April 2013

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in April 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 output789,967barrels a day0.9% above the month before · 29.6% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil8,710plus 246 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,679 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded191oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed76208 spacing and 40 pooling actions

Crude price$88.06a barrel, first purchase$85.07 a year earlier

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

Drilling

191 oil and gas wells have a spud date in April 2013 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 66, Dunn 37, Mountrail 33, Williams 27, Divide 14.

Hearings and orders

76 Industrial Commission orders signed in April 2013 are in the project's order index, with 208 spacing and 40 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (15), Hess Corp. (15), G3 Operating, LLC (7). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

186 operators filed rows in the April 2013 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (722), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (676), Hess Corporation (649), EOG Resources, Inc. (459), XTO Energy Inc (447).

The operator of record changed on 23 wells since their previous report.

SM Energy Company to Rim Operating, Inc.: 14 wells
Ulmer Energy, LLC to Proven Petroleum, Inc.: 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 April 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.