So how many trucks will West Texas frac sand require in the last mile? We have estimates… 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 »The New Face Of Frac Sand? Permian Startups Take The House Floor In Austin [Testimony Recap]
Last Wednesday, Hayden Gillespie (Chief Commercial Officer of Black Mountain Sand) and Bud Brigham (Chairman of Atlas Sand) testified in front of the Texas House Of Representatives Energy Committee. If you missed their testimony, no worries took it in and recapped the highlights here. Some interesting market intel and perspective on …
Read More »If Not Rail, Then Barge. Unanticipated Logistics Havoc Is Plaguing 2018 Completions More Than Anticipated Trucking Issues
Everyone’s been focused on trucking in Texas. And trucking in Texas is tight. But it’s the devil you don’t know that’ll get you. And during the first half of 2018, unanticipated disruptions in transportation modes not involving wheels have wreaked much more havoc in the shale frac sand transportation network. …
Read More »More Negative Highway Headlines Out In West Texas This Week
A few local headlines in West Texas caught our attention this week. Oilfield traffic is becoming a bigger problem as the year goes on… 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 …
Read More »Silica Valley – Software Startups Are Racing To Digitalize The Last Mile
When the term “new entrants” is mentioned in frac sand conversation, the focus immediately gravitates to the physical. New sand producers, new plants, new well-site storage containers, and new trailer fleets have been all the rage lately. Hardware gets the headlines, but new software solutions have swept in too. A …
Read More »In Other News… Fatal Left Turn, Triangulating On The Colorado Mine, and US Silica M&A
In addition to the deeper Infill Thinking research updates published this week, three quick hits crossed our desk that are worthy of comment… 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 »Of Highways, Drivers, Chassis, Engines, And Wheels [Permian Points 3]
Here’s a Tyner Energy Tweet – good follow on Twitter by the way – that will probably resonate with anyone that has i) spent time in the Permian oilfield and also ii) seen the movie Mad Max which features a fantastical fleet of muscle trucks racing around a post-apocalyptic desert. …
Read More »A Perfect Sandstorm Has Started A “Run On The Bank” In The US Completions Supply Chain
Last week, first Schlumberger and then Halliburton issued US onshore profit warnings for their completions businesses. Halliburton explicitly cited the frac sand supply crunch caused by railroad downtime as the primary culprit. Since then, we’ve had a chance to catch up with multiple private participants in this market to try …
Read More »ELDisruption – E-Logs Are Reverberating Through The Oilfield, And It’s Not Even Hard Enforcement Yet…
Two months before ELD phase-in last year, we called on industry contacts to help illuminate the risk posed to oilfield activity by this new regulation. The results foretold significant adverse impacts in the already tight oilfield hauling business. With ELD phase-in turning one-month old last week, we caught up with many …
Read More »Black Mountain Vest’s Dryers Are On & Phase Two Of Their Highway Improvement Project Has Begun
Here’s the very latest on the 4mmtpa Black Mountain frac sand plant that is scheduled to start up this month. 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 …
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