October 2011

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in October 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 output488,645barrels a day5.7% above the month before · 42.8% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil6,119plus 235 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,670 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded172oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed131369 spacing and 81 pooling actions

Crude price$82.05a barrel, first purchase$69.43 a year earlier

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

Drilling

172 oil and gas wells have a spud date in October 2011 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 54, Williams 32, Dunn 29, Mountrail 29, Divide 7.

Hearings and orders

131 Industrial Commission orders signed in October 2011 are in the project's order index, with 369 spacing and 81 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (22), Hess Corp. (16), XTO Energy Inc. (14). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

152 operators filed rows in the October 2011 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (410), Hess Corporation (386), Continental Resources, Inc. (375), EOG Resources, Inc. (350), Marathon Oil Company (224).

The operator of record changed on 18 wells since their previous report.

Dakota Crude, Inc. to Layline Petroleum I, LLC: 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 October 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.