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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: February 14, 2022 Next Release Date: March 14, 2022 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 February 2022 March 2022 change February 2022 March 2022 change
Anadarko 781 764 (17) 4,044 3,923 (121)
Appalachia 189 189 - 30,747 30,378 (369)
Bakken 2,056 1,963 (93) 2,878 2,748 (130)
Eagle Ford 2,232 2,166 (66) 8,005 7,764 (241)
Haynesville 19 19 - 12,354 12,255 (99)
Niobrara 1,608 1,592 (16) 4,306 4,220 (86)
Permian 1,192 1,178 (14) 2,321 2,293 (28)
Rig-weighted average 1,123 1,094 (29) 6,263 6,321 58
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region February 2022 March 2022 change February 2022 March 2022 change
Anadarko 393 399 6 6,341 6,336 (5)
Appalachia 113 114 1 35,716 35,830 114
Bakken 1,192 1,198 6 3,137 3,147 10
Eagle Ford 1,122 1,146 24 6,176 6,254 78
Haynesville 33 33 - 14,291 14,465 174
Niobrara 611 612 1 5,293 5,297 4
Permian 5,134 5,205 71 20,233 20,357 124
Total 8,598 8,707 109 91,187 91,686 499
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region December 2021 January 2022 change
Anadarko 773 761 (12)
Appalachia 565 542 (23)
Bakken 464 437 (27)
Eagle Ford 685 657 (28)
Haynesville 372 369 (3)
Niobrara 354 345 (9)
Permian 1,444 1,355 (89)
Total 4,657 4,466 (191)

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.

September 2021 Supplement: Gas-to-oil ratios in U.S. primary oil-producing regions.
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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