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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: February 13, 2023 Next Release Date: March 13, 2023 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 2023 March 2023 change February 2023 March 2023 change
Anadarko 690 691 1 3,892 3,927 35
Appalachia 191 191 - 25,004 24,578 (426)
Bakken 1,704 1,705 1 2,550 2,557 7
Eagle Ford 1,486 1,469 (17) 6,017 5,939 (78)
Haynesville 19 19 - 10,722 10,711 (11)
Niobrara 1,375 1,368 (7) 3,408 3,364 (44)
Permian 1,061 1,060 (1) 2,083 2,062 (21)
Rig-weighted average 950 948 (2) 5,400 5,336 (64)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region February 2023 March 2023 change February 2023 March 2023 change
Anadarko 433 445 12 6,876 6,908 32
Appalachia 137 140 3 35,018 35,098 80
Bakken 1,178 1,199 21 3,160 3,191 31
Eagle Ford 1,176 1,180 4 7,372 7,422 50
Haynesville 37 37 - 16,471 16,602 131
Niobrara 669 674 5 5,156 5,161 5
Permian 5,652 5,682 30 22,112 22,209 97
Total 9,282 9,357 75 96,165 96,591 426
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region December 2022 January 2023 change
Anadarko 722 726 4
Appalachia 631 633 2
Bakken 552 553 1
Eagle Ford 482 478 (4)
Haynesville 624 637 13
Niobrara 539 561 22
Permian 1,079 1,083 4
Total 4,629 4,671 42

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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