December 2006

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in December 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 output114,194barrels a day0.2% below the month before · 9.5% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil3,671plus 44 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,515 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded24oil and gas wells, by spud date

Crude price$51.70a barrel, first purchase$53.85 a year earlier

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

Drilling

24 oil and gas wells have a spud date in December 2006 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Williams 6, Bowman 5, Dunn 5, McKenzie 3, Billings 1.

Operators

150 operators filed rows in the December 2006 report. Most wells reported: Nance Petroleum Corporation (259), Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Onshore LP (160), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (152), Eagle Operating, Inc. (148), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (130).

The operator of record changed on 13 wells since their previous report.

Denali Oil & Gas Management, LLC to Cornerstone Natural Resources LLC: 7 wells

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 December 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.