With the Haynesville Shale continuing to serve as the biggest driver of projected onshore natural gas production growth, output from seven key Lower 48 plays is poised to grow by 426 MMcf/d from February to March, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

In its latest Drilling Productivity Report (DPR), published Monday, the agency modeled total production of 96.591 Bcf/d in March from the seven regions tracked in the report. Those regions include the Haynesville, Bakken, Eagle Ford and Niobrara formations, as well as the Anadarko, Appalachia and Permian basins.

Among the seven plays, the Haynesville is expected to remain the pacesetter for natural gas production growth from February to March, on track to add 131 MMcf/d to reach 16.602 Bcf/d of total output, the...