holiday cheer Archives - Infill Thinking https://www.infillthinking.com Lifting the O&G knowledge curve Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:42:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 https://www.infillthinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-Screenshot_4-8-32x32.png holiday cheer Archives - Infill Thinking https://www.infillthinking.com 32 32 It’s The Frac Frac’iest Season Of All! – Infill Thinking’s 2023 Christmas Song Is On Spotify! https://www.infillthinking.com/infill-thoughts/its-the-frac-fraciest-season-of-all-infill-thinkings-2023-christmas-song-is-on-spotify/ https://www.infillthinking.com/infill-thoughts/its-the-frac-fraciest-season-of-all-infill-thinkings-2023-christmas-song-is-on-spotify/#respond Thu, 14 Dec 2023 13:53:45 +0000 https://www.infillthinking.com/?p=33704 Every Christmas season for the past seven years, our team has written an oilfield Christmas song. We started doing these before ChatGPT, so you can be sure a human hand actually created them! 🙂 Our friend, and talented artist, Dave Smith records the songs for us. These songs are adapted from Christmas classics. They are …

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Every Christmas season for the past seven years, our team has written an oilfield Christmas song. We started doing these before ChatGPT, so you can be sure a human hand actually created them! 🙂 Our friend, and talented artist, Dave Smith records the songs for us.

These songs are adapted from Christmas classics. They are part market research because they reflect the trends in our newsletter since last Christmas. But they are also part tinsel and candy canes…. designed to bring a smile to all our shale friends.

Listen below or stream these instant classics on Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube Music, or Pandora.

This year’s Infill Thinking ballad, It’s The Frac Fraciest Time Of The Year, is the eighth song in the collection. We’ve got your full holiday album right here folks!

So grab some egg nog (add a splash of something if you like) and stream this year’s tune and then revisit oilfield Christmases past! We wish all Infill Thinking members a wonderful 2023 holiday season.

 

It’s The Frac Frac’iest Time Of The Year


Ghosts Of Christmas Past

If you are in the mood for more Oilfield Christmas Carols, you can listen to the rest of our holiday song collection from years past on your favorite music service or below.

 

Jingle Bell Frac
(Christmas 2022)

 

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

Frac A DUC For Christmas
(Christmas 2020)

I’m Dreaming of Next Upcycle
(Christmas ​2019)

Jingle Bells, Wall Street Sells
(Christmas ​2019)

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

 

Christmas Lights Sticker by Unique Vintage for iOS & Android | GIPHY

 

‘Twas the Frac Before Christmas
(Christmas ​2017)

 

happy holidays animated gif greeting card image | Happy holidays quotes, Happy holidays wishes, Happy holiday greeting cards

Performance credit: Dave Smith Productions. Lyric Credit: Joseph Triepke

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Jingle Bell Frac…. Stream Infill Thinking’s Oilfield Christmas Carols On Spotify, Apple Music, Or Pandora! https://www.infillthinking.com/infill-thoughts/listen-to-infill-thinkings-new-oilfield-christmas-carol-on-spotify-apple-music/ https://www.infillthinking.com/infill-thoughts/listen-to-infill-thinkings-new-oilfield-christmas-carol-on-spotify-apple-music/#respond Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:26:40 +0000 https://www.infillthinking.com/?p=32786 Re-wording and recording the holiday classics to reflect the latest oilfield trends is a Christmas tradition as old as Infill Thinking itself. For the past six years, we’ve re-written a holiday classic (or two) to reflect the spirit of the season and shale trends. Part market research, part holiday cheer our songs are now available …

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Re-wording and recording the holiday classics to reflect the latest oilfield trends is a Christmas tradition as old as Infill Thinking itself.

For the past six years, we’ve re-written a holiday classic (or two) to reflect the spirit of the season and shale trends.

Part market research, part holiday cheer our songs are now available everywhere you listen to music!

Listen below or stream these holiday gems on Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube Music, or Pandora.

This year’s Infill Thinking ballad, Jingle Bell Frac, is the seventh song in the collection.

So grab some egg nog, break out the candy canes and stream this year’s tune! We wish all members a wonderful holiday season.

Jingle Bell Frac
(Christmas 2022)

 

 


Ghosts Of Christmas Past

If you are in the mood for more Oilfield Christmas Carols, you can listen to the rest of our holiday song collection from years past on your favorite music service or below.

