Tag Archives: completions

We may be wrapping up our Utah frac sand spotlight series today, but our coverage of this emerging local sand market doesn’t end here. We’ll be reporting on the local sand story in Utah as first shipments begin later this year, reporting on adoption trends, competitive dynamics, quality, surety of …

Back in the heyday of the Permian local frac sand boom (2017), Infill Thinking was breaking news about an incremental Permian frac sand plant once a week it seemed. With the Permian now oversupplied, all’s been quiet on the greenfield construction front for the past year. Here lately, we’ve been …

In an exclusive series of updates over the past couple of weeks, we have been analyzing frac sand market conditions in the often overlooked Utah completions market where big changes are happening in the supply stack. In this third installment of the series, we shine a spotlight on one new …

The latest operator commentary on frac sand continues to underscore local sand adoption and cost savings – themes that have been consistent on E&P calls since early-last year. However, this may be one of the final earnings seasons where we see… Login to see the full update… To read this …

In a research update last week, we shared exclusive details on the local frac sand production scene in the state of Utah. In the second installment of our three-part series on local sand in the Uinta Basin, we discuss proppant demand and logistics in this unique completions market. Login to …

There is already a veritable flood of pressure pumper and operator earnings coverage making the rounds from other analysts and publishers this week. So we focused here on sharing 11 bite-sized pieces of market intel (including a mix of datapoints and our own thoughts on the market) that are a …

Boiling down everything that’s crossed our desk this week to just the following 12 items of import wasn’t easy. After the typical summer lull in news flow, it feels like folks are getting back to work in the oilfield business. School is about to start, folks are returning from summer …

Some savvy Infill Thinking members requested that we provide our Summer Survey results limited to only include E&P operator responses. It’s a good idea, and one that triggered our own intellectual curiosity. So we crunched the numbers and in the charts below, you will see……. Login to see the full …

We recently surveyed the Infill Thinking membership on the outlook for 2H19 and 2020. Our 20 survey questions addressed big picture upstream themes, frac sand, and completions trends. We’d like to extend a big thank you to the many participants who weighed in from across the upstream value chain – …

3 wrinkles in Halliburton’s earnings call commentary yesterday went underappreciated in the myriad of conference call coverage available elsewhere… Here’s three notable nuances that caught our attention. Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If your free …