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 …
Read More »Update On Vaca Muerta Silos
Nearly a year ago, we “guesstimated” (and then confirmed) that the first NOV SandBank deployed to Argentina’s Vaca Muerta Shale (here’s a link). This week… 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 »Limiting Factors For “In-Field” Mines – The Needful Boxes Aren’t Always Easy (Or Possible) To Check [Site Visit Addendum]
As an addendum to this week’s deep dive mobile-mini report from our site visit to see several in-field frac sand plants in person last week, we wanted to break out and highlight the limiting factors we see to this sand mining approach. There are some big insurmountable ones in our …
Read More »Full Steam Ahead (Without Emissions) For OnCore Processing’s Mobile Mini Mines [Site Visit Report / Pics]
Based on production run rates the day we visited, Hi Crush’s two mobile mini mines are producing enough sand to… 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 …
Read More »Infill Thinking’s Top Fifteen 2Q21 Updates
With 2Q21 in the books, we are pausing to look back at the most read Infill Thinking research updates of the quarter. The activity recovery continued, but… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …
Read More »The Sand Rancher vs. The Super Major – Incendiary Water Dispute Playing Out In The Open
You can file this update in “things we never thought we’d write when we started an oilfield research firm,” but there’s a must-read battle raging between a big Permian rancher and a super major. And it is playing out in real-time in a must-read Tweet-storm right now… There’s a lot …
Read More »Final OSHA Sand Dust Rule Phase-In At Frac Sites Is Imminent
Long-talked about regulations loom large with implementation finally happening next week… thoughts on what it means here… 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 …
Read More »New Recruiting Platform Aims To Solve Sand Hauling Headaches…
An interesting development / newcomer arrives in the sand hauler recruitment scene… 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 …
Read More »Infill Thinking’s Mid-Year Oilfield Outlook Survey Opens For Member Participation
By putting our heads together as a group, Infill Thinking members will establish an important baseline for understanding the “what next” on key oilfield trends into 2022. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …
Read More »Things We Heard From Friends In The Sand Patch This Week
This week we worked the phones and caught up with quite a few contacts in frac supply chain to chat business trends, hear the voice of the industry, and take the pulse of the sand mining community. In this update we get in the weeds to give you insight on …
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