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The US land rig count had one of its best weeks of the year this week for change, adding 13 rigs (best week since January). Interestingly, the gains didn’t come from the typical places… There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this …

There’s been a great deal of talk about e-frac fleets for several years, but what about drilling rigs moving to alternative power sources like grid-derived utility provided electricity as their primary power source? This is a trend that started prior to the downturn, and adoption is likely to become more …

When (not if) will the leading land drilling contractors make a hard push to be paid under a different model than the entrenched dayrate pricing framework? It’s a question we’ve wondered about for years now as we’ve watched land drilling rigs drill more and more wells per month, benefiting their …

Rig consolidation is back in the headlines this week after a big deal offshore on Monday (Ensco and Rowan merged). Although it’s received less attention, consolidation has picked up in onshore drilling too, with two material deals in the past three months. So this week, we took a look at …

In terms of the current unconventional drilling rig count, this formula works to within a rounding error. Although it’s probably not a huge surprise to most Infill Thinkers, it’s still some mind-blowing arithmetic: There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update …

In this weekly rig count update, we take a quick look at the rig count evolution of today’s two most important US onshore markets: West Texas and Oklahoma. You may remember the following chart from an update early this year when we wrote about the bifurcated Permian market place….   …

We celebrate the recovery’s one-year anniversary by comparing how this recovery compares to others, revisiting our 2017 rig count forecast, and detailing rig count by region across the US. feature image photo credit: @jasplund91 There’s a lot more to this story… Login to see the full update…  To read this update …