January 2010

North Dakota's oil month in January 2010, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in January 2010. 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 output235,258barrels a day2.9% below the month before · 25.3% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil4,623plus 102 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,620 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded64oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed91198 spacing and 47 pooling actions

Crude price$69.73a barrel, first purchase$29.73 a year earlier

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks January 2010.

Drilling

64 oil and gas wells have a spud date in January 2010 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 28, Dunn 12, McKenzie 10, Williams 6, Burke 4.

Hearings and orders

91 Industrial Commission orders signed in January 2010 are in the project's order index, with 198 spacing and 47 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: EOG Resources, Inc. (17), Encore Operating, L.P. (12), Continental Resources, Inc. (9). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

151 operators filed rows in the January 2010 report. Most wells reported: St Mary Land & Exploration Company (227), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (222), Hess Corporation (199), EOG Resources, Inc. (176), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (152).

The operator of record changed on 1 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 January 2010, 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.