Tag Archives: rail

On Thursday morning, news headlines suggest that a potential rail worker strike on Friday was averted at the last minute by negotiators. If the strike had happened, what would that have meant for frac sand? We discuss… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  …

A large NWS player had some interesting things to say last week… 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 …

Flash-back. Infill Thinking December 2, 2021: New Year Could Bring Bigger Headaches For Permian Sand Buyers… Yep, that happened. Fast forward to today… and here is the latest intelligence sand buyers and sellers need to know… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To …

Flash-back. Infill Thinking December 2, 2021: New Year Could Bring Bigger Headaches For Permian Sand Buyers… Yep, that happened. Fast forward to today… and the headache is turning into a migraine. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive …

Flash-back. Infill Thinking December 2, 2021: New Year Could Bring Bigger Headaches For Permian Sand Buyers… Yep, that happened. Fast forward to today… …and we’ve got some new information on wet sand and white sand to share! There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  …

3Q20 was an up quarter sequentially in the proppant industry. We estimate demand increased x-x% from the 2Q20 bottom. But not all mines are sharing equally as volume edges upwards off the bottom… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update …

The fine print in the latest frac sand bankruptcy filing is a cautionary tale of hidden frac sand inventory that could weigh on the market when bid activity picks up… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our …

Earlier this week, we published some notes from the road after spending time in the Marcellus/Utica frac supply chain last week. If you read that piece, you probably remember the section on the extremely busy Pilot Express fuel station near Steubenville, OH where we saw dozens of frac sand trucks …

One of the key takeaways from our Permian Basin recon trip a couple months ago was that intra-basin railing of local sand was about to become reality. In this boots-on-the-ground piece in March, we wrote that first shipments could happen by the end of 1Q19. The timing of that prediction …

The future of a piece of short line track has been jeopardized by the switch to local sand. 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 …