THE OCTG SITUATION ROOM

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

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

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...

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

Drum roll, please…the results of our exclusive quarterly OCTG inventory yard survey is here. The objective of this endeavor is always the...

As we prepare for our publication’s annual ‘state of the industry’ address every February we often find clues in past years’ metrics and...

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...

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...

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