Texas oil and gas production statistics for October 2016

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October Texas production

Texas production in October came from 181,637 oil wells, 91,812 gas wells

Production for Oct. 2016 as reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas is 73,565,318 barrels of crude oil and 582,136,569 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.

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Production reported to the Commission for the same time period last year, Oct. 2015, was: 74,686,442 barrels of crude oil preliminarily, updated to a current figure of 90,084,363 barrels.

And 636,226,447 mcf of total gas preliminarily, updated to a current figure of 739,709,848 mcf.

The Commission reports that in the last 12 months, total Texas reported production was 987 million barrels of crude oil and 8.1 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. crude oil production averaged 2,373,075 barrels daily, compared to the 2,409,240 barrels daily average of Oct. 2015.

Texas preliminary Oct. total gas production averaged 18,778,599 mcf a day, compared to the 20,523,434 mcf daily average of Oct. 2015.

Texas production in Oct. came from 181,637 oil wells and 91,812 gas wells.

TABLE 1 OCTOBER 2016 TEXAS TOP TEN CRUDE OIL PRODUCING COUNTIES RANKED BY PRELIMINARY PRODUCTION

RANK COUNTY CRUDE OIL (BBLS)
    1. MIDLAND 5,716,075
    2. KARNES 5,303,474
    3. MARTIN 3,886,812
    4. LA SALLE 3,778,017
    5. UPTON 3,523,686
    6. DEWITT 3,179,480
    7. REEVES 3,073,956
    8. GONZALES 2,962,919
    9. MCMULLEN 2,824,555
  10. ANDREWS 2,823,688


TABLE 2 – OCTOBER 2016 TEXAS TOP TEN TOTAL GAS (GAS WELL GAS & CASINGHEAD) PRODUCING COUNTIES RANKED BY PRELIMINARY PRODUCTION

RANK COUNTY TOTAL GAS (MCF)
    1. WEBB 57,754,611
    2. TARRANT 36,716,047
    3. DIMMIT 22,873,842
    4. PANOLA 20,916,865
    5. KARNES 20,125,390
    6. JOHNSON 18,518,432
    7. DEWITT 18,037,221
    8. LA SALLE 17,851,360
    9. WISE 15,928,005
  10. DENTON 13,823,250
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TABLE 3 – OCTOBER 2016 TEXAS TOP TEN TOTAL CONDENSATE PRODUCING COUNTIES RANKED BY PRELIMINARY PRODUCTION

RANK COUNTY CONDENSATE (BBLS)
    1. DIMMIT 1,984,528
    2. KARNES 1,241,376
    3. WEBB 1,062,603
    4. CULBERSON 986,478
    5. DEWITT 982,761
    6. REEVES 504,108
    7. LIVE OAK 380,533
    8. LOVING 245,698
    9. LA SALLE 221,889
  10. HEMPHILL 181,802