Have Yourself A Merry Shale Christmas [SONG]

Every Christmas season for the past eight years, we’ve written an oilfield Christmas song.

We started doing these shale adaptations from the Christmas Classics before ChatGPT, so you can be sure a human hand actually created them! 🙂

The songs are part market research because they reflect the trends we report. But they are also part tinsel and candy canes, designed to bring a smile to all our shale friends.

Due to prevailing OFS market malaise, this year’s song is a bit more melancholy than boom years (hopefully by next Christmas, the trends and song will both be more upbeat).

After doing this for so long, we pretty much have a full Oilfield Holiday album out now!

Listen to our songs below or stream them all on Spotify or Youtube.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Have Yourself A Merry Shale Christmas (2024) spotify link

It’s The Frac Frac’iest Time Of The Year (2023)

Jingle Bell Frac (2022)

All I Want For Christmas Is Some Net Pricing (2021)

Frac A DUC For Christmas (2020)

I’m Dreaming of Next Upcycle (2019)

Jingle Bells, Wall Street Sells (2019)

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Optimization (2018)

‘Twas the Frac Before Christmas (2017)


For your holiday parties, stream the Infill Thinking holiday album on Spotify or Youtube.

Regardless of what the market is throwing at us right now, we wish all Infill Thinking members a wonderful 2024 holiday season and happy new year in 2025.

Performance credit:  Dave Smith Productions.
Lyrics credit: Joseph Triepke, Infill Thinking

One comment

  1. “Have Yourself a Merry Shale Christmas…”

    Nobody does it better. 👏 Y’all are brilliant and loads of fun, too.

    Looking back on last year, I guess we can wrap up 2024 by saying, “we ‘shale’ overcome!”

    Wishing all of my mates in the oil patch a productive and rewarding new year!

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