February 2015

North Dakota's oil month in February 2015, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in February 2015. 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 output1,170,464barrels a day1.1% below the month before · 23.8% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil12,141plus 191 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld; includes 1,770 counted inside unit totals

Wells spudded134oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed80210 spacing and 39 pooling actions

Crude price$41.31a barrel, first purchase$91.68 a year earlier

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks February 2015.

Drilling

134 oil and gas wells have a spud date in February 2015 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 58, Williams 27, Mountrail 22, Dunn 15, Divide 9.

Hearings and orders

80 Industrial Commission orders signed in February 2015 are in the project's order index, with 210 spacing and 39 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Slawson Exploration Co., Inc. (17), Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. LP (13), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (11). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

194 operators filed rows in the February 2015 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,386), Continental Resources, Inc. (1,170), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,037), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (685), XTO Energy Inc (667).

The operator of record changed on 22 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 February 2015, 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.