May 2009

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in May 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 output205,935barrels a day4.6% above the month before · 32.8% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil4,352plus 62 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,574 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded33oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed4286 spacing and 30 pooling actions

Crude price$51.19a barrel, first purchase$118.06 a year earlier

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

Drilling

33 oil and gas wells have a spud date in May 2009 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 15, Dunn 9, McKenzie 5, Williams 2, Burke 1.

Hearings and orders

42 Industrial Commission orders signed in May 2009 are in the project's order index, with 86 spacing and 30 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: EOG Resources, Inc. (14), Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. LP (6), Continental Resources, Inc. (6). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

156 operators filed rows in the May 2009 report. Most wells reported: St Mary Land & Exploration Company (224), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (198), Hess Corporation (180), Encore Operating, L.P. (147), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (145).

The operator of record changed on 6 wells since their previous report. No single change covered five or more 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 May 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.