Stripper wells accounted for 11% of U.S. natural gas production in 2015

Stripper wells, also known as marginal wells, individually produce small volumes of natural gas or oil but in total have provided 11% to 15% of total U.S. oil and natural gas production over the past decade. Natural gas stripper wells (so called because they are stripping the remaining natural gas out of the ground) are characterized as producing no more than 90,000 cubic feet per day over a 12-month period. EIA estimates that there were about 456,000 stripper gas wells in the United States operating at the end of 2015, compared with about 122,000 nonstripper gas wells. More »