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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date:  June 15, 2020  |  Next Release: July 13, 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 June 2020 July 2020 change   June 2020 July 2020 change
Anadarko 716 931 215   4,227 5,496 1,269
Appalachia 147 148 1   19,828 20,026 198
Bakken 754 1,357 603   1,226 2,207 981
Eagle Ford 1,528 1,803 275   5,246 6,191 945
Haynesville 22 22 -   11,052 11,273 221
Niobrara 1,276 1,390 114   4,489 4,893 404
Permian 797 821 24    1,582 1,630 48
Rig-weighted average 772 798 26   4,447 5,481 1,034
Oil production
thousand barrels/day
Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region June 2020 July 2020 change   June 2020 July 2020 change
Anadarko 442 416 (26)   6,595 6,395 (200)
Appalachia 134 133 (1)   32,691 32,468 (223)
Bakken 1,003 998 (5)   2,269 2,261 (8)
Eagle Ford 1,201 1,173 (28)   6,429 6,333 (96)
Haynesville 37 36 (1)   11,833 11,761 (72)
Niobrara 638 613 (25)   5,393 5,314 (79)
Permian 4,270 4,263 (7)   16,044 16,029 (15)
Total 7,725 7,632 (93)   81,254 80,561 (693)
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region April 2020 May 2020 change  
Anadarko 677 662 (15)  
Appalachia 523 513 (10)  
Bakken 861 864 3  
Eagle Ford 1,362 1,349 (13)  
Haynesville 256 257 1  
Niobrara 483 478 (5)   
Permian 3,462 3,468 6   
Total 7,624 7,591 (33)  

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

 

March 2020 Supplement: Base production accounts for a material share of total U.S. tight oil production.

key tight oil and shale gas regions


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.