January 2013

North Dakota's oil month in January 2013, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in January 2013. 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 output735,968barrels a day3.9% below the month before · 34.8% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil8,280plus 246 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,672 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded170oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed40310 spacing and 2 pooling actions

Crude price$90.52a barrel, first purchase$90.18 a year earlier

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks January 2013.

Drilling

170 oil and gas wells have a spud date in January 2013 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 54, Mountrail 39, Dunn 26, Williams 16, Divide 13.

Hearings and orders

40 Industrial Commission orders signed in January 2013 are in the project's order index, with 310 spacing and 2 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Brigham Oil & Gas, LP (5), EOG Resources, Inc. (5), Hess Corp. (5). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

173 operators filed rows in the January 2013 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (680), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (619), Hess Corporation (618), EOG Resources, Inc. (448), XTO Energy Inc (417).

The operator of record changed on 40 wells since their previous report.

Samson Resources Company to Continental Resources, Inc.: 25 wells
Phillip D. Armstrong to Ballantyne Oil, LLC: 8 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 January 2013, 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.