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Drilling Productivity Report

Release Date: October 16, 2023 Next Release Date: November 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 October 2023 November 2023 change October 2023 November 2023 change
Anadarko 699 708 9 4,341 4,450 109
Appalachia 191 191 - 23,825 23,868 43
Bakken 1,746 1,781 35 2,673 2,730 57
Eagle Ford 1,492 1,507 15 6,081 6,142 61
Haynesville 19 19 - 11,851 12,064 213
Niobrara 1,452 1,459 7 4,124 4,157 33
Permian 1,124 1,150 26 2,155 2,190 35
Rig-weighted average 1,019 1,043 24 5,274 5,243 (31)
Oil production
thousand barrels/day 		Gas production
million cubic feet/day
Region October 2023 November 2023 change October 2023 November 2023 change
Anadarko 415 412 (3) 6,617 6,535 (82)
Appalachia 134 132 (2) 35,699 35,505 (194)
Bakken 1,270 1,270 - 3,392 3,411 19
Eagle Ford 1,138 1,119 (19) 7,594 7,520 (74)
Haynesville 35 35 - 16,712 16,562 (150)
Niobrara 680 684 4 5,159 5,173 14
Permian 5,931 5,901 (30) 24,086 24,102 16
Total 9,603 9,553 (50) 99,259 98,808 (451)
Drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC)
wells
Region August 2023 September 2023 change
Anadarko 730 726 (4)
Appalachia 755 746 (9)
Bakken 458 444 (14)
Eagle Ford 419 412 (7)
Haynesville 732 737 5
Niobrara 792 777 (15)
Permian 849 839 (10)
Total 4,735 4,681 (54)

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