Tag Archives: trucking

This week, a very large carrier that hauls frac sand sent an important letter to customers. This has big market implications for the frac supply chain. In the letter, the company’s president…. Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be …

What’s really going on with Schlumberger’s trucking unit? We discuss the story behind the story here… There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a member. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current members login here.) Members get Exclusive research …

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 …

Our latest round of Permian market intelligence focuses on datapoints in frac sand’s last mile and wellsite handling market. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a subscriber. If your free trial has expired, renew here. (Current members login here.) Subscribers get Exclusive …

In today’s guest post, James offers a unique perspective on the economic impact of under-developed road-ways and key insights on transportation infrastructure development in West Texas. There’s a lot more to this story… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you must be a subscriber. If your free trial …

Infill Thinking will participate in the Petroleum Connection’s sold-out Frac Sand Industry Update conference in Houston on February 6. Our founder, Joseph Triepke, will moderate the last mile & logistics panel at the event. Here is a preview of what’s on our mind headed into this discussion… There’s a lot more …

We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: Infill Thinking readers are the smartest folks in the industry. Following our exclusive, investigative report earlier this week on draft legislation that could have a profound impact on the Texas last mile logistics marketplace, we heard feedback from quite a few plugged-in …

Just before the ball drops ushering in the new year, we are hearing about widespread supply chain disruption from seasonal driver shortages leaving frac crews unsanded in Texas. In this report, read full analysis including what’s going on, why, where, why it matters, and what’s next. There’s a lot more …

It isn’t always easy being small in a big space, but in the frac sand trucking business, small isn’t always bad, either. Our guest author today formed a sand hauling outfit with just a couple trucks in early-2015, just as oil prices began to plunge. Today, he is running 40 …

In Infill Thinking’s big 2019 logistics preview last week, one of the topics we broached was whether late entrants in the frac sand wellsite solutions market will be able to displace the incumbent new gen solutions. We wanted to elaborate on that a bit today. Is it enough to simply build …