Texas oil and gas production statistics for Oct. 2015

Texas Railroad Commission reports that in past 12 months, total reported production was 1.009B barrels of crude oil, 8.4 Tcf of gas

AUSTIN – Production for Oct. 2015 as reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas (Commission) is 74,686,442 barrels of crude oil and 636,226,447 MCF (thousand cubic feet) of total gas from oil and gas wells.

These preliminary figures are based on production volumes reported by operators and will be updated as late and corrected production reports are received.

Production reported to the Commission for the same time period last year, Oct. 2014, was: 68,675,991 barrels of crude oil preliminarily, updated to a current figure of 86,735,398 barrels; and 610,601,042 Mcf of total gas preliminarily, updated to a current figure of 742,625,520 Mcf.

The Commission reports that in the last 12 months, total Texas reported production was 1.009 billion barrels of crude oil and 8.4 trillion cubic feet of total gas. Crude oil production reported by the Commission is limited to oil produced from oil leases and does not include condensate, which is reported separately by the Commission.

Texas preliminary Oct. 2015 crude oil production averaged 2,409,240 barrels daily, compared to the 2,215,355 barrels daily average of Oct. 2014.

Texas preliminary Oct. 2015 total gas production averaged 20,523,434 Mcf (thousand cubic feet) a day, compared to the 19,696,808 Mcf daily average of Oct. 2014. Texas production in Oct. 2015 came from 182,319 oil wells and 94,363 gas wells.

RANK
COUNTY
CRUDE OIL (BBLS)

 1. KARNES 6,389,482

 2. LA SALLE 4,356,415

 3. DEWITT 3,936,081

 4. MIDLAND 3,563,978

 5. MARTIN 3,277,591

 6. UPTON 3,274,125

 7. MCMULLEN 3,163,668

 8. ANDREWS 2,964,982

 9. REEVES 2,717,046

 10. GONZALES 2,674,758

TABLE 2 - OCT. 2015 TEXAS TOP TEN TOTAL GAS (GAS WELL GAS &
CASINGHEAD) PRODUCING COUNTIES RANKED BY PRELIMINARY PRODUCTION

 1. WEBB 58,677,044

 2. TARRANT 47,319,082

 3. PANOLA 24,603,347

 4. DIMMIT 24,088,356

 5. JOHNSON 21,643,167

 6. KARNES 20,651,697

 7. WISE 19,626,873

 8. DEWITT 19,280,306

 9. DENTON 17,486,424

 10. LA SALLE 13,687,930

TABLE 3 - OCTOBER 2015 TEXAS TOP TEN TOTAL CONDENSATE PRODUCING COUNTIES
RANKED BY PRELIMINARY PRODUCTION

CONDENSATE (BBLS):

 1. DIMMIT 2,263,902

 2. WEBB 1,393,645

 3. KARNES 1,222,576

 4. DEWITT 1,068,688

 5. CULBERSON 671,103

 6. LIVE OAK 594,414

 7. REEVES 341,169

 8. WHEELER 294,120

 9. LA SALLE 270,660

 10. LOVING 180,204