February 2013

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in February 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 output778,214barrels a day5.7% above the month before · 39.8% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil8,421plus 233 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,680 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded167oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed234475 spacing and 158 pooling actions

Crude price$90.30a barrel, first purchase$89.99 a year earlier

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

Drilling

167 oil and gas wells have a spud date in February 2013 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 41, McKenzie 40, Williams 29, Dunn 26, Divide 19.

Hearings and orders

234 Industrial Commission orders signed in February 2013 are in the project's order index, with 475 spacing and 158 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (26), Samson Resources Co. (20), Enerplus Resources (U.S.A.) Inc. (16). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

177 operators filed rows in the February 2013 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (697), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (640), Hess Corporation (635), EOG Resources, Inc. (451), XTO Energy Inc (423).

The operator of record changed on 85 wells since their previous report.

Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. to G3 Operating, LLC: 73 wells
Samson Resources Company to Bakken Hunter, LLC: 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 February 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.