Arkansas
Arkansas produced 2.4 MMbbl of oil and 335.4 Bcf of natural gas in 2025. 10,050 producing wells tracked, 12 months to Apr 2026.
- 0.7% of the natural gas produced in the United States, 2025.
- Natural gas production fell 7% in 2025 from 2024.
Production
- filling in (est.) . Months in the hatched zone are partly reported. The part not yet filed is estimated from recent production rates. It updates as filings arrive
- estimated . Hatching marks our estimate. In the most recent months that is volume still to be filed. Past the divider it is our forecast.
Still arriving: Jul 2026 <1% filed, Aug 2026 <1% filed.
In this view, hatching marks our estimate, and in the most recent months that is volume still to be filed. Past the divider, the chart continues only the bands it has drawn. Each band continues as our forecast, built by summing our per-well forecasts. The method behind each well is recorded with the forecast. The forward months add no new wells. How our methods work
All from what the source published. All held at well grain.
How the volume breaks down
- 100% Reported by the official source by well
Every cubic foot through April 2026 starts from what the official source published for those months. Measured over January 1940 to April 2026.
- filling in (est.) . Months in the hatched zone are partly reported. The part not yet filed is estimated from recent production rates. It updates as filings arrive
Still arriving: Jun 2026 80% filed, Jul 2026 <1% filed, Aug 2026 <1% filed.
All from what the source published. All held at well grain.
How the volume breaks down
- 100% Reported by the official source by well
Every barrel through April 2026 starts from what the official source published for those months. Measured over January 1940 to April 2026.
The bands group wells by when they first produced.
About this chart
The stack shows what is holding today's rate up and how much of it is new drilling. In the reported months the bands draw the filings already in. The months still filling in are marked.
Annual table (full history)
| Year | Oil (MMbbl) | Gas produced (Bcf) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4 | 335 |
| 2024 | 2.5 | 360 |
| 2023 | 2.8 | 395 |
| 2022 | 2.8 | 422 |
| 2021 | 2.7 | 451 |
| 2020 | 2.6 | 483 |
| 2019 | 3.1 | 529 |
| 2018 | 3.2 | 594 |
| 2017 | 3.5 | 698 |
| 2016 | 3.7 | 827 |
| 2015 | 4.3 | 1,015 |
| 2014 | 4.6 | 1,129 |
| 2013 | 4.5 | 1,146 |
| 2012 | 4.4 | 1,155 |
| 2011 | 3.8 | 1,082 |
| 2010 | 3.6 | 934 |
| 2009 | 3.7 | 685 |
| 2008 | 4.0 | 450 |
| 2007 | 4.1 | 271 |
| 2006 | 4.2 | 200 |
| 2005 | 4.3 | 188 |
| 2004 | 4.8 | 183 |
