April 2011

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in April 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 output349,767barrels a day2.6% below the month before · 23.3% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil5,602plus 82 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,675 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded105oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed87207 spacing and 45 pooling actions

Crude price$105.67a barrel, first purchase$75.27 a year earlier

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

Drilling

105 oil and gas wells have a spud date in April 2011 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 28, McKenzie 21, Williams 17, Dunn 16, Divide 14.

Hearings and orders

87 Industrial Commission orders signed in April 2011 are in the project's order index, with 207 spacing and 45 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: EOG Resources, Inc. (16), Continental Resources, Inc. (8), Enerplus Resources (U.S.A.) Inc. (7). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

149 operators filed rows in the April 2011 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (341), EOG Resources, Inc. (311), Hess Corporation (307), Continental Resources, Inc. (286), Marathon Oil Company (193).

The operator of record changed on 19 wells since their previous report.

Peak North Dakota, LLC to Enerplus Resources USA Corporation: 14 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 April 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.