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Draconian chatter has been circulating lately in frac sand’s inner circles about leadership changes at Black Mountain Sand recently. On good authority, we believe the rumored drama is overstated. After the company’s board meeting this Thursday, we… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  …

For water midstream, which is still in the early phases of market evolution, the opportunity to make a positive difference in the water supply/demand balance is enormous. Once permanent infrastructure is in place and multiple systems become interconnected, the stage will be set to move excess produced water to… There’s …

The whole boxes vs. silos last mile market debate continues to be a regular (and often contentious) topic of conversation that surfaces often in frac sand inner circles and at sand industry events. For this update, we decided to draw on the fleet data we maintain independently in house to …

In this week’s rig count update, we have summarized the latest 2019/2020 US onshore drilling program outlooks, operator-by-company, picking out those rig customers who are adding, dropping, or keeping their rig counts flat. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update …

About 100 Infill Thinking members answered this open ended question in our recent 2020 Vision Oilfield Outlook Survey.  In this post, you can read their responses.. 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 …

Last week, we asked the collective Infill Thinking membership to share their views on the 2020 oilfield outlook. 145 of you answered our 23 questions. To all those that took a few minutes to contribute, thank you very much. The result is a unique, invaluable market intelligence resource. There’s a …

In these troubled times, we want to do our part to help any Infill Thinking members that may be impacted by the waves of layoffs sweeping the US oilfield. If you are an active Infill Thinking member and your position has been eliminated, we want to help. Email us at …

Wow. Our members are smart! In this post, you can read their answers to one of two open-ended questions we asked in our annual year-ahead outlook survey. Login only if you want to see about 70 candid, insightful, and telling responses about the ongoing O&G downcycle… There’s a lot more …

By the time 3Q19 earnings season got underway in late-October, O&G industry executives and investors had had plenty of time to digest this little bombshell that Elizabeth Warren dropped in September. Elizabeth Warren on Twitter: “On my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that puts a …

We’ve complied a set of questions that are critical to determining the oilfield outlook for 2020. For any active Infill Thinking reader that completes this important survey, we will provide some pretty compelling benefits including…. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read …