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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date:  December 18, 2017  |  Next Release: January 16, 2018  |  full report

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DUC data (aggregated by region)



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New-well oil production per rig
barrels/day
New-well gas production per rig
thousand cubic feet/day
Region December 2017 January 2018 change   December 2017 January 2018 change
Anadarko 382 387 5   2,573 2,590 17
Appalachia 135 136 1   14,411 14,488 77
Bakken 1,366 1,383 17   1,661 1,681 20
Eagle Ford 1,136 1,185 49   4,506 4,732 226
Haynesville 33 33 -   7,998 8,023 25
Niobrara 1,101 1,113 12   4,275 4,290 15
Permian 610 614 4    1,067 1,082 15
Total 621 633 12   3,522 3,488 (14)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day
Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region December 2017 January 2018 change   December 2017 January 2018 change
Anadarko 483 487 4   6,067 6,055 (12)
Appalachia 111 114 3   26,027 26,374 347
Bakken 1,168 1,177 9   2,101 2,129 28
Eagle Ford 1,239 1,243 4   6,375 6,395 20
Haynesville 44 44 -   7,530 7,678 148
Niobrara 543 549 6   4,794 4,837 43
Permian 2,726 2,794 68    9,372 9,562 190
Total 6,314 6,408 94   62,266 63,030 764
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region October 2017 November 2017 change  
Anadarko 967 977 10  
Appalachia 784 785 1  
Bakken 724 713 (11)  
Eagle Ford 1,422 1,441 19  
Haynesville 193 195 2  
Niobrara 653 630 (23)   
Permian 2,517 2,613 96   
Total 7,260 7,354 94  

NOTE:
The DPR report no longer contains the Marcellus and Utica regions in the downloadable report data file. These have been replaced by the Appalachia region.

 

The Drilling Productivity Report uses recent data on the total number of drilling rigs in operation along with estimates of drilling productivity and estimated changes in production from existing oil and natural gas wells to provide estimated changes in oil and natural gas production for seven key regions. EIA's approach does not distinguish between oil-directed rigs and gas-directed rigs because once a well is completed it may produce both oil and gas; more than half of the wells produce both.

key tight oil and shale gas regions