Thoughts on the importance of certain customers to certain OFS providers… 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 expired, …
Read More »Shale E&P Capex Is Coming In Hot [Chart Of The Day]
Thoughts on E&P spending for 2023… 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 expired, please email us to discuss …
Read More »So Much For Capital Discipline Part 2… The Budgets & Costs Keep Going Up, Oil Prices Don’t
We think E&P behavior on capex this year exhibits signs of reversion to historical norms, albeit with less leverage than in the past, which is a positive sign for OFS firms because their price increases are translating to more capital not lower activity. There’s a lot more to this story… …
Read More »So Much For Capital Discipline… E&Ps Repeatedly Hiked 2022 Budgets & Completed More Wells As Costs Soared
Although E&P management teams continue to spike the football about their capital discipline on earnings calls, capital budget and spending data tell a different story in shale. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …
Read More »New Red Flags Raised In Permian E&P – Production Treadmill Speeding Up & Getting More Expensive?
A series of negatives for an E&P raises some red flags along the Permian’s oil production development path. 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 …
Read More »Thoughts On The Private E&P Wildcard In The 2023 Completions Outlook
We examine Private E&P behavior and what they might do next as they have an increasingly large role in driving the D&C market these days. 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 …
Read More »Cash Is King
It’s much easier to spend growth capital when each well drilled and completed is a smaller and smaller percentage of your cash on hand! So how’s that looking for the various oilfield participants? There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update …
Read More »Well Costs Rising & Gap Filling… A Look At Why Shale E&P Capex Budgets Are Being Hiked
This earnings season, more than half the public E&Ps we monitor hiked their 2022 budget guidance. Many for the second time already this year… The publics are on track to spend 15-20% more than they originally communicated when 2022 budgets were set. Why? Well… There’s a lot more to this …
Read More »2022 Public E&P Capex Budget Patterns & Predictions [Chart Of The Day]
2022 budget analysis… 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 expired, please email us to discuss our current subscription …
Read More »Price Hikes Are Indeed Killing E&P Capex [2022 E&P Thesis Tracking]
One of our E&P thesis coming into 2022 is that well cost inflation will surprise to the upside, putting E&Ps between a rock and a hard place. This is happening now. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive …
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