 

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

Frac A DUC For Christmas
(Christmas 2020)

I’m Dreaming of Next Upcycle
(Christmas ​2019)

Jingle Bells, Wall Street Sells
(Christmas ​2019)

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

 

Christmas Lights Sticker by Unique Vintage for iOS & Android | GIPHY

 

‘Twas the Frac Before Christmas
(Christmas ​2017)

 

happy holidays animated gif greeting card image | Happy holidays quotes, Happy holidays wishes, Happy holiday greeting cards

Performance credit: Dave Smith Productions. Lyric Credit: Infill Thinking

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2021 Infill Thinking Christmas Carol Release https://www.infillthinking.com/infill-thoughts/2021-infill-thinking-christmas-carol-release/ https://www.infillthinking.com/infill-thoughts/2021-infill-thinking-christmas-carol-release/#respond Mon, 27 Dec 2021 13:19:56 +0000 https://www.infillthinking.com/?p=31615 Re-wording the holiday classics to reflect the latest oilfield trends is a Christmas tradition as old as Infill Thinking itself. Part market research, part holiday cheer; these songs capture the spirt of the season and the trends dominating the oilfield each year. This year’s Infill Thinking ballad is the sixth song in our album of …

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Re-wording the holiday classics to reflect the latest oilfield trends is a Christmas tradition as old as Infill Thinking itself.

Part market research, part holiday cheer; these songs capture the spirt of the season and the trends dominating the oilfield each year.

This year’s Infill Thinking ballad is the sixth song in our album of annual Christmas Carol adaptations into instant oilfield classics. And it focuses on the ever elusive, much talked about, and much anticipated net pricing in frac services.

So grab some egg nog, break out the candy canes and tinsel and enjoy this year’s new tune! We wish all members a wonderful holiday season.

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

For all our friends in OFS, we hope that 2022 is a better year where you can finally start to make some returns on those investments. And we hope E&Ps can afford to pay a little more while still seeing better well economics – stay high oil prices, stay high! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in 2022.

 

 

 


Ghosts Of Christmas Past

If you are in the mood for more Oilfield Christmas Carols, you can listen to the rest of our holiday song collection from years past below.

Frac A DUC For Christmas
(Christmas 2020)

I’m Dreaming of Next Upcycle
(Christmas ​2019)

Jingle Bells, Wall Street Sells
(Christmas ​2019)

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

 

Christmas Lights Sticker by Unique Vintage for iOS & Android | GIPHY

 

‘Twas the Frac Before Christmas
(Christmas ​2017)

 

happy holidays animated gif greeting card image | Happy holidays quotes, Happy holidays wishes, Happy holiday greeting cards

Performance credit: Dave Smith Productions. Lyric Credit: Infill Thinking

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‘Frac A DUC For Christmas’ – A New Infill Thinking Christmas Carol For A Crazy 2020 https://www.infillthinking.com/infill-thoughts/frac-a-duc-for-christmas-a-new-infill-thinking-oilfield-christmas-carol-this-crazy-year-of-2020/ https://www.infillthinking.com/infill-thoughts/frac-a-duc-for-christmas-a-new-infill-thinking-oilfield-christmas-carol-this-crazy-year-of-2020/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:18:50 +0000 https://www.infillthinking.com/?p=30219 Adapting Christmas Carols to oilfield trends is a holiday season tradition as old as Infill Thinking itself. We just released our 2020 track for members, a riff on Holly Jolly Christmas titled Frac A DUC For Christmas. Current members can login here to take a listen to this year’s song, and everyone can enjoy our …

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Adapting Christmas Carols to oilfield trends is a holiday season tradition as old as Infill Thinking itself.

We just released our 2020 track for members, a riff on Holly Jolly Christmas titled Frac A DUC For Christmas.

Current members can login here to take a listen to this year’s song, and everyone can enjoy our album of past year installments in Infill Thinking’s Oilfield Christmas Carol Album below…

Please pause to reminiscence a bit with us by replaying these Infill Thinking classics – just be sure to have the egg nog ready because these are one-part oilfield research and one-part satire.

Ghosts Of Christmas Past

This year’s Infill Thinking song is the fifth installment in our annual tradition of adapting Christmas Carols into instant oilfield classics.

If you are in the mood for more modified carols (and care to revisit the oilfield trends of yesteryear), you can listen to the rest of our Oilfield Holiday Album below.

