June 2015

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in June 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 output1,203,800barrels a day0.6% above the month before · 11.2% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil12,296plus 130 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded109oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed52205 spacing and 18 pooling actions

Crude price$53.41a barrel, first purchase$96.25 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas17.8%

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

Drilling

109 oil and gas wells have a spud date in June 2015 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 36, Mountrail 30, Williams 20, Dunn 17, Divide 3.

Hearings and orders

52 Industrial Commission orders signed in June 2015 are in the project's order index, with 205 spacing and 18 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Whiting Oil and Gas Corp. (7), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (4), Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. LP (3). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

153 operators filed rows in the June 2015 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,574), Continental Resources, Inc. (1,395), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,316), XTO Energy Inc (745), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (694).

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 2015, as first reported (workbook).
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.