Quick Thoughts

An important E&P capex update this week reads negative for anyone hoping for an oilfield spending increase in 2020. Here’s the relevant excerpt followed by our analysis: There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …

As expected and rumored in the industry, frac fleet consolidation has just begun and is likely to continue. Or is it? We discuss the implications of the Keane / C&J merger of equals announced Monday here after predicting that consolidation was coming in an update posted over this past weekend. …

On Thursday last week, Reuters reported that Patterson-UTI is exploring the divestiture of their pressure pumping business. After that, we heard from our own sources that… 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 …

We are keeping an eye on a new act that might have implications for future local frac sand capacity in Oklahoma’s SCOOP/STACK plays. 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. …

Multiple last mile / wellsite storage system technologies working in the US today hail from Canadian heritage. This is an observation we’ve written about multiple times in the past (including in this analysis piece and this guest post piece). This week we came across a new Canadian systems that we …

Answer: HABOOB! And there was a huge one in the Midland Basin this week. Here’s around up of some of the best pictures posted by oilfield guys on social media this week… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and …

In addition to the in-depth updates Infill Thinking published this week, we hunted down a variety of miscellaneous datapoints from around the sandpatch in our research process this week that are deserving of a quick mention. Let’s jump right in, shall we? Oh and it’s total coincidence that the titles …

The great local sand rush of 2017-2018 has clearly slowed down here as sand prices have dropped into a trough (we estimate Permian FOB mine prices are down some 65% y/y). What’s going on with operations though? Is more sand still to come? We take a look in this data-driven …

Shares of XYZ water company are ripping Friday morning after… 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 …

We encountered a mini-doc on the Permian boom this week that is worth a watch if you haven’t seen it yet. Note the prayer before the left turn into 285 traffic at 5:30am… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update …