Tag Archives: sand by rail

Mine-gate prices have been a source of inflation in well costs this year, but the mine-gate might not be where customers experience the next round of pain… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …

We catch up with an old friend in frac sand to learn about what he’s up to and some new market insight… 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 …

Several interesting things came out of a rail company’s write off and disclosures yesterday and as it pertains to the frac supply chain… 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. …

In 2H17, we estimate the Union Pacific Railroad moved about one out of every X tons of frac sand pumped in the US. Today, we estimate their trains only move about one in X tons pumped.  

Here’s what completions supply chain folks need to know about Union Pacific’s market commentary Thursday morning… 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, …

A couple weeks ago, we broke in with exclusive details on the first ever intra-basin rail movements of locally-mined Permian frac sand. In this post we take the analysis a step further as our prior reporting has triggered exploratory interest from many of our readers. There’s a lot more to …

Big but not surprising. That’s how we’d characterize the UP’s frac sand news this week. We break it down, providing plenty of Infill Thinking context for reference. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …

In our 2Q18 oilfield earnings season preview earlier this week, we wrote that Northern White Sand displacement anecdotes in the Permian Basin were likely to be heard on this upcoming round of conference calls (see point 6). It didn’t take long for this prediction to pan out… the first datapoint …

A Monahans train wreck overnight on Wednesday could impact Permian completions. 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, …

Along with earnings last week, Union Pacific reported that their minerals volume increased 71% in the quarter, driven by an increase of over 100% in sand shipments due to improving well completions and increased proppant intensity per well. How long will the growth in railed sand shipments last and what …