February 2014

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in February 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 output945,286barrels a day1.4% above the month before · 21.5% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil10,072plus 232 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,707 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded206oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed77310 spacing and 42 pooling actions

Crude price$91.68a barrel, first purchase$90.30 a year earlier

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

Drilling

206 oil and gas wells have a spud date in February 2014 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 53, McKenzie 51, Williams 38, Dunn 35, Bottineau 8.

Hearings and orders

77 Industrial Commission orders signed in February 2014 are in the project's order index, with 310 spacing and 42 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: EOG Resources, Inc. (22), Continental Resources, Inc. (12), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (5). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

196 operators filed rows in the February 2014 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (922), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (858), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (795), EOG Resources, Inc. (523), XTO Energy Inc (522).

The operator of record changed on 16 wells since their previous report.

Kodiak Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. to Emerald Oil, Inc: 9 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 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.