Each week through July, we’ll be illuminating the activity trend patterns of one large operator in the Lower 48 with hard data from Lium Research. While readers that provide services to these big E&Ps (or pay attention to company disclosures) might know their current rig count or fleet count, tracking …
Read More »Tracking The Most Active Shale Well Completer’s D&C Program [Operator Spotlight]
Each week through July, we’ll be illuminating the activity trend patterns of one large operator in the Lower 48 with hard data from Lium Research. While readers that provide services to these big E&Ps (or pay attention to company disclosures) might know their current rig count or fleet count, tracking …
Read More »Tracking Pioneer Natural Resources’ D&C Program In The Permian [Operator Spotlight]
Each week through July, we’ll be illuminating the activity trend patterns of one large operator in the Lower 48 with hard data from Lium Research. While readers that provide services to these big E&Ps (or pay attention to company disclosures) might know their current rig count or fleet count, tracking …
Read More »Tracking Exxon’s D&C Program In The Permian [Operator Spotlight]
We are kicking off a new weekly data series this week. Each week through July, we’ll be illuminating the activity trend patterns of one large operator in the Lower 48 with hard data. While readers that provide services to these big E&Ps (or pay attention to company disclosures) might know …
Read More »ESG Rigs – A Chat With The CEO Behind The World’s First Hybrid Rig
After writing about so called “ESG land drilling rigs” several times in recent rig count updates, we had a chance to catch up with a pioneer at the cutting edge of the ESG rig technological push this week. Here’s what we learned… There’s a lot more to this story… Login …
Read More »Grid-Powered Rigs Set To Gain Steam In The Next US Onshore Upcycle
There’s been a great deal of talk about e-frac fleets for several years, but what about drilling rigs moving to alternative power sources like grid-derived utility provided electricity as their primary power source? This is a trend that started prior to the downturn, and adoption is likely to become more …
Read More »Haynesville Strength Spotlight After Industry Talk Of An Uptick
Talk amongst our Haynesville friends about Louisiana fracs picking up a little steam over the past several weeks inspired this week’s rig count update. 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 …
Read More »Visualizing Lower 48 Drilling Footprint Evolution
In this week’s rig count update, we thought we’d put the spotlight on geo-region shifts in drilling activity as the rig count has undergone a massive compression since year-end 2018. How has the market share of various basins fared during the rig count carnage? There’s a lot more to this …
Read More »Interesting Trend Budding In Eagle Ford Data
In this week’s US drilling trends update, we shine a spotlight 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. If you are new to Infill Thinking, or your membership has …
Read More »Rig Count Continues Bottoming, So Here’s A Look At A Demand Indicator In The Most Critical Basin Of Them All
+10. Flat. Flat. -2. Those are the weekly changes the US land rig count has posted for the past four weeks. Not bad! A couple weeks ago – after the first two datapoints in the pattern above – we wrote “The Past 2 Weeks Don’t Make A Trend, But 2 …
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