New bills proposed in the Texas legislative session have potentially massive implications for insurance and commerce in the oilfield trucking business (crude, sand, water, etc. hauling in the oilfield could all be impacted). There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read this update …
Read More »Anecdotal Evidence Keeps Building Saying… Yes, A Run On Sand Is Underway
A quick follow up to our longer piece over the weekend flagging the fast tightening sand spot market after more channel checks on Monday… 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 …
Read More »Is A Run On Sand Starting?
A hunch we’ve been writing about for months is coming to pass… 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 …
Read More »Watch This Potential Supply Chain Crunch, Which Threatens Post-Christmas Fracs
Anxiety is building with our contacts in the… 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 …
Read More »Can The Federal Government Help Lessen Oil & Gas Volatility? Do We Want Them To? [Friday Guest Post]
I consider myself fortunate to have gotten to know Brent Halldorson, a tenured oilfield water expert, over the past couple of years. He’s a passionate student of our industry. About this time last year, I was in a conference hall listening to him speak on the history of the produced …
Read More »Tallying Up The Damage As Another E&P From Our Bankruptcy Watchlist Files Chapter 11
Like many of the other filings in recent weeks, Rosehill was one of about 20 names on the Infill Thinking bankruptcy watchlist published in May 2020. Here’s a few things we learned in their filing… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update… To read …
Read More »Factoring 2020 DOT Drug & Alcohol Reg Changes Into Frac’s Last Mile [Friday Guest Post]
When Phil Baxter recently asked me if I had looked into the big changes that were made in January to the FMSCA’s drug and alcohol policies (and the impact they could have on hauling capacity in the frac supply chain), I perked up and asked if he’d chime in on …
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 »Reptile Conservationists Make Good On Litigation Threat. Will This Finally Get The Ball Rolling Towards DSL Resolution?
With the materialization of this lawsuit, we highly recommend revisiting this piece of Infill Thinking research from July… 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 »One Last DSL Headline Before The Year Is Out: CBD Attacks TCP Lapse
Environmental protection groups are seizing upon a lapse in a legal compromise (a lapse that Infill Thinking broke the news about five weeks ago) in their latest effort to apply pressure to the Feds to list the lizard as an endangered species. Punching above its weight, the little dunes sagebrush …
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