Last week we shared a chart of the day showing Permian sand volumes returning to within 10% of the all-time best quarter in 2021 and breaking the record in 2022. That research prompted some rational thinking and questions, both from our members in the comments section and the EFT crew …
Read More »Tight Oil E&P Capex Creeping Higher Y/Y In 2021 [Chart Of The Day]
Preliminary budgets have risen… 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 has expired, please email us to discuss our current …
Read More »New Monthly Frac Fleet Data Report [Chart Of The Day]
In partnership with our research affiliate Lium, here are new frac fleet stats… 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 »Modeling The US Frac Fleet By Power Source [Chart Of The Day]
In partnership with our affiliate Lium, we’ve recently begun to actively model frac spreads by power type across the Lower 48…. 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 »Compare And Contrast – Sales Trends For The Bankrupt Proppant Providers
Who is taking market share during bankruptcy? Here are some clues… 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 has expired, …
Read More »2019 RIFs Cut Deep And Devon, Solaris, and Patterson-UTI Cut The Deepest So Far On A % Basis [Chart Of The Day]
This earnings season, a morbid data set is emerging from the shadows and becoming visible. Everyone in the oilfield is well aware of the reduction in force (RIF) trend that swept across the US onshore oilfield last year and continues this year. But the true extent of the damage has …
Read More »Vizualizing West Texas 2019 SWD Leaders [Chart Flip-Book]
Company by company timeline charts for the top injection well permitters. These charts tell us a lot and also provoke some interesting questions… Consolidation ahead? 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 …
Read More »The Top 15 New Injection Well Owners Of The Year In West Texas [Chart Of The Day]
Operators still factor pretty heavily into the new injection well owner lineup, and we wonder how much longer that will be the case as many E&Ps continue to evaluate the separation of their wastewater management. A couple other interesting observations before we get to the data: There have been… There’s …
Read More »Planned Local Sand Supply Has Surpassed Estimated 2019 Demand In Four Big Basins [Chart Of The Day]
Is the frac sand greenfield rush of 2017/2018 finally over? It’s a question worth asking since each of the Big 4 markets are now flush with planned local sand supply. In the chart below, we compare our total 2019 frac sand demand estimates for four major markets to announced local frac …
Read More »RE-RUN: $3.5 Billion Per Year. That’s How Much Cash Permian Dune Sand Could Save The US E&P Industry [Economic Impact Study]
With the transformational impact of in-basin frac sand being written about by some of the mainstream press this week, we figured it’d be a good time to dust off our In-Basin Frac Sand Economic Impact Study published on InfillThinking.com two months ago back in early-January. If you joined Infill Thinking …
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