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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: November 14, 2022 Next Release Date: December 12, 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 November 2022 December 2022 change November 2022 December 2022 change
Anadarko 696 697 1 3,796 3,803 7
Appalachia 191 191 - 26,985 26,149 (836)
Bakken 1,696 1,710 14 2,510 2,535 25
Eagle Ford 1,557 1,541 (16) 6,133 6,041 (92)
Haynesville 20 20 - 10,781 10,760 (21)
Niobrara 1,395 1,388 (7) 3,545 3,492 (53)
Permian 1,061 1,049 (12) 2,112 2,089 (23)
Rig-weighted average 964 953 (11) 5,513 5,549 36
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region November 2022 December 2022 change November 2022 December 2022 change
Anadarko 423 431 8 6,832 6,836 4
Appalachia 122 124 2 35,434 35,569 135
Bakken 1,182 1,201 19 3,246 3,275 29
Eagle Ford 1,223 1,237 14 7,311 7,390 79
Haynesville 37 37 - 16,083 16,257 174
Niobrara 653 662 9 5,074 5,092 18
Permian 5,460 5,499 39 21,143 21,268 125
Total 9,100 9,191 91 95,123 95,687 564
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region September 2022 October 2022 change
Anadarko 723 718 (5)
Appalachia 576 573 (3)
Bakken 494 494 -
Eagle Ford 582 579 (3)
Haynesville 535 546 11
Niobrara 393 414 21
Permian 1,097 1,084 (13)
Total 4,400 4,408 8

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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