Tag Archives: fracing

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 …

A large E&P operator has firmly planted a legal flag of conceptual ownership in damp sand. This raises lots of questions for the broader adoption of the practice, including applications in in-field frac sand mining… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read …

Listening to the FTSI call this week, here’s what stood out to us as far as market intel takeaways for the Lower 48 pressure pumping market… 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 …

As of Friday morning, our channel checks suggest that a well known frac company may be completely closing up shop, rolling up operations, selling their horsepower, and letting everyone go…. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our …

Scrapping is a tough but necessary step to set the pressure pumping industry up for a return to health. It’s a key hurdle to making frac investable again. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …

In this update, we share our thought progression upon seeing talk implying that a new frac pump design might be considered to be an “e-frac killer.” 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 …

This chain of events may end quietly with little fanfare and that’d be great. But we’ll be keeping an eye out for additional filings here as it’s not every day we see this much action on the legal disclosure front… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see …

Boiling down everything that’s crossed our desk this week to just the following 12 items of import wasn’t easy. After the typical summer lull in news flow, it feels like folks are getting back to work in the oilfield business. School is about to start, folks are returning from summer …

As expected and rumored in the industry, frac fleet consolidation has just begun and is likely to continue. Or is it? We discuss the implications of the Keane / C&J merger of equals announced Monday here after predicting that consolidation was coming in an update posted over this past weekend. …

In an after-hours newsletter one month ago, we warned Infill Thinking members that the buzz around electric frac fleets was poised to surge to new heights. That happened and then some! We take a look at the narrative that Wall Street has been pushing since the big dual e-fracing datapoints …