March 2010

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in March 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 output276,387barrels a day6.2% above the month before · 41.5% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil4,739plus 113 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,624 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded81oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed104377 spacing and 66 pooling actions

Crude price$73.99a barrel, first purchase$41.77 a year earlier

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

Drilling

81 oil and gas wells have a spud date in March 2010 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 27, Dunn 16, McKenzie 15, Williams 10, Divide 6.

Hearings and orders

104 Industrial Commission orders signed in March 2010 are in the project's order index, with 377 spacing and 66 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Slawson Exploration Co., Inc. (17), XTO Energy Inc. (11), Brigham Oil & Gas, L.P. (10). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

152 operators filed rows in the March 2010 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (235), Hess Corporation (204), EOG Resources, Inc. (180), Continental Resources, Inc. (164), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (154).

The operator of record changed on 4 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 March 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.