Company: NINE
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001532286-25-000026
Chunk: 81

Company: Nine Energy Service, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 81
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 was 39 rigs. Nonetheless, the long-term outlook on natural gas demand remains positive. 

As for oil prices, towards the end of 2024, we began to see West Texas Intermediate (“WTI”) oil prices decline, which was exacerbated by the announcement of new tariffs by the Trump Administration in April 2025 and OPEC communicating they would be increasing production. In the second quarter of 2025, WTI price fell below $60 per barrel for the first time in four years. Because of the decline in oil prices, as well as increased costs and market uncertainty, our customers began to decrease activity. According to Baker Hughes, from the end of the first quarter of 2025 through the end of the third quarter of 2025, 43 rigs, most of which were in the Permian Basin, came out of the U.S. market, a decline of approximately 7% compared to the number of rigs at the end of the first quarter of 2025. During the first quarter of 2025, the average WTI price was $71.78 per barrel as compared to $65.82 per barrel in the third quarter of 2025, a decline of approximately 8%.

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Due to the spot-market nature of our business, our revenue and profitability generally move very similarly to U.S. rig, frac, and stage counts, and starting in the second quarter of 2025, we began to experience activity declines as well as receive pricing pressure across all of our service lines, especially in the oil-levered basins. During the third quarter of 2025, we had full quarter realizations of these activity declines, as well as continued pricing pressure on our services, which negatively impacted both revenue and earnings. In addition to negative market impacts, our completion tools division had market share losses, which were due mostly to customer consolidation and a change in certain of our customers’ completion designs, during the quarter that negatively impacted revenue and earnings. 

The current activity and pricing environment remains challenging. Additionally, we anticipate typical seasonal slowdowns and shutdowns in the fourth quarter of 2025 related to weather, holidays, and budget exhaustion, which will negatively impact revenue and earnings. As such, we anticipate revenue and earnings in the fourth quarter of 2025 will be down compared to the third quarter of 2025.

Significant factors that are likely to affect commodity prices moving forward include geopolitical and economic developments in the U.S. and globally, including conflicts, the pace of economic growth