EIA Drilling Productivity Report – Marcellus Flirts with 15 Bcf/d
The monthly Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) from our favorite government agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) was issued on Monday (see a copy embedded below). It shows that the average daily production from the Marcellus Shale will go up--again--in May. In April average daily Marcellus production was forecast at 14.52 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). In May it will be 14.77 Bcf/d--getting really really close to 15 Bcf/d.
Since last October when the EIA first started publishing the monthly DPR, Marcellus production has gone up each and every month--with no end in sight. Below is the full report from April, along with screen shots of two charts found on the EIA website but not (yet) in the report. We keep needling them to include these two charts in the PDF of the report...
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