The Top Five Infill Thinking Stories, Charts, And Debates Of 1Q17

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Here are several Top 5 Infill Thinking lists for 1Q17 (our first full quarter of operation).

Top 5 Stories

We issued 82 research updates during 1Q17. As measured by the number of reads, here are the Infill Thinking updates our readers found most valuable:

1. Encana’s 64-Well Monster – A Permian One-Off Or The Pad Of The Future?
2. A Massive Paradigm Shift In Frac Sand’s Last Mile Is Happening Now
3. A Frac Sand Mine Lands In The Permian. This Could Transform The Competitive Sandscape [Exclusive Details]
4. Unintended Consequences – The Crude Price Risk Factor No One Is Talking About… Yet
5. Is Baker Hughes Over-Innovating?

Top 5 Newsletters

We shipped 25 newsletters during the first quarter. Our open rate averaged 59%, which to our knowledge is the highest of any newsletter in the oilfield today. Based on analysis conducted by our email service provider, e-newsletters in our category average an open rate of 15-25%. Here are the five that our readers found the most intriguing:

1. Schlumberger Grows Again, FRAC Inauguration, Earnings Considerations, and more…
2. One Frac, Two Frac, Red Frac, Blue Frac; US/Saudi Inversion; Meet The Author; and more…
3. What Labor Loss? O&G’s Worst Neighborhood, Big Sand, and more…
4. Sand Bandits Strike, Offshore Quandary, HAL Mows ‘Em Down, and more…
5. Sand Crush, Seadrill Clones, Halliburton Rumors, Permian Ramp Leveling? and more…

Top 5 Debates

A little controversy is good – it means we’ve struck an issue our readers are grappling with as well. Based on reader feedback and conversations with many of you offline, here are the oilfield topics we wrote on during 1Q17 that sparked the most debate. The jury is still out on the final answer on these, but you can bet we’ll be writing about them for the rest of the year!

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