| 2003 | 5.3 | 168 |
| 2002 | 5.3 | 161 |
| 2001 | 5.6 | 166 |
| 2000 | 5.5 | 169 |
| 1999 | 5.4 | 172 |
| 1998 | 6.3 | 186 |
| 1997 | 6.9 | 217 |
| 1996 | 7.1 | 208 |
| 1995 | 7.0 | 191 |
| 1994 | 7.2 | 225 |
| 1993 | 7.6 | 205 |
| 1992 | 7.4 | 202 |
| 1991 | 7.4 | 187 |
| 1990 | 7.6 | 198 |
| 1989 | 8.1 | 195 |
| 1988 | 9.2 | 187 |
| 1987 | 10.1 | 167 |
| 1986 | 11.5 | 155 |
| 1985 | 12.9 | 179 |
| 1984 | 13.3 | 164 |
| 1983 | 13.7 | 150 |
| 1982 | 13.4 | 151 |
| 1981 | 13.6 | 129 |
| 1980 | 13.8 | 123 |
| 1979 | 14.2 | 122 |
| 1978 | 15.0 | 120 |
| 1977 | 14.8 | 115 |
| 1976 | 13.2 | 109 |
| 1975 | 10.6 | 103 |
| 1974 | 10.2 | 115 |
| 1973 | 9.6 | 145 |
| 1972 | 10.4 | 158 |
| 1971 | 11.2 | 168 |
| 1970 | 11.4 | 179 |
| 1969 | 11.7 | 169 |
| 1968 | 13.4 | 164 |
| 1967 | 14.9 | 131 |
| 1966 | 17.5 | 123 |
| 1965 | 18.6 | 94 |
| 1964 | 18.7 | 81 |
| 1963 | 18.7 | 77 |
| 1962 | 18.7 | 66 |
| 1961 | 19.2 | 56 |
| 1960 | 19.2 | 52 |
| 1959 | 17.1 | 39 |
| 1958 | 17.8 | 30 |
| 1957 | 2.2 | 16 |
| 1956 | 2.1 | 12 |
| 1955 | 0.2 | 11 |
| 1954 | 0.2 | 10 |
| 1953 | 0.2 | 10 |
| 1952 | 0.2 | 9 |
| 1951 | 0.2 | 7 |
| 1950 | 0.2 | 7 |
| 1949 | 0.2 | 6 |
| 1948 | 0.2 | 5 |
| 1947 | 0.1 | 4 |
| 1946 | 0.1 | 3 |
| 1945 | 0.1 | 4 |
| 1944 | <0.1 | 3 |
| 1943 | <0.1 | 4 |
| 1942 | <0.1 | 3 |
| 1941 | 0.0 | 3 |
| 1940 | 0.0 | 2 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Monthly table (last 24 months)
| Month | Oil (Mbbl) | Gas produced (MMcf) |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04 | 177.0 | 26,506 |
| 2026-03 | 186.3 | 27,659 |
| 2026-02 | 177.3 | 24,871 |
| 2026-01 | 174.6 | 27,173 |
| 2025-12 | 193.4 | 28,180 |
| 2025-11 | 189.9 | 27,758 |
| 2025-10 | 199.2 | 28,933 |
| 2025-09 | 196.3 | 27,778 |
| 2025-08 | 205.6 | 28,227 |
| 2025-07 | 212.9 | 28,159 |
| 2025-06 | 207.4 | 27,414 |
| 2025-05 | 209.1 | 28,573 |
| 2025-04 | 204.7 | 27,570 |
| 2025-03 | 216.5 | 28,711 |
| 2025-02 | 189.6 | 25,546 |
| 2025-01 | 214.8 | 28,543 |
| 2024-12 | 200.6 | 29,402 |
| 2024-11 | 195.9 | 28,915 |
| 2024-10 | 196.3 | 29,970 |
| 2024-09 | 203.1 | 29,205 |
| 2024-08 | 206.5 | 30,265 |
| 2024-07 | 216.6 | 30,330 |
| 2024-06 | 213.6 | 29,738 |
| 2024-05 | 225.9 | 31,068 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Source: CommoVision · Arkansas, data through June 2026.
Well map
- Oil 28,227
- Natural gas 16,314
- Undetermined 2,582
About this map
Undetermined means not enough signal to settle it. Producing wells are the ones that reported oil or gas in the 12 months to Apr 2026.
Type curves
Horizontal wells only. Average production per well, for wells grouped by when they first produced.
