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...

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...

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...

’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 a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” ~Sherlock Holmes. Holmes clearly understood that having data to back up one’s...

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

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...

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

Maybe it’s the heat, maybe it’s the market but this month everyone in the oil patch seems to be fired up about something. Fortunately for us

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

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...

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...

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

In the words of baseball legend Yogi Berra, “the future ain't what it used to be.” As we embark on our publication’s 31st annual ‘state