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US Silica provided their 2Q21 results and rest of year outlook this morning. Here is a digestible bullet point summary of the key market intel they shared… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …

Way back in March 2018, we speculated in this piece that Antero might be looking to vertically integrate sand mining, predicting that their most likely path forward would be building a regional / in-basin 2-2.5mmtpa greenfield mine (read more). It only took 3.5 years, but fast forward to today and …

What Happened: Yesterday evening, Liberty announced they are buying out PropX for $90mm. Here are our quick thoughts on the deal. 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 …

A data-driven look at operating activity trends for the South Texas local frac sand mining industry. 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, …

A data-driven look at operating activity trends for the West Texas local frac sand mining industry. 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, …

Following the logic on M&A possibly returning in 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 has expired, please …

An update on Eagle Ford sandemonium… 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 …

Outside of a mini-mobile mine here or there, greenfield expansion is no longer the norm frac sand. But this week a gas-basin supplier is bucking the norm… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …

Several recent datapoints may start to answer a key question holding up frac sand consolidation:  who will the buyers be? Everyone in frac sand expects M&A…eventually… But the biggest hold-up to a deal flurry in the past 12-24 months has been a… There’s a lot more to this story… Login …

We realize there were several cliff hangers in our research publication earlier this week (specifically in this update). Sorry about that, but when our sources ask us to not share sensitive details we comply to a fault. We said as much as we could earlier, and now we are happy …