How these curves are built
Horizontal wells only: 3,859 of the 4,442 wells in these cohorts. Average daily production per well, drawn against the cohort’s cumulative production per well on a log rate scale, for wells grouped by when they first produced. Includes every well of the cohort that is old enough at each month. Wells that are shut in or have stopped producing count as zero, so the average reflects the full cohort, not just survivors. Rates are calendar-day (volume ÷ days in month). The cumulative axis accumulates those same monthly averages at the average month length. Months not yet fully reported are excluded. The 2010-2014 curve draws those years as one group. The chart opens on average daily rate against months on production; the view control switches to rate against cumulative production per well (the log-rate form described above) or to cumulative production per well against months. Every view draws the same cohorts from the same production history. Each cohort with a dashed curve is solid through the last month all of its wells sit inside fully reported data. Past it the dashed curve carries the same wells forward, on our forecast where a well’s own record ends, for up to five years. A dashed curve runs as far as at least nine in ten of its wells are accounted for. A cohort with no dashed curve is drawn only through the months where at least 30% of its wells are old enough for the month to be fully reported. A well that is old enough but shut in still counts, as zero. The measured months are what these wells reported. In the forward months each well counts its own reported figure for each month it has one, our forecast for each month it has only that, and zero for the rest. The forward average counts every well of the cohort. The drawn forecast runs up to five years past the measured months. Line thickness tracks how many wells each curve is drawn from.
Cohort summary table
| First produced | Wells | Peak oil (bbl/d per well) | Month-12 oil (bbl/d per well) | Cum oil in series (Mbbl per well) | Peak gas (Mcf/d per well) | Month-12 gas (Mcf/d per well) | Cum gas in series (Bcf per well) | Months in series | Wells old enough at last month in series | Forecast months drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | — | 0.0 | 5,685 | — | 0.9 | 8 | 100% | 60 |
| 2022 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,904 | 861 | 1.0 | 41 | 100% | 60 |
| 2018 | 4 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2,341 | 863 | 1.3 | 96 | 75% | — |
| 2017 | 29 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,305 | 1,519 | 2.5 | 110 | 48% | 60 |
| 2016 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,729 | 1,087 | 1.9 | 120 | 33% | 60 |
| 2015 | 282 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,358 | 886 | 1.6 | 134 | 35% | 60 |
| 2010-2014 | 3,491 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,334 | 1,069 | 1.9 | 182 | 31% | 60 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Source: CommoVision · Arkansas type curves, per-well production by first-production cohort.
Top operators in Arkansas, 2025
Top operators in Arkansas, 2025: full table
| Operator | Oil (Mbbl/d, 2025) | Gas produced (MMcf/d, 2025) | Share of output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flywheel Energy | 0.0 | 556.5 | 54.6% |
| VAN Buren Energy Production, LLC | 0.0 | 96.9 | 9.5% |
| Merit Energy Company | 0.0 | 89.2 | 8.8% |
| Razorback Production, LLC | 0.0 | 82.0 | 8.0% |
| MMGK Arkoma, LLC | 0.0 | 26.1 | 2.6% |
| Mission Creek Opco, LLC | 1.3 | 5.0 | 2.4% |
| Quanico Oil & Gas, Inc. | 0.9 | 0.0 | 1.3% |
| Camterra Resources, Inc. | 0.0 | 12.6 | 1.2% |
| Hanna Oil & Gas Company | 0.0 | 12.2 | 1.2% |
| Oxley Energy LLC | 0.0 | 8.9 | 0.9% |
| 161 other operators | 4.5 | 29.5 | 9.5% |
Mbbl/d = thousand barrels per day · MMcf/d = million cubic feet per day (units).
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Top counties by 2025 production
| County | Oil (MMbbl) | Gas produced (Bcf) | Share of 2025 output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Buren County, Arkansas | 0 | 72.6 | 20.7% |
| Cleburne County, Arkansas | 0 | 62.4 | 17.8% |
| White County, Arkansas | 0 | 61.4 | 17.6% |
| Conway County, Arkansas | 0 | 60 | 17.1% |
| Faulkner County, Arkansas | 0 | 22.4 | 6.4% |
Share of output counts oil and gas together, gas at its market-value weight.
Recent permitting
About this chart
Approvals of every permit type per month, the 24 months to Aug 2026. The last bar is Aug 2026 through August 24, 2026 (2 so far), drawn hatched. Of the 33 approved in the 365 days to August 24, 2026, 23 are permits to drill a new well and 10 are other permit types. Permits to drill a new well: 23 in the 365 days to August 24, 2026 and 3 in the last 90 days of that window. How permits are counted.
