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The latest monthly U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) for January, issued yesterday (below), shows EIA believes shale gas production across the seven major plays tracked in the monthly DPR for February will *decrease* production from the prior month of January. This is the seventh month in a row that EIA has predicted shale gas production will decrease for the combined seven plays. EIA says combined natgas production will slide by 187 MMcf/d (million cubic feet per day). The Marcellus/Utica, called “Appalachia” in the report, is predicted to decrease by 159 MMcf/d in February compared with January, the biggest decrease in gas production for any of the seven plays.
