In this week’s regular rig count update, we take a look at… 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 »Permian New Well Demand PICKS UP STEAM Into Year End… Bring On 2021!
In this week’s regular rig count update, we take a look at… 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 »US Land Drilling Rig Contractor Market Share Trends In The Crash Are Reversing Now
In this week’s regular rig count update, we take a look at… 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 »Hold The Cranberry Sauce…. No Turkey Break For US Drilling This Year!
In this week’s regular rig count update, we take a look at… 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 »The Leading US O&G Rig Contractor Eyes Non-O&G Opportunities For Their Rig Fleet
In this week’s regular rig count update, we put the 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 »Back To 300 By Thanksgiving? It’s Not Too Soon To Put The Impressive Rig Rebound Since August In Context
Although the oilfield is still dragging bottom and the capacity overhang will linger on for a while, it’s not too early to begin thinking about recovery trajectories. To do that, we turn to…. Patterson-UTI yard in the Permian Basin in October 2021 – feature image photo credit: Red Wing Aerials, …
Read More »Drilling Trends North Of The Border – Our Quarterly Glance At The Canadian Rig Market
As bad as things have been in the US drilling market, Canada has been a real slog this year. In this update, we provide a short briefing on trends there and what could come next… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read …
Read More »We Fished These 25 Key Points From The Earnings Ocean
During earnings season, an ocean of content comes at you fast. 7,000 words are spoken on the average earnings conference call. There were 27 oilfield earnings conference calls this week. We did the math. That’s the word count equivalent of 200 Infill Thinking posts. How much of this info overload …
Read More »What’s Going On In Culberson County?
Last week after scouring air permit data, we identified a new sand mine site in Culberson County Texas In conversations with readers offline, the potential mine’s location has come up several times as a sticking point. Could this sand be stranded if indeed it is pointed at the frac industry? (questions …
Read More »Oilfield Technologification Starts With A Spud. How & Why Land Drillers Have Gone All Apple On Us
Most industry observers now accept that the oilfield is on a path towards digitization, big data, machine learning, more integration, and automation. Instinctually, most of these same observers would probably not pick land contract drilling as a segment to lead the charge. But it has become increasingly clear to us that …
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