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Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #248 | December 4, 2019
Not surprisingly, due to Thanksgiving, the past week has been pretty quiet in regards to frac sand news. That said, based on the number of inquiries I have had in the last couple of days, people are turning their attention to 2020. Several companies reached out regarding speaking and sponsorship opportunities at the 5th Annual Frac Sand Industry Update. Please let me know what topics you would like to see covered at the January event. Given the state of the industry, we expect to have some new topics (potential speakers or panels on mine reclamation, asset management, etc.). We will also be showcasing some frac sand assets that are available for purchase or projects looking for investors, so there will be plenty of reasons to attend. Check it out and register at https://petroleumconnection.com/event/5th-annual-frac-sand-industry-update/
Select Sands Corp. is pleased to announce that the Company will start transload operations in George West, TX in Live Oak County in January of 2020. As a supplier of high quality Northern White Sands, the proximity of its mine in Arkansas...
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. said today that part of its Industrial and Specialty Products business will increase prices for most of its non-contracted silica sand, aggregate diatomaceous earth and clay...
I haven't talked about the sandies (companies that supply sand or proppant for fracking) in a while, certainly not since the Hi-Crush debacle of 2018, where I went from being moderately bullish to avoiding the sector entirely...
About 100 Infill Thinking members answered this open ended question in our recent 2020 Vision Oilfield Outlook Survey. In this post, you can read their responses...
The throttling back of fracking in the world’s biggest shale patch is hitting the unemployment line in Texas. Fracking contractor Superior Energy Services Inc. slashed 112 jobs from its Pumpco unit in the Permian Basin last...
After an open records request, we’ve been able to learn some new insights about the massive MidCon reduction in force happening this week in the oilfield service industry...
Houston oilfield service company Halliburton plans to close an office just west of Oklahoma City where more than 800 employees are losing their jobs. In a Monday morning letter filed with the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development...
Struggling oil field service company National Oilwell Varco plans to suspend operations at a facility in the Houston suburbs and lay off 85 people. In a letter Nov. 22 letter to the Texas Workforce Commission, NOV...
In this week’s rig count update, we have summarized the latest 2019/2020 US onshore drilling program outlooks, operator-by-company, picking out those rig customers who are adding, dropping, or keeping their rig counts flat...
Over the past year the penny that shale-oil output growth was going down, not up, finally dropped for most commentators (1-to-7). Although EIA, IEA, OPEC and Rystad Energy are all sticking with their predictions for a 900,000 bpd or so...
For the last year, Saudi Arabia has largely turned a blind eye to cheaters within the OPEC+ alliance, cutting its own output more than agreed to offset over-production from the likes of Iraq and even Russia...
Infill Thinking readers may recall this update from October on a big Permian land auction of 13,500 acres with historical significance. This ranch has a rich O&G history dating back to the 1920s, when Gulf Oil...
First proppant frack for Tacrom in Uzbekistan! Congrats...
Taking care of business. A big thank you to TPAO for this Proppant frac opportunity! Great job guys...
After nearly a decade as co-leader of ConocoPhillip’s one-a-kind test site in the Eagle Ford, Raterman, a reservoir engineering advisor at the company, has had the opportunity to use just about every sort of diagnostic test...
South Australia’s government will be the first globally to host an AUD$250,000 crowdsourced open data competition to fast-track the mining sector. ExploreSA: The Gawler Challenge partners with open innovation platform...
West Virginia has a rich tradition of glassmaking. Thanks to its abundant deposits of the silica sand necessary to make glass, the state once saw as many as 60 glass ventures operating. Today, nearly all are gone...
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