Eagle Ford oil production topped 310,000 b/d in July

The Eagle Ford shale formation of southern Texas produced 310,370 barrels per day of oil in July, according Texas Railroad Commission preliminary statistics.

That’s up from a revised count of 309,979 bpd in June, and 120,532 bpd in July 2011.

Fields that make up the Eagle Ford produced 51,676 bpd of condensate and 1.21 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas in July.

Texas produced a total of 1.9 million bpd in June, the highest monthly level since April 1991, according to the U.S. Energy Department.

The Railroad Commission oversees oil and gas drilling in the state. It collects monthly production reports from sites on which it permits drilling.

The commission updates the data on its website once a month. Those updates typically change as revised, corrected or late reports are received. In September, for example, preliminary data showed June’s Eagle Ford production at 283,292 bpd.

—Petroleum News Bakken