THE OCTG SITUATION ROOM

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” ~Sherlock Holmes. Holmes clearly understood that having data to back up one’s...

"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all," ~Henri Poincare, author of “The Foundations of Science.”...

Baseball Hall of Famer and philosopher Yogi Berra said it best: "If you come to a fork in the road, take it!" And so we forge ahead into...

Maybe it’s the heat, maybe it’s the market but this month everyone in the oil patch seems to be fired up about something. Fortunately for us

s we barrel ahead toward summer in the oil patch there’s an intermittent up-stream of opportunities for various sectors of the supply chain

Each November we examine numerous oilfield metrics to determine what might be in the cards for the coming year. Will the deck be stacked...

Weather news has taken the US by storm for the past couple weeks starting with Hurricane Harvey that hit home for so many in the oil...

The tariffs are coming, the tariffs are coming! Or are they? The dog days of summer in the oil patch are being dogged by the protracted...

As we close the chapter on another exclusive quarterly inventory survey, we’re grateful to the hundreds of OCTG yards throughout the supply

Every June we take the temperature of the oil patch and judging by the tone of our many conversations this month we'd say, without...

Photo Marubeni-Itochu Tubulars America Inc. Courtesy ©Jim Blecha: oilandgasphotographers.com As May is historically a light news month...

As we prepared to weigh in on our 2017 OCTG forecasts we couldn’t help but look back over the past two years with a mix of shock and awe....