t take long for this prediction to pan out… the first datapoint …

We digest and analyze reported mine activity and headcounts in the Permian Basin. 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 membership …

During the past week or so, pictures have surfaced on social media showing a US onshore industry first in land drilling: simultaneous drilling accomplished by joining together two land rigs. We talked with management to learn more and discuss the implications in this update. There’s a lot more to this …

Smart Sand has been on the fence on whether to build a Permian mine since last year. Here are the latest details on their plans as we await the next round of management commentary on the status of their intent to build. There’s a lot more to this story… Login …

We refreshed our drive time analysis for the X local Permian Basin frac sand mines that we consider “firm” (either operational or showing progress moving towards first production). For this analysis, we force ranked the Top 5 mines for each key Permian sub-market based on proximity. There’s a lot more …

In this update yesterday, we noted a changing local climate towards the frac sand mining rush in Oklahoma. It’s even worse than we initially thought. After doing some more digging, we have decided that… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this …