Energy Mechanics · NG · Production by shale basin

Where the gas
comes out of the ground

DRY PRODUCTION · BCF/D
RELEASE · EIA DPR · NGM
VINTAGE · —
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5 EIA DPR REGIONS
STATUS · LOADING
Total U.S. dry gas production is — bcf/d, almost entirely from horizontal-drilled shale plays. The Marcellus / Utica formation in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio is the largest single source — roughly a third of national output. The Permian story isn't about gas wells; it's associated gas coming up alongside crude oil, growing as oil drilling grows. Haynesville in Louisiana–Texas is the swing producer that responds fastest to price.
Dry gas production bar length ∝ bcf/d
BASIN · BCF/D STATES & CHARACTER Appalachia · Marcellus / Utica — PA · WV · OH · NY Dry gas. Largest play. Pipeline-constrained to NE. Permian · West Texas / SE New Mexico — TX · NM Associated with crude. Flares when pipelines are full. Haynesville · LA / E. Texas — LA · TX Dry gas. Closest to Gulf LNG. Swing producer. Anadarko · OK / Texas Panhandle — OK · TX SCOOP/STACK. Mixed wet gas + NGLs + oil. Eagle Ford · S. Texas — TX Wet gas + condensate. Feeds Corpus LNG. Σ DPR BASINS = — bcf/d · ~—% of national dry production REMAINING from Gulf of Mexico, Bakken, conventional, Rockies
National production
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bcf/d · all basins
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Marcellus share
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— of national
Permian associated
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grows with crude drilling
DPR basins total
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— of national
SOURCE · U.S. Energy Information Administration, Drilling Productivity Report (DPR, monthly) for per-basin output, cross-checked against the Natural Gas Monthly's national total. The DPR's five regions don't cover 100% of U.S. production — Gulf of Mexico, Bakken, conventional onshore Rockies, and the rest sit outside these basins and make up the remainder. Per-basin numbers are seeded allocations of the live national production until the DPR series IDs are wired into update_data.py.
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