Everywhere you look… every report you read… everyone you talk to… it’s is all telling you the same thing these days. Things are mind-numbingly bad in the US oilfield. Far worse than even the most jaded cynics expected when this crisis began. Empty highways in the Permian. Yards full of …
Read More »A Look Way Back In Time To The Good Old Days… Early-2020 [Top Ten 1Q20 Updates]
By The Stats – Membership Resources Provided During 1Q20 In the 90 days ended March 31, 2020, the Infill Thinking research team: published 86 independent research updates, emailed 25 original Infill Thoughts newsletters to active members, issued 14 data releases to Think Sheets® members, got in one last great member meetup …
Read More »The “Nice List”: 19 US E&P Operators To Keep An Eye On For 2020 Activity Growth
With lumps of coal in every oilfield stocking this holiday season, it’s easy to overlook the bright spots. There are some bright spots though. Not every E&P operator plans to slash investment next year. In fact, some are planning to increase spending, or at least talking optimistically about their growth …
Read More »Positive Read-Through For Both Felix Water And WPX 2020 Capex From Monday’s Big E&P M&A Deal
The dust is settling on another big E&P M&A announcement in 2019, and this one has implications for related water and midstream deal processes as well as 2020 E&P capex spending in the Permian. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this …
Read More »Ranking E&P RIF Risk With A New Staff Efficiency Benchmark [Chart Of The Day]
For years – even before capital discipline started trending in 2017 – Wall Street research analysts have constructed models to benchmark the effectiveness of E&P capital deployment. But what if we turn the logic around a bit and look for layoff risk indicators in the size of… There’s a lot …
Read More »2020 Vision: Tracking E&P Capex Budget Signals For US Land
2020 E&P capex budget announcement season is still a couple months out on the horizon, but planning is well underway for most operators at this point. Here’s some analysis and clues about where it might go…. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To …
Read More »A Thematic Recap Of Infill Thinking’s 2Q19 Oilfield Market Research
Here with the third quarter of 2019 only about a week old, we are pausing to take a look back at 10 key themes that threaded through our research over the past 3 months. 1. Infill Thinking’s Oilfield Water Coverage Reached Critical Mass. While continuing to devote plenty of research …
Read More »The First 2020 E&P Spending Signal Is A Bummer For The Oilfield Service Sector
An important E&P capex update this week reads negative for anyone hoping for an oilfield spending increase in 2020. Here’s the relevant excerpt followed by our 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 …
Read More »Of Sand & Water. 10 Key Themes In Infill Thinking’s 1Q19 Research Stream
2019 got off to a shaky start in the US onshore oilfield service business (largely due to macro volatility into year end). But as 1Q played out and WTI rallied, sentiment and completions activity indicators improved. Here with the second quarter only about a week old, we are pausing to …
Read More »E-Fleets Back In The News…
US Well Services, one of a handful of electric frac fleet technology pioneers, hosted their first earnings conference call as a public company yesterday. A couple things stood out to us, including … There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update …
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