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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: June 12, 2023 Next Release Date: July 17, 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 June 2023 July 2023 change June 2023 July 2023 change
Anadarko 666 679 13 3,933 4,031 98
Appalachia 193 193 - 23,704 23,656 (48)
Bakken 1,650 1,662 12 2,545 2,572 27
Eagle Ford 1,411 1,425 14 5,777 5,834 57
Haynesville 19 19 - 10,755 10,809 54
Niobrara 1,423 1,430 7 3,896 3,955 59
Permian 1,055 1,058 3 2,011 2,017 6
Rig-weighted average 940 949 9 5,255 5,228 (27)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day 		Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region June 2023 July 2023 change June 2023 July 2023 change
Anadarko 439 440 1 6,850 6,807 (43)
Appalachia 150 150 - 35,341 35,366 25
Bakken 1,207 1,214 7 3,215 3,244 29
Eagle Ford 1,122 1,117 (5) 7,335 7,331 (4))
Haynesville 36 36 - 16,641 16,645 4
Niobrara 651 655 4 5,058 5,071 13
Permian 5,762 5,763 1 22,818 22,878 60
Total 9,367 9,375 8 97,258 97,342 84
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region April 2023 May 2023 change
Anadarko 57 50 (7)
Appalachia 52 50 (2)
Bakken 40 37 (3)
Eagle Ford 73 66 (7)
Haynesville 70 64 (6)
Niobrara 32 31 (1)
Permian 356 349 (7)
Total 680 647 (33)

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