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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date:  March 12, 2018  |  Next Release: April 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 March 2018 April 2018 change   March 2018 April 2018 change
Anadarko 397 402 5   2,717 2,736 19
Appalachia 146 146 -   15,241 15,441 200
Bakken 1,429 1,454 25   1,732 1,757 25
Eagle Ford 1,345 1,407 62   5,410 5,737 327
Haynesville 24 23 (1)   8,353 8,358 5
Niobrara 1,208 1,225 17   4,397 4,434 37
Permian 635 635 -    1,186 1,186 -
Total 663 673 10   3,752 3,769 17
Oil production
thousand barrels/day
Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region March 2018 April 2018 change   March 2018 April 2018 change
Anadarko 492 493 1   6,232 6,238 6
Appalachia 112 115 3   27,203 27,562 359
Bakken 1,211 1,223 12   2,216 2,253 37
Eagle Ford 1,307 1,330 23   6,518 6,587 69
Haynesville 42 42 -   8,095 8,292 197
Niobrara 583 595 12   4,867 4,935 68
Permian 3,076 3,156 80    10,019 10,252 233
Total 6,823 6,954 131   65,150 66,119 969
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region January 2018 February 2018 change  
Anadarko 1,015 1,017 2  
Appalachia 762 743 (19)  
Bakken 712 708 (4)  
Eagle Ford 1,462 1,492 30  
Haynesville 172 167 (5)  
Niobrara 553 537 (16)   
Permian 2,815 2,937 122   
Total 7,491 7,601 110  

 

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