On Tuesday, we warned that by taking their foot of the capex gas pedal at this point in the cycle, the Independents risk ceding share in shale development to the Majors. On Wednesday, Chevron’s 2018 budget release confirmed that this indeed will happen if actions follow words. There’s a lot …
Read More »Harvey Makes His Presence Felt During First O&G Conference Since Landfall
Last week we noted that Harvey left us with more upstream questions than answers… questions we expected to begin to get answered this week at the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference in New York. On Tuesday afternoon, the first public O&G event since the storm commenced and most companies provided hurricane business …
Read More »Harvey Impedes Baker Hughes Rig Count While South Texas Drilling Permits Fall
In an unusual step, Baker Hughes declared Friday that an update on South Texas rig count was impossible to capture last week due to Hurricane Harvey. New drilling permits show the impact though… and we quantify that in this update. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see …
Read More »Biggest Losers From Eagle Ford Sand Mining According To Emerge & Other Key Takeaways From Their Analyst Day
Emerge Energy Services has been in the news quite a bit recently after hosting their earnings call earlier this month and making an Eagle Ford mine acquisition a few weeks before that. After all their recent disclosures, there wasn’t a whole lot of “new news” made at their analyst day last …
Read More »Thoughts On Emerge Energy Services’ Discussion Of The New San Antonio Mine
After announcing the acquisition of a San Antonio sand mine on Monday, Emerge Energy Services hosted a conference call on Wednesday to discuss the deal and future plans for the site. If you need to get up to speed on the transaction and our initial take, please refer to this …
Read More »Rig Count Charts For Three Recent Infill Thinking Observations: Haynesville, Delaware, & Sand Gap
This update started with three qualitative observations we wrote about over the past several days. These sent us back into the spreadsheets for today’s piece. We sliced and diced drilling data to expound on Haynesville green shoots, a Delaware Basin push, and frac sand valuation commentaries. There’s a lot more …
Read More »Emerge Energy Services Is Adding 3mmtpa To The Texas Frac Sand Supply Stack With Eagle Ford Play
Back in early-March, we wrote to subscribers that a frac sand miner was evaluating a deposit outside San Antonio to serve the Eagle Ford (see point 1 here), something we picked up on the sidelines of the industry’s leading conference. This morning, Emerge Energy Services announced they’ve closed an Eagle Ford …
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