Keep in mind that these songs are written inspired by the trends of the day in the oilfield – in other words, they’ve been downers lately. We look forward to happier adaptations in the Christmases of the future…

I’m Dreaming of Next Upcycle
(Christmas ​2019)

Jingle Bells, Wall Street Sells
(Christmas ​2019)

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

 

Christmas Lights Sticker by Unique Vintage for iOS & Android | GIPHY

 

‘Twas the Frac Before Christmas
(Christmas ​2017)

 

happy holidays animated gif greeting card image | Happy holidays quotes, Happy holidays wishes, Happy holiday greeting cards

Performance credit: Dave Smith Productions. Lyric Credit: Infill Thinking

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2 Oilfield Christmas Carols For 2019: “I’m Dreaming Of The Next Upcycle” and “Jingle Bells, Wall Street Sells” https://www.infillthinking.com/infill-thoughts/2-oilfield-christmas-carols-for-2019-im-dreaming-of-the-next-upcycle-and-jingle-bells-wall-street-sells/ https://www.infillthinking.com/infill-thoughts/2-oilfield-christmas-carols-for-2019-im-dreaming-of-the-next-upcycle-and-jingle-bells-wall-street-sells/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:58:13 +0000 http://www.infillthinking.com/?p=28245 Each year, we celebrate the Season here at Infill Thinking by weaving oilfield trends into a Holiday Classic or two. Break out the egg nog because our songs are part parody, part market research. We enjoyed writing our Oilfield Christmas songs in 2017 and 2018, back when oilfield growth was our inspiration. This year… not …

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Each year, we celebrate the Season here at Infill Thinking by weaving oilfield trends into a Holiday Classic or two.

Break out the egg nog because our songs are part parody, part market research.

We enjoyed writing our Oilfield Christmas songs in 2017 and 2018, back when oilfield growth was our inspiration.

This year… not so much. Our 2019 songs were much tougher to write. Times are lean and the songs are sad. But music is needed in both good times and bad.

In keeping with our tradition, we wrote and cut two Christmas tracks this year. You can stream them below, with a few thoughts stitched in between…

I’m Dreaming of Next Upcycle
(Christmas ​2019)

Next up is Jingle Bells, Wall Street Sells. If you take away one thing from our next song, we hope it is this…

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Adapting Christmas Carols to oilfield trends is a holiday season tradition as old as Infill Thinking itself.

Teasing ahead, we have written and recorded new Oilfield Christmas tracks, which will be released to active members next week (just in time for your holiday gatherings). These new releases will be as informative as they are entertaining.

Until our big 2019 release next week, please pause to reminiscence a bit with us by replaying a couple Infill Thinking classics from year’s past, which you can listen to below.

While our seasonal songs are whimsical and may make you smile, they are also designed to capture and communicate the critical oilfield business trends of the day.

Our hope is these songs put some soul back into coverage of the business trends our members are wrangling day-in and day-out in the oilfield marketplace.

So… in anticipation of 2019’s new releases… here is a look back at the oilfield market trends of yesteryear through the prism of our Christmas Classics adaptation….

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

    • Last year, we drew inspiration from bottleneck concerns and the focus on supply chain optimization. Click play to reminisce on 2018 Oilfield Christmas trends past…

 

‘Twas the Frac Before Christmas (Christmas ​2017)

  • Two years ago, key themes we drew our inspiration from were all about activity recovering and supply base growth. Click play to remember better days…

 

 

 

 

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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Optimization [An Oilfield Christmas Carol] https://www.infillthinking.com/free-thinking/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-optimization-an-oilfield-christmas-carol/ https://www.infillthinking.com/free-thinking/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-optimization-an-oilfield-christmas-carol/#respond Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:05:10 +0000 https://www.infillthinking.com/?p=23750 Click The Play Button Below And Crank Up The Volume https://www.infillthinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Its-Beginning-to-Look-Like-Optimization-Infill-Thinking.mp3 As You Listen… Adapting Christmas classics to oilfield trends is a holiday season tradition here at Infill Thinking. Last year was Twas The Frac Before Christmas. This year we found inspiration in the carol It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas and efficiency trends. …

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Click The Play Button Below And Crank Up The Volume

As You Listen…

Adapting Christmas classics to oilfield trends is a holiday season tradition here at Infill Thinking.

Last year was Twas The Frac Before Christmas.

This year we found inspiration in the carol It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas and efficiency trends.

This one pairs well with tinsel and candy canes and more efficient frac crews. We aren’t sure if it’ll make your holiday party playlist, but if you want the MP3, please drop us a note at hello@infillthinking.com. We sincerely hope this early Christmas gift helps kick off a festive season in your corner of the oilpatch.

From the Infill Thinking family to yours, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Many thanks for your support of our efforts in 2018 and beyond.

Credits and caveats: lyrics Joseph Triepke, performance Dave Smith, original score Meredith Willson. As you enjoy this bit of merriment, please keep in mind that this is infotainment (specific companies are mentioned only on the merits of the poetic properties of their names and leadership in their categories).

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