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… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to …
Read More »How Much Local Utah Sand Will Be Devoured? A Look At Demand And “Uniquely Utah” Logistics Issues [2/4 Uinta Sand Series]
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. There’s a …
Read More »Research Roundup – Major Supply Chains, Sand Buy-out, Unsustainable Sand Price, E-Frac Pricing, & 7 Other Important Datapoints…
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 …
Read More »In Other News… The Sport Of Kings, Water Dollars, Sand Write-Off, & 9 More Datapoints That Matter…
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 …
Read More »The Customer Is Always Right… [Survey Results From The E&P Community]
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……. There’s a lot more to …
Read More »Survey Results Are In! Here’s What Members Had To Say…
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 – …
Read More »3 Interesting Wrinkles In Halliburton’s US Onshore Outlook
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. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …
Read More »A Flurry Of E-Frac Datapoints To Start The Week
It was a busy Monday for e-frac news, as a flurry of datapoints advancing the narrative in this new trend caught our eye. And it’s possible that buried in this flurry of news is… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this …
Read More »Schlumberger’s New CEO Talks Frac Iron Technology Step Change And The US Onshore Outlook
What matters most to Infill Thinking readers is what Schlumberger is doing in the US onshore market and what their view of Lower 48 OFS market conditions is at this juncture. So that’s the focus of the following five points, which we believe are the most important things Schlumberger said …
Read More »One Step Forward, One Step Back For Electric Frac
We analyze the latest electric frac fleet news, breaking down a new disclosure from a leading pressure pumper. 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 …
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