February 2011

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in February 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 output347,286barrels a day1.7% above the month before · 33.4% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil5,400plus 92 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,675 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded96oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed82481 spacing and 108 pooling actions

Crude price$79.21a barrel, first purchase$69.28 a year earlier

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

Drilling

96 oil and gas wells have a spud date in February 2011 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 27, Mountrail 23, Williams 21, Dunn 10, Divide 6.

Hearings and orders

82 Industrial Commission orders signed in February 2011 are in the project's order index, with 481 spacing and 108 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Whiting Oil & Gas Corp. (15), Continental Resources, Inc. (8), EOG Resources, Inc. (8). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

152 operators filed rows in the February 2011 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (321), EOG Resources, Inc. (300), Hess Corporation (295), Continental Resources, Inc. (266), Marathon Oil Company (186).

The operator of record changed on 148 wells since their previous report.

Sagebrush Resources, LLC to Petro Harvester Operating Company, LLC: 76 wells
Tracker Resource Development II, LLC to Hess Corporation: 46 wells
Ritchie Exploration, Inc. to Corinthian Exploration (USA) Corp: 14 wells
PDC Corporation to Cornerstone Natural Resources LLC: 7 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 February 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.