Each year, Infill Thinking celebrates the Season by word-smithing oilfield trends into a Holiday Classic or two. You can stream this year's tracks here (membership is not required to listen to the first track). Break out the egg nog because these carols are part parody, part market research....

The so-called production “treadmill” is moving faster than ever for shale producers in the Permian Basin—which means only an unlikely increase in drilling activity will stave off a major drop in output...

Easy money also has financed the shale revolution, which has vastly expanded the supply of domestically produced oil and gas....

US regions that benefited as fracing boomed are seeing declines in economic activity as producers reduce employment, spending...

Oilfield service company Superior Energy Services Inc. on Monday said it will shutter its hydraulic fracturing unit, confirming a report carried in in our "TROUBLE IN SHALE" series in last week's newsletter titled "Another Frac Outfit Completely Shutting Down?"...

The ROR Program enables members to leverage their research investment to meet their global onshore business needs, specifically in the upstream and midstream business, including carbon capture, use, and storage; produced water management, use, and disposal as well as other needed actions...

The Big Spring slurry injection facility in Howard County, serving the northern Midland Basin, is located eight miles north of Big Spring, near the intersection of U.S. Highway 87 and FM 1584.

Tallgrass agreed to be taken private by Blackstone Infrastructure Partners at $22.45, 15% above the previous $19.50 offer back in August...

Methane-emissions intensity in the Permian Basin plunged 64% in the past seven years, even as crude production surged, according to a report by Texans for Natural Gas, the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association...

On November 8, 2019, Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. (“Alta Mesa”) and Kingfisher Midstream, LLC (“Kingfisher”) crossed swords, each party filing dueling motions for summary judgment in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas...

This paper applies the conceptual lens of economic efficiency as a criterion by which to evaluate surface water in Texas. Texas has a water allocation problem limiting the ability to substitute groundwater for surface water to move water between river basins and to facilitate transfers within a river basin. Surface water is both underpriced and unresponsive to drought conditions preventing it from being used at its highest and best use. We propose a variety of partial solutions, which include facilitating greater reliance on water markets as well as a water tax that would vary across regions and over time to encourage conservation...

"I, GREG ABBOTT, Governor of the State of Texas, do hereby certify that exceptional drought conditions pose a threat of imminent disaster in Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Concho, Karnes, Kendall, Kinney, Llano, Maverick, Medina, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde, Zapata, and Zavala counties..."

In addition to the in-depth updates published over the past week, these 11 “quick hit” datapoints also crossed our desk and are worthy of a mention…

Hess Midstream Partners LP (NYSE: HESM) (the “Company” or “HESM”) today announced that the Company has completed its previously announced acquisition of Hess Infrastructure Partners LP (“HIP”), IDR simplification and conversion from a master limited partnership into an “Up-C” structure by merging with Hess Midstream LP (“Hess Midstream”), an entity taxed as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes...

Owen Goertz drives past a disposal well for water from nearby oil rigs, which could instead have its water cleaned and used to irrigate the nearby field, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019, near Hillsdale. The reclaimed water irrigation would allow Goertz to potentially double some of his hay production, compared to the dryland production he has now...

#1 The Removal of Total Suspended Solids (TSS) - click link to watch clip...

#2 Neutralize Fluid Add Gel and Clay Control-Hydrate - click link to watch clip...

#3 Add X-Linker - click link to watch clip...

#4 Crosslink Gel Complete - click link to watch clip...

Designed to address the industry’s biggest issues, including minimising downtime and boosting and transporting water, these pumps deliver operational and cost efficiencies to help producers master the entire use cycle in a smarter, holistic way...

In the United States, the oil industry produces over 15 billion barrels of wastewater contaminated with crude oil microdroplets annually. Current methods are ineffective for the removal of these microdroplets at the variable pH conditions commonly found in wastewater...

FieldFlow tracks tank levels. With the push of a button, sensors automatically record tank levels at arrival and departure...

Quartz, a big media / research platform, has launched a series of interest titled 'the business of water scarcity.' And the subscription service has even offered a special deal - use code WATER for 50% off your first year of membership at checkout! Their general premise is that freshwater shortages are a failure of capitalism, in part because water's value isn't reflected in its price. But investors are paying more attention to corporate water issues and lots of companies are starting to respond. This sounds like it's right up the alley of many of our readers!