September 2014

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in September 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 output1,174,133barrels a day4.5% above the month before · 26.2% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil11,555plus 330 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,748 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded263oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed95176 spacing and 70 pooling actions

Crude price$83.45a barrel, first purchase$96.69 a year earlier

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

What stood out

With hindsight: the most wells spudded in any month from 2003 through August 2026 (263).

Drilling

263 oil and gas wells have a spud date in September 2014 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 101, Williams 55, Mountrail 39, Dunn 34, Divide 11.

Hearings and orders

95 Industrial Commission orders signed in September 2014 are in the project's order index, with 176 spacing and 70 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (15), Statoil Oil & Gas LP (13), Mountain Divide, LLC (8). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

190 operators filed rows in the September 2014 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (1,064), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (969), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (911), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (635), XTO Energy Inc (614).

The operator of record changed on 14 wells since their previous report.

Marathon Oil Company to Triangle USA Petroleum Corporation: 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 September 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.