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June 2010

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in June 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 output313,333barrels a day5.3% above the month before · 45.6% above a year earlier
Wells reporting oil4,923plus 161 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,632 counted inside unit totals
Wells spudded109oil and gas wells, by spud date
Orders signed76227 spacing and 30 pooling actions
Crude price$65.38a barrel, first purchase$61.04 a year earlier
Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks June 2010.

Drilling

109 oil and gas wells have a spud date in June 2010 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 35, Dunn 19, McKenzie 17, Williams 17, Divide 10.

Hearings and orders

76 Industrial Commission orders signed in June 2010 are in the project's order index, with 227 spacing and 30 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (12), EOG Resources, Inc. (7), Baytex Energy USA LTD. (6). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

154 operators filed rows in the June 2010 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (258), EOG Resources, Inc. (222), Hess Corporation (213), Continental Resources, Inc. (189), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (160).

The operator of record changed on 34 wells since their previous report.

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

Not an official record of the State of North Dakota. Not engineering, investment or legal advice. Every figure is in the archive data file.