July 2010

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in July 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 output320,387barrels a day2.3% above the month before · 40.5% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil4,975plus 175 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,629 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded108oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed123322 spacing and 77 pooling actions

Crude price$66.33a barrel, first purchase$56.19 a year earlier

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

Drilling

108 oil and gas wells have a spud date in July 2010 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 34, McKenzie 21, Williams 17, Dunn 15, Divide 6.

Hearings and orders

123 Industrial Commission orders signed in July 2010 are in the project's order index, with 322 spacing and 77 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (28), Slawson Exploration Co., Inc. (25), EOG Resources, Inc. (20). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

148 operators filed rows in the July 2010 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (251), EOG Resources, Inc. (237), Hess Corporation (217), Continental Resources, Inc. (198), Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. (163).

The operator of record changed on 14 wells since their previous report.

Pintail Petroleum Inc. to Murex Petroleum Corporation: 11 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 July 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.