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We estimate fracing the arid Permian Basin in 2019 requires X times as much pre-frac water as the next busiest US unconventional basin. Here’s a visual and analysis… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …

About a month ago, we published an update on a mining permit moratorium in Oklahoma. After a bullet-point recap, we discuss the nuances with an expert, talk about the read-through to other states including New Mexico and Louisiana, and then provide some clarification on a new permit filed by an …

We analyze the latest electric frac fleet news, breaking down a new disclosure from a leading pressure pumper. 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 …

A data-driven look at trends in electric frac fleet deployments. 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 …

After learning about a new system’s arrival in the US from industry sources, we caught up with the management team behind the deployment. We have learned the following information about this new Lower 48 deployment: There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read …

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 …