This past week we completed another Permian trip as we travelled west to attend a ChampionX open house featuring its recently acquired Scientific Aviation business (more below) while we also summarize a Marcellus frac site tour from two weeks ago. We return to the…
Happy Mother’s Day to all our mom readers….you are the best! DEP Travels. We drive to Midland tomorrow morning for two days of meetings. Likely will assemble a small group dinner Tuesday night in Midland, so if you’re up for Mexican or Italian,…
Very busy week last week as we were consumed by the inaugural THRIVE Energy Conference, thus a somewhat low calorie note this weekend. Given our lack of free time last week, we haven’t fully digested all of the Q4 earnings calls in recent days,…
Now that we are essentially through Q3 earnings season, this weekend we reviewed E&P commentary regarding near-term capital spending and activity trends. Where possible, we highlight Q4 and preliminary 2021 guidance as well as convey go-forward activity assumptions as provided. As expected, E&P capital…
Mixed emotions this week as our Permian trip felt like a cold shower, but upon returning to Houston, the BKR U.S. land rig count jumps 10 rigs w/w. Feels like the zig and zag may persist, but on the margin, we see things improving,…
We have updated our active frac crew count worksheet as well as compiled a list of frac crew anecdotes from Q2 earnings season. Our active tally now stands at ~111 fleets. This tally is derived from public disclosures, industry sources, company specific discussions and…
Better late than never. Daniel Energy Partners had the joys of driving our daughter’s car to the Northeast last week for college; attending our son’s delayed high school graduation in Virginia on Saturday and then making a surprise trip to North Carolina to see…