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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: July 17, 2023 Next Release Date: August 14, 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 July 2023 August 2023 change July 2023 August 2023 change
Anadarko 679 686 7 4,031 4,132 101
Appalachia 193 193 - 23,656 23,692 36
Bakken 1,662 1,686 24 2,572 2,618 46
Eagle Ford 1,424 1,439 15 5,838 5,896 58
Haynesville 19 19 - 10,916 11,516 600
Niobrara 1,430 1,437 7 3,955 4,014 59
Permian 1,058 1,061 3 2,027 2,033 6
Rig-weighted average 949 963 14 5,245 5,245 -
Oil production
thousand barrels/day 		Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region July 2023 August 2023 change July 2023 August 2023 change
Anadarko 441 439 (2) 6,810 6,746 (64)
Appalachia 147 147 - 35,345 35,329 (16)
Bakken 1,218 1,222 4 3,247 3,272 25
Eagle Ford 1,136 1,124 (12) 7,590 7,548 (42)
Haynesville 36 36 - 16,649 16,599 (50)
Niobrara 662 665 3 5,078 5,089 11
Permian 5,775 5,764 (11) 23,353 23,389 36
Total 9,415 9,397 (18) 98,072 97,972 (100)
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region May 2023 June 2023 change
Anadarko 744 744 -
Appalachia 716 710 (6)
Bakken 525 515 (10)
Eagle Ford 485 481 (4)
Haynesville 766 776 10
Niobrara 715 721 6
Permian 877 857 (20)
Total 4,828 4,804 (24)

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