March 2011

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in March 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 output358,968barrels a day3.4% above the month before · 29.9% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil5,506plus 88 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,681 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded106oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed134461 spacing and 72 pooling actions

Crude price$93.28a barrel, first purchase$73.99 a year earlier

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

Drilling

106 oil and gas wells have a spud date in March 2011 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Williams 28, McKenzie 25, Mountrail 22, Dunn 14, Divide 6.

Hearings and orders

134 Industrial Commission orders signed in March 2011 are in the project's order index, with 461 spacing and 72 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: EOG Resources, Inc. (28), Brigham Oil & Gas, L.P. (13), Continental Resources, Inc. (11). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

147 operators filed rows in the March 2011 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (334), EOG Resources, Inc. (308), Hess Corporation (302), Continental Resources, Inc. (273), Marathon Oil Company (190).

The operator of record changed on 74 wells since their previous report.

Anschutz Exploration Corporation to Oxy USA Inc.: 49 wells
Zenergy Operating Company, LLC to Dakota-3 E&P Company, LLC: 19 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 March 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.