Tag Archives: proppant

How busy are sand mines these day? Very busy! 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 …

Chatter about potential deals is heating up… 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 us to …

Chatter about potential deals is heating up in two of shale’s critical path functions… 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 …

We are tracking 10 new Permian local sand mines this year, which got us thinking about the vintage distribution of in-basin nameplate capacity. 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. …

Inflation has been one of the hottest topics in shale lately, so here we take a look at one of the key drivers of completions cost escalation with hard data. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our …

Here is a look at how proppant supply base is operating plus thoughts on demand growth vs. supply base activity! 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 …

Today we have updated our Permian sand plant database for several new in-field facilities. Here are key takeaways… 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, …

This earnings season, sand talking points were fairly muted as supply chain comments were more focused on big picture inflationary trends and constraints (there are more urgent items for procurement teams than sand lately). That said, among our contacts “offline” the discussion around sand is… There’s a lot more to …

As an addendum to this week’s deep dive mobile-mini report from our site visit to see several in-field frac sand plants in person last week, we wanted to break out and highlight the limiting factors we see to this sand mining approach. There are some big insurmountable ones in our …

This week we worked the phones and caught up with quite a few contacts in frac supply chain to chat business trends, hear the voice of the industry, and take the pulse of the sand mining community. In this update we get in the weeds to give you insight on …