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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: June 14,, 2021 Next Release Date: July 12, 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 June 2021 July 2021 change June 2021 July 2021 change
Anadarko 1,012 993 (19) 5,467 5,358 (109)
Appalachia 185 186 1 28,808 29,240 432
Bakken 2,413 2,400 (13) 3,210 3,192 (18)
Eagle Ford 2,334 2,335 1 7,980 8,003 23
Haynesville 19 19 - 11,548 11,549 1
Niobrara 1,933 1,932 (1) 5,426 5,415 (11)
Permian 1,240 1,235 (5) 2,250 2,229 (21)
Rig-weighted average 1,143 1,132 (11) 6,801 6,831 30
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region June 2021 July 2021 change June 2021 July 2021 change
Anadarko 353 349 (4) 5,919 5,857 (62)
Appalachia 128 129 1 34,586 34,604 18
Bakken 1,102 1,098 (4) 2,732 2,681 (51)
Eagle Ford 1,027 1,023 (4) 5,589 5,570 (19)
Haynesville 32 32 - 12,942 13,079 137
Niobrara 516 509 (7) 4,882 4,843 (39)
Permian 4,607 4,663 56 17,602 17,668 66
Total 7,765 7,803 38 84,252 84,302 50
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region April 2021 May 2021 change
Anadarko 860 861 (19)
Appalachia 590 577 (13)
Bakken 663 636 (27)
Eagle Ford 1,071 1,040 (31)
Haynesville 385 384 (1)
Niobrara 448 407 (41)
Permian 2,731 2,616 (115)
Total 6,768 6,521 (247)
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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