April 2010

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in April 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 output283,667barrels a day2.6% above the month before · 44.1% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil4,803plus 110 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,627 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded95oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed50177 spacing and 23 pooling actions

Crude price$75.27a barrel, first purchase$44.68 a year earlier

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

Drilling

95 oil and gas wells have a spud date in April 2010 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 41, Williams 17, McKenzie 13, Dunn 10, Divide 7.

Hearings and orders

50 Industrial Commission orders signed in April 2010 are in the project's order index, with 177 spacing and 23 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (9), Whiting Oil & Gas Corp. (9), Marathon Oil Co. (4). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

155 operators filed rows in the April 2010 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (240), Hess Corporation (206), EOG Resources, Inc. (187), Continental Resources, Inc. (166), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (156).

The operator of record changed on 12 wells since their previous report.

Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. to Earthstone Energy, Inc.: 9 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 April 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.