An Infill Thinking prediction is coming true. 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 …
Read More »Rig Count Continues Bottoming, So Here’s A Look At A Demand Indicator In The Most Critical Basin Of Them All
+10. Flat. Flat. -2. Those are the weekly changes the US land rig count has posted for the past four weeks. Not bad! A couple weeks ago – after the first two datapoints in the pattern above – we wrote “The Past 2 Weeks Don’t Make A Trend, But 2 …
Read More »A Brief History Of The Flaring Dialog Between E&P CEOs & Investors
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… …
Read More »Improving Oil Price May Slow The Pace Of Drilling Rig Releases In 1Q19
In our weekly rig count update this week, we digest a 2019 outlook from a leading land drilling contractor. 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 …
Read More »US Rig Count Is See Sawing – Down But Not Out So Far In 2019 With No Clear Trend Yet…
The early-2019 rig count continues to see saw. Are we at inflection or are we not? We discuss… 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 »H&P Addresses Their New “Piggy Back” Land Rigs, Which Are Still In Experimentation Mode
About 10 days before the H&P conference call this week, we wrote a report about something new the land contract driller is doing in the field – an onshore drilling first. In that report on these so called “piggy-back rigs,” we suggested H&P management might introduce and talk extensively about this …
Read More »Sandless Spreads, White Space, Permian Mobes, and Price Stagnation. Lots Of Frac Market Talk Over The Past 48 Hours, Most Of It Unpleasant
Never a dull moment in pressure pumping. See what we landed in our “datapoint fishing net” during the past 48 hours. 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 …
Read More »The SCOOP/STACK Rig Count Just Hit A Record High. Meanwhile, Mid-Con Sand Is Top Of Mind For Our Industry Contacts
In basin sand for the Mid-Con seems to be coming up more frequently in our conversations with industry contacts. Here’s three recent examples followed by analysis of SCOOP/STACK drilling rig activity trends. There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update and …
Read More »Don’t Read Too Much Into The Permian Rig Count Trajectory Lag. It Is Not A Sign Of Animal Spirit Inflection
We have seen some recent market commentary interpreting a lackluster Permian rig count response to the 4Q17 oil price rally as evidence of a change in E&P behavior or appetite for Permian development. We do not believe this interpretation is accurate. In this update, see what we believe are the real …
Read More »US Land Drilling Contractors Unanimously Defy The Rig Count Trend
Three of the largest US land drillers (together controlling 35% of the market) openly resisted the downward trending rig count last week. The US land rig count fell in 9 of the last 12 weeks and is off 5% from peak. The prevailing view has been that this decline would …
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