Contents
- Anadarko
- Appalachia
- Bakken
- Eagle Ford
- Haynesville
- Niobrara
- Permian
- Full report
- Year-over-year summary
Report data (aggregated by region)
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 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | August 2020 | September 2020 | change | August 2020 | September 2020 | change | |
| Anadarko | 1,275 | 1,301 | 26 | 7,641 | 7,794 | 153 | |
| Appalachia | 169 | 171 | 2 | 24,204 | 24,930 | 726 | |
| Bakken | 2,099 | 2,368 | 269 | 2,839 | 3,207 | 368 | |
| Eagle Ford | 2,418 | 2,466 | 48 | 8,265 | 8,430 | 165 | |
| Haynesville | 19 | 20 | 1 | 11,196 | 11,207 | 11 | |
| Niobrara | 1,932 | 2,028 | 96 | 5,462 | 5,571 | 109 | |
| Permian | 963 | 1,127 | 164 | 1,873 | 2,098 | 225 | |
| Rig-weighted average | 898 | 982 | 84 | 7,189 | 7,409 | 220 | |
| Oil production thousand barrels/day |
Gas production million cubic feet/day |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | August 2020 | September 2020 | change | August 2020 | September 2020 | change | |
| Anadarko | 396 | 383 | (13) | 6,053 | 5,927 | (126) | |
| Appalachia | 115 | 114 | (1) | 32,616 | 32,413 | (203) | |
| Bakken | 1,184 | 1,191 | 7 | 2,664 | 2,679 | 15 | |
| Eagle Ford | 1,099 | 1,085 | (14) | 6,055 | 5,999 | (56) | |
| Haynesville | 36 | 36 | - | 11,739 | 11,677 | (62) | |
| Niobrara | 600 | 595 | (5) | 5,216 | 5,202 | (14) | |
| Permian | 4,147 | 4,154 | 7 | 15,341 | 15,366 | 25 | |
| Total | 7,577 | 7,558 | (19) | 79,684 | 79,263 | (421) | |
| Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC) wells |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | June 2020 | July 2020 | change | |
| Anadarko | 705 | 699 | (6) | |
| Appalachia | 574 | 568 | (6) | |
| Bakken | 896 | 902 | 6 | |
| Eagle Ford | 1,224 | 1,218 | (6) | |
| Haynesville | 293 | 294 | 1 | |
| Niobrara | 483 | 484 | 1 | |
| Permian | 3,480 | 3,520 | 40 | |
| Total | 7,655 | 7,685 | 30 | |
NOTE:
The Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) rig productivity metric new-well oil/natural gas production per rig can become unstable during periods of rapid decreases or increases in the number of active rigs and well completions. The metric uses a fixed ratio of estimated total production from new wells divided by the region's monthly rig count, lagged by two months. The metric does not represent new-well oil/natural gas production per newly completed well.
The DPR metric legacy oil/natural gas production change can become unstable during periods of rapid decreases or increases in the volume of well production curtailments or shut-ins. This effect has been observed during winter weather freeze-offs, extreme flooding events, and the 2020 global oil demand contraction. The DPR methodology involves applying smoothing techniques to most of the data series because of inherent noise in the data.
August 2020 Supplement: Rig counts fall but new-well production per rig rise as new-well production persists.March 2020 Supplement: Base production accounts for a material share of total U.S. tight oil production.
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.