Infill Thoughts

Friday March 20, 2020 is the day the land rig count collapse began. Last Friday, rig count was down 20 units with the Permian leading the way down (-10 rigs). Here’s what the market leader said in reaction to the beginning of this unprecedented crash…. There’s a lot more to …

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Earlier this week, another trucking company’s nuclear verdict made headlines, this one outside of the frac sand hauling industry but notable none-the-less. While definitions can vary, a “nuclear verdict” is generally thought of as a jury award where the penalty exceeds $10 million. Nuclear verdicts have driven insurance premiums for …

The Baker Hughes US land rig count on Friday (+3) did not yet reflect the releases that operators are planning. Calm before the storm? Here’s everyone that’s disclosed plans to release rigs…. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and …

As last week wore on, we had hoped it would get better. It did not. We had also hoped that our initial concern expressed on Tuesday was overstated when we wrote then that the swiftest shale pullback in history could be imminent. It was not. As the week wore on, …

If this virus can can shut down Major League Baseball and Disney Land, why should we expect that frac sites will be any different and stay open as virus reaction spreads? If this virus can empty dormitories because of spreading risk in close quarters, what about man camps? Here’s what …

When Phil Baxter recently asked me if I had looked into the big changes that were made in January to the FMSCA’s drug and alcohol policies (and the impact they could have on hauling capacity in the frac supply chain), I perked up and asked if he’d chime in on …

On March 9, 2020, National Public Radio’s Marketplace show aired a segment across >800 US radio stations about the oil price fall-out’s impact on US oilfield activity. Their piece draws insights from our research update published for Infill Thinking subscribers earlier that day titled “On Black Monday, A Double Black …

Guest Contributor Introduction From Joseph Triepke: Today’s guest post has been three years in the making. Allow me to explain…. 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 …

In a separate update earlier this week, we quantified a new kind of flaring intensity index. Today we explore the qualitative side of this trend, distilling over 1,000 executive/investor conversations about flaring over the past decade and a half into this 5-minute-read summary. There’s a lot more to this story… …