June 2012

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in June 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 output662,200barrels a day3.2% above the month before · 72.3% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil7,223plus 305 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,673 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded172oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed90230 spacing and 60 pooling actions

Crude price$74.54a barrel, first purchase$92.62 a year earlier

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

Drilling

172 oil and gas wells have a spud date in June 2012 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 50, Mountrail 35, Williams 33, Dunn 25, Burke 8.

Hearings and orders

90 Industrial Commission orders signed in June 2012 are in the project's order index, with 230 spacing and 60 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (31), Hess Corp. (18), Continental Resources, Inc. (6). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

168 operators filed rows in the June 2012 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (531), Hess Corporation (514), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (507), EOG Resources, Inc. (415), Marathon Oil Company (280).

The operator of record changed on 32 wells since their previous report.

Summit Resources, Inc. to Legacy Reserves Operating LP: 26 wells
Panther Creek Resources, LLC to Legacy Reserves Operating LP: 5 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 June 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.