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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: April 17, 2023 Next Release Date: May 15, 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 April 2023 May 2023 change April 2023 May 2023 change
Anadarko 671 672 1 3,953 3,984 31
Appalachia 191 191 - 24,161 23,750 (411)
Bakken 1,685 1,686 1 2,510 2,509 (1)
Eagle Ford 1,400 1,385 (15) 5,772 5,697 (75)
Haynesville 19 19 - 10,732 10,722 (10)
Niobrara 1,434 1,449 15 3,798 3,893 95
Permian 1,057 1,056 (1) 2,053 2,032 (21)
Rig-weighted average 940 940 - 5,299 5,269 (30)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region April 2023 May 2023 change April 2023 May 2023 change
Anadarko 450 458 8 6,933 6,941 8
Appalachia 149 150 1 35,233 35,281 48
Bakken 1,159 1,176 17 3,121 3,159 38
Eagle Ford 1,135 1,141 6 7,211 7,266 55
Haynesville 37 37 - 16,727 16,821 94
Niobrara 668 672 4 5,173 5,185 12
Permian 5,681 5,694 13 22,437 22,514 77
Total 9,279 9,328 49 96,835 97,167 332
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region February 2023 March 2023 change
Anadarko 746 750 4
Appalachia 704 706 2
Bakken 609 608 (1)
Eagle Ford 423 413 (10)
Haynesville 707 719 12
Niobrara 704 719 15
Permian 793 761 (32)
Total 4,686 4,676 (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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