Most permits 365 days to August 24, 2026
- In Arkansas, 33 well permits were approved in the 365 days to August 24, 2026. Of those, 7 came in the last 90 days of that window. The latest approval on record is dated August 24, 2026.
- Of the 33 approved in the 365 days to August 24, 2026, 23 are permits to drill a new well and 10 are other permit types. Permits to drill a new well: 23 in the 365 days to August 24, 2026 and 3 in the last 90 days of that window.
Well permits approved per month: full table
| Month | Permits approved |
|---|---|
| Aug 2026 (through August 24, 2026) | 2 |
| Jul 2026 | 2 |
| Jun 2026 | 3 |
| May 2026 | 3 |
| Apr 2026 | 4 |
| Mar 2026 | 7 |
| Feb 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 2026 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 2 |
| Nov 2025 | 2 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 |
| Sep 2025 | 5 |
| Aug 2025 | 5 |
| Jul 2025 | 9 |
| Jun 2025 | 3 |
| May 2025 | 1 |
| Apr 2025 | 3 |
| Mar 2025 | 0 |
| Feb 2025 | 4 |
| Jan 2025 | 0 |
| Dec 2024 | 1 |
| Nov 2024 | 1 |
| Oct 2024 | 3 |
| Sep 2024 | 1 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Active drilling rigs
Interactive chart. Focus it and use the left and right arrow keys to read each week, Page Up and Page Down to move a year, Home and End for the ends of the series. The full figures are also in the table below.
- In Arkansas, 0 drilling rigs were active in the week to August 28, 2026 (unchanged from a year earlier).
- Since Aug 2016, the weekly count peaked at 2 in Dec 2016.
- The count covers land and inland-water rigs; rigs in US federal offshore waters are counted on the Gulf of Mexico page.
Average active rigs per month: full table
| Month | Oil-directed | Gas-directed | Miscellaneous | All rigs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 (through August 28, 2026) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.2 |
| Sep 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0.6 | 1.6 |
| Aug 2025 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.8 |
| Jul 2025 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 2025 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| May 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
What we cover here
Each row names the grain a region’s production is held at. Where a source publishes at a coarser grain, the page says so.
| Data | Grain | Since | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas production | well | 1920-04 | ~62–101% of EIA |
Benchmark cells compare our series with the EIA’s published estimates.
About the EIA comparison
The two are produced differently: the EIA estimates from a survey of the largest operators and a model built to anticipate late filings, while the series compared here are rebuilt from the source’s own records as they arrive. Recent months can differ without either being wrong; the methodology page explains both methods.
Coverage rows for Arkansas are regenerated at every build from the same catalog of sources the data is built from.
How our Arkansas production compares with the EIA
- Our Arkansas oil total is 38.2% below the EIA series over May 2023 to April 2026. Those are the last 36 months our own figures have settled.
- Our Arkansas natural gas total is 2.3% above the EIA series over May 2023 to April 2026. Those are the last 36 months our own figures have settled.
Why the two differ
- Where we have checked, the underlying filings match the official source’s own records. The natural gas built from those same filings agrees with the EIA series. Oil filed on wells we class as service or disposal is not counted as production here, and that is part of the difference. The rest is not traced to a cause.
The EIA estimates state totals from an operator survey. The series compared here are rebuilt from the source’s own records as they arrive. Recent months differ while filings are still arriving. Every region, beside the EIA series and why the two differ.
What the data shows
- Arkansas produced 2.4 MMbbl of oil and 335.4 Bcf of natural gas in 2025.
- Arkansas gas production peaked in 2012 at 1.16 Tcf; 2025 output of 335.4 Bcf ran at 29% of that peak.
- 10,050 producing wells tracked, 12 months to Apr 2026.
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