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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: May 15, 2023 Next Release Date: June 12, 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 May 2023 June 2023 change May 2023 June 2023 change
Anadarko 665 666 1 3,984 4,016 32
Appalachia 191 191 - 23,750 23,346 (404)
Bakken 1,686 1,688 2 2,510 2,514 4
Eagle Ford 1,386 1,370 (16) 5,695 5,621 (74)
Haynesville 19 19 - 10,723 10,712 (11)
Niobrara 1,416 1,423 7 3,839 3,897 58
Permian 1,054 1,053 (1) 2,030 2,010 (20)
Rig-weighted average 937 937 - 5,266 5,212 (54)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day		 Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region May 2023 June 2023 change May 2023 June 2023 change
Anadarko 439 444 5 6,912 6,896 (16)
Appalachia 154 155 1 35,256 35,310 54
Bakken 1,219 1,232 13 3,189 3,224 35
Eagle Ford 1,106 1,108 2 7,222 7,248 26
Haynesville 36 36 - 16,814 16,876 62
Niobrara 645 650 5 5,120 5,133 13
Permian 5,692 5,707 15 22,470 22,552 82
Total 9,291 9,332 41 96,983 97,239 256
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region March 2023 April 2023 change
Anadarko 739 740 1
Appalachia 708 703 (5)
Bakken 577 565 (12)
Eagle Ford 502 494 (8)
Haynesville 726 737 11
Niobrara 702 709 7
Permian 951 915 (36)
Total 4,905 4,863 (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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