January 2009

North Dakota's oil month in January 2009, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in January 2009. 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 output187,774barrels a day6.8% below the month before · 37.5% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil4,142plus 114 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,645 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded52oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed4276 spacing and 30 pooling actions

Crude price$29.73a barrel, first purchase$84.86 a year earlier

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks January 2009.

Drilling

52 oil and gas wells have a spud date in January 2009 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 28, Dunn 12, McKenzie 6, Burke 2, Williams 2.

Hearings and orders

42 Industrial Commission orders signed in January 2009 are in the project's order index, with 76 spacing and 30 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: EOG Resources, Inc. (7), Continental Resources, Inc. (6), Hess Corp. (6). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

146 operators filed rows in the January 2009 report. Most wells reported: St Mary Land & Exploration Company (222), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (186), Encore Operating, L.P. (164), Hess Corporation (161), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (143).

The operator of record changed on 34 wells since their previous report.

Primewest Petroleum Inc. to Taqa North USA, Inc.: 34 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 January 2009, 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.