OCTG Forecast 2020: Food for Thought
’Tis the season, the time when we sift through stacks of data in order to provide some grist for the mill. Faced with lingering...
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Susan Murphy
- Sep 25, 2019
- 2 min
Doing the Math on OCTG in Q3
As the class of “2020” reconvenes at school this month we too are putting on our thinking caps and dusting off our previous 2019...
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Susan Murphy
- Aug 28, 2019
- 3 min
Will ‘Chill, Baby, Chill’ be the Mantra for OCTG in 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...
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Susan Murphy
- Jul 31, 2019
- 3 min
2Q19 OCTG Inventory Analysis: A Calm Before the Storm or Smooth(er) Sailing Ahead?
The results of our exclusive 2Q19 Quarterly OCTG Inventory Yard Survey could be viewed as a beacon of hope for those who expressed...
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Susan Murphy
- Jun 26, 2019
- 3 min
OCTG 2H19: Rolling with the Punches
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...
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Susan Murphy
- May 29, 2019
- 3 min
May’s OCTG Snooze Turns to Breaking News
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...
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Susan Murphy
- Apr 30, 2019
- 3 min
The OCTG ‘Space’ 1Q19: The Current Frontier
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...
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Susan Murphy
- Jan 30, 2019
- 5 min
4Q OCTG Inventory Yard Survey: Rolling with the Punches
The new year got underway with a blustery winter wallop: WTI prices struggling to reach $50/bbl coupled with a government ‘meltdown.’ We...
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Susan Murphy
- Aug 29, 2018
- 2 min
OCTG at Crossroads?
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...
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Susan Murphy
- Jul 31, 2018
- 3 min
2Q18 OCTG Inventory Yard Survey: Who Turned Up the Volume?
Drum roll, please…the results of our exclusive quarterly OCTG inventory yard survey is here. The objective of this endeavor is always the...
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Susan Murphy
- May 23, 2018
- 3 min
Surviving Post-Traumatic ‘232’ Disorder
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
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Susan Murphy
- Feb 22, 2018
- 4 min
OCTG By Numbers
As we prepare for our publication’s annual ‘state of the industry’ address every February we often find clues in past years’ metrics and...
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Susan Murphy
- Jan 30, 2018
- 3 min
4Q17 OCTG Inventories: Not All Black & White
As we zoom past 2017 it’s time to bring focus to the current OCTG inventory situation. 4Q17 OCTG inventory results are best framed as a...
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Susan Murphy
- Dec 1, 2017
- 3 min
2018 OCTG Forecast | What’s in the Cards for the Coming Year?
Each November we examine numerous oilfield metrics to determine what might be in the cards for the coming year. Will the deck be stacked...
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Susan Murphy
- Nov 3, 2017
- 3 min
OCTG Q3 Inventories: “Back to the Future”
Another quarter wrapped; time to zoom in on the results of The OCTG Situation Report’s exclusive OCTG inventory yard survey. First, we...
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Susan Murphy
- Sep 20, 2017
- 3 min
OCTG Weathers Texas Storms
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...
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Susan Murphy
- Aug 28, 2017
- 4 min
OCTG and The Section 232: A Numbers Game?
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...
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Susan Murphy
- Jul 26, 2017
- 2 min
Getting a Read on OCTG Inventories for 2Q17
As we close the chapter on another exclusive quarterly inventory survey, we’re grateful to the hundreds of OCTG yards throughout the supply
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Susan Murphy
- Jun 21, 2017
- 3 min
fOiled Again: Section 232’s Catch-22 for OCTG
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...
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Susan Murphy
- May 17, 2017
- 3 min
OCTG ‘Crude’ for Thought
Photo Marubeni-Itochu Tubulars America Inc. Courtesy ©Jim Blecha: oilandgasphotographers.com As May is historically a light news month...
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