February 2010

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in February 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 output260,286barrels a day10.6% above the month before · 35.3% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil4,660plus 99 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,616 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded77oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed51483 spacing and 3 pooling actions

Crude price$69.28a barrel, first purchase$31.26 a year earlier

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

What stood out

Oil output passed 250,000 barrels a day for the first time in the EIA monthly record, which begins in 1981.
Oil output rose 11% from the month before.

Drilling

77 oil and gas wells have a spud date in February 2010 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 25, Dunn 16, McKenzie 15, Williams 9, Bottineau 4.

Hearings and orders

51 Industrial Commission orders signed in February 2010 are in the project's order index, with 483 spacing and 3 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (12), Whiting Oil & Gas Corp. (8), Brigham Oil & Gas, L.P. (5). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

151 operators filed rows in the February 2010 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (228), Hess Corporation (202), EOG Resources, Inc. (177), Continental Resources, Inc. (153), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (153).

The operator of record changed on 89 wells since their previous report.

St Mary Land & Exploration Company to Sequel Energy, LLC: 88 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 February 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.