Our guest post this week comes from the Fort Worth desk of Paul Shearer. His post is our second guest contribution this month that comes from a frac sand specialist on the open market who also majored in journalism. That’s an Infill Thinking Friday guest post series first, and it …
Read More »Surviving Together [Friday Guest Post]
Eric Barton probably needs no introduction among Infill Thinking’s readership. He is a well-known frac sand sourcing veteran who has spent close to a decade in supply chain and procurement roles for publicly traded E&P operators. Eric was one of the early pioneers of the now widespread direct sourcing strategy, …
Read More »Wet Sand Direct To Blender Might Be Music To Our Fracing Ears [Guest Post]
In addition to the personnel exposure benefit, the elimination of the drying process has a very real impact on energy consumption and the resulting emissions. Converting an annual operation that pumps 360,000 tons of sand dried by natural gas to a wet sand operation would reduce CO2 emissions by at …
Read More »Be Thankful I Don’t Take It All ‘Cause I’m the Taxman [Friday Guest Post]
While you fight for the survival of your business, the assessor is doing his/her job and preparing notices of property assessments. Those assessment notices will reflect the idyllic conditions back on January 1, 2020. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this …
Read More »Insuring The Frac Supply Chain’s Last Mile In A World Of Nuclear Verdicts And Vicarious Liability [Friday Guest Post]
Earlier this week, another trucking company’s nuclear verdict made headlines, this one outside of the frac sand hauling industry but notable none-the-less. While definitions can vary, a “nuclear verdict” is generally thought of as a jury award where the penalty exceeds $10 million. Nuclear verdicts have driven insurance premiums for …
Read More »Corona On Our Minds [Friday Guest Post]
Guest Contributor Introduction From Joseph Triepke: Today’s guest post has been three years in the making. Allow me to explain…. 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 »The Top 19 Stories Of 2019 In Frac Sand And Oilfield Water
During a dynamic 2019, Infill Thinking: shipped 100 e-newsletters to active members, shipped 45 data-driven e-newsletter to Analyst Plan members, published 370 original written research updates, hosted 4 member meet-ups in key oilfield cities, conducted 4 field trips to put boots on the ground in key oilfield markets and gather market …
Read More »Northern White Sand’s Rags To Riches To Rags Story… [Guest Post]
The oilfield industry has many similarities to sports. Both are cyclical. Both have lots of turnover in winning strategies and players. Both have their fair share of larger than life characters and dynastic franchises. And a continual evolution of best practices in both sports and the oilfield is fueled by …
Read More »Deer Season Parallels In The Frac Sand Industry [Guest Post]
Cody Wickersheim writes: When Joseph Triepke asked me to write an article for Infill Thinking, I think it was intended to be a commentary on the impact each of us has felt over the past year and a half. We are losing some good folks. Many companies have become, or …
Read More »Blue Is The New Green. Why Water Midstream Is A Great ESG Investment [Guest Post]
For water midstream, which is still in the early phases of market evolution, the opportunity to make a positive difference in the water supply/demand balance is enormous. Once permanent infrastructure is in place and multiple systems become interconnected, the stage will be set to move excess produced water to… There’s …
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