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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: April 18, 2022 Next Release Date: May 16, 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 April 2022 May 2022 change April 2022 May 2022 change
Anadarko 726 721 (5) 3,773 3,735 (38)
Appalachia 189 189 - 29,500 28,999 (501)
Bakken 1,879 1,847 (32) 2,630 2,586 (44)
Eagle Ford 2,052 1,990 (62) 7,370 7,149 (221)
Haynesville 20 20 - 11,757 11,546 (211)
Niobrara 1,578 1,562 (16) 4,117 4,035 (82)
Permian 1,160 1,146 (14) 2,261 2,234 (27)
Rig-weighted average 1,072 1,051 (21) 6,225 6,161 (64)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region April 2022 May 2022 change April 2022 May 2022 change
Anadarko 398 401 3 6,118 6,103 (15)
Appalachia 111 114 3 35,443 35,640 197
Bakken 1,169 1,186 17 2,932 2,959 27
Eagle Ford 1,140 1,166 26 6,298 6,408 110
Haynesville 34 34 - 14,527 14,772 245
Niobrara 610 611 1 5,254 5,257 3
Permian 5,055 5,137 82 19,533 19,687 154
Total 8,517 8,649 132 90,105 90,826 721
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region February 2022 March 2022 change
Anadarko 753 740 (13)
Appalachia 473 467 (6)
Bakken 426 415 (11)
Eagle Ford 653 642 (11)
Haynesville 371 383 12
Niobrara 331 317 (14)
Permian 1,380 1,309 (71)
Total 4,387 4,273 (114)

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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