[JV153]

EIA discontinued reporting the following after 2008:
Gulf of Mexico Federal offshore production figures discontinued
Average Depth of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Wells figures discontinued
Footage Drilled for Crude Oil and Natural Gas Wells figures discontinued
Costs of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Wells Drilled figures discontinued (perhaps the most interesting)

Oil and Gas Lease Equipment and Operating Costs 1994 Through 2009

So what happened, EIA let go a bunch of its staff ? or are these figures now classified ?

[Pops]

No news is good news.

[Synapsid]

JV153,

I seem to recall budget cuts, by Congress, leading to EIA cutbacks.

[MD]

JV153,

I seem to recall budget cuts, by Congress, leading to EIA cutbacks.

uh huh. you will forgive them of course for cutting back on the bad news first...

[Babumai]

I had talked to the eia analyst listed on the footage report a year or two ago about when an update would come.

She (by memory) said they and those surveyed were not happy with the quality of the data, that the numbers did not seem to make sense. They were trying to fix

Whether budget was part if the underlying cause I do not know

[ROCKMAN]

Gulf of Mexico Federal offshore production figures discontinued: copy and paste...the feds post this info. Free...public information

Average Depth of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Wells figures discontinued
Footage Drilled for Crude Oil and Natural Gas Wells figures discontinued

Same answer for both above: Buy a subscription to Drilling Info (onshore data base collected from the reporting agencies of all states) and OWL...the same type data base except covers the federal offshore areas.
Cost: less then the yearly salary of a receptionist.

Costs of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Wells Drilled figures discontinued: Given that I don't know of any company that routinely makes public of the costs of each of the wells it drills the EIA must have a model that takes into account the area a well is drilled, the depth drilled and if the well was completed. With that info and the large number of wells involved this should produce a reasonably decent estimate. This data could be readily sourced from the data bases mentioned above. I believe Drilling Info, Rig Zone and a few others do this annually. Maybe the EIA could just ask nicely to reprint their work.

Oil and Gas Lease Equipment and Operating Costs 1994 Through 2009: Since they already have this info in their archives simply copy and paste.

And perhaps that's part of the reason they're dropping those reports: redundancy.