Production definitions

Public reports

Production reporting varies by source. Preserve the published well or permit identifier, reporting group, period, units, and source record. The current selected Pennsylvania reports remain attached to their qualified public records; unavailable metrics are not filled with invented values. A permit identifier is not automatically an API-10 or API-14 number, and no unqualified whole-well total is manufactured.

The earlier BOEM OGOR-A snapshot used a completion-month grain: API well number, completion name, production interval code, and month. Its oil and water units were barrels (BBL), and gas was thousand cubic feet (MCF). Those historical definitions do not establish the counting grain or available metrics of another source.

Missing is not zero

An explicit numeric zero remains zero. An absent report or blank source value stays missing. Gaps in a time series must not be connected as if a measurement existed. Partial years are not annual totals.

Customer actuals and measurements

Customer approved daily accounting records and daily average pressure use different sources and units. Field gauges derive tank/battery interval volumes. They are not regulator monthly reports and are not joined into measured-versus-booked reconciliation.

Source date and report date

Acquisition time tells you when WIP obtained the snapshot. Reporting month tells you which period a production row describes. Neither promises that the source will not later revise the report.