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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: March 14, 2022 Next Release Date: April 18, 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 March 2022 April 2022 change March 2022 April 2022 change
Anadarko 764 749 (15) 3,890 3,773 (117)
Appalachia 189 189 - 30,378 29,861 (517)
Bakken 1,963 1,879 (84) 2,748 2,630 (118)
Eagle Ford 2,116 2,053 (63) 7,597 7,369 (228)
Haynesville 19 19 - 11,973 11,758 (215)
Niobrara 1,593 1,577 (16) 4,201 4,117 (84)
Permian 1,171 1,157 (14) 2,293 2,265 (28)
Rig-weighted average 1,086 1,072 (14) 6,272 6,257 (15)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region March 2022 April 2022 change March 2022 April 2022 change
Anadarko 399 405 6 6,286 6,282 (4)
Appalachia 113 115 2 36,298 36,484 186
Bakken 1,172 1,188 16 3,079 3,101 22
Eagle Ford 1,123 1,146 23 6,288 6,382 94
Haynesville 33 33 - 14,425 14,598 173
Niobrara 613 613 - 5,196 5,199 3
Permian 5,138 5,208 70 20,160 20,280 120
Total 8,591 8,708 117 91,732 92,326 594
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region January 2022 February 2022 change
Anadarko 758 748 (10)
Appalachia 457 443 (14)
Bakken 436 423 (13)
Eagle Ford 683 664 (19)
Haynesville 369 369 -
Niobrara 343 329 (14)
Permian 1,482 1,396 (86)
Total 4,528 4,372 (156)

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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