June 2008

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in June 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 output164,867barrels a day6.3% above the month before · 35.9% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil4,015plus 117 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,617 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded58oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed41109 spacing and 14 pooling actions

Crude price$126.68a barrel, first purchase$62.32 a year earlier

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

What stood out

With hindsight: the highest North Dakota crude price from 2003 through August 2026 ($126.68 a barrel).

Drilling

58 oil and gas wells have a spud date in June 2008 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 21, Dunn 12, McKenzie 8, Bowman 4, Divide 3.

Hearings and orders

41 Industrial Commission orders signed in June 2008 are in the project's order index, with 109 spacing and 14 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (10), Headington Oil Co. LLC (6), Whiting Oil & Gas Corp. (5). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

153 operators filed rows in the June 2008 report. Most wells reported: St Mary Land & Exploration Company (223), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (167), Encore Operating, L.P. (155), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (140), Eagle Operating, Inc. (134).

The operator of record changed on 10 wells since their previous report.

Wyoming Resources Corporation to Continental Resources, Inc.: 6 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 June 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.