The simulfrac trend is spreading fast in shale, and rightly so. Whatever frac efficiency metric you look at – whether it’s stages/crew day or stimulated feet per month or pumping hours per quarter or time on location – the step changes simulfracs are delivering are disruptive and mindblowing. The implications …
Read More »And The Hottest Topic At The Houston Frac Sand Conference This Week Was… Drum Roll Please…….
Big kudos to Pete Cook and the Petroleum Connection for hosting another great sand event in Houston this week. No one does it better than that team, and it was great to see everyone in person again. Here is some of what we learned… There’s a lot more to this …
Read More »Questions On Our Mind As Simul-frac Effects Ripple Up The Supply Chain [Panel Preview]
We are looking forward to participating in the simul-frac panel at the Frac Sand Industry Update in a couple weeks. It’ll be a great discussion with panelists from Chevron, Halliburton, Badger, and Sand Revolution discussing how this wellsite procedural change is rippling back up the frac supply chain. Here are …
Read More »Controversial New Texas Bills Have BIG Implications For Frac Last Mile, Water Hauling, & Crude Hauling
New bills proposed in the Texas legislative session have potentially massive implications for insurance and commerce in the oilfield trucking business (crude, sand, water, etc. hauling in the oilfield could all be impacted). There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update …
Read More »2021 Frac Bottlenecks: Updates On The Sandemic & Tight Trucking Situations
It’s Tuesday February 9, 2021, and frac sand and the hauling thereof are still tight. Here is the latest intel from our channel checks on the ongoing frac supply chain tightness: There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive …
Read More »Last Mile Problems Make An Earnings Season Appearance
An thorn in the side of the frac industry that we’ve been reporting on for over a month has surfaced on an earnings call…. 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 »Last Mile Still A Hot Mess
Frac customers continue to struggle with trucking. As sand supply now becomes a challenge too, the last mile problems are compounded. Here is the latest from our last mile channel checks. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive …
Read More »Sand Hauler Recruiting Is A Tougher Task In The Pandemic Era [Chart Of The Day]
This week, all the talk in frac sand insider circles has been about the sand hauling chaos. Here are three recent Infill Thinking pieces on this development: The Warning The First Signs The Story Continues Here we take a data-driven look at one of the culprits… There’s a lot more …
Read More »Warning Fulfilled As Some Fracs Rang In The New Year Without Sand
In our final newsletter of 2020, we warned about the risk of driver absences wreaking some havoc in the frac supply chain (see this update). It happened. Here’s what we are hearing on the first business day of 2021 about the struggle to sand fracs: There’s a lot more to …
Read More »Infill Thinking’s Top 20 Of 2020
You don’t need yet another publication telling you what a crazy year 2020. So we won’t. Instead, here are some stats on the member resources Infill Thinking provided during 2020 followed by a list of the most popular research updates that Infill Thinkers clicked on during the year. Spoiler alert, …
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