Quick Thoughts

Trucking talking points from a painfully strained week in the frac supply chain… 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 …

Several talking points in the E&P narrative this week stood out… 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, …

Every year, sand trucking is a problem from Christmas through early-January. This year it appears to be worse than normal… 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 …

A fair number of Infill Thinking members have written in or called recently about truck drivers. Specifically, folks are wondering if… 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 …

In this report we shift our gaze out a bit to the full 2022 picture and think through some supply/demand points that were not addressed in several recent Permian sand situation reports from Infill Thinking… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read …

What would $55 oil do to frac sand demand over the next 24 months? Read on brave reader to find out! 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 …

Last week, we reported on the chaotic Permian sand situation lately (read about that here and here). With all the attention being paid to the West Texas sand market, we’d be remiss not to comment on the Eagle Ford as well, where…. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to …

We have identified plans to bring online a new large-scale, permanent Permian frac sand plant – the first in quite some time… 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 …

This week, our colleagues at Lium research released their comprehensive quarterly shale data packet. For Infill Thinking readers, the latest Permian frac sand demand trends estimated in that update will probably be of interest… so here’s a chart and some key takeaways. There’s a lot more to this story… Login …

Most Infill Thinking readers remember the go-go days for wellsite storage systems. A few years ago, the new gen silo and containerized sand system solution providers like Solaris and SandBox and PropX couldn’t build systems fast enough. Then along came the second wave of new gen systems (like SandStorm, Sand …