September 2011

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in September 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 output462,233barrels a day4.0% above the month before · 35.2% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil6,017plus 203 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,669 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded149oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed81197 spacing and 64 pooling actions

Crude price$82.18a barrel, first purchase$66.22 a year earlier

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

Drilling

149 oil and gas wells have a spud date in September 2011 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 39, Williams 34, McKenzie 27, Dunn 23, Divide 13.

Hearings and orders

81 Industrial Commission orders signed in September 2011 are in the project's order index, with 197 spacing and 64 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: XTO Energy Inc. (16), Brigham Oil & Gas, L.P. (11), Dakota-3 E&P Co., LLC (9). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

148 operators filed rows in the September 2011 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (399), Hess Corporation (373), Continental Resources, Inc. (351), EOG Resources, Inc. (343), Marathon Oil Company (215).

The operator of record changed on 2 wells since their previous report. No single change covered five or more 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 September 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.