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We have arrived at the following ranges for active frac crew counts by basin based on information received from multiple plugged-in contacts we trust. This isn’t necessarily “Gospel,” and you may have hard data you are relying on that falls outside these ranges. But there is value in knowing where …

The Permian Basin rig count is down 50% from March, with little variance in the percentage decline between the Midland and Delaware Basins. But the downtrend does vary county by county… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive …

This morning comes official news of the first in-basin Permian sand mine closure since Black Monday. This may be the first official Permian closure in the pandemic era, but it a) won’t be the last and b) might not be the actual first. Here’s what we are watching as the frac sand demand destruction situation …

Last week, Hi-Crush said on their 4Q19 earnings call that January 2020 was the strongest month of sand sales in any January in company history. This datapoint is inline with our recent stream of reporting on stronger than expected frac activity – and sand demand – starting with this update …

Infill Thinking readers may recall this update from October on a big Permian land auction of 13,500 acres with historical significance. This ranch has a rich O&G history dating back to the 1920s, when Gulf Oil bought leases to the ranch. From the 1920s onwards, it helped make the fortunes …

For the first time since the disruptive local sand shift began back in 2017, the total workforce employed by the US local frac sand mining industry has… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, you …

In addition to the in-depth updates Infill Thinking published this week, we hunted down a variety of miscellaneous datapoints from around the sandpatch that are deserving of a quick mention… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our …

For those looking to learn what exactly happened, yesterday’s communication is likely to be seen as a disappointment. Here’s what stood out as we read the SEC filing… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update and receive our research newsletters, …

Back in the heyday of the Permian local frac sand boom (2017), Infill Thinking was breaking news about an incremental Permian frac sand plant once a week it seemed. With the Permian now oversupplied, all’s been quiet on the greenfield construction front for the past year. Here lately, we’ve been …

The universe of publicly traded shale oilfield water companies is small (for now). But the universe of companies with material oilfield water handling exposure is… 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 …