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A massive paradigm shift could affect Texas frac sand in a huge way, but will it happen now? 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 massive paradigm shift is in the works that will affect Texas frac sand in a huge way, just not as quickly as expected it seems… 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 …

A massive paradigm shift is in the works that could affect Texas frac sand in a huge way. 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 review E&P reaction to the tariffs, plus something Trump said in Miami last week caused us to perk up a bit… 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 recently published data showing how the upstream industry’s conversation on critical structural issues has been interrupted by the immediacy of a dual-threat crisis (pandemic + oil price crash). In reality, that data is just the tip of the iceberg… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see …

Friday was a potentially transformative day for the US frac business. Not to be outdone by Halliburton’s big news Friday morning, Schlumberger and Weatherford dropped their own bombshell Friday evening. Schlumberger and Weatherford are combining their hydraulic fracturing businesses into a OneStim JV, which will be 70% owned by Schlumberger. …

ConocoPhillips is baffled by recent dayrate hikes by the US land drillers. And they aren’t the only operators that feel this way  we take a look at what ConocoPhillips’ CEO had to say about it and explore why the operators shouldn’t feel too bad about a few grand a day …

We are all talking about the Permian Basin a ton these days. But is this too general now? As the entire industry descends on the region, it has bifurcated into two distinct geo-markets from a surface perspective… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read …

The big public frac sand suppliers (companies like Hi-Crush, US Silica, Fairmount Santrol, and Smart Sand) will be closely watched when they report earnings this quarter. Expectations for increased proppant demand are high as the US shale industry gets back to work. But Big Sand won’t be talking about their own …

Oilfield service pricing moving higher cyclically is a good thing for all our readers (including operators, for current pricing is unsustainable and will destroy capacity in the long run). That said, we stand at a tricky juncture in the cycle for oilfield service company decision makers trying to reset their …