November 2007

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in November 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 output129,800barrels a day1.2% above the month before · 13.5% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil3,834plus 61 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,591 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded36oil and gas wells, by spud date

Crude price$85.10a barrel, first purchase$49.40 a year earlier

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

What stood out

The operator of record changed from Nance Petroleum Corporation to St Mary Land & Exploration Company on 260 wells.

Drilling

36 oil and gas wells have a spud date in November 2007 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Dunn 8, Mountrail 8, Billings 3, Bowman 3, McKenzie 3.

Operators

148 operators filed rows in the November 2007 report. Most wells reported: St Mary Land & Exploration Company (260), Encore Operating, L.P. (158), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (157), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (138), Eagle Operating, Inc. (134).

The operator of record changed on 281 wells since their previous report.

Nance Petroleum Corporation to St Mary Land & Exploration Company: 260 wells
B & B Oil Field Services, Inc. to Ward-Williston Company: 19 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 November 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.