December 2007

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in December 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 output135,032barrels a day4.0% above the month before · 18.2% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil3,849plus 65 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,607 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded31oil and gas wells, by spud date

Crude price$80.69a barrel, first purchase$51.70 a year earlier

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

Drilling

31 oil and gas wells have a spud date in December 2007 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 11, Dunn 7, Bowman 3, McKenzie 3, Stark 2.

Operators

159 operators filed rows in the December 2007 report. Most wells reported: St Mary Land & Exploration Company (262), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (157), Encore Operating, L.P. (152), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (137), Eagle Operating, Inc. (134).

The operator of record changed on 114 wells since their previous report.

Ballantyne Oil, LLC to Sagebrush Resources, LLC: 91 wells
Encore Operating, L.P. to Encore Energy Partners Operating LLC: 9 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 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.