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While we were getting drenched in the MidCon this week, the sky was falling in New York too. 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 …

We live-blogged the most important comments with oilfield marketplace implications from the Mammoth Energy Services call this 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 …

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 …

In this update yesterday, we noted a changing local climate towards the frac sand mining rush in Oklahoma. It’s even worse than we initially thought. After doing some more digging, we have decided that… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this …

A team of last mile specialists breaks down the MidCon sand procurement scene, digging deep into well, transload, and mine data to determine mileage differentials as procurement shifts to local sands. Don’t miss this chart and map… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  …

One of the biggest challenges relative to Permian sand mine infrastructure, which is critical to the successful development of these facilities, is the availability of a viable supply of water for not only sand production, but potable use as well. A significant amount of effort has gone into finding reliable …

Epic quantities of frac sand and water will fracture a lot of low permeability rock in the Lower 48 this year. This same sand and water has also fractured the US oilfield supply chain. Conventional wisdom on market segmentation and task ownership is now being challenged. The chain of custody …

The Permian is the epicenter of the in-basin frac sand trend. Local sand sourcing is a trend that will be on display in full force in Ft Worth this week as upstream executives gather to talk all things Permian. But the magnitude of the trend’s reach into other geo-markets is …

Many of our subscribers have descended upon Fort Worth this week for the large Permian Basin executive confab going on there. We’ve prepared the following “cheat sheet” of talking points in advance of the event. We tried to go a layer deeper than the agenda in this exercise, focusing on …

When the term “new entrants” is mentioned in frac sand conversation, the focus immediately gravitates to the physical. New sand producers, new plants, new well-site storage containers, and new trailer fleets have been all the rage lately. Hardware gets the headlines, but new software solutions have swept in too. A …