One week ago, we got the first tangible datapoint on Permian takeaway capacity slowing down the world’s busiest oilfield. That datapoint came on the completions side as C&J slowed their frac spread deployment cadence. Today, we have the first tangible datapoint of an operator cutting back on the drilling side. …

Last week, Emerge Energy Service subsidiary Superior Silica Sands posted a cryptic capacity cliffhanger announcement on LinkedIn. In this update, we speculated that this might be Mid-Con expansion and a press release could be coming as early as this week.  This is exactly what happened… There’s a lot more to …

On Thursday afternoon, we gathered some market intel from LinkedIn posts. One left us with more questions than answers, and one got us thinking about last mile logistics optimization and truck reduction. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be …

As May turns into June, Atlas Sand’s twin frac sand plant construction projects in the Permian should be moving up everyone’s list of completions infrastructure worth monitoring. For more background check out this deep dive we penned after visiting one of their construction projects in 1Q18. There’s a lot more …

Last week, we brought you news of a third facility Black Mountain is building in its core market, the Permian Basin. As expected, the permit was filed on Friday and we’ve learned a bit more about the new plant from that… There’s a lot more to this story… To read …

The Permian is the epicenter of the in-basin frac sand trend. Local sand sourcing is a trend that will be on display in full force in Ft Worth this week as upstream executives gather to talk all things Permian. But the magnitude of the trend’s reach into other geo-markets is …

Get the latest on Preferred Sands’ multi-barrel approach to adding frac sand capacity in the big oil plays. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a subscriber. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current members login here.) Subscribers get Exclusive research update newsletters …

Infill Thinking subscribers knew about the news that Fairmount announced today several weeks ago thanks to an Infill Thinking open records request and a little elbow grease we put into connecting some dots in the public record. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our …

We live-blogged the FTS International conference call this morning, listening for oilfield marketplace implications (not so much financials or FTSI idiosyncratic issues). There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a subscriber. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current …

We live blogged our takeaways from the US Silica earnings conference call on Tuesday morning…   There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a subscriber. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current members login here.) Subscribers get Exclusive research update newsletters High-caliber, data-driven …

No EPS or EBITDA or financial speak to give you tired-head. Just the market intel that really matters curated from Halliburton’s earnings conference call on Monday April 23. Oh and also the fireworks… lots of fireworks. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research …

Oilfield earnings season kicked off Friday morning as Schlumberger discussed the outlook. No EPS here, just the important market points Big Blue made about business conditions in North America. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a subscriber. If …

A Monahans train wreck overnight on Wednesday could impact Permian completions. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a subscriber. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current members login here.) Subscribers get Exclusive research update newsletters High-caliber, data-driven analysis and commentary New angles …

Following this recent update on more local proppant capacity in the Haynesville shale, we received some inbound reader questions about the status of this regional market. Incoming intel requests spanned both the frac sand market and general drilling and completion activity in the region. So we made some calls and …

Policy whiplash continues in OCTG, but it appears to be about done now. With quotas and tariffs now seemingly set, the OCTG market can finally begin plotting its own course this year. We add up the pros and cons from recent policy changes from both buyer and seller perspectives.   …