Tag Archives: capacity

Leave it to us negative nellies to send out a mine closure data update to Think Sheets members on Thanksgiving Eve, but that’s just what we did last week. Here’s a big picture takeaway for all Infill Thinking members. Login to see the full update… To read this update and …

Some things never change, and the persistent propensity to overbuild in the frac industry at large will outlive this Chapter 11 era. Twice last week… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If your free trial has …

It’s Tuesday May 12, 2020 and from our desk to yours, here is a roundup of noteworthy downturn datapoints that advance the oilfield business narrative as the bottom approaches. Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If …

Frac sand plants lower on the cost curve are whistling past a graveyard that is filling up with idled capacity. In this data-driven update, we take a look at the trend and discuss its implications for the marketplace. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and …

The shuttering of “out-of-basin” capacity is key to a return to health in the oversupplied frac sand segment. Over the weekend, we saw a datapoint that suggests that this is happening quickly now, and not just at NWS mines…. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update …

There’s always a risk of reading too much between the lines when analyzing executive comments. But the use of the word “first” to describe an in-basin mine in a recent investor presentation could have big implications. Does it foreshadow some in-basin capacity consolidation? There’s a lot more to this story… …