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Lots of people talk about wet sand. We quantify it – mine by mine, crew by crew, operator by operator – to put some context on market penetration. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …

Catching up with the company’s leadership team this week, we learned more about their CNG refleeting efforts announced last 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 a member. If you are …

It’s been an interesting year for water management as the disposal industry navigates new restrictions on injection amid surging water volumes from completions activity growth. 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 …

What’s the latest on that new local sand mine up in the Marcellus/Utica that opened in late-2021? In this update, we provide all the latest datapoints we can get our hands on in the public record about this facility. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the …

Tell us what the oil price is going to be, and we’ll tell you what frac sand demand will be… or at least what our shale data science models (fine tuned over many years and many cycles) estimate it will be! There’s a lot more to this story… Login to …

Industry talk about another new entrant frac sand miner is building, but we’ve been unable to connect with the right folks at the company yet to confirm… here’s what talk in frac sand inner circles suggests… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To …

What does satellite imagery tell us about the frac market? 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 has expired, please …

This earnings season, more than half the public E&Ps we monitor hiked their 2022 budget guidance. Many for the second time already this year… The publics are on track to spend 15-20% more than they originally communicated when 2022 budgets were set. Why? Well… There’s a lot more to this …

We follow up on several recent Infill Thinking reports about new sand capacity with more details from our channel checks… 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 …

This earnings season, frac sand comments have been fairly light. The most notable of the sand remarks made by E&Ps on their conference calls over the past couple weeks was… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our …