November 2011

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in November 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 output508,600barrels a day4.1% above the month before · 43.0% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil6,194plus 275 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,659 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded136oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed8361 spacing and 69 pooling actions

Crude price$90.95a barrel, first purchase$74.41 a year earlier

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

What stood out

Oil output passed 500,000 barrels a day for the first time in the EIA monthly record, which begins in 1981.

Drilling

136 oil and gas wells have a spud date in November 2011 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 33, Williams 27, Mountrail 25, Dunn 21, Divide 9.

Hearings and orders

83 Industrial Commission orders signed in November 2011 are in the project's order index, with 61 spacing and 69 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Hess Corp. (18), Oxy USA Inc. (17), XTO Energy Inc. (12). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

154 operators filed rows in the November 2011 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (423), Continental Resources, Inc. (404), Hess Corporation (396), EOG Resources, Inc. (363), Marathon Oil Company (230).

The operator of record changed on 20 wells since their previous report.

BTA Oil Producers, LLC to Kodiak Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.: 7 wells
Texas Crude Energy, Inc. to Ballantyne Oil, LLC: 6 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 November 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.