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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...
Susan Murphy
Nov 27, 20193 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
Sep 25, 20192 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
Jul 31, 20193 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
Jun 26, 20193 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
May 29, 20193 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
Apr 30, 20193 min read
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Will OCTG Buck 2018’s Advancements?
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...
Susan Murphy
Mar 27, 20193 min read
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Testing the OCTG Market’s ‘Metal’ in Early 2019
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...
Susan Murphy
Feb 27, 20193 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
Jan 30, 20195 min read
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2019 OCTG Forecasts: Merry & Bright ... or Ho-Hum?
’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...
Susan Murphy
Nov 28, 20183 min read
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OCTG Price Forecast: The 64K Dollar Question
"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all," ~Henri Poincare, author of “The Foundations of Science.”...
Susan Murphy
Sep 26, 20183 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
Jul 31, 20183 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
Feb 22, 20184 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
Jan 30, 20183 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
Nov 3, 20173 min read
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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...
Susan Murphy
Sep 20, 20173 min read
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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
Susan Murphy
Jul 26, 20172 min read
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