据7月13日路透社报道，根据美国能源信息署(EIA)的月度钻井产能报告，7个主要页岩地层8月份的原油产量预计将增加4.2万桶/日，至790.7万桶/日，要知道，7月份的产量增幅为2.8万桶/日。
推动这一预测增长的主要支撑因素是二叠纪盆地(Permian Basin)的产量增长。8月，二叠纪盆地的原油产量预计将增加5.3万桶/日，抵消了北达科他州巴肯(Bakken)地层预计产量下降的影响。
EIA称，主要页岩盆地的天然气产量预计将连续第二个月增加。
8月份天然气总产量将增加不到1亿立方英尺/日，达到855亿立方英尺/日。相比之下，2019年12月的月度最高纪录为869亿立方英尺/日。
最大的页岩气盆地阿巴拉契亚，其8月份的天然气产量预计将下降不到1亿桶/日，至344亿立方英尺/日。相比之下，2020年12月创下了356亿立方英尺/日的月度纪录。
根据EIA 2007年的数据，德克萨斯州、路易斯安那州和阿肯色州的Haynesville地区8月份的天然气产量预计将增加超过1亿立方英尺/日，达到创纪录的135亿立方英尺/日。
EIA表示，今年6月，生产商在最大的页岩盆地钻探了549口井，完成了818口井的钻探。这使得已钻但未完工(DUC)井的数量减少了269口，至6252口，为2018年6月以来新低。
王佳晶 摘译自 路透社
原文如下：
U.S. shale oil output expected to rise 42,000 bpd in August to 7.907 million bpd -EIA
Crude output from seven major shale formations is expected to rise by 42,000 bpd in August, to 7.907 million bpd, compared with a 28,000 bpd rise in July, according to the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) monthly drilling productivity report.
The forecast is led by growing production in the largest formation, the Permian Basin, where crude output is estimated to rise 53,000 bpd in the month, offsetting falling output expected from the Bakken formation of North Dakota.
Natural gas production from the major shale basins was expected to increase for a second month in a row, EIA said.
Total gas output will increase less than 0.1 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) to 85.5 bcfd in August. That compares with a monthly record high of 86.9 bcfd in December 2019.
Gas output in Appalachia, the biggest shale gas basin, was expected to decrease less than 0.1 bcfd to 34.4 bcfd in August. That compares with a monthly record of 35.6 bcfd in December 2020.
Gas output in the Haynesville in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas was expected to increase over 0.1 bcfd to a record 13.5 bcfd in August, according to EIA data going back to 2007.
EIA said producers drilled 549 wells and completed 818 in the biggest shale basins in June. That left total drilled but uncompleted (DUC) wells down 269 to 6,252, their lowest since June 2018.