August 2013

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in August 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 output907,613barrels a day4.4% above the month before · 29.4% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil9,277plus 290 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,590 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded209oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed67313 spacing and 29 pooling actions

Crude price$98.13a barrel, first purchase$83.56 a year earlier

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

Drilling

209 oil and gas wells have a spud date in August 2013 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 88, Dunn 36, Mountrail 29, Williams 16, Divide 15.

Hearings and orders

67 Industrial Commission orders signed in August 2013 are in the project's order index, with 313 spacing and 29 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Hess Corp. (10), Petro- Hunt, L.L.C. (9), Baytex Energy USA LTD. (7). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

190 operators filed rows in the August 2013 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (795), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (747), Hess Corporation (717), EOG Resources, Inc. (490), XTO Energy Inc (471).

The operator of record changed on 3 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 August 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.