March 2008

North Dakota's oil month in March 2008, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in March 2008. 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 output142,839barrels a day4.2% above the month before · 21.9% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil3,929plus 77 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,624 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded44oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed34102 spacing and 26 pooling actions

Crude price$97.99a barrel, first purchase$52.75 a year earlier

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks March 2008.

Drilling

44 oil and gas wells have a spud date in March 2008 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 16, Dunn 11, Bowman 4, McKenzie 4, Burke 2.

Hearings and orders

34 Industrial Commission orders signed in March 2008 are in the project's order index, with 102 spacing and 26 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: EOG Resources, Inc. (7), Headington Oil Co. LLC (5), Hess Corp. (3). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

153 operators filed rows in the March 2008 report. Most wells reported: St Mary Land & Exploration Company (222), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (162), Encore Operating, L.P. (154), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (138), Eagle Operating, Inc. (133).

The operator of record changed on 23 wells since their previous report.

Ansbro Petroleum Company, LLC to Anschutz Exploration Corporation: 22 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 2008, 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.