Tag Archives: drilling trends

In basin sand for the Mid-Con seems to be coming up more frequently in our conversations with industry contacts. Here’s three recent examples followed by analysis of SCOOP/STACK drilling rig activity trends. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and …

Last week, the US unconventional oil rig count did something it hasn’t done since the downturn. 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, …

In our weekly rig count update this week, we slice and dice the latest drilling permit data in the Permian, divining clues about the future direction of the rig count in the Permian Basin and beyond. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To …

In this weekly rig count update, we take a spin around the basins looking at relative performance from recent peaks and valleys. Studying rig count changes during mini-cycles within the big picture trend can illustrate the level of operator commitment to various plays and reveal drilling program volatility within each …

With the flurry of E&P earnings reports last week came lots of talk about 2018 drilling programs. If we had to boil down all the drilling rig market commentary we heard into a key takeaway, it’d be this: There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full …

Infill Thinking readers rely on our weekly rig count update for a series of unique land rig drilling charts and analysis. Going forward, we are adding a new weekly chart to document completions activity trends. Our friends at Primary Vision have agreed to make their weekly US frac spread count …

On Monday morning, Halliburton discussed shrinkage in the ratio of drilling rigs to frac spreads in the US market. In our weekly rig count update, we quantify the trend with a chart and discuss its implications. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To …

  In this update we take a look at market share among the leading land drilling contractors. Starting with winners and losers from 2017, we then look at present share and future market share strategies for the group. In what may be a flattish rig count environment in 2018, the …

As the year draws to a close, here’s a look around the nation at the hottest onshore drilling basins and how they stack up this year on activity growth. Also included is a discussion of how the actual overall trend in US drilling compares to expectations a year ago and …

As E&P spending continues to recover, land driller spending looks poised to embark on a fourth straight year of decline. Precision Drilling released their 2018 capex program on Monday. We analyze the numbers in this update… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To …