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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date:  February 12, 2018  |  Next Release: March 12, 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 February 2018 March 2018 change   February 2018 March 2018 change
Anadarko 392 397 5   2,677 2,696 19
Appalachia 144 145 1   14,795 14,908 113
Bakken 1,404 1,421 17   1,707 1,732 25
Eagle Ford 1,287 1,345 58   5,129 5,409 280
Haynesville 25 25 -   8,137 8,140 3
Niobrara 1,133 1,144 11   4,317 4,342 25
Permian 632 632 -    1,186 1,186 -
Total 652 657 5   3,659 3,702 43
Oil production
thousand barrels/day
Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region February 2018 March 2018 change   February 2018 March 2018 change
Anadarko 491 492 1   6,131 6,100 (31)
Appalachia 117 120 3   26,829 27,150 321
Bakken 1,215 1,222 7   2,220 2,248 28
Eagle Ford 1,289 1,307 18   6,456 6,518 62
Haynesville 42 42 -   7,906 8,095 189
Niobrara 573 579 6   4,813 4,860 47
Permian 2,919 2,994 75    9,754 9,970 216
Total 6,646 6,756 110   64,109 64,941 832
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region December 2017 January 2018 change  
Anadarko 1,024 1,029 5  
Appalachia 752 748 (4)  
Bakken 724 721 (3)  
Eagle Ford 1,478 1,511 33  
Haynesville 166 167 1  
Niobrara 576 553 (23)   
Permian 2,768 2,880 112   
Total 7,488 7,609 121  

 

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