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 »Just The E&P Operators… [Survey Result Detail Data]
We are excited today to share the results of our well-attended industry marketplace survey about the year-ahead outlook… 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 …
Read More »Our Mid-Year 2021 Outlook Survey Results Are In!
We are excited today to share the results of our well-attended industry marketplace survey about the year-ahead outlook… 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 …
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 »7 Market Datapoints That Stand Out From This Week’s Pressure Pumping Earnings Flurry
Over the past couple of days, we’ve listened to the conference calls of Liberty, Patterson-UTI, RPC and Calfrac (together we estimate these pumpers have X% market share in Lower 48 frac market). Here are the key datapoints that have read-through to the broader frac market… There’s a lot more to …
Read More »How Many Meshes Do Shale Wells Really Need?
As most Infill Thinking readers know, E&P operators often require their pressure pumpers to use multiple size grades on shale / tight oil wells. In fact, several grades are often used in the same stage. Is that about to change? There’s a lot more to this story… Login to …
Read More »10 Frac Supply Chain Trends To Watch As 2Q21 Begins
1Q21 was a whirlwind in the frac supply chain. We relived it here. Now it’s time to turn our eyes ahead to 2Q21, and we look forward to starting to do that this week at the in-person frac sand conference in Houston hosted by the Petroleum Connection. To gear up …
Read More »Energy Transitioning The Oilfield Out Of A Job?… Not So Fast My Friend…
Importantly as we listened to the oilfield’s commentary around energy transition this quarter, we were struck by the fact that oilfield management teams are optimistic not pessimistic about this. Remember SWOT analysis from business school? The oilfield is looking at energy transition as an “O” not a “T.” There’s a …
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