June 2011

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in June 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 output384,433barrels a day6.1% above the month before · 22.7% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil5,609plus 126 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,667 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded105oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed55425 spacing and 22 pooling actions

Crude price$92.62a barrel, first purchase$65.38 a year earlier

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

Drilling

105 oil and gas wells have a spud date in June 2011 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 26, Mountrail 26, Dunn 23, Williams 20, Billings 3.

Hearings and orders

55 Industrial Commission orders signed in June 2011 are in the project's order index, with 425 spacing and 22 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Brigham Oil & Gas, L.P. (8), Continental Resources, Inc. (8), Hess Corp. (7). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

149 operators filed rows in the June 2011 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (352), Hess Corporation (336), EOG Resources, Inc. (320), Continental Resources, Inc. (298), Marathon Oil Company (200).

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

Continental Resources, Inc. to Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Company LP: 6 wells
EOG Resources, Inc. to Surge Energy USA Inc.: 5 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 June 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.