Oil price momentum continues. Good news from OPEC yesterday buoyed WTI above $65. What might $70 oil bring for Permian oilfield activity? The data scientists at Lium Research, our affiliate, had actually run the numbers on that very question a week before this latest oil price spike for data clients …
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In this update we tally up a bottoms-up look at Lower 48 frac activity company-by-company… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current members login here.) Members get Exclusive research update newsletters High-caliber, data-driven …
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What happened: A Super Major Operator just cut their 5-year Permian volume growth forecast by up to 50% this week. Why it matters: This customer has the following fleet of rigs and frac crews working today:…. Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research …
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An important E&P capex update this week reads distinctly negative for anyone hoping for an oilfield spending increase in 2020. Here’s the relevant excerpt: Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If your free trial has expired, …
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What’s going on in the frac market, hhp trends, working crews, pumping hours etc etc? Read all about it here! Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current members login here.) Members …
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We estimate the active frac fleet count across the two big Texas oil plays has fallen from up near X crews in 1Q20 down to only about X active fleets today. This is now old news, but it still takes our breath away to see that in print. Obviously, nobody’s …
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We have arrived at the following ranges for active frac crew counts by basin based on information received from multiple plugged-in contacts we trust. This isn’t necessarily “Gospel,” and you may have hard data you are relying on that falls outside these ranges. But there is value in knowing where …
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Everywhere you look… every report you read… everyone you talk to… it’s is all telling you the same thing these days. Things are mind-numbingly bad in the US oilfield. Far worse than even the most jaded cynics expected when this crisis began. Empty highways in the Permian. Yards full of …
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Here are the E&Ps that have publicly announced cuts in the wake of the Sunday, March 8, oil market collapse…. Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current members login here.) Members …
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E&P operators announced their spending cuts a week or two before most of the oilfield service industry (OFS). We are tracking the E&P capex pullbacks in real-time here, and their planned rig releases and frac crew releases too. Now it’s OFS’s turn to activate the downturn playbook and announce cost …
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Infill Thinking Lifting the O&G knowledge curve
