November 2013

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in November 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 output973,800barrels a day3.5% above the month before · 32.8% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil9,856plus 303 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,692 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded214oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed33178 spacing and 2 pooling actions

Crude price$80.67a barrel, first purchase$84.26 a year earlier

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

What stood out

The operator of record changed from Hess Corporation to Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC on 737 wells.

Drilling

214 oil and gas wells have a spud date in November 2013 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 71, Williams 40, Dunn 30, Mountrail 29, Divide 18.

Hearings and orders

33 Industrial Commission orders signed in November 2013 are in the project's order index, with 178 spacing and 2 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Hess Corp. (6), Oxy USA Inc. (5), Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. LP (3). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

191 operators filed rows in the November 2013 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (851), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (827), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (753), EOG Resources, Inc. (511), XTO Energy Inc (505).

The operator of record changed on 780 wells since their previous report.

Hess Corporation to Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC: 737 wells
Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. to Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation: 19 wells
Merit Energy Company to Emerald Oil, Inc: 13 wells
Kodiak Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. to Triangle USA Petroleum Corporation: 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 November 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.