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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: January 17, 2023 Next Release Date: February 13, 2023 full reportPDF
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New-well oil production per rig
barrels/day		 New-well gas production per rig
thousand cubic feet/day
Region January 2023 February 2023 change January 2023 February 2023 change
Anadarko 689 690 1 3,857 3,892 35
Appalachia 191 191 - 25,436 25,004 (432)
Bakken 1,707 1,716 9 2,555 2,573 18
Eagle Ford 1,481 1,465 (16) 5,952 5,875 (77)
Haynesville 19 19 - 10,739 10,728 (11)
Niobrara 1,381 1,375 (6) 3,453 3,408 (45)
Permian 1,061 1,060 (1) 2,086 2,065 (21)
Rig-weighted average 952 948 (4) 5,434 5,378 (56)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region January 2023 February 2023 change January 2023 February 2023 change
Anadarko 431 442 11 6,981 7,007 26
Appalachia 136 139 3 35,279 35,372 93
Bakken 1,206 1,226 20 3,308 3,341 33
Eagle Ford 1,209 1,213 4 7,356 7,402 46
Haynesville 37 37 - 16,440 16,585 145
Niobrara 675 683 8 5,211 5,225 14
Permian 5,605 5,635 30 21,615 21,724 109
Total 9,299 9,375 76 96,190 96,656 466
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region November 2022 December 2022 change
Anadarko 712 715 3
Appalachia 620 621 1
Bakken 528 531 3
Eagle Ford 517 508 (9)
Haynesville 595 607 12
Niobrara 497 526 29
Permian 1,068 1,069 1
Total 4,537 4,577 40

NOTE: The Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) rig productivity metric new-well oil/natural gas production per rig can become unstable during periods of rapid decreases or increases in the number of active rigs and well completions. The metric uses a fixed ratio of estimated total production from new wells divided by the region's monthly rig count, lagged by two months. The metric does not represent new-well oil/natural gas production per newly completed well.

The DPR metric legacy oil/natural gas production change can become unstable during periods of rapid decreases or increases in the volume of well production curtailments or shut-ins. This effect has been observed during winter weather freeze-offs, extreme flooding events, and the 2020 global oil demand contraction. The DPR methodology involves applying smoothing techniques to most of the data series because of inherent noise in the data.

September 2021 Supplement: Gas-to-oil ratios in U.S. primary oil-producing regions.
January 2021 Supplement: Base production in North Dakota has fully recovered after a significant reduction.
September 2020 Supplement: With low rig counts, the inventory of drilled but uncompleted (DUC) wells provides short-term reserve for completions of new wells.
August 2020 Supplement: Rig counts fall but new-well production per rig rise as new-well production persists.
March 2020 Supplement: Base production accounts for a material share of total U.S. tight oil production.

key tight oil and shale gas regions

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