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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date:  January 21, 2020  |  Next Release: February 18, 2020  |  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 January 2020 February 2020 change   January 2020 February 2020 change
Anadarko 627 647 20   4,305 4,412 107
Appalachia 164 166 2   18,761 18,752 (9)
Bakken 1,559 1,598 39   2,289 2,337 48
Eagle Ford 1,453 1,475 22   4,916 4,926 10
Haynesville 26 27 1   10,310 10,335 25
Niobrara 1,220 1,225 5   4,233 4,255 22
Permian 808 810 2    1,562 1,567 5
Rig-weighted average 840 848 8   4,093 4,142 49
Oil production
thousand barrels/day
Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region January 2020 February 2020 change   January 2020 February 2020 change
Anadarko 551 535 (16)   7,643 7,495 (148)
Appalachia 166 166 -   33,402 33,346 (56)
Bakken 1,521 1,526 5   3,174 3,178 4
Eagle Ford 1,376 1,369 (7)   6,843 6,804 (39)
Haynesville 40 40 -   12,586 12,691 105
Niobrara 766 761 (5)   5,639 5,633 (6)
Permian 4,758 4,803 45    16,633 16,838 205
Total 9,178 9,200 22   85,920 85,985 65
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region November 2019 December 2019 change  
Anadarko 686 632 (54)  
Appalachia 448 427 (21)  
Bakken 795 813 18  
Eagle Ford 1,442 1,427 (15)  
Haynesville 208 214 6  
Niobrara 446 448 2   
Permian 3,598 3,612 14   
Total 7,623 7,573 (50)  

NOTE:
Productivity estimates may overstate actual production which could be limited by logistical constraints.

 

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