September 2015

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in September 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 output1,155,300barrels a day2.2% below the month before · 1.6% below a year earlier

Wells reporting oil12,452plus 141 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded64oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed106173 spacing and 76 pooling actions

Crude price$37.78a barrel, first purchase$83.45 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas17.6%

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

Drilling

64 oil and gas wells have a spud date in September 2015 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 19, Williams 16, Dunn 14, Mountrail 6, Divide 5.

Hearings and orders

106 Industrial Commission orders signed in September 2015 are in the project's order index, with 173 spacing and 76 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: HRC Operating, LLC, (19), WPX Energy Williston, LLC (17), Continental Resources, Inc. (15). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

153 operators filed rows in the September 2015 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,570), Continental Resources, Inc. (1,432), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,363), XTO Energy Inc (786), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (713).

The operator of record changed on 45 wells since their previous report.

Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation to White Rock Oil & Gas, LLC: 42 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 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.