This earnings season, sand talking points were fairly muted as supply chain comments were more focused on big picture inflationary trends and constraints (there are more urgent items for procurement teams than sand lately). That said, among our contacts “offline” the discussion around sand is… There’s a lot more to …
Read More »“Permianflation” & Fleet Tracking Part Two
Following up on two recent pieces of high value research with more datapotins further to the 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 …
Read More »E&P Capex Guidance Provided Over Past Two Weeks Bodes Well For Frac Activity
Over the past week, we have processed capex spending updates from about 25 public shale E&Ps into our oilfield spending models. Data clients can access the latest operator-by-operator spending database here, which includes our 2022 expectations. Here’s a chart showing how things changed from our last update three months ago… …
Read More »Wellsite Storage – A Supply Base In Decline [Chart Of The Day]
Most Infill Thinking readers remember the go-go days for wellsite storage systems. A few years ago, the new gen silo and containerized sand system solution providers like Solaris and SandBox and PropX couldn’t build systems fast enough. Then along came the second wave of new gen systems (like SandStorm, Sand …
Read More »BIG News For The Marcellus Shale Frac Supply Chain
Way back in March 2018, we speculated in this piece that Antero might be looking to vertically integrate sand mining, predicting that their most likely path forward would be building a regional / in-basin 2-2.5mmtpa greenfield mine (read more). It only took 3.5 years, but fast forward to today and …
Read More »Liberty Boxes Up The PropX Platform
What Happened: Yesterday evening, Liberty announced they are buying out PropX for $90mm. Here are our quick thoughts on the deal. 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 …
Read More »Eagle Ford Local Sand Trends Mask Supply Disruption [Chart Of The Day]
A data-driven look at operating activity trends for the South Texas local frac sand mining industry. 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, …
Read More »Quick Thoughts On Three Deals Of Note – One Each In Water, Frac, & E&P
Context is key and we’ve got some for the big deals announced 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 Infill Thinking, or your …
Read More »Permian Sand Mining Workforce Plateaus [Chart Of The Day]
A data-driven look at operating activity trends for the West Texas local frac sand mining industry. 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, …
Read More »Halliburton Sings 5F’s Praises; Says Net Pricing Is Back In Frac
Halliburton’s conference call this week echoed an inflection in Infill Thinking’s recent research flow on net pricing in frac… 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 …
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