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We are excited today to share the results of our well-attended industry marketplace survey about the year-ahead outlook… 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 …

As more results flood in from our 2023 survey, we are starting to see some key trends… 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 …

Infill Thinking membership includes some of the smartest folks in the oilfield. Here’s what the real oilfield capital allocators are saying about the market they work in now… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …

By putting our heads together as a group, Infill Thinking members will establish an important baseline for understanding the “what next” in the new year. 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 …

This year, sand producers are mostly demonstrating a focus on returns and capital discipline over growth. This behavior mirrors what we are seeing in E&P and drilling and completions. We discuss how this is translating into pricing, supply and demand fundamentals and provide numbers in this post. There’s a lot …

In today’s data exercise, we reflect on some Q3 activity growth data trends. 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 …

On Wednesday, Oct. 5th, we spent the day with the water midstream industry at the Houstonian… here is some of what we learned. CONFERENCE WEBSITE> 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 …

On Wednesday, Oct. 5th, the who’s who of the water midstream and produced water sectors will converge at the Houstonian Hotel for a day of networking and knowledge sharing. We are excited to be participating and look forward to seeing many of you there. The delegate list is full of …

There once was a project idea, radical and transformational, based on disruptive thinking in sand transportation. It was put on hold. But will that always be the case? There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …

About 5 weeks ago, we wrote about a rumored new sand plant in the Midland Basin. Here’s the latest… 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 …

In today’s data exercise, we think ahead about the outlook for 2022 in shale… 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 …

As in-field frac sand mining proliferates around Midland, sand traffic is declining. In this post we do some math on how much… 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 …

By The Stats – Membership Resources Provided During 3Q22 In the 90 days ending Sept 30, 2022, the Infill Thinking research team: published 67 independent research updates, emailed 23 original Infill Thoughts newsletters to active members, regularly updated Lium Database Downloads for data clients. Login to see what your peers …

In today’s data exercise, we ranked all the Permian Basin counties by sand demand and we share the top five in this update… 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. …

We talk through some of the latest bidding strategy we are hearing about from industry 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 new to Infill Thinking, …

This is a brutal day in the markets with asset values melting down and oil getting hammered ($78 as of this writing). Buckle up, the ride could get bumpy as this new dose of volatility intersects with year-ahead budget / planning season. That said, if there’s one thing oilfield pros …

Mine-gate prices for Permian local sand are… 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 to …

We’ve got an exclusive scoop on a new frac sand plant opening in the Permian Basin this 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 …

We examine Private E&P behavior and what they might do next as they have an increasingly large role in driving the D&C market these days. 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 …

Chatter about potential deals is heating up in two of shale’s critical path functions… 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 …

For frac it would have been a big deal but for railroads, it could have been devastating. 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 …

An Infill Thinking prediction is coming true. 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 to …

On Thursday morning, news headlines suggest that a potential rail worker strike on Friday was averted at the last minute by negotiators. If the strike had happened, what would that have meant for frac sand? We discuss… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  …

We are tracking 10 new Permian local sand mines this year, which got us thinking about the vintage distribution of in-basin nameplate capacity. 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. …

We have confirmed that a new sand plant we’ve long speculated about is real and progressing towards imminent shipping. 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 …

Every once in a while, we pass our keyboard to an Infill Thinking member to weigh in from their field. We hope you enjoy reading these hand-picked contributions as much as we do. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update …

Inflation has been one of the hottest topics in shale lately, so here we take a look at one of the key drivers of completions cost escalation with hard data. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our …

We did some data mining on a new plant startup last week to figure out who is pumping its sand. 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 …

With the rubber hitting the road on 2023 budget planning, OFS and E&P CEOs converged in New York this week for the annual Barclays energy investor conference. Here’s what stood out to us… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update …

A new plant startup this week makes good on an Infill Thinking prediction from two months ago. 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 …

Lots of people talk about wet sand. We quantify it – mine by mine, crew by crew, operator by operator – to put some context on market penetration. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …

It’s much easier to spend growth capital when each well drilled and completed is a smaller and smaller percentage of your cash on hand! So how’s that looking for the various oilfield participants? There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update …

Catching up with the company’s leadership team this week, we learned more about their CNG refleeting efforts announced 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 …

It’s been an interesting year for water management as the disposal industry navigates new restrictions on injection amid surging water volumes from completions activity growth. 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 …

What’s the latest on that new local sand mine up in the Marcellus/Utica that opened in late-2021? In this update, we provide all the latest datapoints we can get our hands on in the public record about this facility. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the …

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 …

Although the mainstream press will focus on the orders, there’s something unique about them that could have big implications in the sector… 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, we are working with our colleagues at Lium Research on refreshing the quarterly Shale Data packet, which includes forecasted frac crews, wells, and frac sand demand among other metrics. If you are a Lium data client, watch for email notification about the new downloads later this week. A …

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 …

We have rounded up a series of operator-by-operator fleet data…. 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 are picking up some interesting chatter 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 has …

With the list of both confirmed and rumored new greenfield frac sand projects in 2022 growing, we built this new database for Lium Data clients with all the new plants we are monitoring. In this update, we share observations about the new capacity we are tracking… There’s a lot more …

Investment bankers have been BUSY making deals happen in E&P during 2022. Here’s a data driven update on the situation… 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 …

What to expect in northeast rig count going forward? We discuss… 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, …

Two weeks ago, our team participated in a productive and well attended Marcellus Water Shale Business Update conference hosted by Oilfield Water Connection. We had the opportunity to moderate the panel on “Midstream of Water” which was comprised of senior speakers from EQT, Equitrans, and Gemini Shale Solutions. The event …

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 …

We think through some reasons why a lot of oilfield service companies could be up for sale – many more than normal at this point in the cycle – and what this could mean for M&A and consolidation going forward. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see …