Tag Archives: permian basin

With 2019 in the books, we spent some time over the weekend becoming more encouraged about 2020 as we updated our data on… 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. …

Looking at today’s depressed stock prices for tight oil operators and declining E&P activity trends, you’d never guess that this is actually a relatively wonderful time to be an E&P operator actively developing US tight oil resources. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  …

Draconian chatter has been circulating lately in frac sand’s inner circles about leadership changes at Black Mountain Sand recently. On good authority, we believe the rumored drama is overstated. After the company’s board meeting this Thursday, we… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  …

Infill Thinking readers may recall this update from October on a big Permian land auction of 13,500 acres with historical significance. This ranch has a rich O&G history dating back to the 1920s, when Gulf Oil bought leases to the ranch. From the 1920s onwards, it helped make the fortunes …

This E&P company is one of those operators that has been actively (and publicly) evaluating strategic alternatives for their water business for much of the year. We wrote about their thinking on the process in May 2019 and again last month. This week we got the latest on management’s thinking …

Another E&P is warming up to handing off their in-house water assets and could divest their water infrastructure to the third-party water midstream industry in the near-term… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …

There’s a multi-parcel land auction scheduled for later this months that is likely to turn some heads in the Permian Basin – both in the ranching community and in the O&G industry. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and …

Company by company timeline charts for the top injection well permitters. These charts tell us a lot and also provoke some interesting questions… Consolidation ahead? 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 …

Operators still factor pretty heavily into the new injection well owner lineup, and we wonder how much longer that will be the case as many E&Ps continue to evaluate the separation of their wastewater management. A couple other interesting observations before we get to the data: There have been… There’s …

Last week, we published a research update discussing why produced water reuse as frac fluid is on the rise and what factors might drive the next leg up in the treated water trend in fracing. The catalyst for that piece was a research project our team was conducting to update …