March 2007

North Dakota's oil month in March 2007, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in March 2007. 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 output117,161barrels a day0.8% above the month before · 11.7% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil3,735plus 35 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,554 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded19oil and gas wells, by spud date

Crude price$52.75a barrel, first purchase$48.36 a year earlier

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks March 2007.

What stood out

The operator of record changed from Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Onshore LP to Encore Operating, L.P. on 157 wells.

Drilling

19 oil and gas wells have a spud date in March 2007 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Billings 3, Bowman 3, Dunn 3, McKenzie 3, Divide 2.

Operators

146 operators filed rows in the March 2007 report. Most wells reported: Nance Petroleum Corporation (264), Encore Operating, L.P. (167), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (159), Eagle Operating, Inc. (136), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (130).

The operator of record changed on 162 wells since their previous report.

Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Onshore LP to Encore Operating, L.P.: 157 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 March 2007, 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.