August 2014

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in August 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 output1,123,452barrels a day1.6% above the month before · 23.8% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil11,369plus 297 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,738 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded229oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed108295 spacing and 49 pooling actions

Crude price$87.66a barrel, first purchase$98.13 a year earlier

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

Drilling

229 oil and gas wells have a spud date in August 2014 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 70, Mountrail 50, Williams 43, Dunn 35, Bottineau 10.

Hearings and orders

108 Industrial Commission orders signed in August 2014 are in the project's order index, with 295 spacing and 49 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Whiting Oil and Gas Corp. (18), Newfield Production Co. (12), Continental Resources, Inc. (10). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

197 operators filed rows in the August 2014 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (1,033), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (951), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (894), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (608), XTO Energy Inc (599).

The operator of record changed on 66 wells since their previous report.

HRC Operating, LLC to Energyquest II, LLC: 61 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 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.