June 2014

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in June 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 output1,082,867barrels a day5.2% above the month before · 32.0% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil10,928plus 263 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,732 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded250oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed57291 spacing and 30 pooling actions

Crude price$96.25a barrel, first purchase$87.43 a year earlier

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

Drilling

250 oil and gas wells have a spud date in June 2014 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 76, Mountrail 53, Williams 48, Dunn 38, Divide 20.

Hearings and orders

57 Industrial Commission orders signed in June 2014 are in the project's order index, with 291 spacing and 30 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. LP, (14), HRC Operating, LLC (8), Sequel Energy, LLC (7). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

197 operators filed rows in the June 2014 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (991), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (923), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (854), XTO Energy Inc (570), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (564).

The operator of record changed on 8 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 June 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.