Unsurprisingly, lawyers and restructuring advisors are the biggest winners in this mess. They are making out like bandits and harvesting a massive payday from the industry’s financial predicament. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …
Read More »Mass Bankruptcy. What Does It Mean For “The 3 C’s” Of Oilfield Service?
It seems like every couple days another oilfield company declares Chapter 11. Against this bankruptcy backdrop, we consider the future of oilfield services… 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. …
Read More »Situational Awareness – 7 Short Briefs On Distressed Frac Sand Company Happenings
The future of the frac supply chain’s competitive landscape is being rapidly reshaped by restructuring activity. Maintaining situational awareness in multiple fast-moving cases is key. And this week… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …
Read More »Frac Sand’s Biggest Name From The Northern White Era Files Chapter 11 And Abandons Thousands Of Rail Cars
This is a firm we’ve flagged as a potential restructuring candidate in several recent posts (most prominently in a newsletter last week when we wrote “all eyes turn to Covia to see if they announce restructuring”). Today, we provide analysis of the news… There’s a lot more to this story… …
Read More »Oilfield Water M&A Charts Suddenly Awash In White Space [Charts Of The Day]
Like with most sectors of the US economy in the Covid-19 world, dealmaking has gone silent in the oilfield water sector. There are three reasons that the recent lack of transactions in this oilfield niche is especially noteworthy: … There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the …
Read More »Graphing Oilfield Water M&A While Waiting For Deal Flow To Pick Up Again [H2O Chart Of The Day]
While waiting for deal flow to pick back up, we dusted off our water M&A database this week. 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 »Frac People On The Move During 2019
In a recent year-end review, we shared our top 19 stories from 2019 in frac sand and oilfield water as measured by membership interest. Before we leave 2019 behind and fully focus on the new year, we have one more year-in-review recap for you. This one summarizes the installments in …
Read More »Why Is ESG Trending In O&G? Follow The Money, But Remember HSE & Societal Value Predate The Trend In O&G
In this update, three charts – one showing the surge of ESG interest in the oilfield and two others explaining why. The data is followed up with in-depth analysis and commentary on sentiment, investment, why it matters, who’s doing what, RFQ impacts, what oilfield niches have big ESG opportunities, and …
Read More »Permian Operator Pieces Together A Produced Water Deal Puzzle. This One Is Complicated By E&P M&A…
This E&P company is one of those operators that has been actively (and publicly) evaluating strategic alternatives for their water business for much of the year. We wrote about their thinking on the process in May 2019 and again last month. This week we got the latest on management’s thinking …
Read More »What Does A Potential Energy Banker Exodus Mean For The Future Of The Oil Patch?
A recent Bloomberg article highlights several high profile examples of banker to industry leadership role transitions, but it does miss a couple big recent moves. Here are two very recent Banker-to-Industry transitions the solid third-party article doesn’t mention and a big question it raises in our mind… There’s a lot …
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