September 2008

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in September 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 output188,533barrels a day6.1% above the month before · 49.6% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil4,143plus 125 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,620 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded61oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed64106 spacing and 31 pooling actions

Crude price$93.42a barrel, first purchase$71.00 a year earlier

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

Drilling

61 oil and gas wells have a spud date in September 2008 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 23, McKenzie 9, Dunn 7, Williams 6, Burke 5.

Hearings and orders

64 Industrial Commission orders signed in September 2008 are in the project's order index, with 106 spacing and 31 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: EOG Resources, Inc. (12), Continental Resources, Inc. (9), Hess Corp. (6). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

155 operators filed rows in the September 2008 report. Most wells reported: St Mary Land & Exploration Company (228), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (177), Encore Operating, L.P. (158), Hess Corporation (146), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (140).

The operator of record changed on 41 wells since their previous report.

Headington Oil Company LLC to XTO Energy Inc: 40 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 September 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.