Monday, February 9, 2015

EIA Drilling Productivity Report: Production Per Rig Up Across the Most Prolific Shale Plays

Looks like a price reversal today.
After trading as high as $53.99 the futures are now at $52.82.
This bottoming process is going to be more drawn out than some are hoping.

Did I ever tell you about the time the DJIA closed at 2999, two days in a row?

From the Energy Information Administration, one of the more important reports of the year:
New-well oil production per rig
barrels/day

New-well gas production per rig
thousand cubic feet/day
Region February 2015 March 2015 change   February 2015 March 2015 change
Bakken 563 575 12   573 582 9
Eagle Ford* 651 660 9   1,697 1,711 14
Haynesville 24 24 -   5,744 5,844 100
Marcellus 35 36 1   8,044 8,085 41
Niobrara 425 432 7   1,858 1,881 23
Permian 198 202 4    396 402 6
Utica 217 225 8    4,480 4,603 123
Rig-weighted average 348 352 4   1,766 1,844 78

Note: *The Eagle Ford rig count has been revised downwards due to an error, which double counted rigs operating in La Salle county. This error, related to spelling variations of La Salle, had no impact on the estimated Eagle Ford production, but was suppressing the rig productivity for both oil and gas. We would like to thank James Williams of WTRG Economics, for identifying the error, which now corrected will improve the accuracy of the estimates on rig productivity.

The Drilling Productivity Report uses recent data on the total number of drilling rigs in operation along with estimates of drilling productivity and estimated changes in production from existing oil and natural gas wells to provide estimated changes in oil and natural gas production for seven key regions. EIA's approach does not distinguish between oil-directed rigs and gas-directed rigs because once a well is completed it may produce both oil and gas; more than half of the wells produce both.

While shale resources and production are found in many U.S. regions, at this time EIA is focusing on the seven most prolific areas, which are located in the Lower 48 states. These seven regions accounted for 95% of domestic oil production growth and all domestic natural gas production growth during 2011-13.
key tight oil and shale gas regions



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