Context on what the latest E&P megadeal could mean for OFS… 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, …
Read More »TX Oilpatch Layoff Trends [Chart Of The Day]
This week, we updated our WARN notice chart, tracking oilfield mass layoff activity back to 2011. We noticed that… 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 »Oilfield Workforce Contraction Is 3x Deeper Than Last Downcycle Per This Metric [Depressing Chart Of The Day]
This chart is gut wrenching, and we haven’t even gotten into May and June yet, which could be even worse. Our hearts ache with the impacted oilfield workers (and their families) that make all the stuff we love to write about happen. There’s a lot more to this story… Login …
Read More »Forget Frac. EVERYONE Is Talking Storage & Shut-ins
We checked in with a whole bunch of our oilfield service and E&P contacts this week. What we heard from them sure sounds like complete capitulation in the oilfield market. The bottom is coming into focus. Here’s what folks we talk to are saying… There’s a lot more to this …
Read More »A Deep Dive (& Some Fun) With The Historic Hearing On Texas Oil Cuts [Summary Of 9-Hour Testimony]
The Texas Railroad Commission (and a whole bunch of oilfield folks) had a very busy Tuesday. The three Commissioners hosted a nearly 9-hour long virtual open hearing on Tuesday, taking petitions for and against prorating Texas oil production. 20,000 viewers tuned in to watch the webcast. A whopping 53 industry …
Read More »Key Takeaways From Texas RRC Ryan Sitton’s First Natural Gas Flaring Report Release… [Live Blog Complete]
We live blogged our key takeaways from a critical TX RRC report release via webinar on Tuesday afternoon February 19, 2020… 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 »Harvey Makes His Presence Felt During First O&G Conference Since Landfall
Last week we noted that Harvey left us with more upstream questions than answers… questions we expected to begin to get answered this week at the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference in New York. On Tuesday afternoon, the first public O&G event since the storm commenced and most companies provided hurricane business …
Read More »In Harvey’s Wake We Find More Upstream Onshore Questions Than Answers
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey’s catastrophic impact on Gulf Coast communities and enterprise, attention now turns to recovery timetables and rebuilding. At this point, quantifying the upstream onshore impact is still an exercise in speculation. So in this update, we share detailed questions folks who want to understand the …
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