A sand mine is making a bold and unprecedented play in the Northern Delaware… and we’ve got another exclusive scoop ahead of open season officially beginning tomorrow… 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 »NexTier’s APEX Damp Sand Pile Solution Is Impressive In-Person – Has A Good Growth Fairway Ahead [Boots-On-The-Ground Report]
This week, we had an opportunity to visit a NexTier damp sand frac job in the Eagle Ford where the company had deployed their new wet sand pile solution. Here is what we learned about this new approach to wellsite sand management which is novel to frac but leverages proven …
Read More »Railed Damp Sand Coming To New Mexico [Exclusive]
A sand mine is making a bold and unprecedented play in the Northern Delaware… and we’ve got an exclusive scoop with all the deals ahead of them opening up capacity to the market in an ‘Open Season’ marketing process that is not typical of this sector… There’s a lot more …
Read More »Another Permian E&P Has Adopted Open-Air Wet Sand Stockpiles At The Wellsite
A second E&P has adopted a fascinating novel approach to wellsite sand storage… 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 membership …
Read More »Getting The Rocks Out – New Damp Sand Equipment Deploys To Permian
With damp sand usage increasing, a growing concern is rocks and debris getting in the product, finding their way into the blender, and then breaking or wearing out frac pumps. In this update, we follow up on a new system we profiled last year that is working to address this …
Read More »Updated List Of Permian E&Ps That We Count As Wet Sand Adopters
A data-driven look at demand trends for West Texas local damp frac sand. 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 membership …
Read More »Mineral Market Math: How Much Cheaper Is Damp Sand Than Dry Sand?
A question we get from industry contacts from time-to-time is “what’s the price spread between wet and dry Permian sand.” So here we did some math and reverse engineered a wet/dry price spread… interesting exercise, and we share it plus some implications. There’s a lot more to this story… Login …
Read More »What’s PropX Up To? Tipping Boxes? Wet Sand Solution 2.0? “Sand Scorpion”? [Exclusive]
Over the past couple of weeks, posts have surfaced on LinkedIn showing a novel approach to wet sand container management from PropX (like this one, this one, and this one). Below is a slideshow with some of the videos and still shots we have seen surfacing online, followed by the …
Read More »New Proximity Damp Sand Mine Customer Revealed, Closing An Open Loop In Prior Infill Thinking Reports
Last week, we published two datapoints separately. Today, new revelations show that they go together… 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 …
Read More »A Couple Thoughts As Permian Proximity Mines & Wet Sand Get Mainstream Attention
A big article on wet sand and “mini-mobile mines” in the press this week drove inbound from Infill Thinking members seeking data clarification on the trends. Some context on mobility and adoption rates / volume is needed here… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full …
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