Quick Thoughts

We don’t often react to press releases here at Infill Thinking, but one out yesterday caught our attention and it is worth a few words here as we believe it has implications for the future of frac and pumping market share even if it is unlikely to become ubiquitous. There’s …

Next week, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, and Schlumberger will report year-end results and host their quarterly EPS conference calls. NOV will host their call a couple weeks later. These oilfield bellwethers have been.. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and …

An update from an E&P operator follows Infill Thinking reporting of the development by approximately one month. 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 …

There’s already been a trucking scramble to keep up, which we’ve documented extensively in recent weeks. More recently, frac sand in inventory seems to be showing the first signs of strain as well now. Many mines have… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  …

Snow, trucking, and is there as much sand available as you thought??? We discuss all this and more with an update of the latest proppant market buzz. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …

This week, all the talk in frac sand insider circles has been about the sand hauling chaos. Here are three recent Infill Thinking pieces on this development: The Warning The First Signs The Story Continues Here we take a data-driven look at one of the culprits… There’s a lot more …

In our final newsletter of 2020, we warned about the risk of driver absences wreaking some havoc in the frac supply chain (see this update). It happened. Here’s what we are hearing on the first business day of 2021 about the struggle to sand fracs: There’s a lot more to …

In light of today’s deal news, we wanted to share some of the recently formulated resources in our archive that we assembled to think through what this deal means for the frac and frac supply chain marketplace. We hope this research proves helpful as a new era begins at Liberty… …

Anxiety is building with our contacts in the… 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 us …

A quick update to our frac outbreak story from 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 new to Infill Thinking, or your membership has expired, …