THE OCTG SITUATION ROOM

Considering that plates runneth over for many in the market this month trying to get kids back to (remote) schooling, sourcing toilet...

Hard to believe we’re moving past the dog days of summer eight months into a cycle that could be best measured in “dog years.” Oil patch...

When it comes to wealth every ‘quarter’ counts. It’s no different in the oil patch where our subscribers count on our exclusive quarterly OC

Every June we confer with colleagues from all walks of OCTG specifically to examine their outlook for the balance of the year...

It’s May in the oil patch and we hope you’re doing well and staying well in this helter ‘shelter’ world in which we now find ourselves....

We address the situation currently facing the OCTG sector in hopes of navigating a scenario that no one could have envisioned for 2020.

We often speak of the health of the oil patch in terms of the general state of the market, but it’s not often that it’s discussed in the...

Gauging the fitness of the industry by measuring demand for OCTG throughout the entire supply chain across the lower 48 is the goal...

’Tis the season, the time when we sift through stacks of data in order to provide some grist for the mill. Faced with lingering...

When it comes to diagnosing the health of the oil patch there’s no greater panacea than robust drilling activity, but a significant drop...

As the class of “2020” reconvenes at school this month we too are putting on our thinking caps and dusting off our previous 2019...

As we make our way through the dog days of August one begins to wonder if the “drill, baby, drill” mantra from 2008 will evolve into...

The results of our exclusive 2Q19 Quarterly OCTG Inventory Yard Survey could be viewed as a beacon of hope for those who expressed...

Each year in June we take the temperature of the oil patch, speaking with people from every walk of the supply chain to get a sense of...

What began as a month of snooze abruptly filled with breaking news. So we decided to investigate some of the headlines of the day in our...

While visual evidence of a massive Black Hole made headlines recently, we’re happy to report you won’t find any black holes in OCTG...

H-Town confirmed it knows the ropes as it played host to a Texas-sized A-list this month for the RodeoHouston Livestock show and the 38th...

If it’s February it must be our “Annual State of the Industry Report.” But alas, that isn’t the ‘Situation’ this month as the shutdown...

The new year got underway with a blustery winter wallop: WTI prices struggling to reach $50/bbl coupled with a government ‘meltdown.’ We...

’Tis the season and it’s tradition for us to start it by ringing in our forecast of all things OCTG for 2019. As we began checking off...