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Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #215 | April 17, 2019
Imagine being a completions engineer at a remote West Texas well site performing a hydraulic fracturing operation. You’ve just run out of the frac sand needed to complete the job...
Infill Thinking was honored to participate and attend the SPE’s Permian Symposium in Houston yesterday. Special thanks to all the events organizers and presenters – it was a great experience...
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With the US oil and gas industry booming, now is a great time to be in the frac sand industry. That said, there are a number of questions that the...
As the public frac sand players report Q1 results over the coming weeks, we expect relatively upbeat forward guidance. The conflation of improving demand (partially a function of less white...
One of the key takeaways from our Permian Basin recon trip a couple months ago was that intra-basin railing of local sand was about to become reality. In this boots-on-the-ground...
In just seven months, IAC has designed, built and commissioned the newest frac sand dry plant in the Permian Basin for High Roller Sand, an innovative leader in the frac...
The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association handed out more awards and installed new officers yesterday at its annual meeting in Orlando. The association presented the 2019 Veterans...
Shares in some of the biggest shale companies soared on hopes that Chevron Corp.’s $33 billion deal to acquire Anadarko Petroleum Corp. could start a wave of consolidation in the...
Much is being written about Chevron bidding $33bn to take over Anadarko this morning, and rightly so. Instead of yet another transaction rehash, here are four quick thoughts on our...
Houston-based E&P company EOG Resources’ fortunes are looking increasingly favorable as we head further into 2019. The oil driller significantly reduced its cost of drilling after oil prices fell from...
Shale companies from Texas to North Dakota have been managing their wells to maximize short-term oil production. That has long-term consequences for the future of the American energy boom...
Our regular weekly rig count update this week shines the spotlight on the SCOOP/STACK rig count...
Oil prices continue to rally, but not all is well in the US shale patch as drillers are facing both operational issues and have laid off hundreds of people. US...
Infill Thinking has learned some new details in the Permian Basin saga involving the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard. These details involve a key leadership change and the 2019 conservation plan...
The former Post Time Saloon is set to become part of the solution to one of Carlsbad’s biggest problems: housing. Many Carlsbadians remember getting drinks at the popular saloon, and...
Four train cars were caught on camera as they fell off the tracks Tuesday in Lackawanna County. Just after noon, those train cars carrying thousands of pounds of sand derailed...
Frac sand clean up from last week. Truck rolled over and box split open. BTR Environmental getting the job done!
The AF Gelhar Company, Inc., located in Markesan, will be featured in a video production spotlight on Fox 11 Business “Manufacturing Marvels” at 9:30 p.m. Friday, highlighting 100 years in...
Silica sand has been discovered deep beneath the ground in southern Manitoba, but whether it can be produced is still in question. “We believe it’s a viable mineral to produce,”...
Disruptive technologies overturn traditional business models. Examples of such disruption abound. Social networking, smartphones and even low-tech frac sand have all significantly disrupted the status quo in their unique way...
Ashly Steinke didn’t grow up on a farm, but he always understood their importance to small communities. His wife, Stacy, did grow up on a farm, and Ashly said he...
A sand mining company argued before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday that it should be allowed to mine silica sand in Winona County despite a local ban on the...
The history of fracking bills in the Florida Legislature offers a better understanding of what’s happening this legislative session. Since at least 2013, the Florida Legislature has proposed legislation dealing...
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Status quo in frac sand? Yep. For the first time in two years, disruption is in the review mirror not smack dab ahead of us. See how and what’s next...
It’s only Tuesday, but two major frac sand industry gatherings have already happened in Texas this week. Much of the buzz we picked up from these events (one of which...
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