Kimberlite Oilfield Research recently updated the 2020 drilling forecast based on interviews with 203 respondents from 138 E&P operators in North America.

The US land market is highly fragmented with over 40 mud motor suppliers cited as being used. The smaller, independent mud motor suppliers are reported to being used by virtually all of US land operators and comprise in aggregate approximately 70% market share.

56% of US land operators surveyed state the need for higher MWD data rates and they cite future plans to use dual telemetry and EM to help achieve these higher data rate requirements.