January 2014

North Dakota's oil month in January 2014, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in January 2014. 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 output932,161barrels a day0.5% above the month before · 26.7% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil10,001plus 231 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,700 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded206oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed36716 spacing and 2 pooling actions

Crude price$82.70a barrel, first purchase$90.52 a year earlier

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks January 2014.

What stood out

More than 10,000 wells reported oil for the first time.

Drilling

206 oil and gas wells have a spud date in January 2014 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 74, Mountrail 54, Williams 41, Dunn 17, Divide 7.

Hearings and orders

36 Industrial Commission orders signed in January 2014 are in the project's order index, with 716 spacing and 2 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Hess Corp. (6), EOG Resources, Inc. (5), Slawson Exploration Co., Inc. (4). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

193 operators filed rows in the January 2014 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (882), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (847), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (784), EOG Resources, Inc. (521), XTO Energy Inc (516).

The operator of record changed on 102 wells since their previous report.

Williston Hunter ND, LLC to Enduro Operating, LLC: 88 wells
GMX Resources Inc to Thunderbird Resources LP: 11 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 2014, 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.