February 2012

North Dakota's oil month in February 2012, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in February 2012. 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 output556,552barrels a day2.0% above the month before · 60.3% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil6,611plus 254 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,672 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded144oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed110252 spacing and 74 pooling actions

Crude price$89.99a barrel, first purchase$79.21 a year earlier

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks February 2012.

Drilling

144 oil and gas wells have a spud date in February 2012 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 37, Williams 34, Dunn 21, Mountrail 21, Burke 8.

Hearings and orders

110 Industrial Commission orders signed in February 2012 are in the project's order index, with 252 spacing and 74 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: EOG Resources, Inc. (24), Brigham Oil & Gas, L.P. (10), Hess Corp. (10). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

160 operators filed rows in the February 2012 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (454), Continental Resources, Inc. (445), Hess Corporation (443), EOG Resources, Inc. (389), Marathon Oil Company (250).

The operator of record changed on 10 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 February 2012, 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.