In several posts this week (on frac crews and rigs), we’ve highlighted the natural gas upstream industry’s apathy to a substantial natural gas price move since 2Q21. How long will this go on? Our channel checks and public E&P commentary suggest… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to …
Read More »All Eyes On Haynesville & Appalachia Frac Fleet Count As Gas Prices Surge [Chart Of The Day]
Spot HHUB nat gas prices are north of $4. In fact, the whole natural gas curve has moved up pretty substantially since the start of 2Q21. The key question now is… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive …
Read More »Big Hurdle For The Frac Restart: Natural Gas Deliveries & Sand Supply Friction
Multiple local frac sand industry contacts in both South and West Texas have shared with us that sand production is not only affected by the cold temps but also by natural gas service interruption. As a result… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… …
Read More »2021 Public E&P Spending Indications Arrived Early This Year [Chart Of The Day]
We have fairly comprehensive visibility on 2021 E&P spending plans far earlier in the calendar than normal this year. 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 »Analyzing The Nat Gas E&P Wallet – Spending Trends And Projections [Chart Of The Day]
Historical and projected spending trends in natural gas basins… 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 …
Read More »Flat As A Pancake… [Chart Of The Day]
A wellness check this week on on the key economic engines of the oilfield industry reveals some interesting trends… 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 »Marcellus Drilling & Completion Trend Spotlight [Appalachian Chartbook]
There’s been a lot of focus on the Lower 48 natural gas plays as a source of relatively strong oilfield service demand in the oil crisis. This week, we took a data-driven look at a variety of activity metrics in the play – a “wellness check” if you will… There’s …
Read More »There Is A Bright Spot In The Gloomy Lower 48 Oilpatch [Chart Of The Day + Macro Thesis Highlights]
“Give me some good news for a change,” you say? Our pleasure! Here is a chart you cannot miss because it’s all anyone’s going to be talking about as tight oil gets shut in. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this …
Read More »A Brief History Of The Flaring Dialog Between E&P CEOs & Investors
In a separate update earlier this week, we quantified a new kind of flaring intensity index. Today we explore the qualitative side of this trend, distilling over 1,000 executive/investor conversations about flaring over the past decade and a half into this 5-minute-read summary. There’s a lot more to this story… …
Read More »Flaring ‘Conversation’ Intensity Heats Up [Chart Of The Day]
In this update we study a different kind of flaring intensity – the flaring conversation intensity. This is not a new issue, but the conversation is heating up and evolving. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our …
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