A data driven look at why proppant is the best indicator of oil production known to the shale 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 …
Read More »Another Catalyst For More Belly Dumps In The Sand Patch?
Another reason for belly-dumps to spread is explored in this post… 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, …
Read More »Texas Sand Prices Still Under Pressure Despite Impressive Volume Gains [Chart Of The Day]
Permian and Eagle Ford frac sand mines continue to be busy (and getting busier), with 2021 completions activity closing in on the peak for the year. 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 »Eagle Ford Local Mines Getting Busier [Chart Of The Day]
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, …
Read More »EOG Expects To Drive Sand Cost Down Further Through 2022. But How At Today’s Rock Bottom Prices?
Why It Matters: EOG’s outlook is closely watched as they are the shale bellwether – so here we summarize what matters for the D&C market from their call, starting with an interesting comment on sand… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read …
Read More »Permian Sand Mines Heating Up, Figuratively Speaking [Chart Of The Day]
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, …
Read More »US Silica’s Latest Frac Sand Market Outlook
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 …
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