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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: January 19, 2021 Next Release Date: February 16, 2021 full reportPDF
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New-well oil production per rig
barrels/day		 New-well gas production per rig
thousand cubic feet/day
Region January 2021 February 2021 change January 2021 February 2021 change
Anadarko 1,015 989 (26) 5,730 5,587 (143)
Appalachia 177 179 2 27,373 27,646 273
Bakken 2,358 2,318 (40) 3,147 3,093 (54)
Eagle Ford 2,227 2,205 (22) 7,493 7,418 (75)
Haynesville 19 19 - 11,406 11,408 2
Niobrara 2,019 1,938 (81) 6,423 6,166 (257)
Permian 1,173 1,138 (35) 2,259 2,191 (68)
Rig-weighted average 1,058 1,041 (17) 7,057 6,906 (151)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region January 2021 February 2021 change January 2021 February 2021 change
Anadarko 361 342 (19) 5,919 5,777 (142)
Appalachia 125 124 (1) 33,955 33,837 (118)
Bakken 1,214 1,194 (20) 2,851 2,801 (50)
Eagle Ford 1,017 998 (19) 5,506 5,429 (77)
Haynesville 33 33 - 11,327 11,382 55
Niobrara 528 511 (17) 5,153 5,075 (78)
Permian 4,333 4,320 (13) 16,365 16,303 (62)
Total 7,611 7,522 (89) 81,076 80,604 (472)
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region November 2020 December 2020 change
Anadarko 678 656 (22)
Appalachia 596 584 (12)
Bakken 795 778 (17)
Eagle Ford 1,025 996 (29)
Haynesville 324 318 (6)
Niobrara 480 442 (38)
Permian 3,545 3,524 (21)
Total 7,443 7,298 (145)
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.

January 2021 Supplement: Base production in North Dakota has fully recovered after a significant reduction.
September 2020 Supplement: With low rig counts, the inventory of drilled but uncompleted (DUC) wells provides short-term reserve for completions of new wells.
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.

key tight oil and shale gas regions

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