THE OCTG SITUATION ROOM

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

Another quarter wrapped; time to zoom in on the results of The OCTG Situation Report’s exclusive OCTG inventory yard survey. First, we...

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...

The quote, “Prediction is very hard, especially about the future” captures the essence of the responses we received to our request for...

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....

"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’s medal mania all over again as the 2016 Rio Olympic Games permeate the airwaves. And it’s “metal” mania here in the OCTG Situation...