Infill Thoughts

Several weeks ago, Infill Thinking’s research team had an opportunity to visit the Vista Proppants and Logistics transload terminal near Dilley, Texas. Here are our key takeaways from our firsthand look at this facility. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this …

The customer is always right, and here is what they are saying about the frac sand they are buying. 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 …

Last week, three large land drilling contractors hosted quarterly conference calls. Their pricing commentary was an echo chamber of positivity, which is not terribly surprising with $68 WTI and the US onshore rig count moving up in 12 out of the 17 weeks so far this year. There’s a lot …

This is the third installment in our Silica Valley Series which shines the spotlight on an increasingly critical part of the frac value chain: new software solutions in the last mile. A crop of new entrants are improving the frac sand industry’s “mind-muscle connection” on the highways from origin to …

  So how many trucks will West Texas frac sand require in the last mile? We have estimates… 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 …

Last Wednesday, Hayden Gillespie (Chief Commercial Officer of Black Mountain Sand) and Bud Brigham (Chairman of Atlas Sand) testified in front of the Texas House Of Representatives Energy Committee. If you missed their testimony, no worries took it in and recapped the highlights here. Some interesting market intel and perspective on …

On the heels of some market commentary provided by Schlumberger this week and some interesting headlines from around the globe, we examine the outlook for international drilling activity and dissect the international rig count. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this …

PropX is growing and they are growing fast. In this update, read exclusive details we learned in a recent meeting with management about the company’s build cadence, trends in box per crew, business model, adoption rates, and the impacts of steel tariffs and OSHA regs. There’s a lot more to …

Yesterday’s wildfire news caused us to revisit publicly available mine permit records for the Mid-Con. We have uncovered an additional large-scale sand mining plan in Oklahoma as the Mid-Con proppant market appears to be quickly moving in the direction of the Permian – becoming locally supplied. There’s a lot more …

Thoughts on the developing wildfire situation in the Mid-Con as it pertains to upstream activity. This is a fluid situation, and we’ll be adding updates to this post as events unfold.   There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and …