We’ve been reading alot this week. We’ve also been curating a recap of items we read with the highest impact value for the frac sand supply chain. Enjoy… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …
Read More »Notable People On The Move In The Oilfield Service Business [6 Recent Talent Shifts]
Talent is shifting. And it’s doing so with implications for value, trends and competitive dynamics. Here are the moves you need to know about… 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 …
Read More »In Other News… People On The Move, Permian Fire & Ice, Frac Contract Reveal, Debt Covenant Compromise, & Oilfield Survey Takeaways…
In addition to the deeper Infill Thinking research updates published this week, a few other quick hits crossed our desk that are worth a mention. So here are five short stories… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive …
Read More »The Effects Of Micromanagement On Frac Job Safety [Friday Guest Post]
These days when we ask C-level executives what keeps them up at night, labor is always at the tip of tongue. Recruiting and hiring are tough problems right now, for there are not enough experienced hands to staff all the equipment going to work this year. In this post a …
Read More »War On West Texas Sand Talent Heating Up: Job Fair Tomorrow
Tomorrow another new area sand producer will host a job fair in Odessa. We expect there will be quite a few more of these job fairs at area hotels before year-end. See what some local mines are doing to recruit staff and also the competition and challenges for talent that …
Read More »As A Kermit Sand Plant Posts 75 Job Openings, We Update Our Mine New Hire Estimates
Staffing up the new Permian frac sand mines is a challenge we first wrote about back in May. Lately, we’ve heard and seen more sand producers highlighting the issue as a barrier to entry (example). In this update, we share the latest on who’s hiring, how they are doing it, …
Read More »The O&G Job Creation Engine Is Firing Again
In the US, the O&G industry has begun to hire staff again for the first time in two years. We snapped this encouraging photo in front of a Halliburton completions yard while touring the Permian Basin in early-December. Source: InfillThinking.com Given what we know about the ongoing recovery and a …
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