Susan Murphy
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, 20173 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20174 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20173 min read
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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Susan Murphy
Mar 29, 20173 min read
2017 U.S. OCTG Mill Supply Forecast: The Million 'Tubes' March
The quote, “Prediction is very hard, especially about the future” captures the essence of the responses we received to our request for...
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Susan Murphy
Nov 22, 20163 min read
Santa vs Scrooge: 2017 OCTG Forecasts
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....
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Susan Murphy
Oct 27, 20162 min read
3Q16 Inventory: Cracking the Case of the Absent OCTG Tonnages
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data,” ~Sherlock Holmes. Holmes clearly understood that having data to back up one’s...
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Susan Murphy
Aug 25, 20162 min read
Will OCTG Prove Its ‘Metal’ in 2016?
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...
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