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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: October 17, 2022 Next Release Date: November 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 October 2022 November 2022 change October 2022 November 2022 change
Anadarko 692 695 3 3,771 3,786 15
Appalachia 191 191 - 27,869 27,874 5
Bakken 1,701 1,704 3 2,492 2,506 14
Eagle Ford 1,587 1,571 (16) 6,258 6,133 (125)
Haynesville 20 20 - 10,835 10,781 (54)
Niobrara 1,398 1,391 (7) 3,599 3,545 (54)
Permian 1,078 1,061 (17) 2,116 2,093 (23)
Rig-weighted average 980 966 (14) 5,570 5,564 (6)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region October 2022 November 2022 change October 2022 November 2022 change
Anadarko 425 431 6 6,708 6,709 1
Appalachia 120 122 2 35,577 35,666 89
Bakken 1,168 1,190 22 3,156 3,189 33
Eagle Ford 1,208 1,226 18 7,220 7,311 91
Haynesville 37 37 - 15,878 16,078 200
Niobrara 640 646 6 5,062 5,075 13
Permian 5,403 5,453 50 20,930 21,057 127
Total 9,001 9,105 104 94,531 95,085 554
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region August 2022 September 2022 change
Anadarko 722 714 (8)
Appalachia 562 552 (10)
Bakken 474 473 (1)
Eagle Ford 593 590 (3)
Haynesville 513 524 11
Niobrara 362 377 15
Permian 1,117 1,103 (14)
Total 4,343 4,333 (10)

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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