Despite anticipated increases in productivity per rig across seven key U.S. producing regions, overall oil and gas output from these areas is expected to fall across the board from October to November, according to updated numbers released Tuesday by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

New well gas production

The agency’s latest Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) projects that total natural gas output from the Anadarko, Appalachia and Permian basins, as well as from the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Niobrara formations, will fall 617 MMcf/d month/month to 81.785 Bcf/d in November.

Oil output from these regions is expected to drop 121,000 b/d to 7.692 million b/d during the same time frame.

EIA expects the gassy Appalachian Basin to see the largest month/month drop in gas production,...