We spent several days putting miles on our truck in Utah in September 2026. We toured frac, mine, and logistics sites. We drove multiple completions facilities… here is some of what we learned on location – boots on the ground research prepared with human touch! There’s a lot more to …
Read More »Uinta Basin Field Trip – Frac Yard Drive-About [Boots On The Ground]
We spent several days putting hundreds of miles on our truck in Utah in September 2026. We toured frac, mine, and logistics sites. We drove multiple completions facilities… here is some of what we learned on location – boots on the ground research prepared with human touch! There’s a lot …
Read More »In Other News… FCI’s Next Chapter, A Small Dryer Fire, C-Level People On Move? BIG Reg Risk In The Permian Story, Last Mile Datapoints, & more…
Several quick hits of note if you work in the L48 oilfield… 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 »Hauling Headaches Intensify In January 2026
Say you need to get a load of sand trucked – how hard is that right now? We discuss… 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 »A Brief Situation Report On Trucking In The Frac Supply Chain As The New Year Begins…
Update on a key part of the frac supply chain… 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, please …
Read More »Our Top 25 Reports Of 2025
Happy New Year 2026 to the shale industry! During 2025, Infill Thinking members: saw 278 original research updates, received 96 members-only email newsletters, accessed unique proprietary data under the Lium Data Plan, benefitted from multiple field trips we conducted to report firsthand observations on frac jobs and supply chain activity… including …
Read More »Detmar’s Driverless Trucks To Move Sand Down I-20 With No One On Board In 2026
We caught up with management team innovating on the cutting edge of frac sand delivery… 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 …
Read More »Live From San Antonio… 1st Impressions From The Biggest Frac Sand Conference Of The Year
We are grateful for the opportunity to attend and speak at the Petroleum Connection’s frac sand and logistics conference in San Antonio this week. This is the largest frac sand conference in the industry each year. It’s still going, but here are some quick thoughts from the sidelines on day …
Read More »Follow Up Thoughts On The TSS / Sand Revolution Deal
We’ve had some time to ruminate on the big news we broke exclusively this morning… 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 …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: The Ink Is Drying On A HUGE M&A Deal In Frac Supply Chain
Breaking news on a big deal in last mile… 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, please email …
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