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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 …

After breaking the news of NexTier’s CIG acquisition earlier this week ahead of the press release, we’ve had time to digest the deal and consider it’s implications, which we discuss here… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive …

Back in May we wrote about sand activity in southeastern NM. Today, one of the firms we identified as a potential new player in the area announced their intentions to bring capacity online. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update …

Now the company confirms prior Infill Thinking exclusive reports… 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 email …

Some talk in the market this week appears to have some truth to it… 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 …