December 2014

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in December 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 output1,219,000barrels a day3.4% above the month before · 31.5% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil11,990plus 262 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,766 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded164oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed89171 spacing and 51 pooling actions

Crude price$50.51a barrel, first purchase$85.04 a year earlier

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

Drilling

164 oil and gas wells have a spud date in December 2014 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 63, Mountrail 34, Williams 32, Dunn 17, Divide 8.

Hearings and orders

89 Industrial Commission orders signed in December 2014 are in the project's order index, with 171 spacing and 51 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Statoil Oil & Gas LP (16), WPX Energy Williston, LLC (11), Whiting Oil and Gas Corp. (9). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

192 operators filed rows in the December 2014 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,328), Continental Resources, Inc. (1,125), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,003), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (669), XTO Energy Inc (644).

The operator of record changed on 51 wells since their previous report.

Fidelity Exploration & Production Company to Lime Rock Resources III-A, L.P.: 49 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 December 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.