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Shale Support filed Chapter 11 last Thursday. In our coverage at the time, we noted they would not be alone in the bankruptcy camp for very long. We admittedly didn’t know they’d have company quite this fast though… Yesterday in bankruptcy court… There’s a lot more to this story… Login …

At Infill Thinking, we are very aware of what our greatest asset is. Without a doubt it is our membership roster. We are honored to have on this list some of the most accomplished executives in the US onshore business. We are also very aware of what the key debates …

The drilling activity upcycle that began in 2016 started to take a breather in 4Q18. Now 2019 is shaping up to be the first down year in the past three years for rig count. In the 6-slide deck below, you’ll see the story of the current cycle in the context …

Here with the third quarter of 2019 only about a week old, we are pausing to take a look back at 10 key themes that threaded through our research over the past 3 months. 1. Infill Thinking’s Oilfield Water Coverage Reached Critical Mass. While continuing to devote plenty of research …

During 2Q19, the Infill Thinking research team: published 106 written research updates emailed 24 Infill Thoughts newsletters to active members issued 15 data releases to Think Sheets® members co-hosted the industry’s first Oilfield Water Finance conference and spoke at the SPE Permian Symposium, both in Houston conducted site visits and …

When Colorado’s SB-181 legislation passed in April 2019, it injected new uncertainties in the tenuous Colorado energy regulation climate. In our weekly rig count update this week, we discuss the fall-out and then shine the spotlight on the state’s rig count trends at the county level. There’s a lot more …

In this update, we talk about why the withdrawal of the WaterBridge IPO isn’t a big surprise followed by takeaways from the afternoon sessions of the Oilfield Water Finance conference – an event that provides context and a framework for processing headlines like WaterBridge’s… The inaugural Oilfield Water Connection event …

We take you deep inside the 1s and 0s of another frac sand last mile software platform as our Silica Valley series rolls on. 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 …

The power struggle for control of the 900,000 Permian acres controlled by Texas Pacific Land Trust has slowed down significantly since our last update three weeks ago. The newsflow decline was largely expected because of… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read …

In an update exactly one year ago titled For The Permian Rig Count, Flat Is The New Up. Calling The Temporary Top we wrote that the rig count had likely peaked in the Permian for the time being. We don’t always get ’em right around here, but this is one …