January 2011

North Dakota's oil month in January 2011, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in January 2011. 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 output341,516barrels a day0.3% below the month before · 45.2% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil5,345plus 111 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,676 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded109oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed149193 spacing and 116 pooling actions

Crude price$79.94a barrel, first purchase$69.73 a year earlier

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks January 2011.

What stood out

The operator of record changed from Encore Operating, L.P. to Denbury Onshore, LLC on 151 wells.

Drilling

109 oil and gas wells have a spud date in January 2011 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 29, McKenzie 25, Williams 23, Dunn 14, Divide 8.

Hearings and orders

149 Industrial Commission orders signed in January 2011 are in the project's order index, with 193 spacing and 116 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (33), Encore Operating L.P. (21), Hess Corp. (14). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

149 operators filed rows in the January 2011 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (308), EOG Resources, Inc. (294), Continental Resources, Inc. (258), Hess Corporation (244), Marathon Oil Company (183).

The operator of record changed on 164 wells since their previous report.

Encore Operating, L.P. to Denbury Onshore, LLC: 151 wells
Missouri Basin Well Service, Inc. to Mbi Oil & Gas, LLC: 10 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 January 2011, 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.