August 2011

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in August 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 output444,419barrels a day4.7% above the month before · 35.3% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil5,913plus 176 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,672 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded146oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed155648 spacing and 70 pooling actions

Crude price$82.11a barrel, first purchase$68.32 a year earlier

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

Drilling

146 oil and gas wells have a spud date in August 2011 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 36, Williams 34, Mountrail 30, Dunn 20, Burke 9.

Hearings and orders

155 Industrial Commission orders signed in August 2011 are in the project's order index, with 648 spacing and 70 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Hess Corp. (59), Continental Resources, Inc. (11), Whiting Oil & Gas Corp., (7). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

146 operators filed rows in the August 2011 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (390), Hess Corporation (356), EOG Resources, Inc. (332), Continental Resources, Inc. (324), Marathon Oil Company (210).

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 August 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.