March 2006

North Dakota's oil month in March 2006, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in March 2006. It is assembled now from today's public records, with what was known later, so that every month since January 2003 has an issue.

The month in numbers

Oil output104,935barrels a day1.8% above the month before · 10.0% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil3,538plus 43 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,472 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded23oil and gas wells, by spud date

Crude price$48.36a barrel, first purchase$49.03 a year earlier

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks March 2006.

Drilling

23 oil and gas wells have a spud date in March 2006 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Bowman 6, Billings 5, McKenzie 5, Mountrail 2, Williams 2.

Operators

144 operators filed rows in the March 2006 report. Most wells reported: Nance Petroleum Corporation (264), Eagle Operating, Inc. (154), Westport Oil & Gas Company, L.P. (147), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (142), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (123).

A change of operator of record is what the reports show; it does not say why. Sales, mergers, renamed legal entities and new contract operators all look the same. Names are as the reports spell them.

Sources

Oil output and price: U.S. Energy Information Administration, monthly state series (public domain), as published today.
Wells reporting, withheld wells, operators and flared gas: the free NDIC Monthly Production Reports for March 2006, as first reported (PDF print).
Spud dates: the DMR GIS wells layer of November 6, 2026.
Orders: the project's index of signed NDIC orders (facts only; see the well index).

Not an official record of the State of North Dakota. Not engineering, investment or legal advice. Every figure is in the archive data file.